As always, it all begins with encounters: the experience with the philosopher Elsa Dorlin, the encounter with her text “I, You, We: I, Tituba, and the Ontology of the Trace,” as well as with the character Tituba from the novel “I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem” by the writer Maryse Condé. Condé gave a voice to a Black woman and alleged witch from the Salem witch trials – a figure whose existence and story had nearly been erased.

The performance sets out in search of the traces of those people who were disenfranchised, silenced, and forgotten through colonialism and slavery. At the center is the body as a living archive: a place where memories, stories, and experiences are preserved and passed on. Dance, voice, and song create a space in which absence becomes visible and silence audible.The result is a “collective solo” that interweaves personal and historical experiences.