This month in our online cinematheque, you can watch Siboné Oroza and Antti Nordin’s brilliant film, When I’m on Stage, I Rule: Cholita Futurism in Cochabamba, Bolivia. The film explores how musical performance can serve as a tool for women’s individual and collective empowerment against a backdrop of colonial history, Indigenous statehood, and persisting patriarchal systems. It spotlights cholita song and dance groups such as the pioneering Las Conquistadoras, who stormed the Bolivian popular music scene at the turn of the millennium and remain popular to this day.
Between 29 May and 7 June, all active virtualWOMEX members can stream the film on virtualWOMEX:
When I’m on Stage, I Rule: Cholita Futurism in Cochabamba, Bolivia
We met with a music researcher and performer Siboné Oroza to talk about her research, which culminated in a vibrant documentation of the cholita movement in Bolivia, exploring how musical performance can serve as a tool for women’s individual and collective empowerment. Read the interview with Siboné Oroza on our Film Talk page.
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If you have an active virtualWOMEX membership or were registered for WOMEX 25 then you can use the same login details to access the ‘On Demand’ service on virtualWOMEX. You can renew your annual virtualWOMEX membership or get a new one for 79 EUR.
To stream the film, follow these three easy steps:
Step 1: Log in to virtualWOMEX
Step 2: Click on the On Demand section
Step 3: Pick any of the available films and enjoy!
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