Jone San Martin Astigarraga - Sorda

The dancer and choreographer, Jone San Martín, will be performing an autobiographical dance show that delves into the relationship between deafness and movement on 7 and 8 February in Nave 11 at the Centro Danza Matadero.

San Martín will look into how the body can listen without hearing and how vibration, silence and gestures are turned into languages. The result is a choreography that exceeds the limits of physical communication, building a unique and ultra-expressive language in which each movement is turned into a shared resonance.

The performance comes about from the intimate experience of isolation and confusion caused by deafness, but also from the creative power that arises from said silence. This deficiency is therefore transformed into a fertile space for the imagination, in which sound is perceived through the skin, bones or sight.

The production features the live sound collaboration of Manuel Escorihuela and Paola Álvarez, whose compositions converse with the dancer's body in an exercise of expanded listening. Together, they build a sensory landscape in which the audible and the visible become blurred. More than a dance piece, it is an experience of expanded perception: an encounter between inner silence and outer sound, between the intimate and the collective, which uses difference as a generative force.

Born in San Sebastian in 1966,  Jone San Martín is a dancer and choreographer who trained at the Theatre Institute in Barcelona and at Mudra International in Brussels (Belgium). After working with ensembles, such as the National Dance Company in Madrid, Theater Ulm in Germany and Jacopo Godani in Belgium for several years, she joined the Baller in Frankfurt under William Forsythe and was a member of the Forsythe Company from 2005 to 2015. Since then, she has been a member of the Dance on Ensemble in Berlin. She has also developed her own choreography projects.

Artistic File:

Venue: Centro Danza Matadero - CDM - Nave 11

• Choreography and Dancer - Jone San Martin Astigarraga
• Sound, music and visuals - Paola Álvarez and Manuel Escorihuela

Approximate Duration: 1 hour
Recommended Age: All ages