Effects of War DESAPARECIDAS by Irma Villafuerte


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plagued by armed conflict between government militia and the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN).


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During these years activists, teachers, students, nurses, doctors, innocent civilians, and members or suspected members of the FMLN and workers unions were tortured and disappeared.


hrough centuries, Latin America has been marked by colonization and war. The Civil War in El Salvador was the third largest civil war in Latin America. From 1980-1992 El Salvador was


Directed and choreographed by Irma Villafuerte Associate Choreography by MataDanZe Collective Part 2 available here


Desaparecidas (missing women) is a multidisciplinary dance/theatre work that deals with the struggles and disappearance of women during war. It is interpreted by MataDanZe Collective, a Toronto-based dance- theatre collective of six female artists who come together to empower women through dance and activism and transform the stigmatized role of women. The story of Juana Irma Cineros Ticas, the grandmother of the director and choreographer of Desaparecidas who disappeared during El Salvador’s civil war, is a poignant backdrop of the piece.


// Irma Villafuerte is a Toronto-based Latin and contemporary dancer/performer/choreographer, and member of MataDanZe Collective.


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