
Camilo Mejía is a multidisciplinary artist born in Cali Colombia where he spent most of his childhood and teenage years. He was always in contact with music and dance but far from the institutional path until the age of 21...
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.
CONCEPT, CHOREOGRAPHY: CAMILO MEJÍA AND JOSÉ RAMÓN HERNÁNDEZ // ON STAGE: CAMILO MEJÍA, SU MADRE LEYDI CORTÉS, SU PADRE JHONNY MEJÍA, SU TÍA LUZ DARY CORTÉS, SU PRIMERA PAREJA DE SALSA PAOLA, SUS AMIGOS SALSEROS, CHEO FELICIANO, CELIA CRUZ, LA LUPE, LA BANDA SONORA DE LA INFANCIA, ELEGGUA, PAPÁ OGGÚN, MI PADRINO MORANDY PUIG Y MI MADRINA GRETEL, SIETE RAYOS, YEMAYA Y LAS MUERTAS CIMARRONAS // DRAMATURGY: JOSÉ RAMÓN HERNÁNDEZ // DRAMATURGICAL ADVISOR: NICOLE GEERTRUIDA // LIGHT DESIGN: PIER GALLEN // SCENOGRAPHY: ŠPELA TUŠAR // COSTUME DESIGN: PATRICIA MOKOSI // MUSIC AND SOUND: CLAY CHÉNIÈRE // SUBTITLES: FEDERICO VLADIMIR // OUTSIDE EYE: 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 // COPRODUCTION: BEURSSCHOUWBURG (BRUSSELS-BE), VIERNULVIER (GHENT – BE), KUSTENWERKPLAATS (PIANOFABRIEK – BRUSSELS BE), THEATER ROTTERDAM (ROTTERDAM – NL) // WITH SUPPORT OF: STUK (LEUVEN – BE), BRAKKE GROND (AMSTERDAM – NL) & THE FLEMISH COMMUNITY COMMISSION (VGC)



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Camilo Mejía is a multidisciplinary artist born in Cali Colombia where he spent most of his childhood and teenage years. He was always in contact with music and dance but far from the institutional path until the age of 21...
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