SEASON 35 | November 2022

Entierro

A Burial Ritual by Eva Margarita
November 4 & 5, 2022

Presented by The VORTEX

The VORTEX presents Entierro, a performance ritual by Eva Margarita for 2 nights only, in the Theatre and Butterfly Garden. Entierro is a ritual in grief with a unique focus on soil/land. After a brief meditation ritual inside the theatre on the Eloise Stage, we will process to the Garden and participate in a burial. In an exploration of our collective mourning, this unique ritual moving into the dark time of the year offers new ways of hailing, remembering, and reinterpreting death. 

Eva Margarita sifts through a postcolonial history of loss and release using her own body for connection. Entierro offers a burial, accessing memory, flesh, and the human need to accompany one another in life and in death. 

About Eva Margarita: Originally from South Central Los Angeles, Eva Margarita is an Afro-Latinx performance artist and scholar. Eva Margarita’s performance works explore conjure, ritual, and ceremourning while her critical writings investigate diasporic sociological haunting with the intention of unsettling colonial forms of gathering. As an artist, Eva Margarita is concerned with grief and wake work that allows us to accompany, blur lines, and spill all over each other. Her work is guided by the principle that practices of the rituals of everyday life offer an alternate way of existing; one that acknowledges the familial, spiritual, and scholarly forces available for layering logics of gathering. Her performances pull together immaterial and material resources to weaponize interdisciplinary ways of animating life. Pronouns: She/Hers/Ella

Entierro is funded and supported in part by VORTEX Repertory Company.