ICC Shows: PHANTOM

PHANTOM is a dance work by Darío Barreto Damas that investigates the figure of the ghost as a political and sensorial strategy for disidentification. Continuing the research developed in seguir moviendo and ES UN NO PARAR, the work explores the forces that activate dance beyond the dancing body itself, rhythm, repetition, feedback, archive, gaze, voice, allowing movement to emerge as an autonomous, contagious phenomenon.

PHANTOM unfolds in close relation to a DJ set, playing with shifting beats, melodies, shadows, and light. The performer appears as a phantom of dance: insisting, fading, reappearing, dancing not to represent, narrate, or signify, but to let movement insist on itself. Through this oscillation between presence and disappearance, the work proposes an impossible yet necessary question: can dance be separated from the body and its identity, even if only momentarily?

As layers of sound and light accumulate, a shared ghostly body is constructed, one that slowly dissolves to make space for everything else to dance. Underpinning the entire research process is the pleasure of dancing itself: not as an outcome, but as a method, an urgency, and a way of remaining in motion.
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Dance and Performance: Darío Barreto Damas
DJ Set: Juana la Cubana
Lighting: Grace Morales
Companion: Aleksandar Georgiev
With the support of Auditorio de Tenerife, Cabildo de Tenerife, Government of the Canary Islands, La Caldera Barcelona, National Cultural Fund of Bulgaria.
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BIO

Darío Barreto Damas is a Canarian dancer who develops his work between Tenerife, Sofia, and Skopje. His artistic practice explores dance as an autonomous form of knowledge and disidentification practices as mechanisms of mediation.

He trained at Teatro Victoria (Tenerife), Institut del Teatre (Barcelona), DOCH – School of Dance and Circus (Stockholm), and JLU – University of Giessen (Germany). Throughout his career, he has collaborated as a dancer, co-creator, and performer with Cullberg, Aleksandar Georgiev, Deborah Hay, Cristina Caprioli, Ofelia Jarl Ortega, Philip Berlin, and Poliana Lima, among others.

He is a co-dreamer of ICC (Imaginative Choreographic Center) project-institution, co-founder artistic team STEAM ROOM, and a board member of the PiedeBase association (Canary Islands).

Darío co-directs, together with Beatriz Bello, LAV-C (Laboratory of Live Arts and Citizenship of the Canary Islands).