Jesús Rubio Gamo & Dance On Ensemble

Artistic Direction and Choreography: Jesús Rubio Gamo
Performance: Javier Arozena, Ty Boomershine, Hugo Grimalt, Julia Kayser, Emma Lewis, Jone San Martín, Luna Sánchez, Pedro Sohu

Music: Enrique del Castillo
Costume: Cecilia Molano
Choreography Assistant: Jorge Brea

The Joy to Belong stems from a collaboration between Jesús Rubio Gamo and the Dance On Ensemble. Eight dancers – four from each company and of different ages and styles – take part in a choreography that is shaped by Rubio Gamo’s interest in blending the poetics of the group with those of the individual and giving each of them a voice to create a unified structure.

Themes such as accumulation, interconnection, and generational transmission guide the piece, accompanied by music from Enrique del Castillo’s umbraphone. The starting point is a childhood memory in which a collective game revealed, for the first time, a sense of happiness and belonging. Thirty-five years later, Jesús Rubio wonders if it would be possible to recapture some of that feeling to create a choreography today.

Premiere: 27 November 2026, Mercat de les Flors, Barcelona

Production: Jesús Rubio Gamo
In collaboration with Dance On Ensemble

Coproduction Mercat de les Flors, Évora_27 – European Capital of Culture
with the support of Goethe-Institut Madrid, Madrid Council, La Caldera.

DANCE ON is a project by Bureau Ritter, funded by the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.