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Thursday 24, SEP    /    8:00PM    /     Teatro Nacional, Casco Antiguo


Daniel Abreu

Founded in 2004, Daniel Abreu’s company is deeply connected to his artistic career as both creator and performer, as well as to the many dancers, collaborators, technical teams, and institutions that have joined his projects over the years.

The company works with performers who possess a strong physical vocabulary and a constant desire to investigate what the body is capable of communicating, both in conventional theatrical settings and in non-traditional spaces.

More than seventy productions created over the past two decades invite audiences into visual and poetic journeys through concepts and narratives widely recognized for their originality and distinctive language. Through simple yet evocative theatrical tools, the company constructs intimate and emotionally resonant worlds.

Its works have been presented in festivals and theaters across more than 40 countries throughout Asia, the Americas, North Africa, and Europe.

Es Aquí

This work is the result of a long reflection on uprootedness. On the value of belonging—not only in relation to others, but also in relation to territory itself. The contact of feet with lands capable of supporting bodies and ideas. Ultimately, a place. A feeling of being part of something.

Yet all of this confronts a time in which ephemeral conquest seems preferable. Greater importance is given to experience: landscapes to visit and stain with the blurred emptiness that now dresses us. To become tourists by profession, endlessly conquering places through images destined to disappear somewhere unknown.

We become travelers who, upon departure, conceal their eyes, feet, and backs. Those who carry anniversaries, noises, the taste of water, maps, music boxes, and ideals to impose on any corner brighter than their own existence.

To underline the right to belong everywhere at once—“I was there and I took this”—dismantling as ritual and nourishment, only returning to the point of departure in order to empty oneself before a stranger, and then repack the suitcase once again.

As image technology expands, our contours become increasingly blurred. Without a home, everything fragments: there are no ties, no anchors, only living knots of wood without connection or language—only granite and dust.

“To live in many places and die everywhere” becomes the new mantra of existence.

Some things can only be told through metaphor: bodies fragmenting, elusive tables as homes, branches as weapons that both sustain and shelter, distorted atmospheres, and speed—as changing as it is predictable.

In this work, dance and language join hands to speak about that which continues to destabilize our uncertain feet.


Tech Rider

Country
Spain
Performers
Diego Pazó, Daniel Abreau
Lighting & Video Editing Collaboration
Alfredo Diez
Production Assistance
Emiliana Battista Marino
Photography
Miguel Barreto
Management & Distribution
Elena Santoja

Produced with the Choreographic Creation Grants of the Community of Madrid.

Collaborators: Teatro Victoria, Mutis Espazioa, Teatro Guimerá, Teatro El Sauzal, Carmen Werner, and Centro Coreográfico Canal.