Mal Pelo offers a workshop in which to try out the mechanisms of action and what they may unleash. A look at movement and writing with the body in action.

Precision, duration, commitment, intensity, silence, absence, presence, punctuation, habitability, surrender, phrasing, punctuation, linearity, temporality, musicality, rhythm, writing - these are some of the terms that we shall be questioning during this course.

Activate:
Carry out an action.
Carry out movements and gestures to make something understood.
Activate a mechanism.

Mal Pelo workshops are given by the company’s two co-directors, though both may not be present at any given session.

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Closed workshop, not for outside participants. The dancers, choreographers and teachers Albert Quesada and Katie Vickers, who have worked in Spain, Belgium and the US, are organising a spectacular summer course in the beautiful city of Barcelona and in Celrà.

This stay will offer international artists and students the opportunity to get to know and learn from local artists, collaborate and enjoy everything the city has to offer in the arts.

cuadro #2: el codo/picture #2: the elbow is part of a performance triptych entitled Articulaciones, which the collective Parasite has been immersed in creating since October 2024. The inspiration for the research for the second picture comes from the events which occurred at the gates of the Sala Baratza in Vitoria Gasteiz on September 19th 2024.

That night Unai was arrested by the municipal police of Vitoria Gasteiz for refusing to stop recording the arrest of another person outside the venue. He was overpowered and later taken to the police station.

The research looks into the circumstances that led to these events, the physical interaction between the two bodies, the force used by one against the other, the arc of the fall, the extreme bending of the elbow and the shape that resulted.

During their residency at L’animal a l’esquena, the collective will be accompanied by Idoia Zabaleta Morán, who was present when they were examining and analysing the relevant factors in the events of that night.

L’ARREPLEGADA is a festival of live arts and a space for professional dialogue. On the one hand, it offers shows created by and for young people, and on the other, encourages reflection on emerging performance creation, with the aim of giving visibility and professionalism to new talent in the performance arts.

The festival acts as a platform to nurture a decentralised, active artistic network, with guidance and space for young and emerging artists, whether local, from around the country or from abroad, to share ideas, get to know each other and mutually enrich each other. This initiative promotes artists’ visibility and creative communication, providing a key meeting point for innovative emerging talent. Through a programme of performances, debates and professional activities, L’ARREPLEGADA offers valuable new opportunities and encourages the constant renewal of contemporary creativity.

The festival programme is drawn up in two stages to guarantee that involvement is diverse, inclusive and complete:
In the first phase, we invite artists from different backgrounds to take part in the programme so as to guarantee a rich and varied representation.
In the second phase, we open up a call for entries to the public, allowing everyone to take part, regardless of their origins, identity or previous experience.
Next, we choose the proposals received that best meet the values of the festival and bring innovative and relevant perspectives to the season, thus ensuring that the programme is diverse, fair and representative.
In the hope of promoting a variety of languages and formats in contemporary performance, the call for entries welcomes innovative proposals that explore new paths in artistic expression, tackling current concerns and avant garde themes of discussion.

En el marco del Festival L’Arreplegada 2025, Losinformalls comparten su manera de crear y entrenar como bailarines y performers en el que generan un espacio libre de juicio y capaz de impulsar a los asistentes a actuar sin filtros, habitando un espacio donde trabajar el imaginario y explorar los límites de la “estupidez” y el juego como Fuente inagotable de inspiración. Toda la práctica gira en torno al cuerpo y su fisicalidad, un viaje continuo, donde el objetivo es desorientar a los participantes y practicar diferentes maneras de ser, estar y moverse “haciendo lo que no sabes como si supieras hacerlo”.

A space for communicaiton and dialogue, in which to build worlds of the imagination for ourselves and to share. A space for artistic guidance where individual creatives will spend a week sharing their processes of creativity with objects, guided by Xavier Bobés with the aim of deciphering the alphabet of each object-based project.

“When the child was a child, it walked with arms hanging, wanted the stream to be a river and the river a torrent and this puddle the sea…/…it did not know it was a child, everything for it was filled with life and all life was one…/…it didn’t have an opinion about a thing, had no habits … When the child was a child, it hurled a stick like a lance into a tree, and it’s still quivering there today.”
Peter Handke

Marta Izquierdo, who has worked with L’animal a l’esquena as an associate artist since 2011, returns to L’animal to begin researching material for her new project Carnaval. This new anthropological approach to popular culture, brought to the contemporary stage, will come in two formats: one purely for the stage, Touloulou, the other for outdoor or non-theatre spaces, CRE/IATURES - IZAKIAK.
Marta Izquierdo will spend two weeks in different spaces at L’animal to work on research and writing and begin to look for elements of the choreography.

Another visit from Mónica Valenciano and her group of performers, who have accompanied her for years in this research - the G.I.B. (Dance Research Group) - , exploring and delving into different aspects of language, such as access to the voice of the body in its polyphony.