Pachuquismo

A dance piece that revives the memory of Chicano culture through the racist riots of 1943 in the United States, directed and choreographed by Vanessa Sánchez.

Pachuquismo is a dance piece directed and choreographed by Vanessa Sánchez, founder of the company La Mezcla, which draws on the racist attacks of summer 1943 in Los Angeles and other American cities. Those assaults, which began against young men wearing the zoot suit, later spread to anyone of Hispanic appearance, including women and children. On that basis, the show reflects on structural discrimination and on the resistance of the pachuco movement, one of the cultural antecedents of Chicano identity.

The staging combines dance, music and historical memory to recover part of that heritage and to vindicate the Indigenous roots and Hispanic traditions in the United States. The cast is made up entirely of women. The production has been awarded an Isadora Duncan prize, presented in San Francisco, and has played venues such as the Lincoln Center in New York and the Festival Cervantino de Guanajuato in Mexico.

A meeting with the audience is planned after the performance. The production is part of the Festival de Otoño and is presented in the Sala Verde of Teatros del Canal, in Madrid.