About Me

I am Patricia and I am a Movement Director based in Guisborough, UK.

 

About the Project

As a woman with British and Colombian heritage I am making a solo show that uses theatre, dance and storytelling to explore themes of femininity, internalised emotion, and cycles of joy and grief through the juxtaposition of a Colombian folk story of a woman who is abandoned, and in her grief drowns her child and contrasted with my lived experience as an Anglo-Colombian woman.

 

During this stage of the project alongside making the show ready to tour autumn 2022. I will be delivering a workshop based on La Llorona to young people in Hartlepool and Middlesbrough in the Tees Valley. As an artist based in and from the Tees Valley I recognise that young people here do not have the same opportunities to engage with the arts and with professional artists. Coming into contact with professional artists through workshops at my school and college was one of the ways I realised that working in the arts could be a viable career option. This area of low engagement with the arts often due to financial barriers and the Tees Valley has recently been identified as a Priority Place by Arts Council England. The workshops are designed for participants to develop their creative skills and how to create movement driven performance from a written story which will develop their communication skills and provide experience of professional practice.

 

I have also been working with a British Sign Language Interpreter so that this will be integrated into the show in a meaningful way and be accessible to d/Deaf audiences.

 

This project has received support from Arts Council England’s National Lottery Project Grants scheme and a Dance City Creative Summer Residency to continue work started in 2020 on ‘La Llorona’ as part of a commission from Dance City’s 2021 Commissions programme. This project is also currently supported by an Arts Council England’s National Lottery Project Grant with support in kind from Middlesbrough Council with producing support from Moving Art Management as one of their Associate Artists.

 

How will these funds be used

The money from this GoFundMe will go towards covering the costs of delivering the workshops including travel costs, planning time, delivery and materials so that the workshop can be delivered at no cost to the participants.

 

Everyone who makes a donation to La Llorona will be thanked on my social media channels and will be included in the Thank You section on the programme given out for the performances of La Llorona.

 

Muchisimas gracias for supporting La Llorona to find out more about me please go to on my website and click here to learn more about the show.

 

You can also find me at:

Facebook - @pvsuarezmovement

Instagram - @pvsuarezmove

Twitter - @pvsuarezmovement

We will be closing this fundraiser Friday 10 December at 5pm.