We are accustomed to such an extent to control our emotions that we block-out what we feel. The mind denies that which the body wants, and even what it needs; denying our sexuality and our sleep.

Modern life and current systems have trained us to work at all costs, forgetting to trust our instincts, away from our brutal nature, leading the body to lose communication with the mind.

 I need to listen from another perspective, a perspective that is more connected to my own nature, and to regain the satisfaction and pleasure of some of my basic needs:  sleeping thus dreaming, attentive of the messages the body has for the mind.

This is a work spawned from my gut. Nothing was planned, and yet, it all seemed to fit within a circular arc".

Tania Pérez-Salas.

Rich in scope, this piece offers a beautiful and enlightening view of mankind’s most powerful energy: Love. Based on a work by the celebrated Mexican writer Octavio Paz (The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism), the work explores the intimate connection between love and eroticism; contrasting the turmoil and anxiety of lust with the soothing, healing colors of genuine spiritual love.

Music: Dave Seeman, Haendel y J.S. Bach, Duration: 20 minutos.

Is a visual contemplation on mankind’s relentless pursuit of technology, becoming adrift in an alternate reality that can dominate humanity and suppress nature itself. Culture is our Biography; this is what gives us permanence and gives meaning to life.

Music: Collage musical de Gavin Vryars, Ritchie Hawtin, Dirk Diggler.Duration: 45 minutes.

The Hours is an impressionist tableau on the nature of femininity and relationships between women, discovering the bonds that unite them. In this piece the music resonates within the movement of the dancers.Inspired by Alessandro Baricco’s Oceano Mare and The Hours by MichaelCunningham, the choreography recreates the sensations implied by the literary works rather that a specific story.Selected passages illustrate the foundation of the work“…the wind from the sea brings the proclamation of a wild, hidden, forgotten and oppressed liberty…”“She walked and it was the most beautiful thing she had ever done…”“A perfect design in the rudderless chaos of the ocean’s womb”“Sometimes, music resonates within us and is more than the body can contain. It is this internal overflow, which gives birth to dance.”.

Music: Vivaldi, Lully, Bregovic, Duration: 30 minutes

As in dreams or in the imagination, time and space suggest alternative realities. This piece commissioned by the Lyon Biennale, one of the most important festivals in Europe, explores these indefinable, abstract and subjective elements which convey feelings of solitude and autonomy, and ultimately, serenity.

Music: Plastikman Consumed, The Delta, BolaDuration: 25 minutes

Dedicated to Xavir Francis

Inspired by Ivan Illich’s essay H2O The Waters of Forgetfulness, this work reflects the symbolic role water plays in human history, as a vital, life- giving force of the soul and spiritual life of humanity.The role of water as a receptacle for a myriad of images, thoughts, and feelings, a vehicle of life, endowed with limitless ability to convey metaphors and bestow its purity by mere contact.

Music: Arvo Pärt, M. Danna, Stoa GroupDuration: 20 minutes

Clodia appears in the poetry of Catulli Carmina under the name "Lesbia". Emboldenend by her habitual incest with her sisters and her brother Clodio, she became a strong, adolescent rebel against Roman military chauvinism. She murdered her husband Metelo out of sheer boredom, and when her true love Clodio was killed she fell prey to heart rending despair. She took on many lovers, including Catulo, but nothing could slake her appetite nor dim the insolent flames that lit up her eyes. She took to the streets as a prostitute, and became the muse for some of the most ardent poetry of desire ever written, as chronicled by Catulo's own ruin at the hands of his all-consuming infatuation with her. When we look back at the fall of the Roman Empire, one can't help but marvel at a society whose basic virtues seemed to crumble day by day, and yet, we also sense the intensity with which they lived. Theirs was a ferocious, bloody, lascivious life. A life of surrender to base hunger and instinct which seems almost incongruent with their intellectual and philosophical accomplishment of their past. The primordial force of this world captivated the imagination of Carl Orff, and spawned the fresh vibrance of the music of Catulli Carmina. Choreographer Tania Perez-Salas resonates with Orff and she has managed to capture this essence to stage a unique opportunity to relive the sublime glories and tragedies of the love between Clodia and Catulo.

Music: Catulli Carmina by Carl Orff Duration: 40 minutes

I opened my eyes, raised them to the sky and i saw how the night was clothed in stars. There is no water. Only blood, ashes and footprints left by bare feet on a field of thorns. All of them gone, dead, broken vessels at the edge of a dry fountain.

Gazing at it with eyes wide shut, it all looks the same…

We must sleep with our eyes open and dream with our hands. We need to dream at the top of our lungs, and sing until the song grows roots. Until it springs branches and hatches birds and stars.Fragments from "The Broken Vessel" by Octavio Paz.

Music: María del Mar Bonet. Duration: 8.30 minutes