Notes on Love and Hate
Performed by. Erick Godoy & Gabriel Zúñiga
Video by . Maria Trigos Del Valle
This work is a practice of affective cimarrónaje: The fugitive use of dance and desire to escape the regulatory codes of race, gender, and colonial morality.
It investigates diasporic rhythms—tango, salsa, bachata—as living archives that carry within their cadence histories of displacement, racialized labor, and the resistance forged in the space between mourning and celebration. The piece reclaims them as tools for a dissident sensuality.
Here, the celebrated excess is a political stance. It is the deliberate amplification of feeling by bodies that have been told to diminish themselves—to be less passionate, less dramatic, less visible. This sensuality constructs narratives outside the mandates of white, heteronormative respectability, using the body's capacity for ecstasy and drama to write its own history of love and loss.
"Notes on Love and Death" celebrate through movement, body and territory the common and the present. It is a game where emotions, temptations, and hesitations become the very materials for building community in motion. The piece posits that to feel deeply and move accordingly is, in itself, a decolonial technology—a way of reclaiming time, space, and narrative through the radical, abundant language of the flesh.
