Inka Romani

Let's Get Back to the Dance

30 min

#stage

Spain

Let's Get Back to Dance begins with the story of a dance that Inka Romaní's grandmother used to dance. Along with her friends, she danced it in courtyards and on threshing floors, until it disappeared. A dance that survived in memory now returns as a trace of something that was once pushed into the background—a body remembering something that history failed to preserve.

Moving between performative lecture and documentary dance, Inka Romaní explores the ways in which Franco's dictatorship controlled women's bodies through dance and gymnastics. Drawing on the body, film archives, memory and intimacy, she attempts to reconstruct a story that is inscribed not only in documents, but also in movement. A personal memory thus opens onto broader questions: what remains of a dance when it disappears from public space? What happens to the body when power dictates how it may move? And how can a dance that once had to disappear become a way of remembering, resisting and desiring again?

30 minutes of asking yourself: who does dance truly belong to?

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This is the story of a dance.
A dance that haunts me.
A dance that was hidden,
resisting totalitarianism
and the values of a not-so-distant past.
A dance that my grandmother used to dance.
And her friends.
They danced it in their courtyards and on the threshing floors.
Until it disappeared.

A dance that ignited desire.
A bonfire.

What remains of this dance?
How did we get here?

Inka Romaní

bio

Inka Romaní is a dancer and choreographer from Valencia working across the performing arts. As an independent artist, she explores the body and its movement, combining somatic practices with different movement languages, from Spanish traditional dances to contemporary and urban dance.

She trained in contemporary dance at the Conservatory of Dance in Valencia before continuing her studies at the Centre National de Développement Chorégraphique de Toulouse – Midi Pyrénées. She holds a degree in Communication from the Universidad Internacional de La Rioja and a master's degree in Artistic Production from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Valencia. She has worked with venues and artistic companies across Europe and the US, including Sadler's Wells in London and La Mutant in Valencia, and with choreographers and companies such as Marquez & Zangs, Germana Civera and Core Dance Performance Company.

Her work has been presented at festivals and venues including Dansa València, La Casa Encendida, Conde Duque, Dansa Metropolitana, Tanz im August and Festival de Marseille. She has been an artist-in-residence at KVS in Brussels, La Licorera – Bienal de Danza de Cali, El Graner in Barcelona, as part of the Graners de Creació programme, as well as at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris and K3 – Zentrum für Choreographie in Hamburg. In 2024, she received a danceWEB scholarship at ImPulsTanz Festival in Vienna. From the 2026–2027 season, she is an associate artist at Mercat de les Flors in Barcelona.

credits

Direction, performance and texts Inka Romaní

Sound Carles Biano, Manel Ferrandiz

Video projection Fatemeh Fereydoun, Roser Corella

Costume design Teresa Juan

Costume production Marta Ródenas, Eloina Escrivá

Lighting design Raúl León (Laboratorio de Luz, UPV – Valencia)

Artistic accompaniment Cassandre Muñoz

Executive production Mónica Vázquez

Photography and video Laura Tápia, Fran Garofalo

Distribution Vicenç Mayans (Palosanto Projects)

Support Espai Inestable, Festival BUCLES as part of the Graners de Creació 2023–2025 programme

 

Guest performance production En–Knap Productions

In collaboration with Aerowaves network (the Twenty26 selection)