Dance

Tess Losada-Tindall & Lourdes del Mar Santiago Lebrón

Fringe Artist

Lourdes del Mar Santiago Lebrón and Tess Angelica Losada-Tindall began collaborating in graduate school as they worked towards their MFA degrees in Dance. Santiago Lebrón is a Puerto Rican movement artist who aims to create artistic explorations that heighten the senses, provoke inquisition, and demand attention. Losada-Tindall is a Cuban-American dancer and choreographer whose work considers exile, cultural straddling, and diasporic grief. This most recent collaboration highlights the artists' Caribbean identities and considers what it means to be making art in the diaspora, far from our origins.

BOOM 2026 Performances

MANGLE
BOOM Fringe Dance Theater
May 02
5:30 PM
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6:30 PM
Dance

Mangle is an embodied exploration of the intersections between the environmental fragility of the Caribbean mangle (mangrove) and the diasporic grief that stems from migration. The mangle mirrors diasporic migration through the displacement of its seedlings, which drop from its branches, in a process akin to live birth, only to be swept away by the currents of the waters in which it grows. In this work, these Caribbean artists explore the spectrum of physical connection, at times depending upon each other entirely, while asking what happens in moments of complete separation. This work is set to a sound score that was created by the artists deep in the mangroves of Puerto Rico. 

5:00 PM
Evening
May 02
MANGLE
BOOM Fringe Dance Theater
May 03
2:30 PM
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3:30 PM
Dance

Mangle is an embodied exploration of the intersections between the environmental fragility of the Caribbean mangle (mangrove) and the diasporic grief that stems from migration. The mangle mirrors diasporic migration through the displacement of its seedlings, which drop from its branches, in a process akin to live birth, only to be swept away by the currents of the waters in which it grows. In this work, these Caribbean artists explore the spectrum of physical connection, at times depending upon each other entirely, while asking what happens in moments of complete separation. This work is set to a sound score that was created by the artists deep in the mangroves of Puerto Rico. 

2:00 PM
Afternoon
May 03

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