Sometimes, I forget that I'm living in a country where I wasn't born. I look around and I question my presence... my body, that fleshy memory, is it really here? What parts are dwelling, disappearing between dimentions? What am I a memory of?
My body is the flesh manifestation of ancestral genealogies who have meshed through centuries of hybridization. My ancestors and I bear the ongoing scar of colonization, and my being in the world webs itself between southamerican cosmologies, western performativities and dance imaginaries. To acknowledge my body as a construct of mestizaje, is to recognize the layers of history and politics that reside within it.
The piece is a conversation with the things that are bound to dissappear and the things that persist as I recall them in dance. It is a dialogue with remains that can’t be touched, and that unveils how remembrance and forgetting are both inevitable.
Infos
- Dauer: 50 Minuten
- Sprache: Lautsprache Englisch, Spanisch, Deutsch
Accessibility
Accessibility of Location
Sponsors and Supporters
Santiago Mariño: Concept, artistic direction and performance
Tomás Ripoll: Music, mixing and sound design
Dana Maxim: Light design
Nargess Behrouzian: Dramaturgical and production support
Funder and (co)producers: Hessische Theaterakademie, Kulturamt Gießen, Kulturamt Frankfurt, Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm
Biography
Santiago Mariño is a Colombian dance artist based in Germany. He holds a BA in Perfoming Arts from Universidad Distrital. As a dancer he has worked for over 10 years between South America and Europe, performing works of multiple choreographers and touring extensively in both continents. As a choreographer he intersects dance, embodied memory and decolonial thinking. Santiago is also a teacher who seeks to transgress colonial structures of dance transmission and cultivate collective processes of joy and inner work. He worked in dance management for four years and currently pursues an MA in Choreography and Performance at the Hessische Theaterakademie.