Performance | La Mujer Maravilla: perrea mami

About the Event

What can our bodies know from our past lives? In La Mujer Maravilla: perrea mami, Awilda Rodríguez Lora reimagines the figure of Wonder Woman by embodying movement as a form that narrates the historical context of her life. In the performance, Rodríguez Lora hones in on the pelvis as a place meant not only for pleasure and production but also resistance. Accompanied by a voceteo—a Puerto Rican slang term for a car with a modified sound system—that hops the curb onto the plaza, the performance transforms the museum grounds into a space of collective invocation and disruption, emitting the musical rebellion of reggaeton as an unruly force of liberation.

Please note, the performance occurs twice during the day: Once on its own at 4:30 pm and the second time at 6:30 pm to open Prime Time: Dancing the Revolution, the MCA’s late night, 21+ celebration.

About the Artist

Awilda Rodríguez Lora is a remarkable queer woman artist and culture manager whose transdisciplinary performances challenge prevailing notions of gender, sexuality, and self-determination. Harnessing the mediums of movement, video, and sound to explore the intricate terrain of the “economy of the body,” Rodríguez Lora daringly brings the private into the public sphere as a strategy to humanize the experience of art consumption.

Born in Mexico, raised in Puerto Rico, and working across North and South America and the Caribbean, Rodríguez Lora’s performances traverse a rich tapestry of geographic histories and realities. Her work fosters progressive dialogues concerning the enduring legacies of hemispheric colonialism and the fluid boundaries of race, gender, class, and sexuality. Rodríguez Lora has been welcomed in several Artist Talks and Residences at esteemed institutions such as the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance (BAAD), the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia College Dance Center, and the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor).

Nominated for a US Artist Fellowship in New York, she possesses a vast academic experience and has issued several publications and catalogues. Founding collaborator of La Rosario in Santurce, she dedicates herself to her life project, La Mujer Maravilla, while serving as the Academic Leader for the Dance Program at Universidad del Sagrado Corazón in San Juan, Puerto Rico. With over a decade of experience as an artist, curator, mentor, and academic leader, she remains committed to exploring how artistic economies can be harnessed to support alternative ways of life rooted in community, creativity, and social justice.