THE PLAY:

Que el amor nos haga

Until Love Makes Us

Written & Directed by Dora Arreola

Featuring Mujeres en Ritual Danza-Teatro

Until Love Makes Us (Que el amor nos haga) is a new play that explores the theme of migration through the lens of love, resistance, and healing. It tells the story of three women—a queer “Dreamer” (DACA recipient), and two separated lovers from Mexico, forced to flee, who hope to reunite in the United States. In their harrowing journeys, they encounter danger, interrogation, and a flock of unlikely guides.

Que el amor nos haga (Until Love Makes Us) is a bilingual theatre performance featuring live music, dance, and video projections. Presented in Spanish, with English supertitles.

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Que el amor nos haga (Until Love Makes Us) es una nueva obra de teatro-danza que explora el tema de la migración a través de los lentes del amor, la resistencia y la sanación. Cuenta las historias de tres mujeres: una Dreamer queer (beneficiaria de DACA) y una pareja de mujeres de México que fueron obligadas a separarse y huir, mientras anhelan poder reunirse en Estados Unidos. En sus travesías marcadas por la incertidumbre, cada una enfrenta peligros, interrogatorios, y encuentros con una parvada de guías inusitadas.

Que el amor nos haga (Until Love Makes Us) es una obra bilingüe que integra teatro, danza, música en vivo, y proyecciones de video. Se presenta en español, con sobretítulos en inglés.

PICTURED ABOVE: (Top row) Miroslava Wilson, Azzul Monraz, Dora Arreola, Gabriela Bojórquez. (Bottom row) Aymé Giles, Kenia Delgadillo.

THE PROJECT: QUEERING THE BORDER

Queering the Border is a multiyear project created and developed by Dora Arreola that re-frames our understanding of the “migration crisis” as forced displacement, particularly of indigenous peoples from Mexico and Latin America, and LGBTQ+ people worldwide. The play, Que el amor nos haga (Until Love Makes Us) is based on the stories of women and LGBTQ+ asylum seekers from Latin America. Approaching these stories from a feminist, queer, and anti-colonial perspective, the project sheds light on the reasons people migrate: from fleeing domestic or state violence, to homophobic or transphobic assaults, to climate crises and poverty.

In the development of the script, Dora Arreola conducted community engaged research, including theatre workshops at shelters for migrants in Tapachula, Chiapas (the border of Mexico and Guatemala), and Tijuana, Baja California (the border of Mexico and the U.S.)—the most frequently crossed border in the world. The play explores the realities and symbolism of the U.S.-Mexico border, from the border wall, to interrogation, to inspection and detainment—forms of systemic violence that increase xenophobia, homophobia and transphobia, among other injustices.

The performance aesthetic includes traditional dances and rituals from Mexico in combination with contemporary dance and theatre forms, exploring ritual and imagination as tools of struggle, resistance, and healing.

THE COMPANY: MUJERES EN RITUAL DANZA-TEATRO

Mujeres en Ritual is an all-women ensemble of actor-dancers from the U.S. and Mexico  founded by Dora Arreola in 1999, in Tijuana, to investigate women’s experiences at the border, and the relationship between sacred actions and performance. Arreola developed a physical training process with the company, drawing from Grotowski training, Suzuki technique, contemporary dance, and ritual structures and traditions of México. Through a unique creative process, the ensemble searches for collective acts of liberatory experience and transformation.

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Mujeres en Ritual es una compañía formada únicamente por mujeres actrices-bailarinas de Estados Unidos y México, fundada por Dora Arreola en 1999, para investigar las experiencias de las mujeres en la frontera y la relación entre las acciones sagradas y la puesta en escena. Arreola desarrolló un proceso de entrenamiento físico con la compañía, basándose en el entrenamiento de Jerzy Grotowski, técnica Suzuki, danza contemporánea y estructuras de rituales y tradiciones de México. A través de un proceso creativo original, la compañía investiga actos colectivos de experiencia liberadoras y de transformación.

www.mujeresenritual.com