IN TRANSIT. Marina Santo (creation, direction and performer), Íren Márquez Dos Santos (creation and production of the sound space)
‘In transit’ is a term that describes the flow of elements with mobility that go from one place to another. This movement implies a course whose endpoint results in a change in state, movements that shift towards sound, sounds that flow towards movement. Currents that vibrate while crossing through a shared sensoriality, dancing variations and sounding shapes. The action is the outcome of the dialogue between Marina’s corporality and Íren’s sound universe, joined by a profound bond that links the sea and the entire imaginary that unfolds from their cosmovision. En Tránsito [In Transit] is an open act, an invitation to share a moment together via the body, experimenting collectively.
Marina Santo (Río de Janeiro, 1978). From a very young age, Marina took regular classes in different types of dance in her hometown, but she regards the street and the night as her main schools. Now living in Europe, she trained with many artists and works professionally in different dance collectives and companies in a more experimental vein. For more than a decade, Marina has dedicated herself to creating and making projects associated with exploring contemporary bodywork with the most varied people and communities. Her reflection on the contemporary body, art made by dissidents and the quest for a personal language free of definitions marks her career as an investigator and creator.
Íren Márquez Dos Santos is an Afro-descendant artist and producer from Madrid who inquires into and embraces the forms of resistance and healing of diasporic communities through sound. Bringing together musical production, sound workshops and performance, their investigation revolves around the sea and its political materiality, focusing on the potential of underwater sound to expose fractured and conflictive environmental realities which have repercussions on colonial and neocolonial historical narratives on the surface of the water.
PHOTO Fernanda Carvalho IG feufotografia
Instagram: @soymarinasanto @x_iiren
https://soundcloud.com/rasputia-281869501
VAIVÉN [SWAY]. Camilo Mejía
‘“Sway” is an oscillating, fluctuating or sweeping motion’.
VAIVÉN [Sway] takes a journey though the universe of salsa, revealing an entire personal and collective imaginary amidst sways which connect the Afro-Colombian Pacific and the Afro-Antillean Caribbean through what Camilo likes to call ‘diasporic resonance’. VAIVÉN starts as a process of performative exploration and investigation which alters the architectural space by finding that spatial-temporal chink that enables a Black, maroon, queer and trans-temporal imaginary of flight to seep through, giving rise to different narratives, perspectives and constellations. In VAIVÉN, the vanishing point is in salsa. Some part of VAIVÉN escapes, ‘cannot be seen (pause), but is felt’.
Camilo Mejía (Cali, Colombia). He is a multidisciplinary artist who always works in contact with music and dance. He began his dance training in Barcelona at the age of 21. His interest in improvisation and performance led him to Salzburg SEAD (Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance), where he was the guest artist for the production of ‘Sounds of Trap’ by the choreographer Cecilia Bengolea in the SEAD Bodhi Project company during his last year of school. He has participated in different productions with Needcompany, including ‘War and Turpentine’, ‘Isabella's Room’ and ‘All that Good’. In 2023, he launched his first solo work, VAIVÉN, which is now being presented at the CA2M.
PHOTO IG: @bertavicentesalas BERTA VICENTE SALAS
Instagram: @camilo_mejia
ALL THE STICKS IN THE HILLS. Joao del Monte
This is a concert with voice and piano that displays a banquet of musical influences. The sugar-cane flavour of the largest of the Antilles (Cuba) and the warmth and swing of Andalusia, intertwined with Yoruba songs, provide us with a living experience, a tribute to the music of yesterday and today. Joao del Monte, known as ‘the Gypsy Cuban’, opens up a gateway directly to the soul through his songs.
Joao del Monte came to Spain from Cuba as the lead dancer and star of the musical Hotel Habana Show.
He is one of the most multifaceted artists on the contemporary Spanish Cuban scene. We could list all the art forms in which Del Monte works, but it is better to say that his creative universe draws from music, dance and film resources. He has partnered with a variety of international projects, like his song ‘Carambuko en Subelo’ (Cuba) by the producer Gilles Peterson. He has recently performed with Miguel Poveda in Barcelona’s Liceo opera house and at Madrid’s Botanical Garden, among many other recent appearances.
PHOTO courtesy of the artist
Instagram: @Joao_del_Monte