Listening All Night to the Marassa with Inés Sybille and Malvin Montero
- For:
- General public
- Time:
21.00 and 22.00
- Place:
- Temporary exhibition rooms level -1
- Price:
Free activity. Prior booking request
Booking opens on 19 November (online and on tel. +34 917 911 370 from 10.00 to 20.00).
Listening All Night to the Marassa is a dance activation of John Akomfrah’s exhibition Listening All Night to the Rain. Dancers Malvin Montero and Inés Sybille glide through the moving iconography of the Marassa twins from Haitian-Dominican Vodou. The philosophical, aesthetic, sonic, and choreographic variations of this mysterious pair dive into echoes and samples from Akomfrah’s aquatic body-archives.
Like a diasporic network of connection, Angola’s Kuduro, Jamaica’s Dancehall, and Dominican Dembow allow them to flirt with machetes, horns, and laments. Within the syncretism of this jumble of codes, Malvin and Inés mobilize and produce memory, reterritorializing a spirituality that is erotic, protective, and strategic.
