Adriano Wilfert Jensen, Andrea Zavala Folachel, Alissa Šnaider "Domestic Anarchism: bailes & zona de juego"

bailes, a dance performance unfolding inside

zona de juego, an installation inside

domestic anarchism, a longing

bailes is an experiment in transmitting dances from body to body across contexts, and in opening up a dance performance to let a new constellation find its rhythm. The performance combines a range of expressions from wrestling and telekinesis to stand-up comedy and improvisation. The materials of Domestic Anarchism have emerged through a series of collaborations and co-habitations each addressing (nuclear, chosen or national) family problems.

zona de juego is the installation where the bailes happens and it is open before and after the performance. A place for drift and contact, zona de juego is an invitation for children and adults to encounter the material and immaterial architectures of a performance in their own pace and with all senses: large scale window paintings available as reverse coloring books, (mother) tongues to be carved in soap, erotic booklets, cooking and post-performance sharing of a soup of blurry origin.

The project was initiated by Andrea Zavala Folache and Adriano Wilfert Jensen and developed with Alissa Šnaider, HaYoung, louise paolo de venecia gile, Emma Daniel, Lisa Schåman, Malcolm-x Betts, Jennifer Lacey, Oda Brekke and Lauren Bakst.

Adriano Wilfert Jensen works through dance to study and produce conditions of relations. They approach dance as a set of tools and knowledge that can be applied beyond "the spectacle" to collectively study, write and move. Their practice tends to be organised as long term research projects which each spawn a variety of formats: dance performances, publications, workshops, installations and protocols. With Simon Asencio they founded Galerie - an immaterial gallery for immaterial artworks in 2014. That same year they initiated the research project analysis on the politics of feelings in dance and its spectatorship. And in 2021 they initiated domestic anarchism with Andrea Zavala Folache.

Adriano first visited Kanuti Gildi SAAL as a participating artist at Krõõt Juurak’s “So Far So Good” edition of the NU Performance Festival and returned for SAAL Biennaal 2017, 2019 and 2021 with the performances Group Show, feelings and mixed feelings, and as a performer in Natten by Mårten Spångberg.

Andrea Zavala Folache has a transdisciplinary approach to dance informed by her/their training in visual arts, painting and choreography. He/their practice prefigures an ongoing rewriting of relationships. The stage becomes a site of experimentation, inviting audiences into moments of transition, play, and shared perception. Alongside long-term artistic collaborations and performance experiments such as Domestic Anarchism, Lands of Concert and Performing Arts Forum, Andrea is interested in questioning pedagogy and co-creation, teaching at SNDO (School for New Dance Development) in Amsterdam and co-coordinating ISAC (Bachelor and Master in Choreography) in Brussels. Andrea visited SAAL Biennaal in 2019 and 2021, collaborating with Adriano on feelings and mixed feelings.

Alissa Šnaider is an artist working between choreography, dramaturgy, photography, and performative interventions. She constructs constellations of bodies, images, and language. Her practice unfolds as a continuous inquiry into memory, displacement, and the ways identity is inscribed, erased, and rewritten through movement, visual traces, and encounters. Working across disciplines, her projects unfold as situations, not fixed compositions. In her dramaturgical and choreographic work, dance operates as embodied thinking, a language beyond words. Gestures, rhythms, and stillness carry knowledge. Her photographs hold gestures in transition, where presence and absence exist at the same time.

Her work is shaped by an attention to the body as both political and poetic. Collaboration unfolds as an open exchange where meaning emerges through resonance, chance, and shared mistakes. Her projects function as living organisms, shifting in response to those who enter them. Educated at the Sandberg Institute MFA, Alissa continues to move between disciplines, spaces, and temporalities. Her work forms an evolving ecosystem of encounters where stories are not only told, they are embodied, reframed, and lived again.

For more information about the project visit: www.domesticanarchism.org.

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Choreography: Andrea Zavala Folache, Adriano Wilfert Jensen

Created in collaboration and co-habitation with: HaYoung, Alissa Šnaider, louise paolo de venecia gile, Emma Daniel, Lisa Schåman, Malcolm-x Betts, Lauren Bakst

Performance at Kanuti Gildi SAAL: Alissa Šnaider, Andrea Zavala Folache, Adriano Wilfert Jensen

Wearable art practice (costumes): Malcolm-x Betts

Zona de juego (scenography): Andrea Zavala Folache, Adriano Wilfert Jensen, Alissa Šnaider

(mother) tongues: HaYoung

Music Composition: Kenn-Eerik Kannike

Light Design: Kristiina Tinnu Tang

Graphic Design: Jaan Evart

Dramaturgical counselling: Annika Üprus, Lauren Bakst

Photos: Alissa Šnaider

Project manager: Eneli Järs

Supported by: Cultural Endowment of Estonia

The frame project has been supported by: Statens Kunstfond, Augustinus Fonden, Wilhelm Hansen Fonden, William Demant Fonden and Jan van Eyck Academie

Co-producers and venues: Lieu D’Arts Contemporain - Sigean, School for Temporary Liveness at The Kitchen - New York City, MDT - Stockholm, Dansehallerne - Copenhagen, Kanuti Gildi SAAL - Tallinn

Estonian premiere: 28 May 2026 Kanuti Gildi SAAL, Tallinn

Duration: 60´(installation opens 30' before the performance and stays open one hour after)

Language: English

Accessible for child-care responsibles