For this presentation at Hidrante, La Trinchera reprises and adapts CRUDAS as a scenic photo performance. CRUDAS is a theatre-dance manifesto conceived as a malleable score to be exercised and adapted to different sites. Each montage has a versatile duration based on the conditions and contexts of the space-event. For this montage, La Trinchera rebuffs the conventional notion of photographic documentation in performance as a record of an event witnessed by an audience, approaching the still image as a microcosm of a larger, scenic, and narrative aesthetic.

In CRUDAS: décima, three female bodies reveal themselves as trapped, confined, or bound by duct tape and plastic sheeting in different spaces within the designated 'scenic' area. The duct tape and plastic sheeting serve as visual protagonists, acting as symbols and props for the alternate reality proposed. The narrative for this presentation loosely approximates the seduction of sirens and mermaids, which, initially in classical antiquity, were depicted as hybrid beings with the face or torso of a woman and the body of a bird who lived on rocky islands; from the Middle Ages onward, they took on a fish-like appearance: beautiful women with fish tails instead of legs who dwelled in the depths.

In English, mermaids are often beautiful beings possessing magical and benevolent characteristics (for example, in the Disney film "The Little Mermaid"). The siren, on the other hand, usually carries a negative connotation, portrays a dangerous and seductive being who lures sailors to rocks or perilous waters with their singing, with the intention of harming them. In CRUDAS, the subjects struggle to free themselves from a particular captivity only to enter a quest for dominance and control that is interrupted by willful procrastination, seduction, and rite. Determined to adhere to the principles of their aesthetic, La Trinchera develops a formula for composition that yields a malleable score adaptable to various settings, with CRUDAS emerging as an ever-changing yet 'finite' piece, a danced declaration of completion in rawness.

La Trinchera (est. 2015) is a contemporary dance collective composed of three Puerto Rican artists: Beatriz Irizarry, Cristina Lugo, and Marili Pizarro, who work from a performative autonomy that adapts to or conditions the space. Their beginnings in 2015 arose from collaboration and a relationship between dance friends, who had known each other since they were part of Hincapié, a dance collective directed by Petra Bravo. Their recent presentations include Con Vista al Mar, 2025 (ENSAYOS EN LA NATURALEZA of the ArteYunque program, El Yunque), Antro Lux, 2024 (Victoria Espinosa Theater), Pataki 1921, 2023 (in collaboration with Ulrik López, Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico, Sharjah Biennial), Anoxia, 2022 (collaboration with Joaquín Octavio, MAC en el Barrio), and Nivel Freático, 2022 (Beta-Local).