Geografía presents, Bones.Memories.Marigolds–an evening of dance works created by Bonnie Cox, and Erica Saucedo, and a special guest performance by Teatro De Artes De Juan Seguin’s Ballet Folklórico De La Rosa. This site-specific production will premiere in various rooms at the historic Mosheim Mansion in Seguin, Texas on December 2nd, 2023. Engaging in the realms of the transient, ancestral, and natural worlds, this immersive evening of performance reaches backward to recall gestures from times before and ask, “Where might they guide us now?” Bones.Memories.Marigolds will feature a new live dance performance work by Erica Saucedo called “Red Carpet Detergent”, a dance film by Bonnie Cox called “Maiz Threads”, a duet performed and created by Bonnie and Erica called “Tequila Tendu”, and special live performances by Ballet Folklorico De La Rosa. Seating and occupancy will be limited for safety reasons, so Geografía recommends purchasing tickets online in advance. Food, drinks, and a live cumbia band performance will be included in the ticket price on a sliding scale of $35-$45.

Bonnie and Erica have been collaborating since 2019, however, they have only recently branded their partnership as “Geografía.” As a newly established entity, Geografía was not eligible for City of Austin Grants. Determined to make this project happen, they have been setting aside a small portion of their personal income as seed money for Bones.Memories.Marigolds for the last year. 

Geografía has made the humble choice to ask their beloved community to help them offset production costs. Finances will be tight even with two sold-out shows due to incredibly limited seating. Geografía is in need of your support to cover the final few expenses. 

Geografía is currently able to cover:

With your support, they will be able to cover:

This fundraiser is an opportunity to help Geografía make Bones. Memories.Marigolds an even more amazing production with all of the elements the creators intended. It will also relieve some of the financial burden on Erica and Bonnie's personal budgets. Any additional funds raised will go toward future Geografía projects. 

Geografía is a contemporary dance collective in Austin, Texas that centers social justice and asks how orienting to a politics of location within the topography of the body can serve as a basis for other ways of knowing and being in the world. Co-directed by Bonnie Cox and Erica Saucedo, Geografía aims to produce and curate dance experiences that are driven by individual and collective embodied geographies. Through festivals, performances, and immersive dance productions, Geografía creates a community of dance artists that celebrate the minutiae of Latinx cultures from a uniquely Texan perspective. Geografía produced a Latinx Contemporary Dance Festival in 2019 in Austin, and in 2020 in San Antonio. At these festivals, dozens of artists from all over Texas came together to share their work and engage in a conversation around Latinx identity and performance. Geografía's previous works have questioned Latina stereotypes, grappled with the 2019 El Paso shooting, evoked La Cucaracha as an avatar, and drawn links between the spirit of tequila and fertility. In December 2023, Geografía will produce an immersive dance show at a historical mansion in Sequin, Texas that honors the ancestors through embodied rituals. In the post-pandemic era, Geografía seeks to host an annual dance festival for established and emerging social justice-focused artists in Texas.

Erica Saucedo is a movement artist based in Austin, Texas. Dedicated to building community through dance, Erica is enlivened by pursuing collaborative arts-based projects that strive for fearless inquiry, affective curiosity, socio-political irreverence, and shameless bodies. Erica received her MFA from the University of Texas at Austin and has been commissioned to create works for Offbeat X (BLiPSWiTCH, Austin), Mini Movement Festival (Dallas, TX), First Street Studio (Austin, TX), 92Y Street Festival (New York, NY), Danspace Project (New York, NY), Triskelion Arts (New York, NY), Austin Dance Festival (Austin, TX), and the Actors Fund Center (New York, NY). Saucedo is a 2019 ARCOS Dance Artist Development Award grantee and a 2019-2021 resident artist in the Latino Artist Access Program (L.A.A.P.) at the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican-American Cultural Center.

Bonnie Cox

Bonnie Cox is a Tejana dance artist who uses dance to explore identity and social phenomena in performance. She co-directs Geografía, a dance festival that centralizes social justice-driven dance artists in Texas. In addition to producing and performing her own work, she collaborates with Gesel Mason Performance Projects, Arcos Dance, and Erica Saucedo. She currently serves as the Director of Dance at St. Stephen's Episcopal School. Bonnie received her MFA in dance from The University of Colorado Boulder in 2018 and her BFA from Texas State University in 2011. Her written work has been published in “Chiricú Journal of Latina/o Literatures, Arts and Cultures.”