Performance

REINCORPORANDO

Movements talking materials, a bare-bones temptation to paint a mural.

Premiere: 21. November 25

Premiere am 21.11.2025, 20:00 Uhr
Aufführungen am
22.11.2025, 20:00 Uhr
23.11.2025, 20:00 Uhr

by Xdzunúm Danae Trejo

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Reincorporando is a series of conversations between the crafter and the crafted. Drawing from the choreographer’s youth in central Mexico, where her house shifted between several configurations: a domestic space, a workshop, a studio, a stable, a gallery, a theatre; the imprints of these environments take form in a vacillating dialogue between three figures (Xdzunúm Danae Trejo, Olga Popova and Ekaterina Kaliuzhnaia) and the stillness of things in a quiet room. The talking is scattered in a body in the form of movement responses that reference the labour in the crafting of materials and the experiences that give them form. This workshop; this house theatre of domestic scenes is what we see and touch, but what is felt is more obscure. The performance opens a window to inner landscapes transported by different people that coincided in one household. It is a trade. It speaks of their migrations and the constant crossover of their lives and this instant.

This dance takes elements from a Mexican street performance tradition, now rare, in which a plastic or paper toy skeleton no larger than a finger, appears to move on its own as if by magic. It follows the orders of a performer who is its master. This folk art form (often a playful swindle) is called Calacas Siriacas. The master requires an accomplice, known as the Palero, to this illusory act. This performer pretends to be a spectator but actually manipulates the invisible nylon fish line that gives the skeleton life. The mechanisms of this little spectacle inspire the threads of Reincorporando, which springs from the urge to make visible how communities are continually formed around art and artwork, and how they are significant spaces of connection between nationalities, educational and economic backgrounds.

This production acts as the choreographer’s graduation work for the Choreography und Performance MA, within the frame of the Hessian Theatre Academy.

Performance in English and Spanish
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Choreographer: Xdzunúm Danae Trejo
Performers: Xdzunúm Danae Trejo, Olga Popova, Ekaterina Kaliuzhnaia
Production support: Christina Maria Ulrich, Olga Popova
Dramaturgy: Asa Hendry
Outside eye: Annu Kötter
Stage support: Anna Maria Spittler
Lighting, sound and set: Xdzunúm Danae Trejo in collaboration with Olga Popova and Ekaterina Kaliuzhnaia
Mentors: Bojana Kunst, Livia Andrea Piazza

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