A solo performance by Ana Correa
A Scenic Action for Open Spaces

Direction: Miguel Rubio Zapata
Assistant Director: Fidel Melquíades
Production: Socorro Naveda

A ritual of purification, cleansing, and blossoming in the traditional style of some Andean communities in Peru. It is the story of an affair born of love. Rosa Cuchillo is a mother who searches beyond death for her disappeared son, traveling through other worlds — the underworld («Uqhu Pacha») and the upper World («Hanaq Pacha»). Her return to this earth («Kay Pacha») seeks to restore harmony in life and, through dance, help people lose their fear and begin to heal from forgetfulness.

This scenic action was created in 2002 to be presented in Andean marketplaces throughout the country. Rosa Cuchillo enters into the everyday life of the local communities, surprising them with a dialogue through theatricality — through fable, dance, ritual, the real and the dreamlike, images and music — with the aim of awakening memories and provoking a new perspective on the history lived in Peru during the last twenty years.