On the weekend of SEPTEMBER 17 and 18, the second edition of the Moujuïc Festival will take place, with a quality program that provides a panoramic view of the language of movement in a unique setting such as Montjuïc Castle. Through two sessions, one on Saturday and one on Sunday, the Castle hosts three pieces every day from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. and offers the opportunity to see them outside conventional spaces.
The shows have been chosen in dialogue between Montjuïc Castle itself and the Graner Creation Factory, with the intention of bringing dance and the languages of the body closer to everyone and showing their artistic diversity and styles. The festival wants to bring this discipline to those audiences that have not yet accessed it through a mediation team that will be available throughout the festival and that will accompany each of the proposals so that everyone can enjoy them.
All the shows are adapted to the surroundings of the Castle, in a dialogue between DANCE, ARCHITECTURE AND HERITAGE, and are guaranteed by their participation in different festivals in the Catalan territory.
Tickets are priced at €6 for one day with consumption included, with a two-day pass at a price of €9 with consumption.
PROGRAMSaturday 17 September from 5pm to 9pm
- 17:30-19:30 Byström Källblad- City Horses (Itinerant): City Horses is an urban choreography with a dozen dancers that reflects on the power and images of the female body in public space. A gallop through the cities, a living monument celebrating female courage and power. Playing with horses as a symbol of power, the dancers interact with architecture and statuary, reclaiming public space and writing the female version of history. City Horses is a dance piece that incorporates professional dancers from the cities where it is represented and offers these dancers the opportunity to perform in other cities.
- 18:00-18:20 Javier Guerrero – AM27 (Terrassa) AM27 is a choreographic piece that moves between the concepts of utopia and dystopia. An exploration of the great utopian projects of the 20th century that is set in an indeterminate space, built on the ruins of an extinct and disappeared process. What survives in places that have been abandoned and left empty of life? How does nature reclaim these abandoned places?
- 19:15h - 20h Marina Pravkina – The Grooves Experience (Pati d'armes) The Grooves Experience is the result of an investigation into the essence of clubbing. A piece inspired by the daily movements of bodies found in a club, such as DJs, dancers, and also the crowd, converted into a stage duet format, through scores of grooves (rhythms). Marina Pravkina looks for the nature of the groove in the pulsation that has remained latent in our society after the closing of the great musical temples in the past 2020. Spaces that until then had served to escape, reflect, and transcend the individual to reach the collective school In The Grooves Experience, we find two bodies on stage experiencing different types of clubbing body states, transforming movement and its physicality in relation to electronic music patterns, and turning the stage into a dance floor where the audience is invited to share a status and a common pulse.
Sunday 18 September from 5pm to 9pm
- 5:20 p.m.-5:50 p.m. and 6:40 p.m.-7:10 p.m. Camaralucida - Estadio (choreographic installation in Casernes)
Estadio is an interactive practice, a choreographic installation that is part of a research carried out in 2021 in the old barracks space, during a period of artistic residency at Montjuïc Castle by Camaralucida. The spectators will participate actively, through the traffic through the space, in the development of the piece. An experimentation on how bodies cross an imaginary landscape and recreate it through movement, making the scenic space a threshold where to be and pass through. This choreographic construction makes it possible to blur the spatial division that separates the performers from the spectators, and opens up other possibilities of affect between the people who cohabit this same place.
- 18:00h-18:30h Métrica barbara – De una en una {versos sobre un tejado errante} (Drums) Inspired by manual work, De una en una combines characteristics of visual theater, dance, and the theater of objects. From the manipulation of forty-seven roof tiles, three performers draw visual and sound landscapes that respond to a joint construction agreement. In the raw silence of a rural imaginary, between roughness, fragility and weight, an encounter between matter and skin emerges. A commitment to the poetics of silence and changing landscapes.
- 19:15-19:30 Silvia Batet – Oblivion (Pati d'armes) Oblivion, which in English means oblivion, amnesty or forgiveness, is a place of transformation located between grief and emptiness, between memory and nothingness. Oblivion could be an image of classical purgatory, as described by Dante in The Divine Comedy. A place of transition conditioned by the idea of the circle, by the eternal wandering of bodies, as if the act of wandering ultimately meant a kind of letting go, a renunciation of everything that binds us to suffering: memories, desires, identity Vagar, vacare in Latin, means to wander, to float, to wander, but also to be empty. Oblivion is an increasingly easy path to travel, a dance of increasing entropy. Look carefully, the afterlife and oblivion could be the same thing.
- 20:00-20:30 laSADCUM – Aclucalls (Terrassa) A site-specific adaptation of the piece Aclucalls, a dance piece that makes a grotesque portrait of society and the post-internet generation based on workouts, computer programming and the screen, to expose generational traumas and frustrations. In this version of the Castle of Montjuïc, we will learn more about the stories of these saturated characters who give shape to virtuality and sad cums.
MORE INFORMATION- More information on the program and the festival (link to full dossier)
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