Broken Wings

Broken Wings traces the extraordinary life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo through visceral choreography and symbolic imagery. Opening with Frida on her deathbed, the ballet unfolds her memories in fragmented, dreamlike sequences: the catastrophic bus accident that fractured her body, her passionate and turbulent marriage to muralist Diego Rivera, her creative defiance, and her confrontation with mortality. Death appears as a constant, shadowy presence—a personification of her relentless physical pain and existential struggle. Through surrealist staging and fantastical creatures drawn from Kahlo's own paintings, the work transforms her suffering into art, celebrating her fierce individuality and refusal to be diminished by circumstance. The ballet culminates in Frida's embrace of her artistic legacy, asserting her power as a visionary who transmuted anguish into beauty.