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 MiniaturesL'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) From 01/01/2010 to 01/01/2011 Officina, L'animal a l'esquena, El Teatro, Indisciplinarte, HaRaKa ( Officina, L'animal a l'esquena, El Teatro, Indisciplinarte, HaRaKa ) As an initiative of "L'Officina" (Marseille), Miniatures Officinae was launched in 2008, as a new networking project in the Mediterranean region in order to commission several artists to create new short pieces that borderline the visual and the performative. The notions of "choreography" and of "body-art" are put under study here with the support of dramaturges, researchers, artists, and cultural managers. Currently, the project operates from five different Mediterranean cities or regions: Celrà, Girona/Barcelona, Cairo, Marseille, Terni and Tunis. The project is directed in the period 2010-2011 through a board of five networking partners: - Officina – Marseille http://www.officina.fr/ - L'animal a l'esquena – Celrà (Girona) - El Teatro – Tunis http://www.elteatro.net/ - Indisciplinarte – Terni http://www.indisciplinarte.it/ - HaRaKa – Cairo http://www.facebook.com/group.ph Miniatures is a multi-step development project of itinerant character, based on the creation and dissemination of short pieces in different cultural contexts that emphasize dialogs and exchanges between artists of the Mediterranean basin.  |
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| Mal Pelo's Workshop L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) From 18/01/2010 to 22/01/2010 Mal Pelo ( Pep Ramis, María Muñoz ) Mal Pelo suggests working on their method of approaching movement and the idea of the silent pause. Using improvisation that materializes from a series of decisions based upon our experiences, our senses, and our capacity to imagine, provides the journey from silence to movement.  |
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| NIGHT PEOPLE L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) From 27/01/2010 to 06/02/2010 Presentation : On 06/02/2010 at 18:00 in L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) Pablo Fidalgo, Estefanía García ( Pablo Fidalgo, Estefanía García ) - What did you pretend with this act? –I wanted to be loved. –And were you loved? –I can't possibly know it yet. There hasn't been enough time: -Why do you tell me it is too early to know about it? How dare you to give me hope? Is it because you want me to continue acting for you? We're looking for the countless associations existing between the presence, the words, the sounds and the images in order to enter into a different space beyond comprehension and meaning. New life and relationship models are necessary. From the stage, using the confession and the truth we intend to state this. We understand this work as a life act, an act of reparation, in which the wounded bodies are given voice. The residence period will be used for making a map of our fractures, in order to know the place in which we are and,to mark once again a different body. Marking and marking until we fall. In 2008 Pablo and Estefanía began their close collaboration. Their first piece La Democracia had the support of La Casa Encendida (Madrid), the Dance department of the University of Alcalá de Henares, L'Estruch (Sabadell, Barcelona) and the Drama Centre of Galicia.  |
| Research Residence |
| A-maze L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) From 08/02/2010 to 21/02/2010 Presentation : On 20/02/2010 at 18:00 in L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) Martin Bélanger ( Martin Bélanger, Nadia Lauro, Jean-Sébastien Durocher ) A-maze, i.e. a labyrinth, and "amaze," i.e. a verb. And if knowledge of the world originates in the labyrinth, the same can be said of knowing oneself. Here, the labyrinth lies within the body itself, with the self occupying the undiscovered centre. This delving into the body through gesture reveals an abysmal or vertiginous inner geography at once grandiose or intimate, dark or luminous, marked by an ever-changing, tumultuous and contemplative velocity. This inner epic research will look into transmigrations of bodies, states and beings and will forcibly be brought about by the confinement of the body within a limited space: a circle measuring roughly three metres in diameter. Bélanger will work with collaborators Nadia Lauro (scenography) and Jean-Sébastien Durocher (sound).  |
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| Mal Pelo's Workshop L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) From 22/02/2010 to 26/02/2010 Mal Pelo ( Pep Ramis, María Muñoz ) Mal Pelo suggests working on their method of approaching movement and the idea of the silent pause. Using improvisation that materializes from a series of decisions based upon our experiences, our senses, and our capacity to imagine, provides the journey from silence to movement.  |
| Creation Residence |
| TODOS LOS NOMBRES L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) From 01/03/2010 to 29/05/2010 Presentation : On 29/05/2010 at 19:00 in L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) María Muñoz ( María Muñoz ) The basic structure of each of our bodies has been built around names. To name, in this sense, is to carve out the desire to decipher what I am, what I belong to and therefore defines me. ALL THE NAMES, a journey of discovery among the names that make up this particular body, that inhabit and project it. In this process María Muñoz will use the information that lies in the body, deposited in each of us over the years through names. Following on from BACH, María Muñoz will continue her solo performance work in 2010 with this new project, Mal Pelo's third solo piece. |
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| Ciel L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) From 12/04/2010 to 24/04/2010 Presentation : On 24/04/2010 at 18:00 in L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) Jordi Galí ( Jordi Galí ) The creation of 'Ciel' starts at the Nau Côclea in October 2009. Other residency periods will come later at L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà), Ramdam (Lyon) and the Rillieux-la-Pape National Choreographic Center (Lyon) all over 2010. Few materials are needed for this piece: logs and strings. A ten meters construction will be steadying as the creation weeks come along. The body, the strings, the logs and the height. A whole which will take the form of a tower of filiform construction. A memory of a tree. 'Ciel' is a poetic building work and it therefore aims to be an outdoor piece inscribed ephemerally in the landscape. |
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| We Love You in concert L'animal a l'esquena (CONCERT) (Celrà) On 09/05/2010 Presentation : On 09/05/2010 at 18:00 in L'animal a l'esquena (CONCERT) (Celrà) Ilan Manouach, Clement Nourry, Ivo Sans ( Ilan Manouach, Clement Nourry, Ivo Sans ) The project We Love You was born in Brussels in 2003 after the encounter of three musician of three different countries: Ilan Manouach sax (Greece), Clement Nourry electric guitar (France) and Ivo Sans drums (Catalonia). The essential idea between them was to never play a composition, but always start playing in front of the void. This fragility it's their force and it rides them into moments of pain and sadness but also into happiness and states of trance. They try not to fall into the built-in behaviour of music: composing, soloist, etc. but try to create and confront living structures born out of instant time in the creative act. The execution of the group as a real experience is an isolated fact in the main stream of music and even in the underground. That's why the live, since 2007, a kind of triangular diaspora -Brussels, Athens, Barcelona- and they have a few occasions since then to play together. (free entrance)  |
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| Miniatures (Gruppo Nanou) L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) From 01/06/2010 to 06/06/2010 Presentation : On 05/06/2010 at 18:00 in L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) Gruppo Nanou ( Gruppo Nanou ) During the horse's gallop there is an instant when all of its legs are lifted from the ground, and not in the position of complete extension. The body, seen in its entirety, as an instrument of creation, plays the main role. |
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| Intimate Words L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) From 07/06/2010 to 11/06/2010 Presentation : On 10/06/2010 at 19:00 in L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) Ana Sanchez Couso ( Ana Sanchez Couso ) There where my body is, I am always. I might be more or less conscious about it, but the body is there, more or less present, talkative or silent, always with me. I don't know a more intimate relationship, since I can't be without it. But what is the significance of the word intimacy nowadays?; what opens and contains this intimate space of the body?; how can we experiment, express and think the intimacy? BEYOND, OUTLINE, FLESH, HOLE, MONSTER are the words that have allowed me to articulate this coming forth and back in between the reflection and a body based practice. INTIMATE WORDS is an investigation and a journey between the words and the body. |
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| Skin exchange L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) From 07/06/2010 to 11/06/2010 Presentation : On 10/06/2010 at 19:00 in L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) María Claudia Mejía ( María Claudia Mejía ) To travel alone is like making a solo dance piece. A metaphor to explore the making of solo dance pieces when choreographer and dancer are the same person. ... Because to travel and to dance are the same road. Presentation of the research process and performance of the solo Skin Exchange  |
| Research Residence |
| [a] L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) From 14/06/2010 to 27/06/2010 Presentation : On 26/06/2010 at 19:00 in L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) Centro Rural del Arte ( Elina Rodríguez, María José Trucco, Pablo Ramos, Luciano Bianchi ) [a] CENTRO RURAL DE ARTE is an Argentinean group that aims to generate artistic projects in relation to rural environments. The work in each of its formats is based on the construction of interdisciplinary operative platforms (artists, local people, workers from different areas), including local and foreign creators in order to foster open views to a certain socio-Geographic area.  |
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| Archive cos creació pensament L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) On 17/06/2010 Presentation : On 17/06/2010 at 19:00 in L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) L'animal a l'esquena, Elena Oña ( L'animal a l'esquena, Elena Oña ) From the beginning L'animal a l'esquena has conceived the creation of an archive as one of its main axis of development, working since then on the documentation of its activities. The idea of generating a digital archive starts from the need of contextualizing, analyzing and locating the different artistic practices in the framework of the Contemporary Arts related to body, dance and movement. This is the main purpose of implementing 'cos creació pensament' as a digital archive, to allow open access to study, research and transmit such practices. Also, to facilitate the dissemination of the different activities, artists and working processes having taken place at L'animal a l'esquena for ten years, 2001-2010. 'cos creació pensament' is the result of more than two years work based on the classification, digitalization and re-codification of the documentation, done by the researcher and artist Elena Oña.  |
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| A piece...together? L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) From 28/06/2010 to 11/07/2010 Presentation : On 10/07/2010 at 19:00 in L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) Paz Rojo, Lucas Condro, Natalia Tencer, Cristian duarte ( Paz Rojo, Lucas Condro, Natalia Tencer, Cristian Duarte ) This work is based in a complex topic: the collective creative work. Lucas Condro, Natalia Tencer, Cristian Duarte, and Paz Rojo will "join together"to create a performance piece. Their implication will operate as a collaborative experiment conceived as a temporal and immediate production shaped as an encounter instead of a previously agreed "space of consensus". The basis of their work will consist on defining and re-negotiating the status of authority and authorship in terms of a plural, emergent and self-organized phenomena resulting from the negotiation and interaction of differences and circumstances that define, perturb and affect the collaborative-process. As choreographers that make choreography and interact with each other, the project will be closely linked to the choreographic practice and the notion of movement – a notion they formulate with the following question: which is the movement of the "self"within the movement of the "our-selves"? The idea of the being in common is a key topic in the relationship of the choreographic creation proposal – which operates either horizontally and without an apparent authority, or, on the contrary with an excess of authority: how a body, made of bodies, cultivates the desire as a protocol of collective creation? And, as a consequence of that desire(s), how does the body reverse itself in the experience of "being together"or in the experience of the common? How does the scene or the theatre respond to that question? What does it mean "to be together"in a performing context where the spectator and the performer meet in apparently different territories?  |
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| MINIATURES (AMMAR HABLI) L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) From 12/07/2010 to 18/07/2010 Presentation : On 17/07/2010 at 19:00 in L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) Ammar Habli ( Ammar Habli ) Mirror is a project where I show the love for one self by focusing on the soma-esthetics (the body) and the admiration for our sculpture and its evolution towards beauty at its summit. Our external tool to control this evolution is the mirror, through which we daily seek any changes. By constantly repeating this we fall in love of ourselves, and we discover in our own body the first love. At this point we start making plans and projects to improve this morphology by seeking satisfaction. However we never become satisfied, so we try then to change this soma-esthetic by using external elements to see the reactions of other bodies towards our own (love, admiration, jealousy, etc.) This mechanism needs first of all our love as well as the love of others. The tool for transmitting this love to other soma-esthetics is a body exhausting its own bodily means (movement, voice, liquids: tears, saliva and sperm). |
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| Poemas de amor y cuerpo L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) From 19/07/2010 to 25/07/2010 Presentation : On 24/07/2010 at 19:00 in L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) Mònica Muntaner ( Mònica Muntaner ) Starting out from a series of poems I have gathered throughout 2009 the project "Poemas de amor y cuerpo"('Love and Body Poems') tries to build a compilation of images and writings in relationship with a personal memory/story. During the first stage of this work Elena Albert has been collaborating with me. Through her eyes, the external gaze, from behind the camera, we have been working with the purpose of objectifying the emotive self in order to find the anonymity in my body and the possibility or impossibility of it. By making photos and manipulating the image, we constructed a fictitious, ambiguous and open body for appropriation. The body as one more object in a collection of replaceable things. The piece created in 2009 was based on the exhibition of a series of images and writings, and on the inside relations generated by these series. Continuing with the idea of accumulation and fragmentation, during this second stage of the work I will be focusing on the study of a collectable body in order to produce a piece of work in between exhibition and performance.  |
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| Erre que erre L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) From 26/07/2010 to 07/08/2010 Presentation : On 31/07/2010 at 19:00 in L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) Mario Garcia Saez, Víctor Zambrana ( Mario Garcia Saez, Víctor Zambrana ) A meeting between two artists and performers who are interested in the idea of rhythm as a unifying element for their proposal. Rhythm helps the meeting between two ways of viewing life, diverse and related at the same time: one spiritual and one rational. The two concepts are just degrees of the same thing, the two poles of a single being. Opposites are identical in nature but different in term of degree, whose ends are in constant contact. Rhythm is the thread that allows us to move forward and make ourselves visible, giving the feeling that we can control the time and create common universes from two different viewpoints. Music, body and mapping technology form a whole where opposing principles are developed. Among all, the seven hermetic principles which appeared in The Kybalion are the starting points for this show design: mentalism, correspondence, vibration, polarity, rhythm, cause and effect and generation.  |
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| Habitáculo L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) From 09/08/2010 to 14/08/2010 Presentation : On 14/08/2010 at 20:00 in L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) Vicent Gisbert ( Vicent Gisbert, Marc Martínez ) Today, tecnological developments that invades us, provide to the society a wide variety of changes that continuously determine their fate. Among all these changes, it is interesting to observe how it has changed the relationship between man and the physical space and his interaction in society. Internet, for example, has allowed the emergence of new patterns of socialization through the construction of a new non-physical space: the network. There are new links based on a relationship style almost independent of the places, where you lose the value of physical contact as a means to establish and develop our lives in society. 'Habitáculo' ('Dwelling')starts from the consideration offered by this reality. A project to regain the importance of physical space as a meeting place, as a means to interact face to face. An attempt to exploit the fact coincide with other elements in the same place and time, specifying a system of relations. One way to approach a more primitive state of man, in which the physical contact with everything around him, becomes an indispensable tool for his development. The period of residence in L'animal al'esquena will get to develop these objectives using the following instruments: . A physical space, an enclosure intended to be occupied. A "habitáculo". . Some objects to establish and develop relations systems mentioned in the previous section. An "artificial society"consisting of 18 bottles. . An individual with his mind, body and movement. These three elements allow him to search and generate interactions with objects and space. . A book. "Hagakure" de Yamamoto Tsunetomo (1716). about the code of conduct of the ancient warriors in Japan. . An audiovisual language, introduced to experiment and construct other realities.  |
| Creation Residence |
| Cámara oscura (Dark Chamber) L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) From 16/08/2010 to 22/08/2010 Ángeles Ciscar ( Ángeles Ciscar, Hansel Nezza, José María Marín ) "Cámara oscura" is a video-dance interactive installation that is inspired in the optical device of the dark chamber (Cámara oscura), and in concrete the tower Tavira from Cadiz. This project takes impulse in the laboratory Instalaciones Interactivas entorno al cuerpo y al movimiento that took place last October 2009 in l'Animal a l'Esquena. This residence offers the opportunity to put into practice, investigate, rehearse and test all the choreographies that later will be recorded as the video sequences for the installation.CAMARA OSCURA és una instal·lació interactiva de video-dansa que té com a model de presentació pública el dispositiu òptic de càmera fosca i en concret la torre Tavira de Cadis. Aquest projecte pren impuls al laboratori Instal·lacions Interactives entorn del cos i al moviment que va tenir lloc el passat mes d'octubre de 2009 a les instal·lacions de l'Animal a l'Esquena. Aquesta residència ens ofereix l'oportunitat de posar en pràctica, investigar i assajar totes les coreografies necessàries per gravar posteriorment les seqüències del vídeo de la instal·lació definitiva.  |
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| MUTIN L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) From 23/08/2010 to 04/09/2010 Presentation : On 04/09/2010 at 19:00 in L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) Florence Corin ( Florence Corin, Philippe Jelli, Celine Verdan ) After working on the hair as an interface between various tools of creation – dance, video, sound, light – and by weaving a sensitive link between the different media and creating an intimate show, Mutin continues on its pluridisciplinary and interactive exploration. The first steps we have taken will be pursued among the interlacing array of media we have at our disposal. By going even further in the development of interactive features as a subtle link with movement, we are working on expanded, non-digital and sensitive bodies. For this project, we are looking into the illusions of black, its power of absorption and the scenic depth this complex colour conveys and inspires. By exploiting the multiple layers of black, be it chromatic, physical or symbolic, we aim to disturb the viewer's visual acuity, offer illusions and immerse him or her in darkness to spark off an emotion.  |
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| Mal Pelo's Workshop L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) From 06/09/2010 to 10/09/2010 Mal Pelo ( Pep Ramis, María Muñoz ) Mal Pelo suggests working on their method of approaching movement and the idea of the silent pause. Using improvisation that materializes from a series of decisions based upon our experiences, our senses, and our capacity to imagine, provides the journey from silence to movement. details  |
| Creation Residence |
| TODOS LOS NOMBRES L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) From 06/09/2010 to 08/10/2010 Presentation : On 01/10/2010 at 18:00 in L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) María Muñoz ( María Muñoz ) The basic structure of each of our bodies has been built around names. To name, in this sense, is to carve out the desire to decipher what I am, what I belong to and therefore defines me. ALL THE NAMES, a journey of discovery among the names that make up this particular body, that inhabit and project it. In this process María Muñoz will use the information that lies in the body, deposited in each of us over the years through names. Following on from BACH, María Muñoz will continue her solo performance work in 2010 with this new project, Mal Pelo's third solo piece. |
| Lab |
| La esperanza de vida de una liebre L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) From 01/11/2010 to 06/11/2010 Presentation : On 06/11/2010 at 18:00 in L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) María Muñoz, Pep Ramis ( María Muñoz, Pep Ramis ) In previous occasions Mal Pelo has already organized research laboratories focused on future creations (An el silenci, 2003, Testinoni de llops, 2006, Jukebox, 2009, Amadou 2009 and He visto caballos, 2008). These are encounters where a first approach is made to certain starting ideas and ways of focusing the work. We propose the creation laboratory La esperanza de vida de una liebre ("A hare's life expectancy") for 2010. This project is framed in a general idea of transmitting María Muñoz and Pep Ramis' artistic language developed by the company all along its career.  |
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| New technological challenges for image recording, showing and dissemination L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) From 29/11/2010 to 04/12/2010 Presentation : On 04/12/2010 at 18:00 in L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) NU2'S ( NU2'S ) The laboratory organized by NU2'S every year at L'animal a l'esquena is an activity focused on the research, learning and debate on new technologies applied to dance. This annual laboratory usually chooses a topic around which the research elements and debate sessions are focused. In parallel, several artists are invited in order to contribute with new points of view and information around these elements. The aim this year is to center the attention on new image recording technologies (3D, lowcost systems- video and online TV-, new formats for stage image showing, etc.) Last editions have been focused on interactive technology but the idea this year is to return to the essence of movement image and the new challenges raised by professional formats for image creation and by the wide range of dissemination and showing possibilities, both in the stage or exhibition frames and in the film or in the on-line dissemination fields. The technological tools needed will be analyzed and discovered and other questions will be raised related to the creation with the body and movement as subject or around the shift in the ways of looking in cinema or video imposed by the Contemporary Culture. The laboratory starts with an open call for participants which results will be announced in July. NU2's will select around 10 projects among all the applications that will be sharing a week of work in residence at L'animal a l'esquena. Once the group of artist participating in each project is set up, NU2's will contact experts from different fields – film-makers, visual artists, technologists, choreographs, dancers, musicians, that will be invited to participate and help in the development of the projects.  |
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| "2" L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) From 09/12/2010 to 18/12/2010 Presentation : On 18/12/2010 at 18:00 in L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) Eduard Fernández, Pep Ramis ( Eduard Fernández, Pep Ramis ) "2"project is an approach to the idea of duality. "2"turns around the relationship between to men (Eduard Fernández and Pep Ramis) who in fact are the same person split in two. Inseparable, dependent, antagonist, fraternal, equal, absurd, choleric, both spend their time on absurd tasks like linking clouds or taking light beams... to nowhere. This is another initiation journey full of worries like those by Godot or Mercier and Camier (Samuel Beckett). The essential idea of the residence "2"at L'animal a l'esquena is to meet and try language and dramatic, movement and spatial mechanisms. That is, to build the work lines for the creation process of the piece for 2011. During those 9 days of residence, from December 9th to 18th, María Muñoz will be collaborating in the direction, proposing situations and working spaces, a study about some Beckett's writings and an external point of view of the interprets.  |
Activities 2009