Inspired by a line from Juan Rulfo about the fading of memory, Xalisco, A Place honors the intensifying memories of homeland shaped by time and distance. Built as a dream sequence, random, contradictory, irregular, and unpredictable, the work rejects linear narrative. Conceived as a stage poem, it fuses dance, theatre, light, and music into a single matrix of space and time.

The piece was first presented in 2017 as an installation/performance in a black box at Salihara Art Center in Jakarta, Indonesia (LIFEs Festival). It was later presented as a site-specific performance in Bangkok, Thailand (LOW FAT ART FEST, 2019), at the International Cervantino Festival in Guanajuato, Mexico, and toured in Guadalajara (Conjunto Santander de Artes Escénicas) and Mexico City (CENART). The project was developed with an international and intercultural team from Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, and Belgium.

Directed by: Inés Somellera
Co-Director: Adam Christopher Marple
Written by Ines Somellera, Ann Lee, Rhoda Grauer
Set Design: Hanafi
Sound Design: Marc Appart
Lighting Designer: Jan Maertens
Co-Lighting Designer: Iwan Hutapea
Costume Design: Auguste Soesastro
Performers: MN Qomaruddin, Retno Sayekti Lawu, Agus Margiyanto, Inés Somellera