Rito – OtraDanza Company, Spain

🗓 30.11.2025 / 🕗 19:00

RITO is a dance installation with a syncretic vision of dance and contemporary art, using sacrificial rites to gods in ancient cultures, mainly 🇬🇷 Classical Greece and Aztec culture, linking avant-garde dance of the 20th century with myth. On one hand is the dance 👉 ephemeral, organic, elusive, living. On the other hand is the sculptural work 👉 embodied, ritual, circular, symbolic, approaching and revealing itself, preventing touch or damage. Rito is a repetition of the cult to ancestors toward Eros and Thanatos, regarding the striving for life and death and its cycle. The structure consists of three acts: call, sacrifice, and catharsis. The sound of 🔔 bells leads us to the place of the ceremony. Inside the altar there are two bodies, facing down. The sand is a mat for Greco-Roman wrestling. The dancers are the mythical bodies of the hero and heroine; they embody physical and athletic achievements but also uncertainty. After the ritual we leave the sanctuary, but something has changed: we are no longer the same.

👉 Direction: Asun Noales / Susana Guerrero

👉 Choreography and interpretation: Asun Noales / Sebastian Rovinski

👉 Installation / sculpture: Susana Guerrero

👉 Photography: German Anton

👉 Video: German Anton / SUICAfilms

👉 Graphic design: Los Machos / Susana Guerrero

👉 Music management and documentation: Francisco Sabarbia Marchiran

👉 Sound editing: Eurotrack Studio

👉 Communication: La cultura portátil

👉 Producer: OtraDanza / Susana Guerrero / Amadeo Vanyo

🎫 Tickets: https://epaygo.bg/4715877629   

Derida Dance Fest is organized by Art Link Foundation / Derida Dance Center with financial support from the European Commission through Aerowaves – dance across Europe and Moving Balkans – Balkan platform for contemporary dance, the Sofia Municipality through the Program Culture, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Bulgaria, the Cervantes Institute, Onassis Stegi Touring Program and Regione Autonoma Friuli Venezia Giulia.

Derida Dance Fest is a holder of the EFFE label 2024-2025.