In November 2025, Dende a Nada returned to Cedeira for its second edition, bringing together artists, participants and audiences through ten days of performance, creation and exchange.
Dende a Nada · Second Edition
2025
7–16 NOVEMBER · CEDEIRA, GALICIA
Artists from Galicia and further afield came together with local participants through live performance, practical workshops, screenings and conversations. Across theatre, movement, music, masks and storytelling, the second edition continued to place the creative process at the heart of the festival — creating space not only to encounter finished work, but to explore how that work is made.
Workshops
Six workshops invited participants inside the creative process, working directly with artists across theatre, movement, music, storytelling, stage combat and mask.
MÁSCARAS BALINESAS
Juan Martín Ozán · Argentina
8–9 November
Mask · Physical Theatre
Traditional Balinese masks became the starting point for exploring character, rhythm, space and full-body expression.
DO PROCESO CREATIVO AO TEATRO FÍSICO DE GECKO
Helen Baggett · UK
8–9 November· Auditorio Municipal
Physical Theatre · Creative Process
Drawing on Gecko’s distinctive approach to physical theatre, this workshop explored movement, emotion and visual storytelling as tools for creating performance.
O PODER DA MÚSICA NO TEATRO
Dave Price · UK
10, 11, 12 & 15 November
Music · Theatre · Creation
Exploring the relationship between music and performance, participants used rhythm, sound and composition as tools for developing theatrical ideas and creating work together.
DA IDEA AO ESCENARIO
Simone Jenkinson · UK
10, 11 & 13 November· Auditorio Municipal
Theatre · Creative Process
From the first spark of an idea to material on stage, this workshop explored practical ways of developing, structuring and shaping ideas into performance.
LOITA ESCÉNICA
Rachel Bown Williams · UK
13–14 November · Sala Ancora
Stage Combat · Physical Theatre
An introduction to the principles of stage combat, exploring how performers can create convincing physical conflict through technique, timing, storytelling and safe practice.
A MITOLOXÍA E EU
Jamie Bradley · UK
15–16 November
Theatre · Storytelling · Creation
Using mythology as a starting point, participants explored how traditional stories can connect with personal experience and become material for contemporary performance..
Live / Performances
Performances, screenings and newly created work brought the festival’s different strands together, connecting professional artists with the creative processes taking place throughout the ten days.
FROM HERE ON
Gecko · UK
9 November · Auditorio Municipal
Film · Physical Theatre
A screening of Gecko’s From Here On, bringing the company’s distinctive visual and physical language to the festival, followed by a conversation around the work and its creative process.
PARA QUE NON ME DEIXES AQUÍ SOA
Julia Laport
14 November · Auditorio Municipal
Theatre · Performance
A live performance by Julia Laport, presented as part of the second edition of Dende a Nada.
CLOSING PRESENTATION
Dende a Nada participants
16 November · Auditorio Municipal
Performance · New Work
Participants from the workshops led by Dave Price and Simone Jenkinson came together to present an original piece developed during the festival, bringing the ten days of creation and exchange to a close.
ENCOUNTERS
Following the screening of From Here On, the audience joined members of Gecko for a conversation about the work, the company’s creative process and their approach to physical theatre.
FROM HERE ON — POST-SCREENING CONVERSATION
Gecko Theatre · UK
9 November
Conversation · Creative Process
Following the screening of From Here On, members of Gecko Theatre joined the audience for a conversation about the film, the company’s work and its creative process.
The second edition
The second Dende a Nada built on the foundations of the first, bringing more artists and creative practices together in Cedeira.
Across ten days, workshops, performances, screenings and conversations created a shared space in which artists, participants and audiences could meet through the process of making work.
The festival continued to grow around the same central idea: not only to present performance, but to make space for experimentation, exchange and creation.