DOMA is a solo dance piece that reflects on the trauma generated in women by heteropatriarchal society and rape culture. Through inhabiting the tension between the grotesque and the sexualized, the piece questions and challenges the powers exerted over the female body.

The work unfolds through dance, performative actions, and symbolic imagery that construct a visual iconography: apples, high heels, a naked woman, sweeping, a garbage bin.

*About the title: “DOMA” is the Spanish word for both “Taming” and “Dressage”. The title evokes the dual meaning of doma: the act of taming — an imposition of control and discipline — and the aestheticized training of dressage, where the body performs obedience as elegance. DOMA reclaims these ideas from a feminist and autobiographical perspective, exposing how female bodies have been shaped, disciplined, and sexualized, while transforming that process into a gesture of rebellion and resistance.

Authorship, direction and performance: Andrea El Ameri

Original music and sound design: Rosa García Mira

Artistic direction support: Poliana Lima, Nuria Guiu and Mar López

Photography and teaser: Claudia Herrán

Lighting design: Iván Cascón

With the support of Graner, Center for Dance and Live Arts Creation. In collaboration with Surge Madrid and Festival de Otoño de Madrid.

Special thanks to Escuela de Danza Carmen Senra, Espac101, Certamen Coreográfico de Sabadell, L’Estruch Fàbrica de Creació, Nau Ivanow, Sol de Bernardo, Cristian González, Adrián Vega, Aina Lanas and Majo Toruño.