Signals is Al Límite Collective’s newest performance that unearths and investigates the connecting points unifying the international struggle for women’s rights. Al Límite Collective collaborates with local women and non-binary people in different cities worldwide to join us in collectively devising the performance by introducing them to a series of physical vocal and somatic storytelling exercises centered around global feminist issues. We work together intensively for a period of 4 to 8 days prior to the performance to help build a strong foundation as an ensemble. Through group discussions, we touch upon powerful women’s movements throughout history and the incredible challenges and injustice we face personally in our daily lives. As we continue to excavate the theme of feminism, we gather physical language from the workshop. And begin rehearsal process that culminates in a performance for the public. In a time when issues like femicide, trafficking, political, imprisonment, censorship, and discrimination are still at the forefront for women, this theater piece serves as a vehicle for collective discovery and catharsis. It points unapologetically to the chokehold of patriarchy and the need for women worldwide to organize and fight for the safety and rights we deserve. The act of radical storytelling serves as a method of resistance mapping of physical manifestation of facets of oppression and liberation, while navigating a landscape built from stories of women, lead movements and feminist, mythologies, direct action in the streets, and the impact of them lead rebellion.
Signals contains elements of team-building, community engagement, education, and experiential creation that provides a laboratory where participants can envision egalitarianism and explore how to bring that world into existence.
Al Límite previously debuted signals at the Feminist Theater Festival at the Freedom Theatre in Jenin, Palestine in September 2023. Working with young women performers from their company had a profound impact on us as theatre-makers. During our time there we experienced multiple dangers during workshops and rehearsals, as well as an invasion by Israeli forces in the middle of a solar performance by a Palestinian actress. We witnessed the incredible resiliency of these young performers to continue working on signals and we successfully debut to a packed house on the final night of the festival. This act of culture resistance was assigned for us to pick up where we left off and develop this as a traveling theatrical module that places a spotlight on the incredible courage and power women worldwide possessed to band together during times of crisis. We have since brought the workshop/ performance process to Mexico City as a collaboration with the Magdalenas, to Lahore, Pakistan as part of Ajoka Theatre’s International Dosti Festival in November 2024 with 20 local women and non-binary performers, and most recently in Athens, Greece.
Signals contains elements of team-building, community engagement, education, and experiential creation that provides a laboratory where participants can envision egalitarianism and explore how to bring that world into existence.
Al Límite previously debuted signals at the Feminist Theater Festival at the Freedom Theatre in Jenin, Palestine in September 2023. Working with young women performers from their company had a profound impact on us as theatre-makers. During our time there we experienced multiple dangers during workshops and rehearsals, as well as an invasion by Israeli forces in the middle of a solar performance by a Palestinian actress. We witnessed the incredible resiliency of these young performers to continue working on signals and we successfully debut to a packed house on the final night of the festival. This act of culture resistance was assigned for us to pick up where we left off and develop this as a traveling theatrical module that places a spotlight on the incredible courage and power women worldwide possessed to band together during times of crisis. We have since brought the workshop/ performance process to Mexico City as a collaboration with the Magdalenas, to Lahore, Pakistan as part of Ajoka Theatre’s International Dosti Festival in November 2024 with 20 local women and non-binary performers, and most recently in Athens, Greece.