Vuelve A La Concha De Tu Madre: Conxas

2017 (on-going)

A new dance work by Muffie Delgado Connelly, made in collaboration with Juma DeJesus, Lupe Martinez and Andrea Elena Telles.

Conxas is a receiving location—an embodied site that detects how personal myth, ancestry, and land-based memory surface in the body, and how movement, ritual, and performance can serve as portals into emergent states of sovereignty. Muffie Delgado Connelly’s current performance research, Vuelve A La Conxa De Tu Madre, is a living map: part code-switching design, part adaptive practice, part ghost story, part spell. Descended from the margins of identification and the middle of the dance floor, Vuelve is a choreography of longing, distance, and connection. It’s a ceremony of coming back. A movement map. A tender, tectonic invitation to tether to place, body, language, and each other in ways that undo modern pace. Vuelve isn’t about return as nostalgia. It is the refusal to disappear.

In Vuelve, Muffie invites collaborators into a process-based movement practice called Conxas—a multi-dimensional research project in experiential landscape, ancestral mapping, and alternate identity locations. Rooted in somatic intelligence, dance improvisation, and community building, Conxas opens space for disobedient embodiment and speculative belonging. The work folds lived experience into a body of work that is both deeply personal and communally choreographic.

Upcoming: August 17th, 2025 Work In Progress Sharing as a part of the Alembic Parent Artist Residency at Performance Works NorthWest.

RSVP at hello@muffiedelgadoconnelly.com

This gathering will be informal and will act as an opportunity for the creative practice and process of Conxas to interface with a small audience before being shaped into a larger work.

Supported by RACC, Ponderosa Residency, Caldera Arts, and Performance Works NorthWest