We are excited to invite our community to a special double bill on September 20th at Dansateliers. We will present Aerowaves Top twenty26 artist Inka Romani with Volvamos al baile in conversation with Rotterdam based artist Marta Wörner Sarabia.
The European network Aerowaves annually presents the twenty of the most promising choreographers at the Spring Forward Festival.
Inka and Marta share a fascination around the inherited movement aesthetics and the fascist archives in Spain. They will meet each other for the first time in Rotterdam to exchange with each others work. For this special moment Dansateliers is opening the house for anyone who is curious to meet these two makers and see their work.
On Sunday September 20 Inka will be presenting her performance Volvamos al baile and Marta will be presenting research from her project Ungainly Movements.
For this evening we have the option for our community to have a social arrival with possibility to engage with Marta’s archival research, or an embodied arrival where you can join Marta for a bodily warm-up. For the main program we have a combination of film and performance follwed by a conversation between Inka and Marta, and Q&A.
Program:
Doors open at 18:30
Social or embodied arrival 18:30 – 19:20
Main program 19:30
Please note that our pay what you can tickets do not included the soup and drink options. For a small price you can order these at the bar.
About the artist and their work
Inka Romaní is a choreographer trained at the Conservatory of Dance in Valencia and the Centre Chorégraphique de Toulouse, and holds a master’s degree in artistic production. Her dance practice brings together somatic techniques and a wide range of movement languages, from Spanish dances and contemporary dance to urban styles.
Volvamos al baile
This is the story of a dance.
A dance that has been haunting me.
A dance that was hidden,
resisting totalitarianism and the values of a not-so-ancient past.
A dance that my grandmother used to dance.
And her friends.
It was danced in their courtyards and the threshing grounds.
Until it was no more.
A dance that ignited a desire. A bonfire.
What’s left of this dance?
How did we get here?
Moving between performative lecture and documentary dance, Volvamos al baile investigates the forms of domination exerted over women’s bodies during Franco’s 40 years of fascist dictatorship through dance and gymnastics. The piece seeks to reconstruct a new narrative through the body, film archive, memory and intimacy.
Marta Wörner Sarabia
Marta is a performance artist with a background in film and choreography. Her practice dissolves the boundary between art and everyday life, creating counter-spectacular, site-responsive works where mundane gestures become spaces of shared vulnerability, attention, and resistance.
Ungainly Movements
This new project investigates the Francoist concept of movimientos desgarbados— “improper”, awkward, or ungainly gestures that were historically regulated, especially in women’s bodies. Beginning with inherited norms passed down through the artist’s grandmother (trained under Francoist education), the research explores:
• how authoritarian movement rules persist in contemporary bodies
• how urban life and productivity reshape our gestures
• what it means to recover, reclaim, or re-perform gestures deemed undesirable
The presentation of Inka Romaní performance is a collaboration between Aerowaves and Dansateliers Rotterdam. Artists presented in the framework of Aerowaves, co-funded by the European Union
