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El mundo al revés

Fortaleza de la Mujer Maya (Organization)
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Title
El mundo al revés
Author/Creator
Fortaleza de la Mujer Maya (Organization)
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Copyright holder: Fortaleza de la Mujer Maya (FOMMA), Contact information: Isabel Suárez, Avenida Argentina #14, Barrio de Mexicanos, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, México 29249, +52-967-678-6730 (business), +52-967-678-6730 (fax), fomma@prodigy.com.mx, isabel3414@hotmail.com
Language
Spanish
Date
1997 June
Format
1 online resource (video file (21 min.) : sound, color.
Credits
Isabel Juárez Espinosa, Petrona de la Cruz Cruz, Juana López Mendes, María Francisca Oseguera Cruz, Lucía Pérez Sántiz, María Pérez Sántiz, Lucía López Gómez, Berta Bautista Vázquez, Emanuel Ruiz, Faustina López Díaz, Reina Ruiz Navarro, Margarita López de la Cruz, Children of San Cristóbal de las Casas, performers.
Notes

FOMMA - Fortaleza de la Mujer Maya - is a collective of Mayan women who use theater as a tool for education and community building. They are performers, playwrights, and teachers who tour their work in their communities and internationally, performing plays that focus on women's and indigenous rights, literacy, cultural survival, ecology, health, and education in the Tzeltal and Tzotzil indigenous languages.

'El mundo al revés' is a children's play that includes live percussion, singing, and masks. In this allegoric play, the moon gives birth to a group of children whose well-intentioned actions make the world an ideal place to live inches The moon also gives birth to the devil who curses the world and changes everything for the worse. Because people get organized and help each other, they finally defeat the devil and his dragon. The aftermath of the devil's death is a beautiful day in which a series of rights are honored and enjoyed - land, health, education, work, housing, et cetera.

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