Andares Pathways by The Makuyeika Theatre Collective

April 18, 2022 – Sarasota

The Ringling Museum will re-engage with exciting and relevant international artists in the upcoming presentation of the poignant dramatic work Andares (Pathways) by Mexico’s Makuyeika Theatre Collective on April 28, 29 & 30, 2022 at the Historic Asolo Theater.

In a rare presentation of world-class Spanish language theater in the Sarasota-Manatee area, this work highlights the international programmatic focus of the museum’s Art of Performance, and gives audiences and community an opportunity to meet artists from Mexico, hear about their process, and celebrate a heritage with considerable regionally importance.

Andares interweaves lives and stories of three characters of indigenous origins: Mayan, Muxe and Wixarika, and is devised through personal anecdotes, ancestral myths, and the outcry for justice. The play shines light on a range of realities — loss of language, land usurpation, widespread violence, ancestral duties, community resistance — at the center of modern Indigenous life. Meaning “pathways”, Andares is a sincere, revelatory, and intimate close-up on some of Mexico’s most remote corners and the astonishing stories of its extraordinary people.  Andares is performed in Spanish with English supertitles.

The Chicago Tribune affirms that these artists “…are not afraid to engage the audience in their critique and that allows you to sit and watch their work and feel like you are learning not just about the need for preservation but about the complexities of tradition clashing against modernity.”

“This award-winning play poetically weaves multifaceted stories about Indigenous Mexico, surfacing the beauty and complexity of its people and diverse communities and reaffirms the museum’s commitment to providing audiences to experience performing arts by and about artists from Latin America and the Caribbean,” said Elizabeth Doud, Currie-Kohlman Curator of Performance.