ULTIMATUM - Led Silhouette

The company Led Silhouette, led by Jon López & Martxel Rodríguez, performs a contemporary dance show on 30 and 31 October at Centro Danza Matadero (CDM) - Nave 11, exploring a world marked by social, political and ecological collapse.

The production combines dance, theatre and film to build a stage landscape in which conflict is expressed through bodies and the relationships they form with one another. On stage, the body becomes something that is possessed, defended and contested.

The piece grows out of a question: how far does our responsibility extend when we are aware that something is breaking down, yet decide not to act? The work observes that tension between action and paralysis, between control and loss, while examining what we consider our own and the limits we are willing to set in order to protect it.

The stage thus becomes a space of confrontation. The bodies insist, become exhausted, fall and get back up again. In that movement, concepts such as possession, inheritance, the desire for control and ambition emerge, elements that run through individual and collective decisions and reveal how far our boundaries also depend on our relationship with others.

And indeed, Led Silhouette, a company recognised with the El Ojo Crítico Dance Award 2024, shows how collapse does not appear as a distant threat, but as a present that already forms part of our everyday life. Against that normality, the show proposes to stop and look at the fragility of a system that seems to be crumbling while we continue to act as if it were still intact.