Annual 
2025
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A CORRUPTED EMPIRE

L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà)
From 02/01/2025 to 17/01/2025

Martí Ramis, Ari Bonacina
( Martí Ramis, Ari Bonacina )

Martí Ramis and Ariadna Bonacina retourn to their project after the avant premiere at FIET (the Children's and Youth Theatre Festival of Mallorca) before the final premiere in 2025.



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De voz, un cuerpo/Voice, Body

L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà)
From 07/01/2025 to 12/01/2025

Leonor Leal
( Leonor Leal )

De voz, un cuerpo is a performance project with four musicians and a dancer. Together they will compose a sound track based on research begun by Leonor Leal at the end of 2022. This sound track will be the fruit of a free interpretation of the testimonies of women (former flamenco dancers) who described to Leonor their inner images as they danced.

There are few texts written by flamenco dancers, rather than essays on dance or biographies. There are few bodies that have published their internal images, based on their personal observations that have helped them to dance better. Practice is full of tangible material for our bodies, words that resonate one day in our learning process and change our vision, lines of light, lines on the floor, in sound, on our skins, ideas, sensations, temporary parameters, silences, gestures, prayers, invocations of other bodies, melodies, remedies and even entire conversations in the solitude of our bodies on this art that has always seemed from the outside to be mute.



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TRANSHUMANCE

L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà)
From 15/01/2025 to 19/01/2025
Presentation :
On 19/01/2025 at 13:00 in Teatre Ateneu (Celrà)

Kif, Kif
( Kif, Kif )

Colaboración con el Teatre Ateneu de Celrà. Segunda residencia de esta compañía de danza y circo francesa antes del estreno final de la obra.

Transhumance son funerales en fanfarria, fantasías y fantasmas. Una tribu familiar reunida para el último vuelo del padre. Pero cuando la muerte no se da cuenta que «cuando hay que ir, hay que ir», el salto hacia el desconocido se transforma en un vivac absurdo. Los niños baten alas para empujar al padre. Los pasos pisados y la danza se encienden, los llevados acrobáticos encuentran sus apoyos y los huevos hacen malabares hacia la eclosión final.
Una flagelación de pájaros divertidos en un tiempo de intercambio en suspensión



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WE. Us and Our Times

L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà)
From 20/01/2025 to 21/04/2025
Presentation :
On 24/04/2025 at 20:30 in Mercat de les Flors (Barcelona)

Mal Pelo
( Mal Pelo )

After the labs in 2024 carried out in L’animal a l’esquena, Mal Pelo now begins the creation process of his new performance.

With a thirty-five-year career behind them that has established them as one of the leading dance companies in our country, Pep Ramis and María Muñoz are planning a new piece with an inter-generational group. Bringing together the experience of some of the regular performers and collaborators of the company with the youth, strength and passion of new performers, will put the emphasis in this project on the transmission of language in a heterogeneous group in which age, experience and artistic gaze are multiple and varied.

The project focuses on the question:
What do we leave in the palm of our hand to give to new generations?
WE, us, a community that defines us as individuals? A sense of belonging, where?
Across time and generations, we continue to ask ourselves about our identity, our place, our future. Ours?
We shall seek the answers in research into movement, dance and texts, generated by different bodies, with different ages and visions of life.
Inspired by the ambivalence of the individual and community, and based on the John Berger poem Separation, we shall delve into the journey, emigration, the loss of place as a reference, concentrating on developing the basic principle of movement: walking.



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KIN

L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà)
From 24/02/2025 to 07/03/2025

Baal Dansa
( Baal Dansa )

A science fiction story, a speculative, futuristic fable that pulls on the threads of the stories and theories of Donna Haraway and Vinciane Despret (philosophers, theorists, writers and eco-feminisits).
In this project we want to explore possible, crazy futures in response to the challenges we face in human relations, technology and on the planet Earth.

The fable is set in a world on the threshold of apocalypse, where resources are running out, global warming is a realiaty and nature responds with force to the challenges it faces.
Despite this situation we seek, as Haraway says, how to “stay with the trouble” through the multi-species, in which the human being, thanks to genetic modification, will trans-mutate with a species of the planet so as to feel more deeply our connection with the non-human, and so cease to be the main protagonist and destructor of the Earth.

This symbiosis will also be the main theme of our research, in which interaction between the visible and invisible will be essential in the relationship body - sound - space - object - technology.



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De voz, un cuerpo/Voice, Body

Teatre Ateneu (Celrà)
From 28/02/2025 to 04/03/2025

Leonor Leal
( Leonor Leal )

De voz, un cuerpo is a performance project with four musicians and a dancer. Together they will com-pose a sound track based on research begun by Leonor Leal at the end of 2022. This sound track will be the fruit of a free interpretation of the testimonies of women (former flamenco dancers) who described to Leonor their inner images as they danced.



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Lluny dels arbres

L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà)
From 22/04/2025 to 02/05/2025

Meritxell Colell, Angélica Castelló
( Meritxell Colell, Angélica Castelló )

Continuación del trabajo realizado en sus anteriores residencias al animal.
Después de la primera residencia al 2021 al animal y las residencias posteriores, devuelven para poder continuar trabajando en el trabajo sonoro y en el guion del film.
”El cuerpo humano no es un objeto cerrado y estático sino una entidad inacabada, interconectada con los suelos, las aguas y los vientos que lo atraviesan: una criatura salvaje cuya vida depende de la multiplicidad de vidas que la rodean y las mareas cambiantes que la recorren".
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Podemos percibir el mundo a muestro alrededor solo porque somos una parte de ese mundo, porque -en virtud de nuestro dinamismo y densidad carnal- estamos inmersos por completo en las profundidades de la sensorialidad terrestre.”
Devenir animal, David Abram