Is dance counterculture?
‘Counterculture’ is a concept which I would like to revisit from today's perspective. This project aims to be a confrontation and to arouse an uncomfortable, contradictory attitude. It seeks to contribute to pulling back the veil of an obsolete, aggressive system (the cultural system, too). It aims to share the reality of a profession that is subjugated to dynamics and policies whose particularities are not known, to a worrisome professional invisibility and to harsh physical, psychological and emotional consequences. And it is essentially an attempt to repair which harnesses all the creative tools afforded by movement and dance to help heal the memory of performing bodies and their effort to achieve excellence—both invented and learned—in their human and poetically imperfect corporeality.
Miquel Barcelona Palau
El Born CCM: Free access
From 1 to 30 July 2023
From Tuesday to Sunday, from 10.00 a.m. to 8.00 p.m
Live installations
Calendar of performances
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays
from 18h to 19h30
4.07 ― Merce Matus,Charisma
6.07 ― June Sun,The hug
8.07 ― Clémentine Télesfort,
Ways to touch a body
11.07 ― Natalia Fernandes,
Anatomy and Strategy
13.07 ― Laura Alcalà ,La Tullida
15.07 ― Helena Gispert,Turn off the fire
18.07 ― Toni Gutiérrez,PRE
20.07 ― Sandra Pujol,to admire
22.07 ― Martà Güell,The last dancer
25.07 ― Nora Baylach,the doubt
27.07 ― Núria Hontecillas,Uprooted
29.07 ― Fátima Campos,Petricor
Fact sheet
Direction and artistic coordination:
Miquel Barcelona Palau
Installation space, sculptures and graphic design:
Àurea Estellé Alsina
Sound space and cartographies:
Carlos Martorell
Space and light sculpture: Jou Serra
Technical coordination: Jou Serra
Company manager Biel Martínez Lorca
Administration and production: Francisca Araújo
Recording: Ignasi Castañé
Group accompaniment: Bea Vergés
Testimonials:
Laura Alcalà, Nora Baylach, Fàtima Campos, Toni Gutiérrez, Natalia Fernandes, Helena Gispert, Martí Güell, Núria Hontecillas, Merce Matus, Sandra Pujol, Junyi Sun i Clémentine Télesfort.
A co-production of the Born Centre for Culture and Memory and the Companyia Miquel Barcelona.
With the support of the aPdC and La Turbo Casa Dinàmica
This exhibition is the first piece in the Counterculture Project.
Forthcoming pieces: Utopia (the Scenes series premieres at the Auditori on 11 and 12 February 2024) and Ecosystem (opening at the Museu de la Vida Rural in L’Espluga de Francolí in March 2024).