Past Performing Arts | Interdisciplinary

Marion Ramirez and Ojeya Cruz Banks

Mareas/Tides

At Capacity

Two dancers on a stage one kneeling with her head back and arms wide the other standing looking down.
Nov 05, 2025 7:00 PM
Performance Space

This event is at capacity.

$25 members
$41 general public
$36 adults 55 and over
$18 artists and educators
$12 students

For ticketing questions please call the Visitor Desk at (614) 292-3535.

If you have questions about accessibility or require an accommodation to participate in this event, please email accessibility@wexarts.org or call (614) 688-3890. Visit our Accessibility page to learn more.

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Dance, live music, and immersive visuals transport audiences into a story about the Earth’s interconnected, push-and-pull relationship with its oceans.

Mareas/Tides is an interdisciplinary performance that combines dance, storytelling, singing, music, visual imagery, and improvisation. The performance traces island cosmologies and diasporic geographies of the Caribbean, Atlantic, and Pacific seas and the gravitational power of the moon. Marion Ramirez, a Puerto Rican somatic dancer-choreographer, conceived and curated the performance in collaboration with Ojeya Cruz Banks, a Black Chamoru (Guåhan) dancer-anthropologist. Mareas/Tides includes a live score that draws from jazz, salsa, and gospel music, featuring Pete Mills (music director and saxophone), Timothy Carpenter (piano and vocals), Dean Hulett (bass), and Matthiessen Nisch Quan (drums) along with stunning visual projections designed by Christian Faur. (program approx. 60 mins.)

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Mareas/Tides, photo: Mike Eltringham.

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PERFORMING ARTS PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY

Doris Duke Foundation

WEXNER CENTER PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY

Greater Columbus Arts Council

The Wexner Family

Ohio Arts Council, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts

CampusParc

The Columbus Foundation

Every Page Foundation

Mellon Foundation

Axium Packaging

Nationwide Foundation

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY

Joyce Shenk

Lachelle Thigpen

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Past Performing Arts

Marion Ramirez and Ojeya Cruz Banks

Nov 05, 2025 7:00 PM EST
Performance Space

This event is at capacity.

$25 members
$41 general public
$36 adults 55 and over
$18 artists and educators
$12 students

For ticketing questions please call the Visitor Desk at (614) 292-3535.

If you have questions about accessibility or require an accommodation to participate in this event, please email accessibility@wexarts.org or call (614) 688-3890. Visit our Accessibility page to learn more.

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