FOMMA Foons

These three women are improvising in one of the workshops I conducted for FOMMA, Fortaleza de la Mujer Maya, an indigenous women's theatre group based in San Cristobal de las Casas, in Chiapas.

Through these workshops we created a physical theatre piece based on the humility of women, using techniques of bouffon, with a revolutionary message.

I was fortunate in that a Camp Winnarainbow young wonder woman named Yakira Teitel joined in the workshops & is staying in Chiapas through May & will continue the work we began together.

And if we can find the opportunity, the women from FOMMA would like to visit communities in Canada. I am looking for ways to help that to happen.

Inside the window in the blue wall behind the buffoons of FOMMA in this photograph is a small room with a telephone & an altar. While I was making masks with the actor/playwrites in the group, we kept the masks on the altar & the mask making material underthe pink fabric that covered the altar. This is the altar decorated one day with flowers.