Festival Cuerpo Romo

The festival of contemporary dance and live music returns for a new edition on 16 and 17 October at Centro Danza Matadero (CDM). With choreographer and dancer Elías Aguirre as artistic director, the event invites choreographers, dancers, musicians and visual creators to make the spaces of Matadero Madrid their territory. The programme brings together shows, workshops and participatory initiatives for all audiences and includes, for the first time, two free shows in Nave 11, subject to collecting an invitation beforehand

The festival's title, Cuerpo Romo, alludes to the wear and tear on the body in contact with the ground, since dance in the city gives rise to a particular type of dancer who becomes accustomed to the hardness of the asphalt and becomes rounded like a stone. Malleability is a particular feature of contemporary dance, necessary for working in the street, intervening in spaces and engaging audiences.

The event, an initiative of choreographer, dancer and multidisciplinary artist Elías Aguirre, features a programme of performances built around the movement of choreographers and dancers from the national and international scene, who present highly diverse proposals.

Plaza Matadero hosts a dozen short contemporary dance pieces designed for encountering the public in the street, with proposals by Fonsi López, Boris Orihuela, Sharon Fridman, Los Innato and other artists. In Nave 11, on Friday 16, Hope Hunt, by Oona Doherty and performed by Sati Veyrunes, explores masculinity, identity and stereotypes. On Saturday 17, Aurunca, by Elías Aguirre, addresses the relationships between body, space, time and identity. The professional training programme brings together, in Nave 16.1, two masterclasses by Sati Veyrunes and Sharon Fridman on Friday 16, and the workshop in-PRACTICAL (Identificación del otro), by Marko Fonseca, on Saturday 17.

The workshops Baila el barrio and Baby Romo bring dance and music closer to families: the first