Performance artist Elia Arce first conceived First Woman on the Moon more than ten years ago as a discussion of identity. ”Whether it is the color of our skin, our accents, our language, or how we dress or how we look,” Arce has said, ”what is the core, what actually makes us who we are?” In First Woman, presented here by DiverseWorks, Arce employs sounds, images and her own body as she leads the audience through spaces, both physical and emotional, from the overgrown jungles of her Costa Rican roots to the dry desert landscape of her adopted home.
Nov. 30-Dec. 1, 7:30 p.m., 2012
This article appears in Jun 14-20, 2012.