“FUCK ME” / “LOVE ME*”. With these commands, a rising international choreographer from Argentina – Marina Otero – is making her Greek debut, eroticizing her life story in a double bill presented as part of Onassis Dance Days.

Official guest artist at ODD 2023, and making her debut appearance in Greece, is Marina Otero (born in Buenos Aires in 1984). An artist who introduces herself as “a dancer who doesn’t dance.” Who has made it her life’s work to make her own life an artwork. Who speaks heartbreakingly, side-splittingly, and deeply about both her ill-starred love affairs and her mangled spleen.

“Call it narcissistic, but who else is going to talk about me if not me?” declares Otero in FUCK ME, an autobiographical work featuring five completely naked men dancing in place of her while she explains why it is she can no longer dance, starting with the story of her grandfather and his embroilment in the Argentinian dictatorship, then speaking about the surgery she has undergone and the realization of her physical decline, before going on to talk about her passion for love and travel and life and – as ever – for the stage.

She admits that “theater was more essential than my life” and proves it with LOVE ME – a solo work which finds her motionless at first, in complete darkness, updating in front of the audience her private diary and confessions as a foreigner who migrated from her country.

The two presented works are part of the Remember to Live project, based on building an endless work about her life in which she will be her own object of investigation until the day she dies. First up is FUCK ME, then comes LOVE ME. “Yes, fuck me and then love me. First fuck me, then let’s talk about love...” – so says Marina Otero.

When:
Thursday, 02/03/2023, 20:30
Friday, 03/03/2023, 20:30
Saturday, 04/03/2023, 20:30
Sunday, 05/03/2023, 20:30