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# Variations in Second Position, Sitting Down
- URL: https://spotlight.adancemag.com/variations-in-second-position-myrna-renaud/
- Published: 2026-06-08T13:01:04.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-17T15:42:09.000Z
- Description: In the Jardim da Estrela in Lisbon, transdisciplinary artist Myrna Renaud films her shadow as she moves through rehabilitation exercises on a park bench; second position reduced to what a broken wrist allows. The video and this text are the same work.
- Author: a Dance Mag
- Tags: Perspectives

This video ritual is ensconced in a particular spot at the Jardim da Estrela in Lisbon – the park where I dance, stretch, breathe, and embrace the trees. The bench in front of the bamboo patch is favored by my Ancestors in the matrilineal stream of my genetic configuration: the dancing midwife, the spiritualist, the textile artist.

*Variations in Second Position, Sitting Down* was born from the rehabilitation of a broken wrist. The trauma befalls an old dancer, relevant, yet slowly decimating into a diminished range of motion, deprived of floorwork as she works through therapy. What remains is this: second position, sitting down. A constraint that becomes a form.

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ABOUT THE ARTIST

**Myrna Renaud* is a Puerto Rican transdisciplinary artist. Throughout a five-decade career, her practice has expanded from stage choreography into site-specific performance, moving image, and multimedia installations. A co-founder of Barrunto Dancers, Inc. alongside the late Beti García (1952–2022), she is a groundbreaking voice of Caribbean culture and identity. Her work Boundaries Are Not The Sea / Guardarrayas No Son La Mar (2002–2006), performed in London, San Juan, Miami, and Barcelona, stands as her landmark contribution to the field.*