ANDREA EL AMERI

Doma is a dance solo that reflects on the trauma caused in women by a heteropatriarchal society and a sexual culture of rape. Starting from the autobiographical, she inhabits the relationship between the grotesque and the sexualised to question and challenge, as a form of rebellion and social resistance, the powers exercised over her body. She articulates the work through dance, performative actions and symbolic objects and images that construct an iconography: apples, heels, naked woman, sweeping, dustbin. Without wishing to identify the factors that generate this trauma, what interests her is the experience that she goes through in the first person. Doma is about identity, conflict and the attempt to regain an existence in the world.

Andrea El Ameri is a dancer, performer, creator and dance teacher with roots in Huelva and Morocco, with international training in urban and contemporary dance, and a degree in Art and Philosophy from the UOC. Her current area of interest is in the live arts. From a socio-political point of view, she promotes reflections on culture and art. She has worked with companies such as Compagnie Mûes (Switzerland), Cía Poliana Lima, Byström-Källblad (Sweden), SLMFV, Dani Pannullo Co. and Brodas Bros. In 2022, she received a grant from El Graner, a centre for dance and live arts in Barcelona, for her first piece as a choreographer, Doma, where she investigates the relationship between the sexual and the grotesque in the female body. This work has received several awards and the support of leading festivals in Madrid, such as the Festival de Otoño and Surge Madrid. Andrea is currently an artist-in-residence at La Caldera, where she is developing her second choreographic creation, Dislocadas: Una festa mòbil, selected as part of the Barcelona Crea grants.

Authorship, direction and interpretation Andrea El Ameri / Artistic direction assistance Poliana Lima, Núria Guiu and Mar López / Lighting design Iván Cascón / Original music and sound space Rosa García / Lighting technician Sergi Cerdán
With the support Graner, centre de creació de dansa i arts vives / With the collaboration Escola de Dansa Carmen Senra, Espac101, Teatre Pradillo, Certamen Coreogràfic de Sabadell, L’Estruch fàbrica de creació, Nau Ivanow, Sol de Bernardo