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Mediterranea Americas

Marina Otero – AYOUB

  • November 14th – 15th, 2025 Festival de Otoño, Madrid
  • November 22nd, 2025 Temporada Alta, Girona
  • December 15th/16th/20th/21st, 2025 Arthaus Central, Buenos Aires

65 minutes

Ayoub, Colonialism
and Palestine

© Andrés Manrique

Aiub. Ioug. Ayub. Ainou. Aiou. I had the same difficulty pronouncing her Arabic name as I had understanding that our love wasn’t possible in an impossible world.

This name came to destroy, in some way, my West.

Initially, this project was intended to save a man in a vulnerable situation, and for that man to save me from loneliness. I traveled to Tangier (Morocco) to find him, marry him, give him my Europeanized South American papers, and then create a new work based on that.

But Ayoub appeared, and the project collapsed. His name (“the returnee” or “the repentant”) is very popular in Islamic countries: 615 children of that name were murdered by the Zionist state of Israel in the Gaza Strip.

For those dead, I name this work after you, about colonialism, about Palestine.

And everything I want to kill inside me.

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Mediterranea Benelux

Marco da Silva Ferreira – F*cking Future

  • September 18th – 20th, 2025 Biennale Danse Lyon, Lyon
  • October 10th – 11th, 2025 PACT Zollverein, Essen
  • November 14th – 16th, 2025 Festival de Otoño, Madrid
  • November 20th – 21st, 2025 TANDEM, Douai
  • November 25th – 26th, 2025 La Condition Publique, Roubaix
  • November 29th, 2025 Espace des Arts, Chalon-sur-Saône
  • December 4th – 6th, 2025 TMP, Porto
  • December 12th – 13th, 2025 Charleroi Danse, Charleroi
  • February 20th – 22nd, 2025 CCB, Lisbon

70 minutes

Rigor and Freedom

© José Caldeira

F*cking Future searches the friction between militancy and militarization, exploring and challenging the systems that shape bodies and behaviors. On a quadrifrontal stage, drawing from those very same systems, a collective marches between rigidity and dilution, discipline and desire, invoking new forms of union and insurgency.

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France

Ballet Nacional de España / Marcos Morau – Afanador

April 24th – 25th, 2025 Yeulmaru, Yeosu
April 30th – May 1st, 2025 GS Arts Center, Seoul
July 10th – 20th, 2025 Teatro de la Zarzuela, Madrid
September 26th – 27th, 2025 Festspielhaus St. Pölten, St. Pölten
November 5th, 2025 Concertgebouw Brugge, Bruges
November 22nd – 23rd, 2025 Festival de Danse Cannes, Cannes
March 27th – April 2nd, 2026 Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris
100 minutes

The Power of Photography & Choreography

© MERCHE BURGOS

Afanador emerges from the tension between the fascination that emanates from Ruven Afanador’s photos, and my own fascination with all the mystery, so diurnal and yet so nocturnal, that once fascinated Ruven.

Marcos Morau

Ruven Afanador’s photography is not documentary or monumental—it doesn’t archive history or glorify its subjects. Instead, it is driven by desire, distorting and being distorted by its object. Desire, elusive by nature, shapes what it sees, revealing subjective and profound truths.

Afanador approaches Andalusian folklore through this lens, exposing flamenco’s raw subconscious—its passion, death, and untold stories. His work amplifies its essence into a surreal, evocative world of shadow and light, where he both observes and is observed.

Our work extends this vision, capturing Afanador’s gaze and the transformative power of photography. Like Goya’s Caprichos, these images blend familiar themes through association and metamorphosis, turning photography into both miracle and mystery. Each shot lingers just beyond reach, on the verge of vanishing into its own fire.

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