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Pere Seda / L’Esbord – Folk as Queer

March 27th, 2025 Festival Especial Dansa, Tarragona
March 30th, 2025 Festival dansa metropolitana, Barcelona
60 minutes

Reinvent with the Past

© L’Esbord

Folk as Queer is a piece that explores the relationship between collective and individual identity and the influence of cultural heritage through traditional practices such as dance, music and singing. The work seeks a meeting point between the traditional and the dissident body, where they exchange languages and create a new dance together. It is a vibrant reflection on how the past can interact with the present to reinvent itself.  

L’Esbord, created in 2022 in Barcelona, works with traditional Catalan dance and connects it with disciplines such as contemporary dance and folk music. Its performers combine training rooted in traditional dance with professional experience in fields such as jazz, singing and contemporary dance, creating artistic works that blend folklore and innovation.

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A R I B E L Collective – A años luz

March 27th – 30th, 2025 Festival dansa metropolitana, Barcelona
45 minutes

Between a Human & a Humanoid Robot

© Josep Maria Augé

A años luz explores the relationship between a human and a humanoid robot, envisioning a world where artificial intelligence seamlessly integrates into our society. The piece, blending contemporary dance and performance art, reflects on the rapid pace of technological advancement and the need to balance its benefits with the preservation of our species, learning to manage our growing dependence.

This is the debut creation of A R I B E L Collective, a contemporary dance company founded by Ariadna Jordán and Abel Hernández in 2023. The founders, responsible for both direction and performance, focus on choreography, improvisation, and the exploration of new movements, aiming to enrich the cultural landscape with innovation and creativity.

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Thomas Hauert – Troglodyte

March 28th – 30th, 2025 Festival dansa metropolitana, Barcelona
November 17th, 2025 TANZINOLTEN, Olten
April 3rd – 4th, 2026 Théâtre de la Cité internationale, Paris
April 14th, 2026 Le 140, Brussels
60 minutes

A Solo for Himself

© Olivier Miche

In his new solo, Thomas Hauert intends to deepen a creative process already present in his last two creations: making psychology, inner life, emotions and the unconscious a driving force behind movement. The starting point for Troglodyte is a kind of complex psychological enigma, expressed in the working title and subtitle of the solo Zaungast/Zaunkönig, focusing on the experience of the position of the outsider, the one who is not part of the group, the one who looks on from the outside. Zaungast is a German word that describes someone who attends an event to which they were not invited, behind the fence (literally: “guest of the fence”). Zaunkönig, literally “king of the fence”, is the German name for the wren, a small songbird. Tiny but kingly at the same time, it is imagined on the fence, ‘staying on the fence’, in the figurative sense of someone who does not take a stand, does not make up their mind and does not commit themselves accordingly.

The word troglodyte originally refers to a living creature that inhabits a cave or dwelling dug into the ground, like the little bird Zaunkönig/troglodyte. The term Troglodyte also sounds like an insult, one associated with the “Cave Man”, the boorish, uneducated, coarse man.

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