Dalcy, a Chiquitano woman from the Santo Corazón community, San Matías, poses as Juanita, a migrant indigenous woman, a role she played on stage. Originally from a village in the Bolivian highlands, Juanita was convinced by her husband to migrate to the Chiquitania in search of better agricultural land. Reflecting on her conversations with a migrant woman at the workshop, Dalcy recounts how her character’s migration to the lowlands was forced because of ecological crisis in the highlands, where it has become harder and harder for peasant communities to sustain their agricultural practices: “The mountains are collapsing when it rains and fall on our fields.”
