The MASDANZA CANARIAS programme arises from the need to accompany and promote creators and artists from the Canary Islands. They are given a space in the context of the Festival with the aim of showing to the public pieces created and/or performed by Canarian artists, consequently contributing to their national and international projection and favoring the creation of a Canarian artistic community.
MASDANZA CANARIAS PROGRAMME 2025
FRIDAY OCT 03 – GUINIGUADA THEATRE – 20,00 h
POWER NAP (15’)
Telde (Gran Canaria, Canary Islands), Spain
Created & Performed by: Andrea Pérez Bueno
Artistic Direction Assistant: Marta Sánchez
Music: Luis Pardo “Power Nap”
“In the atmosphere of a dystopian future, a young woman (like so many inhabitants of her world) lives trapped in a current of productivity and dehumanised ambition. Her capacity to love has been taken away from her. Exhausted, she abandons herself to what she hopes will be a restful sleep. But what envelops her is something deeper: a dream of love. A dream that reveals a longing for connection, a rest that turns into a caress. The piece thus explores the current paradigm of generations submerged in the demands of an overproductive and technological world, which leaves an almost sterile emotional terrain for bonds where one can feel vulnerable (and thus truly rested). ‘Power Nap’ revisits the concept of self-care, not only as an individual gesture, but as a way of loving and being loved. In contrast to the extreme individualism proposed by capitalism, here shared vulnerability is revealed as a space of strength: in authentic bonds, we let our guard down, and in that surrender we find true rest. It is a sweet nap that revitalises the hope of spirits that, originally tender, were hardened and drained by the promise of success and the illusion of a world without pain”.
ERIZO (13’) – Ingenio (Gran Canaria, Canary Islands), Spain
Abián Hernández Herrera
Music: Alva Noto “Oval Blackhole / Sync Inter”, Ángeles Negros “Como Quisiera Decirte”
“It represents the rupture of the idea of the whole, carried out by a character who punctures and intervenes in the scene with fragility and weakness within the preambles and development of all kinds of relationships. Its movement, focused on the pendulum of our needs and those we share, is that human longing for the emotional. Boundaries are agreed and placed like spikes to be forged, highlighting strength in opening up weakness, as a weapon of love for our inner slug”.
PERSEPHONE (15’)
Gran Canaria – Madrid, Spain
Created & Performed by: Sara López del Pino
Original Music: Sergio Salvi “Retroinventiva”
“The drive to be finds its home in the first love, the mother.
No shadow can conceal the story of life.
The seed knows that each ear of wheat carries winter within it.
Half a life in light, half a life in the abyss. Avernus.
It descends, it breaks, and yet, it breathes and transmutes.Dual woman, that is you, Persephone».
SELVA (23’)
Santa Cruz de Tenerife – Madrid, Spain
Created by: Daniel Abreu [COMPAÑÍA DANIEL ABREU]
Performed by: Diego Pazo, Dácil González & Daniel Abreu
Music: Wolfgang Vogt «Königsforst1», Travis Lake «Solivagant», Robin Rimbaud «My dreams are about today and tomorrow»
Distribution: Elena Santonja
With the collaboration of: Centro Coreográfico Canal, Provisional Danza, Centro Cultural Villa de Móstoles, Ángel Rojas & Centro Coreográfico María Pagés
“This work, created for unconventional spaces, is inspired by the play of relationships to create a very visual landscape of movement. To tell ourselves as options of a vast ecosystem and the many ways of looking that inhabit us from a choreographic perspective. It is presented with dancing characters who intertwine and observe from the demand to be something or someone at every moment. Three performers who cross limbs and torsos for the pleasure of dancing and the obviousness of differences, both within themselves and in relation to others.
‘It is outside the cities where nature, geography, and climate possess their greatest strength, their highest capacity for impact, which sets the horizons. Inside cities, as if we were in a tower without views, there are no horizons (…). The direction of the jungle is fertile, polytheistic, mortal. The direction of the deserts is severe, with an unalterable line…’ – John Berger”.