Cihuatl Codex, a current work starring a woman who rules

With shows like Cihuatl Codexthe Bigotes de Gato Azul company, made up of artists from various disciplines, most of whom are also preschool teachers, are committed to ensuring that children have spaces where imagination, fantasy and creative expression are part of your training.

Regarding the presentation of the work this weekend at the National Arts Center (Cenart), the artistic director of the group, Martha Espinosa, commented in an interview that By recognizing that children are festive, critical and reflective beings, we can form better human beings. And from this place of creation we are committed to forming better citizens, who are capable of looking into this chaos of the world that we are giving them and that they have the strength to change it..

In Cihuatl Codexby the playwright Julio César Prieto, the audience enters a sensorially aesthetic world that places them in the situations and emotions that a pre-Hispanic woman experiences when fighting for a balance between the masculine and feminine, through the physical and energetic presence that the performers generate by giving life to the characters and scenic elements.

Prieto explained that the proposal is based on the role that women occupy in today’s society, which led them to delve into the past in which the feminine is associated with rituals and nature. After investigating we discovered that in pre-Hispanic times, feminine and masculine energy coexisted with nature; that’s where the work comes from.

Martha Espinosa added that they returned to the case of a Mexica ruler, who was the exception because she was the daughter of Moctezuma I, called Atotoztli. He is the main character of the work, who due to life situations became tlatoani. This inspired us in the character and becomes a theme, because a woman is the one who rules and as a society we must think about that balance between the feminine and the masculine..

The work recovers the four elements: tletl (fuego), atl (agua), ehecatl (area) y talli (earth), who create the world with their magic, a world dominated by tlatoanis. But one day Atotoztli (water bird woman) is born from the water, a new feminine energy that arrives to break with the order and power of those beings.

From that moment, the tlatoanis They will put her to the test, leading her to explore her strength, wisdom and connection with the four elements of creation to find a new order between the feminine and the masculine through a fantastic journey.

Espinosa indicated that the proposal incorporates pre-Hispanic and contemporary dance, as well as animations of puppets and objects: On stage our energy gives drama and creates all this fiction that makes up the work..

Bigotes de Gato Azul, founded in 2013, has four works that touch on social problems that impact childhood from various angles: migration, gender, sense of belonging or discrimination, based on an aesthetic, dramatic and philosophical treatment that makes it possible All audiences, regardless of age, recognize and identify parts of their own visions of the world and their ways of acting.

The company has set foot on different stages, including the Sergio Magaña theater and the Xavier Villaurrutia hall, and participated in the first Kehile International Paper Theater Festival, the Epicenter Scenic Encounter Festival in Oaxaca and the Puppet Museum-Theater The Ark, in Cuba. They also offer creative expression workshops aimed at minors and their families.

Cihuatl Codex It was presented at the Antonio López Mancera forum as part of the commemorative activities of the 30th anniversary of Cenart.