parrà
parrà is the old Catalan conjugation of the verbal form "will appear". parrà expresses duality in tradition: root and structure. A dialogue between voice and movement, ruralism and contemporaneity, form and change. Through the review of musical pieces such as “El cant de la Sibil·la” (Mallorca) or dances such as “Stella Splendens” ( The Red Book of Montserrat) we find -at the origin of these pagan practices- opportunities of expression that challenge us for its beauty. The study of the essence that we perceive in these materials and our free interpretation and resignification, are the content of parrà .
We revisit tradition as a political claim seeking to approach the root with respect to shake the moral, aesthetic, ecological, and identity consciousness.
Creation and interpretation: Miquel Barcelona and Marc Vilajuana
Production: Cia. Miquel Barcelona
Musicians: Carlos Martorell and Oriol Mula
Wardrobe: Miquel Barcelona and Marc Vilajuana
Photography: Nora Baylach
Video: Ignasi Castañé
Graphic design: Áurea Estellé Alsina
Acknowledgments:
Vortex Association, La Caldera, l'Espona, Mar Bravo, Paloma Gutiérrez, Les Impuxibles, Javier Bustamante, Monastery of San Jerónimo de la Murtra and Toni Gutiérrez.
parrà has already been performed in:
Dance now La Pedrera , Seismograph 2020 , Greek Festival 2020, Barcelona Cultural District 2020 (CC Can Clariana, CC La Taixonera, CC Lluïsos Horta, CC Can Deu and CC Tomasa Cuevas), Cicle Íntims (Església de St Pere de Ripoll), CC La Sedeta, Festival Àtica (Vilafranca del Penedès), CC Sant Martí, among others.
check the agenda for upcoming dates of parrà