Three circus women explore the fate of Eva Peron and the story of her embalmed body: a woman's body turned symbol and flag!
Eva Perón, nicknamed Evita, was a social rights and feminist activist in Argentina in the 40s and 50s. Her death provoked national mourning, and the mysteries surrounding her body fueled her myth. Embalmed in 1952, stolen in 1955, her body was not returned to Argentina until twenty years later.
Three migrant women from the Rio de la Plata region explore this little-known story. Using archive footage and contortion and hoop performances, they explore the imperceptible traces that remain in the body as a legacy. They raise the strange, almost mystical stories that have contributed to the myth of Evita, and bear witness to a force that is still very much with us today: that of a woman's body turned symbol and flag.
Three migrant women from the Rio de la Plata region explore this little-known story. Using archive footage and contortion and hoop performances, they explore the imperceptible traces that remain in the body as a legacy. They raise the strange, almost mystical stories that have contributed to the myth of Evita, and bear witness to a force that is still very much with us today: that of a woman's body turned symbol and flag.
