Todos vuelven. All will return
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| Free admission |
| For admission to Hall 1 and Hall 2, please drop all bags larger than DIN A4 in the cloakroom or lockers. |
| German, Spanish |
| Ground Floor, Hall 2 |
| Belongs to: Fiesta de Día de Muertos |
It will be a day of celebration, a jubilation, a party! After so long being kidnapped, our objects are finally freeing themselves from their prison and the walls behind which they have been held. Six characters of the resistance create a utopian constellation that will revolutionise museum studies worldwide. An opportunity for Germany to once again position itself as the spearhead of the movement.
Mali, Campos, Cora, Santos, Chic Mul and Darcilia will sing, dance and use all their talents to become part of this story and set standards for the before and after. A mummy from Peru becomes the goddess of fate for the six protagonists, but they won’t let her take away their dreams.
The Artists
is an actress, storyteller and theatre educator trained at the UNAM. She has participated in various educational and didactic theatre projects in Mexico, Brazil, Portugal and Germany. From 2007 to 2009 she participated in the state programme “escuela de calidad” in the state of Hidalgo. In 2007, together with the Instituto Camões and the UNAM, she founded “Lusoteatro”, a theatre group that supports the learning of Portuguese as a foreign language. After arriving in Berlin, she focused her theatre career on children’s audiences by telling stories, performing plays, and co-organising the Festivals Kindertheater series (2012-2018) and the Berlin Storytelling Festival in Spanish (2019). She is currently involved in Tallercito (Spanish-language theatre group), as a storyteller in the project “me lo contó un pajarito”. She is a theatre teacher in the Tukita group and in the Instituto Cervantes. She has been a member of the theatre group Calaca e.V. since 2018.
studied theatre and acting at the National University of Mexico, and acting and directing at HB Studio New York. Since 1992 he has worked professionally as an actor and director in Mexico, the USA and Europe (La MaMa Theatre, Lincoln Center, Mabou Mines and St. Ann’s Warehouse). Since 2007 he has lived and worked in Germany as an actor, director, puppeteer, choreographer and lecturer. He has worked at theatres such as the Berliner Festspiele, Volksbühne Berlin, Thalia Theater Hamburg, Theaterhaus Jena, Sophiensaele, Kampnagel Hamburg, Schaubude Berlin and Hebbel Theater Berlin. For “There’s no home like place” (2016) he received the Berlin Senate Grant for Intercultural Projects, 2018–2020 the three-year grant of the Mexican Minister of Culture FONCA and 2020 the Research Grant of the Berlin Senate Department for Performing Arts/Dance. 2023–2025 he is a member of the National System of Creators, Sistema de Apoyo a la Creación Mexico.
Website Antonio Cerezo
Website KMZ Kollektiv
was born in Buenos Aires. He studied communication sciences at the UBA. Between 2006 and 2010 he worked as an actor in the community theatre group “Pompapetriyasos” with performances in Argentina and Uruguay. Between 2013 and 2017 he worked as a clown with the ensemble “Rotonda Teatro” in Berlin. Since 2010 until today he has been performing in various shows of Calaca e.V.
Interdisciplinary artist. Works between Peru and Germany.
is a dancer and theatre pedagogue. She has worked in the independent scene in Santiago de Chile and Berlin in projects with professional and semi-professional performers. Her last projects were Nostalgia of Water (Berlin, 2023), where she was involved in the artistic research, Dance of the Crow (Dortmund, 2023), where she was responsible for direction and set design, and cruising-a queer glimpse (Berlin, 2021) as co-director and performer. Since 2018, she has been part of Calaca e. V.
was born in Mexico, has lived in Berlin for over 30 years and works as an actor, visual artist and photographer.
He is the initiator of the Mexican Festival of the Dead in Berlin, a founding member of Calaca e. V., and was the artistic director of the Mexican Festival of the Dead for many years.
He trained as an actor at the Escuela Nacional Mascarones in Mexico and was a member of the ensemble for 13 years. As an actor he was involved in all productions of Calaca e. V. As a director, he staged, among others, the music and shadow theatre Franziska and Death and Journey to Mictlán.
actress, singer, musician. She worked for 5 years with the well-known group “Teatro de los Andes” (Bolivia) and with “Ton und Kirschen Wandertheater” (Werder). She is currently performing in Berlin at the ATZE Musiktheater, as well as in numerous off-productions and is part of the band BEIDES. She has been a member of Calaca e. V. since 2000.
Coordination
comes from Peru, is a human rights activist, works in cultural management and has been active with Calaca e.V. for no less than 23 years. She got to know the association at the Mexican Festival of the Dead and was thrilled by the artistic and political content. Calaca e.V. also deals with difficult topics with humour and depth. It was love at first sight!
Culture and media manager at the artists’ agency Ekkehard Jung Artists & Projects Berlin. Educated in Córdoba (Argentina) and Weimar. She was a scholarship holder at the Academy “Musiktheater heute” in the cultural management section of the Deutsche Bank Foundation (2017-19) and a mentee of the mentoring programme of the German Cultural Council (2020-21).
As a member of Calaca e.V., she has been responsible for everything to do with theatre for many years.
Make-up and costume
Michelle Parilla, Anastasia Boukli