Velaiquich, amoorch!
Colectivo D'elasThursday 8 May 4.30 p.m.
City of Culture, Centre for Creative Entrepreneurship
Velaiquich, Amoorch! is the new stage proposal of the D’elas collective, a show of instantaneous composition with live music designed for non-conventional spaces.
The proposal seeks to transfer the essence of urban dance to a contemporary language by a team closely linked to new trends. Velaiquich, Amoorch!, through improvisation, explores continuous renewal and constant change, appropriating this historical moment so marked by the over-updating of language and trends.
A work that focuses on interconnection as its central axis: the connection between bodies, sound, the environment and the landscape, with the audience as the driving force of the composition.
Colectivo D’elas
D’elas is a dance collective made up of ten new, emerging and Galician artists: Andrea Castro, Eloi García, Martín Sanjurjo, Myriam González, Nerea Balado, Julia Laport, Sabela Domínguez, Iria Casal, Noelia Matogueira and Diana Monserrat. The group came together in September 2020 out of the need to develop through collectivity, to build bridges between movement artists and to bring the languages of urban dance to the stage.
In 2021 they premièred OCCO in the Propulsa Danza+Paisaxe+Patrimonio programme (A Estrada, Pontevedra), a piece that was also a finalist in the Choreographic Competition of Compostela 2022. In 2024 they premièred their first long-format show for theatres and auditoriums, É difícil fotografar o baleiro, with which they toured, among others, the Jofre Theatre in Ferrol, the Rosalía de Castro Theatre in A Coruña and the Main Theatre in Santiago de Compostela (Galicia Escena PROL) and also formed part of the Lúa Cheia programme of Peripécia Teatro (Villa Real, Portugal) and the Danza Gijón 2024 festival (Asturias).
In this new production, Velaiquich, amoorch!, D’elas collaborates with MounQup (Camille Hedouin), a French musician who has been living in Galicia for more than ten years, who is in charge of the sound space and live music, introducing improvisation games on stage. Known as “the Björk of rural Galicia”, Camille investigates the connections between African rhythms and the tradition of Galician sonorities, specialising in improvisation and the use of live recorded sounds.