Title: Anita Bermeo's transmedial artistic biography of her performatic character 'La Torera'

Authors: Carmen Elena Jijón; María Zárraga; Galo Fernando Gallardo Carrillo

Addresses: Universitat Politècnica de València, Camí de Vera, s/n, 46022 València, Valencia, Spain; Faculty of the Arts, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Av. Universitaria, Quito 170129, Ecuador ' Faculty of Fine Arts, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camí de Vera, s/n, 46022 València, Valencia, Spain ' Faculty of Administrative Sciences, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Av. Universitaria, Quito 170129, Ecuador

Abstract: For the creation of the play 'La Torera', its author, Carmen Elena Jijón, collects fragments of Anita Bermeo's life to reconstruct the main character of the play. The proposal is articulated, together with the collective imagination, with press articles and multiple creations by artists from the Republic of Ecuador, becoming part of a transmedial biography of 'La Torera' that goes beyond the entire work and it circumscribes in an even broader transfictional universe. In this context, the present article manages to demonstrate a parallelism between the figure of 'La Torera' with the artist Frida Kahlo, placing both Latin American women in the performance field as pioneers in their different environments. In this way, Anita Bermeo's legacy as an artist is finally rescued, taking her character beyond the cliche and social prejudices of that time in Quito-Ecuador, which overshadowed her creation.

Keywords: La Torera; performance; biography; theatre; art; transmediality; transfictionality.

DOI: 10.1504/IJART.2021.115766

International Journal of Arts and Technology, 2021 Vol.13 No.1, pp.18 - 29

Received: 25 Feb 2020
Accepted: 03 Sep 2020

Published online: 21 Jun 2021 *

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