Mantra by Night
Venérea / Valencia- Euskal Herria
With Mantra By Night mysticism, movement and frequency converge in a delicate rite of nocturnal flowering, where past and future merge into a single present moment.
Two bodies that decide to descend into their inner selves, and in their first steps towards the great below, they encounter a complex encrypted mantra. How do these bodies transform during the scene? Will they manage to free themselves from the beautiful artifice that envelops them?
Company: Venérea
Duration: 15’
Category: Dance
Origin: Valencia / Basque Country
Cast: Itxasai Mediavilla (director, performer); Sybila Gutiérrez (director, performer); Inés de la Iglesia (designer, light technician)
VENÉREA is a contemporary dance company and cultural platform based in Valencia co-led by artists Itxa Sai and Sybila Gutiérrez. At the heart of their mission is the desire to accompany collective transformation through art and the body, generating loving and disruptive proposals that seek to restore trust in humanity and the planet. Since its recent origin in 2023, they have premiered two works (Urania Ultra and Mantra by night), and two participatory workshops (La danza como puerta al trance and CUERPO UMBRAL). These works have been presented and shared in Festival Circuito Bucles (Valencia), Festival Cartografías En Movimiento (Galicia), Festival Abril en Danza (Elche) Festival Danzar la Sierra (Madrid), Spook Club (Valencia), Beta Pública (Madrid), En Almassora (Castellón) as part of Impuls a la danza of the festival Danza Valencia, and in the Certamen coreográfico Pasoa2 (Madrid). In 2025 they are embarking on a new project, a large-scale work that will be premiered at the Carme Teatre at the end of April 2025. They also have the support of the Institut Valenciá de Cultura and the Festival Danza Valencia for the development of their projects.