Lorena Lo Pena - Performance Artist
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    • Beauty Hurts I / La Belleza Duele
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    • Comer para Vivir / Eat to Live
    • Body Matter: A Photo-Performance
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    • The Acts by Jill Greenhalg
    • Pasarela by Patricia Ariza
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    • Internal Terrains by Natasha Davis
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    • Short Films / Cortometrajes
    • Performance in Public Spaces / Performances en Espacios Publicos
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      • Absurdas / Absurds
      • Cuidate! / Beware!
      • Golosina - Revancha Teatral / Sweets - A Theatrical Revenge
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    • elgalpon. espacio / A Performance Space Project
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November 2010
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HIGH HEEL MARATHON

As Simone de Beauvoir said:
"You're not born a woman, you become a woman."

High Heel Marathon is a performance that reflects on the Social Standards of Womanhood and the Aesthetic Rituals we –girls/women- go through to try to achieve them by inviting the audience to witness a Marathon-Race in high heels as a Ritual to become a “Real/Proper/Super Woman”. 

Womanhood is the period in a female's life after she has transitioned through childhood and adolescence. Many cultures have rites of passage to symbolize a girl's coming of age, such as confirmation in some branches of christianity, bat mitzvah, in Judaism, or even just the custom of a special celebration for a certain birthday (generally between 12 and 21), like the Quinceañera of Latin America.

We must ask ourselves, in every interpretation of rite, about “the social function of the rite and the social significance of the boundaries or limits that the ritual allows to cross in a legitimate way” (Bourdieu, 1997: 117).

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  • Home / Principal
  • Performance/ Live Art
    • Vello Bello Vol.30
    • ENCAJA/INSERT: S vs. L
    • Cartografía Anatómica
    • Beauty Hurts II / La belleza duele
    • Comer para Vivir 2 / Eat to Live 2
    • COME HOMBRE 1 y 2
    • PLAN(I)SFERIO
    • Probador / Fitting Room
    • FULL METAL DRESS / committed immigrant
    • CHEW / Mastica
    • ID Matters / Materias de Identidad
    • Pellejo / PELT
    • 413.223.78
    • Beauty Hurts I / La Belleza Duele
    • High Heel Marathon / Maraton en Tacos
    • La Ultima Cena / The Last Supper
    • Comer para Vivir / Eat to Live
    • Body Matter: A Photo-Performance
  • Colaboraciones
    • The Acts by Jill Greenhalg
    • Pasarela by Patricia Ariza
    • SECRET GIRL: The Seven Kimgs by Gabriella Sacco
    • Internal Terrains by Natasha Davis
    • CONSTRUCCION: EN EXPANSION con Ivonne Good
  • Other Perfroming Work
    • Short Films / Cortometrajes
    • Performance in Public Spaces / Performances en Espacios Publicos
    • Theatre / Teatro >
      • Absurdas / Absurds
      • Cuidate! / Beware!
      • Golosina - Revancha Teatral / Sweets - A Theatrical Revenge
  • ART BIO
  • Producer BIO
    • elgalpon. espacio / A Performance Space Project
  • Contact / Contacto