"When I was a child they told me I was autistic
And I understood artistic, that’s why I dedicated myself to this."
Mexican director, actress, playwright, performance artist, scenographer, entrepreneur, and social activist, Jesusa Rodríguez has been called the most important woman of Mexico. Her "espectáculos" (as both spectacles and shows) challenge traditional classification, crossing with ease generic boundries: from elite to popular to mass, from Greek tragedy to cabaret, from pre-Columbian indigenous to opera, from revue, sketch and "carpa," to performative acts within political projects. She and her partner, Argentine singer/actor, own and operate El Habito and Teatro de la Capilla, alternative performances spaces in Mexico City. They have won an Obie for Best Actor in Las Horas de Belén, A Book of Hours (1999) with Ruth Maleczech and New York-based Mabou Mines. Rodíguez contributes regularly to Mexico's most important feminist journal, debate feminista.
Liliana Felipe
Liliana Felipe is one of Argentina's major composer and songwriter. With Jesusa Rodriguez, her partner for the last 30 years, she owned and ran El Hábito, one of Mexico's most important alternative performance spaces, and composed songs to most of Rodriguez's performances as she continued her own recording career.