For the second consecutive year, the DAMA Festival Dénia d'arts de carrer/moviment/acció, previously known as Dansant a la Marina, expands its range of content and accommodates new artistic disciplines that will fill the streets and squares of the city with dance , circus, performances, movement and action.
Organized by the Department of Culture of the Dénia City Council under the artistic direction of Isabela Alfaro, director of the Circuito Bucles Dance Festival in València; director of Frágiles Danza, distributor and producer of performing arts; professional dancer and teacher at the University of Valencia, and with the support of the Alicante Provincial Council, the LADY Festival Dénia arises from the interest of promoting and disseminating contemporary dance and presenting an innovative cultural offer aimed at all audiences in the city and the region.
DAMA 2024 will take place on Saturday May 4, between 11:30 and 20:30, in different urban outdoor spaces, thus anticipating the summer programming and creating an ideal circuit to tour and enjoy all the shows. Taking dance to the streets facilitates dialogue between the dancers and the public, one of the objectives of the festival.
DAMA Festival shows and schedules
The spaces where the festival will take place are the first section of Carrer Marqués de Campo, from 11:30 a.m. to 14:00 p.m. and from 17:30 p.m. to 18:30 p.m., and the Plaça del Consell, where it will take place, between 19:00 p.m. :20 and 30:2024 p.m., the performances that will close DAMA XNUMX.
This year's program includes five professional dance and circus shows, a participatory urban dance activity and an exhibition in which four schools and dance groups from Dénia will participate.
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11:30 hours
- Workshop I love to dance, but I'm terrible at it. Dánzate Collective. Calle Marques de Campo. From the Dánzate Collective they explain: I love to dance, but I'm terrible at it It is a phrase that we have heard in the mouths of many people when we tell them that we are dancers or that we dedicate ourselves to dance. This phrase is the starting point of our guided and participatory action where we analyze and question the phrase itself and aim to discover why if you love to dance, you don't dance and what it means to dance well or dance badly.
- Participatory action for people from 0 to 99 years old.
- Duration 60 minutes
12:30 hours
- Flamenco show. Cu cu. Angela Carbajo & Rosa Sanz. Marqués de Campo Street. Distance, speed and time. Meeting measures between people. Life is a measure, time a constant known as inexorable at an imposed or chosen speed, speed implies the direction of movement, and distance?; The distance is delimited by the person themselves, a variable that each one must empty. Cu Cú combines dance, interpretation and text to encourage us to reflect on the measure that the person takes towards life and especially towards life made real: another person in the present. The encounters, the looks, the confrontation, the identification, the connection, become changes and movements that happen at the same time in the space created as part of being social beings that live incessantly, fleetingly and with relative distances with respect to established relationships. . Cu Cú promotes reflection and active identification of the public itself in the now as a constant vital transit.
- Duration 30 minutes
13:00 hours
- Contemporary dance. Tropic. Cia. Marroch. Marqués de Campo Street. Tròpic comes from the Latin tropĭcus, and this from the Greek τροπικός which means return. Stay with that word, "life goes around", "start over", "when you say you're back from everything, you haven't gone anywhere", "when the fool goes, the clever one is back." "...Everything is cyclical, a return of the earth on itself in 24 hours, the seasons of the year begin, end and begin again. The woman is cyclical, the moon too. Society is cyclical, family patterns, cultural generations, politics, crises, wars, LIFE. Everything is cyclical, everything goes in circles, everything is Tròpic. Best street arts show – AAEE Valencianas Awards (IVC) 2023. Miguel Hernández Alicante Culture Award 2023 in the category of “Innovation through technologies” (Alicante Provincial Council)
- Duration 30 minutes
17:30 hours
- Maelstrom. Insomnia New Circus. Marqués de Campo Street. A maelstrom can be a very strong whirlpool in the water due to the action of the air or also a mixture of very intense feelings. In the Insomnia Nuevo Circo proposal, both occur to a greater or lesser extent. They begin manipulating the object, the mace, accompanied by a simple, basic, constant rhythm, which allows them to go from apparently simple movements adjusted at the same time as the sound to making small variations, always with the risk of playing with the gravity, air and the possible fall of the mace. Between the two, with their bodies in continuous movement, which intensifies as they add clubs that fly through the air from hand to hand, they feed that maelstrom that allows us to enjoy a proposal of great cleanliness in its execution.
- Duration 20 minutes
18:00 hours
- Contemporary dance. Umbra. Walter Marín & Ainoha Aparicio. Marqués de Campo Street. There are as many nights as there are days, and each one lasts the same as the day that comes after. Knowing your own darkness is the best method to confront the darkness of another. This young Valencian duo performs a beautiful and poetic contemporary dance proposal for us.
- Duration 20 minutes
18:45 hours
- Dénia dance schools: Dance school Patricia Sentí, Dance school Babylon, Pas de Quatre Association, Es Mov Collective. Consell Square.
- Duration 60 minutes
19:45 hours
- Indala. David Vento Dance Theatre. Consell Square. Indala is a dance piece performed by three dancers that combines different disciplines and languages such as contemporary dance, breaking, the circus art of the cyr wheel and physical theater. It proposes a scenic tour in which the human being is discovered in its primitive and contemporary forms, the influence of rituals in the transmission of messages of a social nature and how these constitute an instinctive defense of one's own being against the unilateral development of intelligence and its antisocial influence. 1st Prize in the Urban FACYL International Contest in Salamanca. 1st Prize in the Young Creators Contest of the Madrid City Council
- Duration 20 minutes.
