Mexico City’s Xochimilco canals have always been a crossroads of myth and cinema. With The Dead Dance, Lady Gaga and Tim Burton transform the eerie Island of the Dolls into a black-and-white spectacle that blurs haunted folklore with global pop iconography. Burton, fresh from unveiling an immersive retrospective in Mexico City, crossed paths with Gaga after her stadium shows shook the capital. On the Island of the Dolls, hundreds of weather-scarred figures dangle from trees and cabins—faces cracked, eyes missing, fabrics rotted by sun and rain. For Gaga and Burton, the Island of the Dolls was the logical extreme.