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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Steve Dow

‘I was sure salvation lay in art’: Marina Otero on death, dance and mental illness

Side shot of a line of five female dancers, naked and wearing identical orange wigs, some holding black toy guns, in different poses mid-movement.
Performers Ana Cotoré, Josefina Gorostiza, Natalia Lopéz Godoy, Myriam Henne-Adda, Marina Otero and Tomás Pozzi in Kill Me. Photograph: Marina Caputo/Marina Otero

Long ago, Marina Otero decided she would film her life until she dies, as part of an attempt to understand her pain and her preoccupation with death. “I was sure that salvation lay in art,” she says. So when she suffered a mental breakdown in 2022, the Argentinian choreographer decided to keep recording.

“It seemed interesting to me, recording the darkest parts of a person,” Otero tells Guardian over Zoom from Madrid, where she is based.

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