Esperanza Arts Center presents NICHOS WORLD PREMIERE Tanaquil Márquez | Ximena Violante | Calo Rosa October 17-27, 2024 What is the cultural essence that endures in Mexican identity? Tanaquil Márquez , Ximena Violante, and Calo Rosa present NICHOS, a multidisciplinary theater creation that traces the evolution of Mexican culture through 500 years of conquest, colonization, exile, assimilation, and cross-cultural generations. Poetic, humorous, and painful, Nichos is an epic play, celebrating Mexico’s complexities, color, and magic. Inspired by interviews and oral histories from the Philadelphia migrant community and their respective families in Mexico, Nichos explores the question, “When one leaves their