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09/22/2022

We have wrapped our summer in residency at Underscore Projects 🧟‍♀️🖤 We are so grateful for three months filled with deep discoveries, lingering questions, and a full soak in a world full of possibilities for what this new work can be. Mostly we are grateful to La Llorona in all that she has taught us about ourselves and her story throughout the process. Next year we’ll be going back into the pool and and looking forward to sharing more with you all then. Until next time!

Dance by Sofi Gudiño
Costuming and set by Madeleine Leblanc
Digital and spiritual artist Rica Gudiño
Sound design Sofia Fly
Photos Jamila Noritz Reyes

Gracias to our funders .council and

08/14/2022

Grief is a transformative emotion, but we aren’t allowed to experience or process it anymore. Llorona is teaching us how to open up to the dark as well as the light, as a way of overcoming buried trauma and rage. We are so grateful for the meaningful summer we’ve had so far in residency.

Dance Sofi Gudiño
Costuming and set Madeleine LeBlanc
Collage projection Rica Gudiño
Sound design Sofia Fly
Photos Jamila Noritz Reyes

Gracias to our hosts Underscore Projects and our funders Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada and Ontario Arts Council - Conseil des arts de l'Ontario

08/05/2022

Our first sessions in residency at Underscore Projects have been amazing 🖤 We are researching a new piece about La Llorona with dancer Sofi Gudiño , digital and spiritual artist Rica Gudiño, and costume designer Madeleine LeBlanc. We are so grateful to the Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada and the Ontario Arts Council - Conseil des arts de l'Ontario for supporting our work.

More soon!

These photos are by Jamila Noritz Reyes.

01/04/2022

New year, new look! Muchas gracias to Rica Gudiño for always helping us find what we look like on paper! Rica has designed almost all of our posters and graphics, and is now helping us with a rebrand and the launch of an exciting new website in 2022! We are looking forward to sharing more of Inamorata's new look soon.

12/31/2021

GRACIAS 2021! You made us filmmakers. Thank you so very much to all of the artists and audience members who supported us to release SOLA and TAURA into the world this year. What a tremendous effort and success it was! We look forward to sharing more with you in 2022 🤎 photo by

11/13/2021

TODAY and TOMORROW are the last days to catch SOLA’s screening at ! We went to visit the exhibition yesterday, and has curated such a beautiful collection of the team’s work. Our film is on a loop during these opening hours, so grab a cafecito and visit any time! ☕️💗

10/28/2021

Did you miss SOLA’s premiere back in May? I am so excited to share that we’ll be screening SOLA in a group exhibit thanks to and presented by for the culmination of PROJECT CREA, the mentorship program for emerging Latinx I’ve been a part of for the last few weeks.

The entire cohort of mentees will share the creative projects they’ve been working on and the mentors will share their personal work at an in-person event presented by Underscore Projects in Toronto this October 29th to November 14th.

Join us for the opening night tomorrow or drop in to view SOLA anytime in the next two weeks!

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10/13/2021

An IMMENSE thank you to everyone who tuned in last night to watch the premiere of TAURA! It was so wonderful to be able to share this work with you all.

Congratulations to all at Aluna Theatre for a wonderful opening night! Be sure to check out their next live stream tomorrow and the in-person programming over the festival!

We are working on ways to have TAURA and SOLA available for you all to view in the coming months. Stay tuned!

photo by

10/12/2021

TAURA premieres TONIGHT 7pm EST 🐂🤎✨

Here we go! The night is finally here. Join us at the link to book your pay-what-you-want-ticket: https://www.alunatheatre.ca/festival/caminos-2021/taura/

Director: Sofí Gudiño
Guest Choreographer: Ilse Gudiño
Dance: Sofí Gudiño, Alana Elmer, Pulga Muchochoma
Composers: Mari Palhares, Y Josephine, Rosendo "Chendy" Léon, Brandon Valdivia
Music Producers/Mix and Mastering Engineers: Jimmy Kiddo at Quantum Vox Music, Benjamin Barrile
Cinematographer: Roya DelSol
Editor/Colourist: Rita Ushakova
Production Manager: Tanya Bregstein
Grip: Byron Noble
Camera Assistant: Kourtney Jackson
Costume Designer: Madeleine LeBlanc
Makeup: Toru Gabriella Miyake Gallardo

Photos by Fran Chudnoff

10/11/2021

TAURA premieres TOMORROW 7pm 🐂🤎✨

Tomorrow is the big day! 😍 Join us online for the opening night of Aluna Theatre’s Caminos Festival at 7pm. Before our film you’ll get to enjoy pieces by Yago Mesquita and Brefny Caribou! Tickets are pay-what-you-want and can be booked here: https://www.alunatheatre.ca/festival/caminos-2021/taura/

See you then!

Photo by Fran Chudnoff

10/08/2021

TAURA behind the scenes 🐂🤎✨ 2021

In 2021 we were finally ready to set up for production, and added this wonderful costume designer to our team.

Madeleine LeBlanc is a fibre artist & costume designer based in Toronto. Her work consists of wearable garments and performances which investigate traditional craft skills & techniques. Considering both historical and personal histories around the devaluing of women & craft work, LeBlanc creates art embodying physical, sensorial and emotional labour.

For TAURA she was inspired to re-create an abstract of the bata de cola to see if it could flow as if under water. She also designed a matador jacket to highlight the associations of the matador: human structures, inorganic architecture, mastering the sublime.

The body suits were made through a process of cut fabric appliqué, to both blend in with the natural body while emphasizing its muscle structure. Her goal with these body suits is to feel like an expression of the internal body and to highlight the similarities between human and bull.

From Madeleine, “I see this design as a meeting between human creations and unknowable natural forces; sculptural and organic.”

We love you, Madeleine! Thank you for dressing us with so much care and creativity.

Join us for TAURA’s premiere Oct 12, 2021. Link for pay-what-you-want tickets in our bio!

10/01/2021

TAURA behind the scenes 2019

In 2019 we continued developing TAURA in residency at Dancemakers with support from the Ontario Arts Council - Conseil des arts de l'Ontario. We added a second bata de cola to the mix and developed more choreography of the bulls in pasture and the afterlife.

Through the Toronto Arts Council, we were also able to commission a choreography by Ilse Gudiño to start developing the character of the matador through contemporary flamenco dance. We worked with the rhythm of the martinete, trying to show the matador outside of the ultra-masculine and more obvious aesthetics of the bullfight.

Join us for the premiere of TAURA October 12!

beautiful video by Janice Lee

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