MASDANZA TENERIFE 2026
18 OCT – ESPACIO LA GRANJA – 18:00 h
SOFT ANIMALS (12’)
Dresden, Germany
Created by: Jack Bannerman
Performed by: Marie Da Silva & Mattia Antonio Serio
Music: Arreglo original de Jack Bannerman, incluyendo música de “I dreamed a dream”, interpretada por Patti LuPone & The Violet, compuesta por Charles Washington / Original arrangement by Jack Bannerman, including music from ‘I dreamed a dream’ performed by Patti LuPone & The Violet, composed by Charles Washington.
“The rhythmical, cyclical, patterned and emotional nature of language makes it often difficult to interpret exactly what another person is telling us. Words, when overused or emotionally charged, may lose their meaning and dissolve into pure rhythm. This work explores whether rhythm, timing, and context connect us more deeply than words The timing of our sentences, much like the sounds of vehicles speeding past us on the street corner, can give us a much stronger indicator of if we are existing in the same reality as the people closest to us. Do you hear the cars on the street like I do?”
@jackbannerman
@gexplosion
@jeneililla
EVEN ABSENCE CASTS NO SHADOW (12’)
Kassel, Germany
Created & Performed by: Selene Martello & Dario Wilmington
Original Music: Dario Wilmington «EACNS»
“ ‘EVEN ABSENCE CASTS NO SHADOWS’ traces two artists whose connection collapses under the weight of their obsessions. Inspired by Camille Claudel and Auguste Rodin, the work explores how creative passion can isolate, distort, and consume. The piece questions what remains when two people become trapped inside the worlds they make and whether anyone can save the other from feeling left unseen, unfelt, and unwitnessed. At its core, the work revolves around the search for honest contact in a world that softens or blurs what is real. It reveals how two people can be physically close yet emotionally unreachable, how the glow of work can eclipse the warmth of touch, and how attention, the simplest form of presence, can become the rarest gift.”
@tiredeyescompany
@selenemartello
@dario_wil
MUGA (12’)
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Created by: Francesco Paolino
Performed by: Tom Blanc & Rebecca Rosselli
Music: Godspeed You! Black Emperor “The Dead Flag Blues”, Cristobal Tapia de Veer “He Looks So Real”, Sebastian Meissner – Foreigner “Snow Tracks”, Sebastian Meissner – Light Movement “Nova Huta”, Efrim Menuck “The Dead Flag Blues”
“ ‘MUGA’ is a term from Japanese philosophy referring to the state of non-ego: a condition of emptiness free from attachments and desires. It is not absence, but a space where being can manifest authentically. The work reflects on contemporary individuals, immersed in a system that accelerates life and reduces existence to production and performance. Two bodies move within this mechanism in a suspended landscape. When one loses precision, a fracture appears, giving rise to fragility and awareness. This marks an awakening: a return to presence and individuality, where dance becomes a space in which the void is inhabited.”
@francescopaolino__
@tommy_blc
FERNE NÄHE (15’)
Lucerne, Switzerland
Created by: Zhiyelun Qi
Performed by: Nina Ritter & Zhiyelun Qi
Original Music: Zhiyelun Qi
“The piece explores how transcultural imprints and their added value can be made visible through dance. Quiet, often invisible processes and experiences are rendered physically and emotionally tangible and experienced as identity-forming processes. ‘Ferne Nähe’ opens a space for reflection, perspective shifts, and dialogue in social coexistence”.
@yelun_qi
@n_ina_