Wednesday, 2/12/2025
at 8:00 PM



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A body as incarnate memory: Santiago Mariño shows in this personal dance solo what it means to live in a country where he was not born. As a Colombian dancer who moves between South America and Europe, he is preoccupied with the colonial heritage that shapes him as "mestizaje" with indigenous and European ancestors, and continues to resonate in his body. For his final thesis in the Master's program in Choreography and Performance at the University of Gießen, he weaves South American cosmologies, lost knowledge, and Western ideas of dance as an art form in a mist-filled space. In doing so, Mariño navigates between states of disappearance and permanence, surrendering to the (own) forgetting that is inherent in every memory. "The flickering flame of our memory" is a dialogue with one's own ancestors and the scars of colonization that still ache today.

Photo: Nargess Behrouzian

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