La Llorona is a choreographic exploration of femininity, internalised emotion, and cycles of joy and violence through the juxtaposition of a Colombian oral tale of a woman who is abandoned, and in her grief drowns her child and contrasted with lived experience as an Anglo-Colombian woman. 

Patricia has successful been awarded a commission from Dance City’s 2021 Commissions programme to research and develop new material for her new work for the stage. La Llorona has also received support from Arts Council England’s Project Grants scheme, and support in kind from Middlesbrough Council. 

Patricia Suarez and Moving Art Management are also proud to announce that Patricia is one of three new MAM Associates. As a producing company based in the North, Moving Art Management are dedicated to supporting new dance work by talented local artists for our local communities, and invest in the Associates with producing time and management capacity, studio space and cash support. 

R&D Creatives

Malena Arcucci, Nicola T. Chang, Jennifer Essex, Ella Mesma, and Francesca Murray-Fuentes.

Trailer Credits

Concept and Choreography by Patricia Suarez

Sound and Music by Nicola T. Chang

Barranquilla Tiene Un Swing by Frank Guerrero y Su Grupo Aché The song used is licensed under the following circumstance: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

Filmed by Tiny Dances

Sharings and Workshops

You can follow our journey in making this work via our website, blog and social media platforms where we will be posting behind the scenes footage, interviews with creatives and sneak peaks of our work in progress. This is also where we will put news of any workshops and sharings coming up.