Tania Garrido Monreal (ES)
LUCKY TRIMMER Tanz Performance serie # 22 "The Wall"
How deeply rooted and culturally ingrained is the etiology of division?
We live into a maze of high invisible walls created by our culture and beliefs, ancient curses that transform and shape our original self. A woman is born, her life in her hands, but everything lies on a fine line… From light to shadow she´ll cross the border and she´ll become another being of (in)disputable beauty. Etzev is a Hebrew word meaning “work”. It refers to the curse that Eve endured after sinning before God. In the Bible´s translation it is transcribed as “pain and agony” when referring to Eve and as “work” when referring to Adam, making evident the cultural beliefs of the translator and profoundly affecting women´s history.
Etzev[labor] was awarded the 1st prize at the 2011 Unidanza dance festival, Madrid.
“Etzev[labor] is a solo born in 2011 that was only performed once during my 8th month of pregnancy. As I was expecting, I was curious about giving birth. My mother used to say that her best orgasm ever took place while I was going out through her vagina and I wondered why I had this image of women giving birth in pain and suffering. Reading about it I stumbled upon the curse of Eve in the Bible and that is how the piece started. In January 2014, I decided to bring the solo back to life for The Wall Edition as it undoubtedly talks about any kind of limitation that is imposed (or self-imposed) on us nowadays, ancient curses in which we are trapped like in a spider web. I use a thread as a metaphor of that borderline that traces the woman and transforms her allowing the audience to use their imagination in creating their own translation of my action.” - Tania Garrido Monreal