Gaiás, Cidade da Cultura
Escenas do cambio 2022

3—5 May 2024
Festival of theatre, dance and art in action
Gaiás, City of Culture

Xunta de Galicia

3—5 Maio 2024

Festival de teatro,
danza e arte
en acción

Xunta de Galicia

DUAL is a real-time stage composition based on a doctoral thesis on creative movement as a tool to prevent motor and cerebral ageing, developed by Álvaro Murillo at the University of Extremadura.

Through technology, the live sound generated by Murillo is picked up by the musician Daniel Muñoz (‘Artomático’) to create a sound space in real time. The act of listening to each other and the acoustic characteristics of the space – in this case, the Gaiás Museum – means that each performance is a uniquely creative event.

DUAL brings to the stage a complex issue for contemporary science with the aim of providing the audience with a creative and emotional experience based on science.

The doctoral thesis Motor and cerebral ageing in dual tasks with physical exercise, dance and creativity in people with fibromyalgia received support from the State Programme for the Promotion of Talent and its Employability, within the framework of the State Plan for Scientific and Technical Research and Innovation 2013-2016. DUAL was selected by the Laboratorio de Nuevos Medios de Trayectos, the International Contemporary Dance Festival of Zaragoza with an artistic residency at the Centro de Arte y Tecnología Etopia. He also resided in the choreographic centre A Casa Vella (Ourense) at the beginning of 2024.

The movement work was supported by the listening and external gaze of the choreographer, contemporary dance performer and psychologist Ana Cotoré.

Álvaro Murillo

He started dancing as an adult and obtained a degree in Dance Psycho-pedagogy and Performer Techniques at the University of Extremadura. As part of the training programme of the À Corps Festival (France), he received training from choreographers such as Imre Thorman, Laurent Falguieras, François Chaignaud, Laurent Chetonne, Christine Bombal, Gaëlle Bourges and Boris Charmatz.

Álvaro Murillo declares himself to be self-taught in his approach to the language of flamenco and contemporary dance. He is the top student in the Degree in Physical Activity and Sport Sciences and is currently working on a doctoral thesis on the physical and cerebral effects of dance and motor creativity in people with chronic pain. He is also one of the two artistic directors of the International Dance Festival DZM (Cáceres).

His creative projects include: El barbero de Picasso ( 2018, presented at the National Theatre in Nairobi together with a conference on the relationship between Africa and flamenco); 8 Km ( 2019, a street theatre piece based on Las bodas de Sangre by Federico García Lorca); Flamencas ( 2020) and Serrana (2022) with the circus, flamenco and dance company Albadulake. In 2023, he brought us the Flamenco Futur project, based on Vicente Escudero’s Flamenco Decalogue through the Flamenco Lab programme (Fundación Paco de Lucía and Fundación Música Creativa).

Daniel Muñoz – Artomático

‘Artomático’ is the electronic music project of Daniel Muñoz (Madrid, 1970), a musician, producer, cultural manager and sound engineer with a degree in Audiovisual Communication from the Complutense University of Madrid. Alongside this, he worked on Spanish music stars’ live sound, as well as composing for film and television. He was in charge of the online cultural dissemination project Flamenco-world.com, where he was also in charge of stage photography. After several years of laboratory work with machines, ‘Artomático’ was born, fusing improvisational electronics with genres such as flamenco.

The piece DANZA 220V, created with Estévez & Panos and Antonio Ruz, premiered at the Festival Madrid en Danza. He created the music and sound design for the contemporary dance project Ojo by Antonio Ruz and, commissioned by the choreographer Melania Olcina, he composed the soundtrack for the experimental dance video Muller sobre fondo. In 2016 he released his first album Electroflamenco, for which he then developed a live show with guest artists at festivals such as the Bienal de Flamenco de Sevilla 2020. He also created the music for the dance piece Hilo Roto by La Venidera, for Albert Hernández and Irene Tena, soloists of the Ballet Nacional de España. He was also in charge of the musical creation and live performance of Transmutación by Antonio Ruz.

Ana Cotoré

She began in Zaragoza through competitive rhythmic gymnastics, classical ballet and contemporary dance, and currently focuses her professional activity on the fields of performance, teaching and creation.

In contemporary dance she trains independently in different techniques taught by different professionals, both in Spain and abroad (France, Hungary, Germany, Latvia, Brazil, Italy, South Korea and Cyprus), where she also gives workshops and takes part in artistic processes related to dance, theatre, video-dance, documentary and photography. She also collaborates in the creation and assistant choreography of works by other professionals.

As a dancer and performer, she participates in the Connecting Fingers Company and in the documentary When I Dance (Germany). She is currently working with Grabriella Stazio’s Compagnia Movimento Danza (Italy) and Matarile Teatro (Spain). As a soloist and creator, she participates in different festivals in Spain (Zaragoza, Huesca, Barcelona) and abroad (Berlin, Todi).

Data sheet

Extremadura | 60 min | 9 €

Language: Spanish

world Premiere

António Gonçalves returns to Ecce Corpus, a performance he gave in 1999 based on research into works by Chris Burden, Herman Nitsch, Marina Abramovic and Orlan, recovering the record of the images of the act in an immersive installation that renews the experience of contact with them.

A work that speaks of the power of the image as a record of memory and of the meaning given to retained time.

At a time when we live more than ever surrounded by images and the discussion about their veracity or authenticity, to return to this performance is to bring an uneasiness to the experience of the observer. A reflection that pricks the sensibility through the fusion of images of different actions and times in which the use of the body is revealed as the basis of a physical or simulated action that, as a final trace, leaves in us only a projection, an image.

António Gonçalves da Costa

António Gonçalves da Costa is a visiting professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Porto; he holds a degree in Fine Arts from the same university and a PhD in Art History from the University of the Balearic Islands. As part of the Erasmus programme 1998-1999, he attended the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Cuenca, where his project Ecce Corpus was born. He works as a painter, curator and director of several galleries and museums in Portugal. Since 2023, he has been the director at the Nogueira da Silva Museum (Braga), the Monção House Museum and the Gallery do Paço (Braga) at the University of Minho. He has been the curator of the Ala da Frente Gallery (V.N. Famalicão) since 2015. He is also a visiting professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Porto.

He was also a trustee of the Cupertino de Miranda Foundation (V.N. Famalicão) from 2010 to 2018 and artistic director between 2002 and 2018. He also held the position of vice-president of ACAMFE (Asociación de Casas-Museo y Fundaciones de Escritores de España) between 2014 and 2018, and worked as assistant professor at the ESAP-Escola Superior Artística do Porto (Guimarães extension) from 2002 to 2014.

Data sheet

Portugal | Free entrey until full capacity

Images with captions: Ecce Corpus (based on performances by Orlan, Chris Burden, Hermann Nitsch and Marina Abramovic),1999-2020.

The installation can be visited free of charge during the opening hours of the Gaiás Centre Museum (10 a.m. to 8 p.m.), during the days of the festival.

World Premiere

Infiltrated without camouflage in Escenas do cambio, the Dramaturgic Command presents a preview of its incursions in the festival. This team, led by the writer, playwright and teacher Afonso Becerra, has the mission of accompanying the shows from an analytical point of view that studies, documents and transmits what happens both on stage and among the audience.

The Dramaturgic Command seeks to create open spaces for thought and debate that transcend the ephemeral nature of the artistic experience on stage. Based on the analysis of performances from multiple perspectives (artistic, sociological, ecological, technical, etc.) their work looks at the effects and affections that each artistic proposal generates in the audience.

Afonso Becerra

Afonso Becerra is a playwright, stage director and teacher in the Department of Stage Direction and Dramaturgy at the ESAD in Galicia. He also directs erregueté | Revista Galega de Teatro and collaborates with different media. He holds a PhD in Performing Arts from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and a degree in Dramatic Art from the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona.

Data sheet

Free entry until full capacity

Gallaecia Ensemble Barroco presents Calidoscopio, an unprecedented version of Terry Riley’s minimalist score, In C (1964). Under the direction of violinist María José Pámpano, the group offers the audience the chance to experience listening through movement to an iconic piece in the history of Western music.

Sixty years after its creation, In C continues to be a unique and enriching musical experience for performers and audiences alike. The score consists of 52 repeating musical phrases, listed in chronological order. Any number of players can play the piece on any instrument they desire, as long as they move through the score as an ensemble. The result is interwoven rhythmic patterns, textures and harmony that are never the same, no matter how many times the piece is performed.

Like a kaleidoscope of sound, In C is a piece that takes fragments and weaves them together from vivacity, spontaneity and chance, creating a whole that is much more than the sum of its parts.

The particular interpretation on historical instruments performed by Gallaecia Ensemble Barroco offers us the chance to discover new sensorial, sonic and visual stimuli in a version in which the audience has the freedom of movement to become part of this creative universe woven in apparent chaos. A concert in which listening is a matter of perspective.

Gallaecia Ensemble Barroco

Gallaecia Ensemble Barroco is a musical project that seeks to blur the margins between ancient music and the most contemporary creation, combining the music of the past with that of the present in a dialogue in which other artistic disciplines, such as painting, poetry and the visual arts, also come into play.

With its interpretations, based on historicist criteria and on antique instruments, the group tries to explore its sonic possibilities to the limit. In doing so, within its repertoire we can find both music of the 19th century and of the 20th century alongside new compositions, proving itself to be a pioneering ensemble in Galicia in this type of performance with historical instruments.

Created under the direction of the Galician violinist María José Pámpano, Gallaecia Ensemble Barroco performed in November 2021 at the Cidade da Cultura with the show Oh, Rosas Vivas! , a multidisciplinary project in which a select cast of Galician musicians, together with the renowned artists Laura Iturralde, Yoseba Murazabal and María Lado, paid tribute to some of the best women composers in the history of Western music.

With their clear artistic direction, the group offers a totally renewed vision of the classical concert concept with projects that combine musical tradition with avant-garde artistic creation. A creative universe that is committed to local and emerging talent, capable of breaking with stereotypes and clichés in the search for new audiences for this old-new music.

Data sheet

Galicia | 45 min | 9 €

Ana Pazos: cornet and natural trumpet
Jorge Fuentes: natural horn
Pablo Dopazo: serpent
Carmen Ferreiro: transverse flute
David Garrido: baroque oboe
Paulo Gonçalves: recorder, bagpipes and baroque hurdy-gurdy
Marta López: piano
Fernando Santiago: cello
Saúl Puga: double bass
Rubén Abad: baroque guitar
Elena Vázquez: violin
María José Pámpano: violin and artistic direction

Lighting design: Denise Freire de Armas
Sound space design: Adrián Blanco JUAIT


Premiere project

Blondi was born from the idea of telling the story of humanity in a different way.

Blondi was Adolf Hitler’s dog. A German Shepherd that he killed before committing suicide. She wasn’t any old dog, she was the Führer’s dog. Führer is a German word meaning “guide”, “leader”, “commander” or “conductor”.

At a time when the lines between the private and the public have become blurred, in the age of social networks, a youtuber, a new spiritual, social and economic guide (a new Führer), seeks fans and followers by recording a tutorial on a yoga posture: the downward facing dog. Little by little, the youtuber-guide becomes Blondi, the Führer’s dog, without knowing whether she is a guide or a follower, who her owner is, whether she really has an owner, whether she commands or obeys. A dog, Blondi, whose destiny is to be sacrificed, or maybe not.

A hymn to freedom and beauty that questions who we are in today’s world, immersed in health crises, obeying or disobeying rules, subject to change, being slaves or driving technological machines and surrounded by new leaders who tell us how we have to behave, dress, dance, without knowing if we are leaders or followers, if we are free or slaves, or maybe it’s all just a fantasy.

David Loira

Creator, dancer and actor trained in classical dance, butoh; dance, contemporary dance, urban dance, acting, clown, acrobatics, cabaret and comedy of art. Since 2002, he has participated as a performer, producer, director and teacher in numerous projects both in Galicia and at national and international level, and has collaborated with companies such as Experimenta Danza, Caramuxo Teatro, Pisando Ovos, Berrobambán and Kirenia Danza, among others. He directed the plays Over the Rainbow (2009), Tulips ( 2010), Macho (2010), We need a name: Gil Eanes (2017) and Blondi (2024), a project that arose from an invitation to participate as an artist in the Lisbon Queer Festival 2021 and from his experience as a tour guide in Berlin and in the Saschenhausen concentration camp.

As a creator, Loira decides to create “beauty and power” in the face of behaviours, thoughts, universal historical episodes, collective and personal experiences that have to do with the rejection or hatred of differences, xenophobia, racism and homophobia.

Data sheet

Galicia | 50 min | 9 €

Direction and choreography: David Loira
Performed by: David Loira
Lighting design: Octavio Mas
Video, sound and audio: Gonzalo Gómez
Assistance in direction and choreography: Isabel Sánchez

Language: Galician

Access point: Literary Garden of the City of Culture

World Premiere