In a world where gods were fed by humans, a child is trained to fight in war and preserve the sun god with his life.
‘Xochiyaoyotl’, translated as ‘flower wars’, recalls rituals of Aztec martial arts that was wiped out by the Spanish conquest. We can only imagine what this combat – that challenged the belief in tomorrow every night anew - looked like.

In a world where gods were fed by humans, a child is trained to fight in war and preserve the sun god with his life.
“Xochiyaoyotl“, translated as ‘flower wars’, recalls rituals of Aztec martial arts that was wiped out by the Spanish conquest. We can only imagine what this combat – that challenged the belief in tomorrow every night anew - looked like.
David Camargo, Amauta García and Maximiliano Soto Mayorga develop a music theatre piece that lies between myth and memory, in which music, space and performance emerge from the physicality of the combatants. 


“Xochiyaoyotl” is the winner of the OPEN CALL of the Münchener Biennale on the theme of “martial arts”. Chosen from among 85 submissions, the production was selected by an international jury consisting of Carola Bauckholt, Kenny Savelson, Vigdís Jakobsdóttir, Martin Minarik, Sarah Maria Sun, and Toshiki Okada.