Madre Mía - Compañía Sharon Fridman

The choreographer Sharon Fridman premieres on 30 and 31 October in the Sala Verde of Teatros del Canal a show of contemporary dance born as a reflection on the human condition and the need to preserve the bonds between people in a context marked by war, polarisation and the loss of certainties. The performance features strobe lighting, full nudity, loud sound, very high music and smoke effects.

Fridman explores how violence transforms the way people perceive one another, to the point of turning them into symbols and diluting their human dimension. Far from focusing on confrontation, the piece asserts the possibility of continuing to build spaces of encounter. Indeed, the creation is built around the conviction that love, cooperation and care can survive even when everything seems to push towards separation.

The choreography draws on INA (Improvisation, Necessity and Architecture), the movement research method the author has been developing for more than 15 years, which explores how two bodies are capable of building a common structure through listening, trust and interdependence. This quest takes on a particularly intimate and political dimension, transforming the stage into a place where dance becomes an exercise of resistance against fragmentation. With all this, the spectator is invited to deliberate on empathy, coexistence and the capacity to keep creating community in times of uncertainty.

Sharon Fridman (Hadera, Israel, 1980) is one of the most acclaimed choreographers of contemporary dance today. Based in Spain for two decades, he founded the Compañía Sharon Fridman in 2006, from which he has developed a distinctive stage language centred on the connection between bodies, trust and the research of shared movement.