Abstract
This performance that goes by many names (Nos roban las palabras, A Calzón quitado, or Insurrecciones que son heréticas resurrecciones) relates to the body and cultural heritage by staging the loss and recovery of language as a deeply embodied act. It confronts the audience with the exhaustion of the words and categories through which we make sense of the present, evoking how language itself can be dispossessed. The performance begins with the urgency of not losing speech—the need to speak, to scream, to reclaim voice—and revisits the act of speaking as both a wound and a pleasure. Through the performer’s body, language is not only uttered but broken, strained, and reimagined. The piece moves from the emptiness of hollowed-out meaning toward a search for words rooted not in rational clarity, but in emotional intensity. In this space, the body becomes a vessel of memory, pain, and resistance as a keeper of cultural inheritance when words fail.
“Nos roban las palabras”, although it could also be titled “A calzón quitado”, or “Insurrecciones que son heréticas”, is a performance that confronts the audience with the exhaustion of the languages and categories through which we read the times we live in. It begins by reviving the urgency of not losing the word, the capacity to speak and the need to scream. It revisits the act of speaking as both traumatic and pleasurable. From there, we move into a second moment: an exploration of the hollowing out of meaning from words, and a search for a new conception of them, one where their sense no longer lies in rational meaning, but in their emotional charge. It closes the journey proposed to the audience at the threshold where feelings and new realities reside—realities that still have no way of being named. The performance carries the tone of an epiphanic, urgent, and furious speech; more than a reflection, it takes on the tone of a revelation.
Nos roban las palabras or A Calzón Quitado is a new piece commissioned by the inSURrecciones gathering, to be presented in the gardens of the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City.

