The piece places otherness at its core through a dancer who revisits the imaginary world of The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky (1913) and the narratives that various choreographers have built around this iconic work. Through a travesti body, it proposes a journey that questions traditional representations of the body, gender identities, and the notion of sacrifice tied to reproduction. Rather than a reconstruction of the original, the work becomes a bold gesture that repositions eros, desire, and the travesti body to challenge dominant imaginaries. It asks which norms shape our world, which bodies are considered valuable, which are sacrificed, and which are allowed a future. Here, there is no single body offered up as a scapegoat, but rather an ongoing process of constant transformation.
**Merce Matus** is a Chilean performing artist, dancer, and travesti artist based in Madrid. Her practice moves across dance, performance, and theatre, exploring dissident bodies, poetics, and narratives that challenge binary identities from a queer and anti-racist perspective. Her work positions the body as a space for transformation and resistance.
**Alan Ibáñez** is a performing artist, creator, and cultural manager. His research brings together body, dance, architecture, and performance through an ecological lens, investigating the relationships between corporeality, materiality, and landscape. He has created works for theatres, festivals, and public spaces, and promotes collaborative creative processes through **Comunidad Escénica**.
Together, they co-direct *Otra Primavera*, a project developed through international residencies that explores new relationships between the body, desire, and the contemporary imagination.