schall&kreck kollektiv - Malinches Echo

In the organizer's words:

"What does it mean to carry a heritage that is not your own? My name, my skin, my language."

Growing up in an indigenous village in Mexico, deported to the Gulf Coast as a slave, given away to the Spanish conquistadors, used as a translator and mediator in the conquest of Mexico, mother of a child with Hérnan Cortés - these are the key facts of Malinche's life. But what we remember of her are manifold images, stories and attributions: Malinche as the original mother of Mexico, as a traitor, as an icon or as a transcultural mediator.

The performance collective schall&kreck makes the figure of Malinche speak and dance. In an interweaving of acting, dance, sound, costume and video art, patriarchal and colonial narratives are unmasked and questioned. schall&kreck puts the search for Malinche's story in her own hands and sets her in a process of reflection in a multimedia performance that ends in a maelstrom of (de)colonial historiography.

BY AND WITH

schall&kreck: Elisa Marschall, Aylin Kreckel, Marcela Ruiz Quintero, Mirella Drosten, Theresa Mielich, Anna-Sophia Backhaus, Liz Pfannenschmidt, Björn Nienhuys

SUPPORTED BY

Supported by NRW Landesbüro Freie Darstellende Künste, Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Cultural Office of the City of Dortmund, Cultural Office of the State Capital Düsseldorf and LWL Kulturfonds.