Mother Tongue is a solo about my language. A troubled language that mixes the need for survival and the fear of disappearing.

Mother Tongue is a duet of my voice and its echo. A sound that insists on resisting.

Mother Tongue is an in-between being. A fiction that defends multiplicity and transformation as a force of existence.

Lucía García Pullés starts with the idea that identity is a construction made up of stories about ourselves: intimate narratives nourished by our personal experiences, which are in turn overlaid by normativity’s precedence. Repetitive, saturated, and insistent, García Pullés works with vocal and physical gestures from her personal phantasmagorical, fictional, and sensitive archaeology while asking: “How can I give body to the heterogeneities that integrate me?” Understanding the body as a palimpsest, composed of dynamic and fluid narratives that question, distort, affirm, and destroy each other, Mother Tongue seeks to dig into the different temporal and geographical layers of the body. Thus, the body is seen as the territory of a living archive, an active and overflowing memory.

Mother Tongue stems from a memory of feminist protest, a present of immigration and the desire for a future that will allow us to inhabit the edges. As a performance that superimposes personal memory with the present and the desire for a future open to listening, Mother Tongue asks: Which forms and voices are listened to?

Lucía García Pullés lives in Paris, where she continues to develop her career as a dancer and choreographer. She sees her work with dance as a playground for proving the fictions and narratives that help us survive. In her work, there is a dialogue between elements of theater, sound art and poetry, where the body – dance – is always the territory of intersection. Her interest revolves around notions of identity, collective memory and the fictional narratives that construct imaginary identity. She works on a physicality that seeks to multiply these ways of being on stage. She understands the body as a living archive that overflows in layers of time, geography and imagination. She believes in the power of the sensibility of movement, and in its ability to transmute sensations into fiction to transform our relationship with the world. García Pullés holds a degree in choreographic composition from Universidad Nacional de las Artes, Buenos Aires (2013). She is the founder and co-director of the La Montón collective (2013-2018). As a performer she currently collaborates with choreographers Mathilde Monnier and Volmir Cordeiro, and as a teacher with Marcela Santander Corvalán. As a researcher and creator, she has received investigative grants for dance and performance experimentation programs in Europe, Uruguay, Argentina, and France. She has developed her research work Re.Verb, presented in the Festival Solos al Mediodía in Uruguay (2021) and in the Festival Artdanthé, at the Théâtre de Vanves (2022).