Acerina Amador Presents Double Dance Bill at ULL Auditorium

The University of La Laguna Auditorium will host a special contemporary dance event on Saturday, November 8, at 8:00 PM. Acclaimed creator and performer Acerina Amador will present two powerful pieces: ‘A propósito do Vermelho’ (About Red) and ‘Placeres extraños Repito placeres extraños’ (Strange Pleasures I Repeat Strange Pleasures). These works explore the body as a space for memory, identity, resilience, and change. Tickets cost 8 euros and can be purchased through the Ecoentradas platform.

In ‘A propósito do Vermelho’, Amador takes the audience on a journey through life, transformation, resistance, and death. Critic Cláudia Galhos praises the artist's intense approach, noting her courage in confronting death through "precise and astonishingly beautiful" body movements. The piece offers a sensory and emotional experience, where the body itself becomes a language, expressing fragility, impulse, and naturalness.

Her second piece, ‘Placeres extraños Repito placeres extraños’, delves into desire, repetition, imbalance, and the search for identity through movement. Critic Yann Gibert highlights the work's clear structure, describing a progression "from earth to earth." He observes how repetitive jumps reveal a woman's identity through constant, obsessive movements that evolve into "impossible and tortuous inverted positions."

Gibert also commends Amador's keen eye for details like costume design and sound, which strengthen the performance's message. He states that Acerina Amador connects her personal feelings to broader political themes, particularly within the "feminine Western world," bringing an intensely physical and emotional presence to the stage.

This double performance at the ULL Auditorium offers a chance for reflection and a unique aesthetic experience through dance. It invites the audience to engage with two works that explore the limits, vulnerabilities, and potential of the human body today. The evening is an opportunity to connect with Amador's distinctive choreographic style, known for its extreme physicality, committed artistic message, and a poetic quality that resonates with both personal and universal experiences. Tickets are available now, but seating is limited.