VAIVÉN
national premiere
VAIVÉN is an atemporal, ancestral, and political journey through the music-dance complex of salsa. Along this path, Blackness, migration, and sex-gender dissidence converge in a state of constant fugitivity—an ancestral technology of re-existence rooted in the legacy of cimarronaje. This movement traverses physical, symbolic, and spiritual landscapes, carried by personal and collective memory, and by desire. VAIVÉN reclaims the popular archive and the salsa imaginary of Black neighborhoods and their diasporas. It is an act of dignifying lives and knowledges historically rendered subaltern. VAIVÉN radicalizes the idea of a scenic mangrove: an ecosystem where materials, sonorities, bodies, relationships, gazes, and ways of listening coexist without hierarchy.— Camilo Mejía Cortes
national premiere
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Credits
Concept and creation
Camilo Mejía
Co-creation, dramaturgy and texts
José Ramón Hernández
On stage
Camilo Mejía, his mother Leydi Cortés, his father Jhonny Mejía, his aunt Luz Dary Cortés, his first salsa partner Paola, his salsa friends, Cheo Feliciano, Celia Cruz, La Lupe, the soundtrack of his childhood, Elegguá, Papá Oggún, his godfather Morandy Puig and his godmother Gretel, Siete Rayos, Yemayá, and the cimarrona dead
Dramaturgical advisor
Nicole Geertruida
Lighting design
Pier Gallen
Scenography
Šde Tušar
Costume design
Patrícia Mokosi
Music and sound
Clay Chénière
Outside eyes
Isabel van Hauwe, Cherish Menzo, Adeola Aderemi, Eric Cyuzuzo
Special thanks for the support
Elisa Liepsch, Personaje Personaje, Marina Santo, Iki Yos Piña, Federico Vladimir and Pablo Lilienfield, Berta Vicente Salas, Catalina Insignares, Carolina Mendoza, Saskia Leudo, Ariadna Peya, Periferia Cimarronxs, Konvent, Buda, EICTV San Antonio de los Baños
Executive production
ANAKU
Observations
Text in English and Spanish with Portuguese and English subtitles
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