MADRID FROM THE DANCE

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The book Madrid desde el baile collects 14 Matritense dance scenes that occurred in the 20th and 21st centuries, told by its protagonists, by direct witnesses or by people well aware of the events. It opens windows from which to look out to look at that immense dance floor we call Madrid, revealing facts, subjective memories and pirouettes of the imagination without any pretension of strict and demonstrable veracity.

Whoever reads this text in search of an impartial history, cartographies, chronologies or records of illustrious names will not find great satisfaction, therefore. On the contrary, whoever wants to experience a drift “inside the city”, in the territory of emotions and friction between bodies, will be able to find in the pages of the book a wonderful guide for space-time travel.

We invite you, dear person who will read this book, to lose yourself in the underworld of the Madrid dancer and wrestler told by Servando Rocha, in an unlikely party with the presence of Emma Goldman and the Ojos Negros gang. Undertake a futuristic and sycalyptic drift through the Lavapiés of 1920 with the help of Gloria G. Durán and a gang of “women-locomotives”, or take out the whiskey for the staff, to enter the guateques told by Andrea Olea. If the street is your thing, lose yourself in a story of love, chotis and devotion to San Cayetano and San Lorenzo with Ismael Clemente Ortego, or put your body to the test by dancing 72 hours in a Madrid August with Pedro José Mariblanca Corrales. Get into a lesbian and feminist rave between Casa de Campo and the Eskalera Karakola with Asor and the collective of proud of him, or explore the introduction to queer tango at Vaciador34 with Melania Beraldo. Celebrate a dance at Vistillas, where Meneo plays Las Grecas in a drum and bass version, or go wild on an August night with Raquel G. Ibáñez and a crowd of dance fighters, celebrating a spontaneous rave sparked by the moon full house, or on the nights of Vuélvete Underground, those parties promoted and told by José Salas that, between 2006 and 2008, offered refuge and fuel for the exercise of the right to freedom on the track. Put on the outfit that you like the most, even if it is dangerous, as Irie Queen tells it, and battle on the dance floor to earn the respect that is owed to you, or get completely naked to compete in the most improbable and bizarre dance competition that Madrid has ever known. , with Roborob Funklover as a jury. Finally, immerse yourself in the city's club night, merge with the bodies of hundreds of unknown people to the sound of techno and house from Gran Vía and surrounding areas, to learn about the peculiar declensions of these cultures that have occurred in Madrid, from the hand of Abida Allouh and Amparo Lasén.

When you finish the book, go outside and go to a dance party. In a garden, in the hall of an association, in a self-managed social center or in any space that welcomes you as it should. Give your body a good shake, slam your heel very hard against the ground and watch how the things around you and inside you move a little.

EDITION BY: Massimiliano Casu
YEAR: 2024
FORMAT: 12x18 cm
PAGES: 281
LANGUAGE: Spanish / English
ISBN: 978-84-18299-23-0
EDIT: CentroCentro

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