Se oscureció la noche

Abstract

The night got darker is a reflexive exercise about my own ethnic/cultural identity through experimentation as a strategy to explore what it means to be afro nowadays. Is my “declaration domain", the territory to experience my body and feel the ethnic multiplicity that I am, the imposed and the denied, away from essentialisms. Between the need, the genuine and opportunism, being afro is currently a place of strong dispute when the skin -supposedly- is not a common denominator, but it is in fact a characteristic for which people – the bodies and beings that it covers– suffer exclusion. Being afro escapes the uniqueness of our entities of dark dermis. In contrast, it comes from the collective, the land and practices; our particular ways of being and becoming in the world. Asking ourselves who we are means to look at our practices, the facts that bring us to reality. We are insofar as we live, feel and think we do. In this way, “musicar” is my setting artistic practice and my own form to define this “space of confluence” between dance and music. Here, my carnal existence is the device –and the catapult– which combines music as a possible verb where “Dromedar” –this permanent journey– arranges this performative thought where, about the identity, is useful “the important to name(me)”. This hereditary self-determination is, without a doubt, a delicate campaign that merits taking a dromedary walk, quietly and fully, dancing. Following Zapata Olivella: openly Undress!