¿Para qué? - Perdón Que No Fue Pedido, is a performance that considers reconciliation for past relationships and matriarchal bonds. Torres plays between dream building, ceremony and delusion, to understand how memories can be reconfigured as a site of coping to build new ideas of self. This work considers how we give our ancestors, our mothers and ourselves "our flowers".

Choreography consulting: Valentia Bache

Performers: Elena Torres, Aleen Olivares, Maire O'Neill and Carissa Lee-Pinckney

Songs by: Susana A. Banuelos OllinKuikatl

Production: The Green Line Performing Art Center

Support from Sheridan Tucker Anderson

* This performance contains partial nudity and mention of animal violence.

This program is presented in collaboration with EXPO CHICAGO as the official start of EXPO ART WEEK.

On April 9, explore more galleries, museums, and exhibition spaces in our dynamic community of arts and culture as Blanc Gallery, DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center, Hyde Park Art Center, Logan Center Exhibitions, Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, The Renaissance Society, Smart Museum, South Side Community Art Center, and 4th Ward Project Space, among others, all open with late hours and other events throughout the evening.