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Bruising for Besos. NEW. Yoli, a lesbian artist, escapes her traumatic past by moving to Los Angeles and creating a new family of friends. She finds passion with a nurse, but as their relationship ...
- Drama
- Adelina Anthony
- Adelina Anthony
Jun 20, 2016 · The new film Bruising for Besos is unique not only because of the lesbian Latinas and Xicanas at its center, but also for dealing with the rarely discussed issue of domestic abuse within lesbian relationships. Ahead of the movie’s world premiere at Frameline, we spoke with its queer writer-director and star Adelina Anthony. We talked …
Xicana Indigenous Art Film. 106 mins. Originally written by Adelina Anthony as a solo play in 2003, Bruising for Besos tells the story of Yoli (Adelina Anthony), a Xicana lesbian, and her tumultuous relationship with Daña (Carolyn Zeller), a beautiful Puerto Rican woman. Yoli is part of a community of lesbians in Los Angeles and has a history ...
- Berenice Sánchez
- 2018
Jun 28, 2024 · Before becoming a film, Bruising for Besos was a one-woman show created for the stage and performed by Adelina Anthony. It “premiered in 2009 at the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center earning Anthony a nomination for Best Solo Performance from LA Weekly” (Sanchez n.p.). The show featured Anthony as Yoli, who reminisces about her life via ...
- Adelina Anthony
- Drama
- 86 minutes
INTRODUCTION: Bruising For Besos. INTRODUCTION: Bruising For Besos. elina AnthonyBruising for Besosis the first solo play from Adelina Anthony’s The Xiqana Xronicles, a cycle of four plays, each dedicated to one of the four directions and created from a Xicana-Indíge. a, feminist, and queer platform. These plays are conceived by the artist ...
Aug 9, 2016 · 08.09.16. Courtesy of Bruising for Besoso. A delina Anthony’s latest film Bruising for Besos represents 13 years of hard work. It started as a solo show while she was studying at Stanford and ...
Studies that I first saw Adelina Anthony’s Bruising for Besos and Dulce Maria Solis’s CHELA. As a scholar of theater studies, I was immediately enthralled by the emotional and critical force of both stories, but also galvanized by the storytellers, the dual authors and performers of the work. Anthony and Solis
