Resistance and new languages for the performing arts

Abstract

Little more than 13 months have passed since the conclusion of this reflection and that group called Mexican theater has not lowered its guard for a single day. I use a term of war to refer to this fight against the immobility and mental confinement that the pandemic has meant, which closed the theaters without a plan or strategy to creatively and communally resolve the call for confinement and the hypnotic slogan: “stay in house”, which reached mythical proportions. The epidemiological red light reached the entire country and paralyzed stage activities, because its practice represented one of the greatest risks for a form of contagion that offered many uncertainties about its spread. Neither scientists nor medical personnel were able to say the last word about the multiple ways the virus spread.