Centro Danza Matadero presents the world première of the latest piece by Jone San Martin Astigarraga.

sORDA is an autobiographical investigation into deafness and dance. A danced exploration of the limits of physical communication that constructs a unique and ultra-expressive language. The body becomes a territory of listening, a mute resonance, a shared vibration.

The piece stems from the intimate experience of deafness: the hours of isolation, the confusion, the presence that is both absent and assisted. This silence, experienced as an inner silence, constantly confronts exterior sound, transforming into choreographic material: gesture, breathing, heartbeat, and movement.

But sORDA is first and foremost a sound spectacle, a conversation between body and sound perceived through deficiency, generating new ways of relating to it. On stage, the choreography dialogues with the live compositions of Manuel Escorihuela and Paola Álvarez, who together open up a space for shared resonance. The result is a dance that celebrates arrhythmia, understood as a creative possibility, as a fertile territory where desynchronisation becomes our guide. It is a magic articulated from silence towards sound, in which fragility is transformed into potency and deficiency into language.

sORDA displaces the concept of listening: shifting it from the ears to the skin, bones, gaze, and imagination. Together, dance, inner silence, exterior sound, and sign language generate a poetic and political space that interrogates normality and celebrates difference. More than a spectacle, sORDA is an experience of expanded perception: a territory where the visible and the invisible, the audible and the silent, the intimate and the collective converge to reinvent the way we listen.