Casa Asia participates in the Festival of Ideas 2025 to promote intercultural dialogue and explore facets of our present through artistic and reflective proposals that connect East and West.
In this second edition, the Festival de las Ideas wants to explore and travel through the labyrinths of our present by filling the streets and cultural spaces of Madrid with different forms of thought and expression, such as music, poetry and theatre.
Casa Asia participates with two activities that invite you to walk through the labyrinths of our identities, stories and emotions, such as the sound journey of the Pagliuca-Mena Quartet (tomorrow Thursday at 9.30 pm), which transports us from traditional Japan to contemporary, and the poetic dance of Roots that migrate, rhythms that return (on Saturday, September 20 at 9 pm), a tribute to people who carry in their memory the nostalgia for home.
These proposals seek to open spaces for reflection on the paradoxes, shelters and desires of liberation that characterize our time, in line with the spirit of the festival to explore the multiple ways in which we inhabit and understand our world.
– Sonic journey through jazz between traditional and contemporary Japan
Japan is a land of contrasts and harmonies, where the ancestral coexists with the avant-garde and silence dialogues with speed. This concert offers a journey through that multiple Japan, through the jazz interpretation of works by Japanese composers from different historical periods, ranging from classical and traditional folk pieces to well-known contemporary themes.
This concert of Japanese themes in the key of jazz, by the Pagliuca-Mena Quartet, is an invitation to get lost with meaning, to enter the labyrinth, not to reach an exit, but to inhabit the journey, listen to its echoes and discover at each crossing a new question.
– Roots that migrate, rhythms that return: poetic journey towards memory
Inspired by texts by Rabindranath Tagore and Federico García Lorca, this meeting between East and West evokes an emotional journey and a tribute to those people who have left their country of origin behind and carry with them the nostalgia of home.
On stage, the rhythm becomes memory and dance into a body narration that is told and stepped on. Each step resonates with a life story as the dancers’ bodies traverse a labyrinth of emotions where the intimate is transformed into universal and movement becomes poetry. Concept and choreography: Shreyashee Nag; performance: Shreyashee Nag dance company.