The backdrop of the project is the uncertain and fragmented space of my family history through the figure of my great aunt, Elfriede Mahler, an American dancer and choreographer. Accused of being a communist during the McCarthy era in the Untitled States, she fled and sought asylum in Cuba immediately following the revolution in 1959. In Cuba she became one of the founding members of the modern dance school in Havana and then relocated to Guantánamo City dedicating the rest of her life to founding and directing the dance company Danza Libre, which merges modern dance with Afro-Cuban dance traditions developed in the region.
Archival negatives of Elfride Mahler in Guantanamo Cuba, 1972.