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Chola is a performance for three woman
Chola is mestiza
Chola is a clan
Chola is community
Chola is Peruvian
Chola is Mexican
Chola is Chilean
Chola is Andean
Chola is history
Chola is not real
Chola is indigenous
Chola is connected
Chola stands on a pedestal
Chola is a meditation
Chola is part of a performance trilogy. Chola is the second one in the trilogy. Chola is a derogatory term used to describe an indigenous Bolivian woman. Cholas have reclaimed the name and made it their’s, empowered by the derogatory term. Chola is in this case is everything. Chola is the unseen now seen indigenous woman. Three woman wear all the collected underwear, tightened around their legs yet remain expressionless and do known poses from women in advertisement. They are standing on logs and switch positions in a triangular movement, releasing one underwear at a time. It ends when all the underwear are released, all stories left strewn around the logs.