Workshop

The Place of Unique Creatures will be a four-day summer workshop running from 30 June to 3 July for children aged 6 to 12 who would like to join us in imagining and creating a place of their own.

Sometimes we imagine bodies with wings, shimmering skin, enormous legs or the bodies of sea animals... Creatures that hide beneath stones, that sleep in caves, that crawl, float, leap or change shape. What if we could invent a being of our own? How would it move? What sounds would it make? What would it feel like to the touch?

The Place of Unique Creatures offers a space in which participants can explore using their bodies, movements and imaginations, discovering new sensations and new ways of being in the world.

As always, we will start from the idea of a shared refuge: an intimate space built together as an act of care and imagination in relation to the outside world. We want to think of these places as territories where we can invent alternative ways of living together and imagining collectively.

Through play, fantasy and shared adventure, we will set off on a journey towards new places and new possibilities. We will engage all five senses, bringing out the creature that lives inside each of us. Who says such creatures only exist in fairy tales? After all, isn’t the reality we inhabit magical enough in itself?

Along the way, we will create our own masks and use fabrics, paint and a range of materials to transform the space into a collective dreamscape where new forms of life and coexistence can appear. Through movement and theatrical creation, we will gradually compose a fantastical form of dance theatre populated by singular creatures.

Little by little, the group will build a living, dreamlike landscape: a community of unique creatures creating their own ecosystem, customs, hiding places and stories. A place where they can pretend to be something else and perhaps discover new ways of being together.

Chimenea de dos mujeres girando is a collective founded by Jara Arellano and Zoe Guidotti, artists and dancers who will facilitate the workshop through dance, bodily exploration and improvisation.

While dance lies at the heart of their practice, they see art as a hybrid territory where movement, literature, film, painting, photography and theatre coexist, nourishing their work and helping them to create distinctive worlds of their own. Their practice occupies a space bordering on play, imagination and collective creativity, eschewing academic conventions in favour of creating receptive spaces where the body can transform, invent and dream. Their principal aim is to make dance accessible to all and create safe environments where people can connect through freedom, attentive listening and the absence of judgement.

Inspired by Dorothy Iannone’s A Cookbook, made in 1969, the writer María Arranz proposes a workshop aimed at the creation of a collective recipe book. Based on a survey of the literary and artistic works of different creators who have made cooking a focal point of their lives, Arranz invites us to take part in a space designed to identify connections between the world of food and other fields like creation and writing that combine art, food and life.

In A Cookbook, Dorothy Iannone shows us that a collection of recipes can reflect not only daily life but the author’s existential musings. While a recipe book can be intimate and introspective, it also speaks to us of domestic and popular culture, of the time and place in which it was compiled. On loose sheets of paper, in notebooks or in published works; with or without drawings; with notes in the margins; with stains and splashes or pristine; inserted with tips honed from years of trial and error, or with precise instructions that leave no room for improvisation. A recipe book reveals many things and therefore demands attentive reading, much more attentive than has historically been granted to these texts. In this workshop we’ll talk, reflect on, discuss and, above all, read recipes, relating these readings to Dorothy’s work and those of other artists and authors who have also found a unique form of expression and thought in cooking.

María Arranz is a writer and a journalist specialising in cultural, feminist and gastronomic topics. A regular contributor on gastronomy to media like El País, she is the author of El delantal y la maza (Col&Col ediciones), an essay about the role of women in the kitchen from a feminist perspective. Among many other interests, in 2013 she founded FUET Magazine, which examines the relationships between food and culture, and she was a member of Cocinar Madrid, a multidisciplinary collective that uses cooking as a tool of anthropological research.

The shelter, retreating to the shelter 
the cave, the cave
the sound box between the shelter walls
the acoustics of the drawings
there where it sounds
we’ve been here for eight years and never sung a full song 

Beyond the end we have never sung
of those lost to the river
from the river to sea
cocorococo

Beyond the urgency-attention
uncertain-subtle-unfinished-unspeakable-invisible
attention intention
being in the phase, in the 3rd phase, not of autonomy but of self-management 
corococo coco cocorococuuuuuuuu

Beyond a new gentleness
that must be invented 
becoming a body of affectations
a beast of a thousand heads with a thousand tongues
reemerges in the shelter of the cave

An amateur choir is a creative project in which any kind of voice is welcome to participate. Every other Thursday, we do our own research sessions as well as sessions with artists who work with voice and listening.

Session dates of An Amateur Choir 2026

15 January / 29 January / 12 February / 26 February / 12 March / 26 March / 9 April / 23 April / 7 May / 21 May / 4 June / 18 June / 1 October / 15 October / 29 October / 5 November / 19 November / 3 December / 17 December.

Those who have come in the past:

An Amateur Choir has featured Sonia Megías, Itziar Okariz, Jaume Ferrete, María Salgado and Fran MM Cabeza de Vaca, Rocío Márquez, Alma Söderberg, Ainara Lagardon, Jhana Beat, Juan G. Araque (Juan Dresán) and Lolita Versache, Luz Prado, Los Torreznos, Makiko Kitago, Julián Mayorga, Agnès Pe, Paloma Carrasco, Anto Rodríguez, Elisa C. Martín, Elena Murcia Pinto with Marina Peralta Murcia, Inma Marín with Jon Cañal and Tania Arias Winogradow with Milo-Andrey Ulises, Rolando San Martín, Amalia Fernández, Elena Córdoba, Raquel G. Ibáñez, Alex Reynolds, Black Tulip, tacoderaya, Mónica Valenciano, Ruth Abellán and Arturo Moya, Ojo Último, Monserrat Palacios and Fátima Miranda, Sole Parody, Enrico Dau Yang Wey, Coco Moya, Veza Fernández, Patricia Leguina, Jesús Burrola, Noela Covelo, Stina Force, Los Cramps (Nilo+Francisco), Ángela Segovia, Eddi Circa + raxet1, E1000, El Gato with Jotas, Nilo Gallego, Tavi Gallart, Hijas de Yocasta, Amaia Bono and Damián Montesdeoca, Piccola, Bea Narcoleptica and Elan d’Orphium.

Are the sounds of silence driving you crazy? Banish them and come and invoke the spirit of Lolita Versache and Samuel Mariño with us.

Come with your voice, you’ll be fine, you’ll be fine. It’s all fine with your voice, it’s all fine with your choir.

Voices, voracious mouths. We bawl, bellow, bleat and be heard. Come on, don’t be shy. Come onnnn!!!

Footless, headless beast of many mouths, an otherworldly body that bellows noiselessly with shrieks and spasms. The house gets drenched, my lips close and you all come.

Decontextualisation of sound and silence. Silence after the din or gasping for breath after the din? Silence gasping for breath, the din yet to come.

Maybe all this after it all ends.

An amateur choir is a creative project in which any kind of voice is welcome to participate. Every other Thursday, the choir does its own research sessions as well as sessions with artists who work with voice and listening.  

Our Amateur Choir has featured Sonia Megías, Itziar Okáriz, Jaume Ferrete, María Salgado and Fran MM Cabeza de Vaca, Rocío Márquez, Alma Söderberg, Ainara Lagardon, Jhana Beat, Lolita Versache, Bea Narcoléptica, Luz Prado, Los Torreznos, Makiko Kitago, Julián Mayorga, Agnès Pe, Paloma Carrasco, Anto Rodríguez, Elisa C. Martín, Elena Murcia Pinto with Marina Peralta Murcia, Inma Marín with Jon Cañal and Tania Arias Winogradow with Milo-Andrey Ulises, Rolando San Martín, Amalia Fernández, Elena Córdoba, Raquel G. Ibáñez, Alex Reynolds, Black Tulip, tacoderaya, Mónica Valenciano, Ruth Abellán and Arturo Moya, Ojo Último, Monserrat Palacios and Fátima Miranda, Sole Parody, Enrico Dau Yang Wey, Coco Moya, Veza Fernández, Patricia Leguina, Jesús Burrola and Noela Covelo.