This work traces the footsteps of the dancer Carmen Tórtola Valencia, which one must examine closely, as with a magnifying glass, to uncover the details and subtext. Building on this trail, it speculates beyond the archive image, beyond what the press of the time reported, and beyond what Tórtola was able and willing to share at that moment.

This story is crafted through various poetic, performative gestures that enable us to revisit memory and explore alternative narrative possibilities and responses for documenting the present, whilst also recovering and affirming points of reference in art and in people’s lives.