That which you danced before being born and will dance after you die.
BUTOH INNATO
AULA NOSTRA
Aula Nostra —innate butoh training— was founded in 2019 by Matilde J. Ciria and Jonathan Martineau in Madrid. The training arises from the confluence of Matilde’s ni.butoh and Jonathan’s Art of Being Born, creating a unique methodology that seeks to become dance through thought in movement.
The pieces of Aula Nostra are born from the training process: they are not the result of a commission or an external production, but the distillation of months of collective research. What you see is what happens when a group of people learn to dance together without yet knowing where they are going.
SEASON 2020/21
2022-2023 — The year of maturity. Three proposals that do not resemble one another and that could only have been born from the same process.
DE FUGAS Y OTROS ÓRGANOS
End-of-year showing
May 2023 · Scenic journey between the mountain and the theatre, Madrid
Synopsis
Innate is being. Blessed be my eyes and the sacristy of my sorrows. Hear my song cast the citizenry over the cliff. Flee the citadels governed by tyrants and the tyranny of the crowd. Fugue we are. All creation a fugue from fixation and appropriation. There is no author. No authenticity. No creator.
My heart fugues: love. My love fugues: dance.
My brain fugues: thinking. My thought fugues: poetry.
My guts fugue: creating. My creation fugues: being born.
My skin fugues: existing. My existence fugues: silence.
Artistic credits
Direction: Matilde J. Ciria and Jonathan Martineau
Space: Scenic journey between the mountain and the theatre, Madrid
Photos: Fernando Gorrita
GALLERY
NO ES PAÍS PARA PIES
Second showing · Open-air site-specific
March 2023 · Open-air theatre of the Casa de Campo, Madrid
Synopsis
Show me a path with the air of an escape.
Take me to a stage with the profile of a threshold.
Sing me a poem that clears the sad clouds watering my routine.
I ask only for a horizon to channel my hope toward, so it stops squeezing my throat.
I have feet. I only long for a little dirt in which to take genuine steps.
Promise me an escape with the countenance of a path.
Artistic credits
Direction: Matilde J. Ciria and Jonathan Martineau
Space: Open-air theatre of the Casa de Campo, Madrid
Photos: Raúl Bartolomé
GALLERY
EL FONDO DEL OJO
First showing · Scenic oracle
December 2022 · Teatro Espacio en Blanco, c/ Mira el Sol 5-7, Madrid
Synopsis
We invite you on an excursion into the living side of existence.
A scenic oracle by Aula Nostra.
Artistic credits
Direction: Matilde J. Ciria and Jonathan Martineau
Space: Teatro Espacio en Blanco, c/ Mira el Sol 5-7, Madrid
Duration: approx. 80 minutes
Admission: Free until capacity is reached
Photos: Fernando Gorrita Ortega
GALLERY
