Domingo Festival
La Casa Encendida hosts the fourth edition of Domingo, the two-week performing arts festival featuring performances, lectures and films by artists of different regions and languages, opening up the theatrical to sound art, cinema, philosophy and the visual arts.
Candela Capitán kicks off the festival with her new piece CELDAS SONORAS, in which she fuses control elements like algorithms, cowbells, slow living and screen hypnosis. In the first week of the festival, the Colombian choreographer and dancer Luisa Fernanda Alfonso makes her debut performance in Spain with Masterpiece, a work that explores the excesses of character dances like mariachi—i.e. performances based on traditional and folk dances that imitate the movements of a profession, trade or tradition—subverting their legitimacy and traditions in a tumult of Latin American associations.
In the lecture Imagen escena, the Chilean philosopher Andrea Soto Calderón introduces the notion of scene into our understanding of images and the power of images to disrupt a particular order and invent devices that liberate our imagination. Soy el cuerpo extraño que mira: diagramas del infierno contemporáneo, a spoken cinema session with live music, is the project of the visual artist Marta Azparren and the sound and performance artist Óscar Villegas. At the intersection between Roberto Rossellini and Simone Weil, they reflect on the traces of industrial work on artistic practice.
Amaia Urra presents the Madrid debut of Pulfiki pulkiki, a recital of songs composed at midnight (while children sleep) and inspired by quotidian actions like grocery shopping. And the Portuguese choreographer and dancer Marga Alfeirão presents the premiere in Spain of BIGGIE DRIFT, a piece that explores the hypermasculinity of rapper The Notorious B.I.G.
During the second week of the festival, Victoria Aime presents HET LAM GODS. Primera parte: La Pastora. Idilio, one of the most fascinating avant-garde theatrical works of recent times. Also presenting debuts of their works in Spain are the Italian choreographer and dancer Annamaria Ajmone, with Senza Titolo, a site-specific piece in which the space and the audience generate the dance; and the Brazilian choreographer and dancer Josefa Pereira, with Hidebehind, a reverse journey to discover other logics outside the system, monsters and inhabited spaces.
The visual artist Estanis Comella makes his debut performance in Madrid with the premiere of SXT – Courtyard Rosebush, a piece in which writing, choreography and musical production converge in the form of vanishing atmospheres.
Domingo 2024 closes with Fuje, the world premiere of the new work from the Italian sound artist, vocalist and DJ Sara Pérsico. Inspired by the repertoire of the Neapolitan tradition and using noises, sound excerpts and extended voice techniques, the artist connects cultural legacy with her experimentation and radical approach.
Juan Domínguez, first edition of La Casa Encendida’s new Foco programme
The Domingo 2024 lineup also includes Tramas, the cycle curated by the performance creator Juan Domínguez that weaves together the practices of freelance artists working in the fields of the performing arts, visual arts, music and video. This first edition comprises four morning sessions with audiovisual works by Silvia Zayas, Alejandra Pombo Su, La Ribot, and Juan Domínguez with María Jerez.
The Tramas cycle forms part of Foco, the new year-long programme launched by the performing arts department of La Casa Encendida that revisits the works of a creator whose activity has had impact on both La Casa Encendida and the city of Madrid. The first edition of Foco is dedicated to Juan Domínguez, a creator and organiser active in the fields of choreography and the performing arts. Throughout the year, the programme will unfold through workshops—such as the Con Filtro course—film cycles, encounters and publications. The Domingo Festival will feature the Tramas screenings and an encounter with Juan Domínguez.
Artists of the Domingo 2024 Festival: Candela Capitán, Luisa Fernanda Alfonso, Andrea Soto Calderón, Marta Azparren, Óscar Villegas, Amaia Urra, Marga Alfeirão, Victoria Aime, Annamaria Ajmone, Josefa Pereira, Estanis Comella, and Sara Pérsico.
Domingo is a festival curated by: Fernando Gandasegui.
Artists of the Tramas cycle: Silvia Zayas, Alejandra Pombo, La Ribot, and María Jerez with Juan Domínguez.
Tramas is a cycle curated by: Juan Domínguez.
