Board of Directors Episode 11: Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol
Lizards Lying in the Sun
Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol is a collective of artists. We work in theater, create books, radio programs, videos, and educational projects.
Since 2003, we have been developing projects to connect work and life, to erase and redefine boundaries. Our work seeks to create narratives from real-life events. It has nothing to do with entertainment; it is a space to think, articulate, displace, and unravel what daily life merges, overlooks, and presents to us as given.
Things are what they are, but they can also be different.
We have presented our work in almost every state in Mexico; at festivals, independent venues, state theaters, and universities.
Abroad, among many others, we have worked at the Reina Sofía Museum (Madrid), Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), Schaubühne (Berlin), FIBA (Buenos Aires), Wiener Festwochen (Vienna), Festival de Otoño (Paris), Theater Spektakel (Zurich), FTA (Montreal), HAU (Berlin), Kammerspiele (Munich), Santiago a Mil (Santiago), Bienal de Teatro (São Paulo), DeSingel (Antwerp), BITEF (Belgrade), Festival Internacional (Caracas), FAEL (Lima), Belluard International (Freiburg), Cena Contemporânea (Brasilia), TBA (Portland), FIAC (Salvador de Bahia), Festival de Otoño (Madrid), RADAR (Los Angeles), Temporada Alta (Girona), Dialog Festival (Wroclaw), Centro Cultural España (Guatemala), BAD (Bilbao), Inteatro (Ancona), TNT (Terrassa), MESS (Sarajevo), Fusebox (Austin), Norderzon (Groningen), among many others.
We have received numerous awards and recognitions, including the ZKB Patronage Prize at Zürcher Theater Spektakel and the Audience Award at the Impatience Festival (Odeon Theatre and Centquatre Theatre) in Paris. Since 2023, our work has been part of The Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library in New York.
Luisa Pardo (Xalapa) is a stage artist, aspiring farmer, and teacher; she is the founder and co-director of the Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol collective, which has produced over 20 artistic projects and performed in 23 countries at various forums and festivals. She has collaborated on theater projects with Hugo Arrevillaga, Juliana Faesler, Marco Canale, and others, and on film projects with Yulene Olaizola, Marise Sistach, and Nicolás Pereda, among others. She worked closely with the Cine Too Lab project and the CAI in Oaxaca. Currently, she is developing and coordinating the YIVI artistic-educational project in the Mixteca Alta region.
Lázaro Gabino Rodriguez (Durango) Actor. Master of Arts in Theatre from the Amsterdam University of the Arts (AHK). Since 2003, he has been a member of the Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol collective, where he has developed his theatre work. He writes various texts and has been part of the Cascajo audiobook publishing house since 2016. As an actor, he has appeared in more than 30 feature films with directors such as Nicolás Pereda, Raya Martin, Gust Van der Berghe, and Yulene Olaizola. He has received numerous awards and has been the subject of retrospectives at the Toulouse, Paris Cinema, Geneva, and Cali Film Festivals.
