masaje reflexivo

Ticklish memories need a gentle massage to soften. Face what is given with some oil, warm hands, strong guts, and maybe some toys too. “Masaje Reflexivo” is a playful invitation to reflect on common and uncommon situations that move and shape our affects. Let’s open those events, shake them around, and go all the way down.

Through the persona of an “internet guru,” the hostess of the show “Finally You Have Arrived Into My Arms” guides the audience through an exaggerated landscape of self-help rhetoric, sensuality, and emotional performance. In an overly affected discourse, she dissects situations where sexual desire, new-age wellness strategies, patriarchal gestures, and colonial imaginaries merge to produce subtle forms of emotional manipulation — both intimate and political.

Informed by The Cultural Politics of Emotion by Sara Ahmed, the performance explores how emotions circulate socially: how they stick to bodies, narratives, fantasies, and power structures. “Masaje Reflexivo” proposes humor, seduction, discomfort, and play as tools to unpack these affective economies, inviting the audience into a collective process of confrontation, intimacy, and release.

Performed at:

Whole Festival. 2018

Plataforma. Iberoamericana Performance Festival. Dock 11. Berlin 2018

_S_P_I_T Queer Performance Festival. Tanzquartier Wien. 2019

Credits:

MUSIC Tomasa del Real feat. Alcover, LIZZ .  Maque & Dj Grace Kelly

CONCEPT,PERFORMANCE, VIDEO Maque Pereyra

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