From 31 October to 11 November
SÂLMON<
EUROPEAN TALENTS UPSTREAM
European independent artists’ festival organised under the umbrella of 18 dance houses
SÂLMON< offers a two-week programme which presents artists who have participated in the
modul-dance project led by the Mercat de les Flors, artists who have completed the various
modules in the project, such as research, residencies and production in different member
states. Graner helps to coordinate modul-dance by offering artistic residencies and “cartes
blanches”; these are small-scale work opportunities on an international level offered to
Catalan and Spanish artists so that they can establish links with other creative spaces and
create artistic synergies.
Those artists who have completed a residency at Graner and have been selected by the festival
curators also take part in SÂLMON<.
SÂLMON< is conceived as an event for presentations, meetings and discovery to be shared by
the audience, artists and anyone interested in seeing different approaches to movement and
dance, a new event in the city, a stable annual festival that allows the audience to view and
accompany the artists’ work within a participatory European framework.
Price 6 €
Day pass 10 €
Pack CREA 6 €
31 October and 1 November
19h Double Programme, modul-dance Carte Blanche Evenings: MIZAR MARTÍNEZ +
SÒNIA SÁNCHEZ /// 20:30h LOST DOG
MIZAR MARTÍNEZ
HALF PAST FOUR UNDER THE CHANDELIER
A rhizome is an underground stem that looks like a root. A rhizome is an “image of thought”, a
descriptive model of reality. A rhizome is a body without organs, without hierarchies. This
project aims to transfer the concept of the rhizome to the dancer’s body and the relationship
established between this and the surroundings. The idea is to give the spectators the
impression of looking through the eyehole in a kaleidoscope, but a kaleidoscope made up of
people, lives and human relationships.
Thanks to a carte blanche provided by the modul-dance project, Mizar has carried out research
at the CDC in Toulousse.
SÒNIA SÁNCHEZ
EL PLEC
The Plec (The Fold) is one of the compositions that emerged from a series of laboratories called
L’immediatament al costat (The immediate alongside), where Sònia Sánchez has carried out
research since September 2011.
In this work, Sònia focuses on the internal and external memory of each fold and unfolding,
which emerges from sounds and silences, melodies and dissonances, passions and
understandings, attitudes and gestures, using each experience like an internal movement of
the earth to create the relief and the textures of the dramaturgy.
Thanks to a carte blanche provided by the modul-dance project, Sònia Sánchez has carried out
research at the National Dance Centre (CND) in Paris.
LOST DOG
IT NEEDS HORSES / HOME FOR BROKEN TURNS
The duet It Needs Horses by Lost Dog, winner of The Place Prize, arrives at the Mercat together
with the company’s latest work, Home for Broken Turns: a very physical theatre-dance piece
full of black humour, performed by a international cast of artists from renowned European
dance and physical theatre companies such as the Hofesh Shechter Company, Fabulous Beast
and Gecko.
It Needs Horses tells the story of an unexceptional circus duo and their increasingly desperate
attempts to entertain the audience. The glamour has gone, the performers have forgotten the
numbers, but the show must go on. Home for Broken Turns follows the protagonists of this
disastrous double number after they leave the circus tent for the last time. The piece, inspired
by Pirandello’s work Six Characters in Search of an Author, looks at how fictional characters
continue to exist even when the work that gave them life has finished.
3 and 4 November
19h JAKOB AMPE, PIETER AMPE I CAMPO /// 20:30h CIA. DANIEL ABREU
JAKOB AMPE, PIETER AMPE I CAMPO
JAKE & PETE’S BIG RECONCILIATION ATTEMPT FOR THE DISPUTES FROM THE PAST
The brothers Jakob and Pieter Ampe used precisely the fact of being brothers as a starting
point – both born in Burundi and both with plenty of good and bad memories of their youth –
to create Jake & Pete's Big Reconciliation Attempt for the Disputes from the Past.
In this production, the brothers examine each other from very close-up, like in a mirror. This is
a mutual study that includes both extreme moments and subtleties, in which the dancer finds
his voice and the singer discovers his body. Apart from this, there is another thing that unites
these brothers: their fondness for plain humour.
CIA. DANIEL ABREU
HEAD
The work presented by the choreographer and dancer Daniel Abreu draws on the concept of
the drop as both a starting point and source of identity, as a presence and shape for things.
Amplifying the number of gestures, Abreu thus reveals the creation of a choreographic space.
He explores the rhythm of movements and establishes the need to explain himself onstage.
Daniel Abreu performs this work as a solo.
After having danced with several companies, the Canarian choreographer formed his own in
2004 and has since produced more than thirty works, which have been performed in over
seventeen countries.
8 and 9 November
19h Double Programme, Resident Artists at Graner: UMMA UMMA DANCE &
MANUEL RODRÍGUEZ + EULÀLIA AYGUADÉ /// 20:30h HELENA FRANZÉN
UMMA UMMA DANCE & MANUEL RODRÍGUEZ
LOSER KINGS
Loser Kings is the latest creation by the company Umma Umma Dance, a piece that emerged from
collaboration with Manuel Rodríguez and was supported by two grants, from the 2012 Festival Escena
Poblenou and the 2012 Per Amor a L’Hart festival respectively, and won the first prize at Certamen
Coreográfico Burgos – New York. Loser Kings investigates the location of the genuine, primitive essence
of man, viewing the inside of the body as an allegorical prison for the individual.
Umma Umma Dance is a young company directed by Guido Sarli.
EULÀLIA AYGUADÉ
LITTLE ME
The awareness of death and loss makes us act differently: this is the premise that the Catalan
choreographer Eulàlia Ayguadé, together with Young Jin Kim, uses to construct a piece performed by
themselves and one other dancer, Joan Català. Emotions such as fear, longing, superstition and
loneliness are part of Little me. The piece evinces the implicit speed of our society and the need to stop
and reflect without a time limit, adopting change and evolution as the inevitable path that human
beings cannot escape from.
Eulàlia Ayguadé is one of the most prominent Catalan dancers on the international contemporary dance
scene. In 2010 she was nominated outstanding dancer at the London Critics’ Awards.
HELENA FRANZÉN
SLIPPING THROUGH MY FINGERS
The Swedish choreographer Helena Franzén bases her work on movement, especially on the details of
movement, together with the intelligence and poetry of the body. In her new creation, Slipping Through
My Fingers, Franzén is inspired by Gus Van Sant’s movie Gerry, which describes how two friends fight for
survival in circumstances full of physical challenges.
The matter of a specific situation that takes an unexpected turn is recurrent in the work of Helena
Franzén, who constantly tests the movements and opens them up to new perspectives. Furthermore,
the dancers have to deal with constraints and rules in her choreographies. Slipping Through My Fingers
is a piece for five dancers on a minimum-sized stage. Franzén counted on composer Jukka Rintamäki for
this work and they both invited the musician Johan Skugge to participate in the composition alongside
Rintamäki, and also to play live onstage.
In 2011 she won the dance prize of the Swedish Theatre Critics Association for her work.
10 and 11 November
19h PATRICIA CABALLERO /// 20:30h TÂNIA CARVALHO
PATRICIA CABALLERO
LO RARO ES QUE ESTEMOS VIVOS
This work will be a turning point in the path that Patricia Caballero took in 2010 with the
project Aquí gloria y después paz. This second phase or chapter emerges from an exploration
of the intrahistory of certain specific processes of the enculturation of art. Her work draws on
her appreciation of the practices and records – which still survive today – of some of the oldest
philosophical, religious, popular and artistic traditions.
Patricia Caballero, from Cádiz, is interested in perceptual and relational processes, as well as
practices and studies of the body and mind. She generally uses the stage as an excuse and
context for investigation, understanding and dissemination.
TÂNIA CARVALHO
ICOSAHEDRON
Icosahedron is a piece created by Tânia Carvalho for twenty dancers distributed in four groups;
each of them represents a single body – although it may have the appearance of being
fragmented – which can be observed frontally and also from other angles. The five dancers in
each group represent a unique body structure. They are synchronized throughout the entire
piece, either by making exactly the same movements or by adjusting the movements between
themselves. The viewers have the impression they are contemplating the same body from
different perspectives at the same time, as if they were looking at a cubist painting and saw
the same face from the side and front.
CONCURRENT ACTIVITIES
2 November at El GRANER dance factory (C/Jane Addams 14-16)
20h Presentation of work in progress within the framework of the European project modul-dance
LA ZAMPA
MAGALI MILIAN & ROMUALD LUYDLIN
SPEKIES
A reflection on the future, which, with its silent presence, marks the direction we have to take.
Spekies (from the Latin, ‘aspect’, ‘vision’, ‘appearance’) is an approach to form and
premonition in the company of guitarist Marc Sens and crime novelist Caryl Ferey.
The company, formed in 2000 by Magali Milian & Romuald Luydlin, has created numerous
shows since then. Their work revolves around the disappearance of the body.
Free admission. Prior enrolment is necessary at info@granerbcn.cat
8 and 9 November at Mercat de les Flors
15.30h - 18.30h Practical meeting
TOOLS FOR INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY IN A EUROPEAN FRAMEWORK
A two-day meeting aimed at artists, managers and professionals from the ambits of dance and the
performing arts, which addresses the concept of artistic mobility in theory and in practice.
We have invited Agnès Henry, director of artistic cooperation and projects for the organization
Extrapole www.extrapole.eu to help us to open a meeting where we’ll talk about artistic project,
product, cooperation, translational thinking…
The second day of the meeting will count on the presence of international artists selected for the third
year of the project modul-dance. We aim to create a space for dialogue and exchange between local and
international artists where they can share experiences, opinions and ideas about artistic mobility.
Free admission. Prior enrolment is necessary at info@granerbcn.cat