Dancers Malvin Montero and Inés Sybille present Listening All Night to the Marassa, a dance activation of John Akomfrah’s exhibition Listening All Night to the Rain, inspired by the moving iconography of the Marassa twins in Haitian and 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.