Sol Picó proposes an intimate talk to us, as if she were speaking to us from the sofa of her home, about her 20 years of professional career: fears, doubts, unconfessable failures, unrealized dreams...the procession goes on inside...
She will reveal to us how and when inspiration arrives and what happens if it doesn't.
She refreshes our memory through suggestive images of her beginnings and explains to us what a life dedicated to dance in body and soul represents for her: being a woman, mother and artist, an explosive cocktail difficult to avoid exploding in your hands.
Sacrifice and fun accompanied by an exceptional team for 20 years, which has led her to travel to more than 30 countries and to experience how her Mediterranean dance is received in Beijing, Kinshasa or Paris.
She will speak and will ask us questions because she is very interested in what we think, the spectators of this world...are you ready?
Sol Picó is a Spanish dancer and choreographer. Born in Alcoy, she has studied Spanish, classical and contemporary dance and in her productions she combines different techniques and languages in a groundbreaking way. In 1993 she creates the Sol Picó Company with which she has become one of the most unorthodox choreographers and dancers on the Spanish contemporary scene. She has been awarded numerous prizes. In her track record she has more than 10 Max awards, the National Dance Prize of Catalonia (2004), the Barcelona City Dance Prize (2015), the National Dance Prize 2016 and the Cross of Sant Jordi.
Tenacious and daring, Sol Picó develops a 100x100 personal movement based on precision, speed, vitality and power. Her shows –mature, imaginative and always controversial– move the audience and do not leave them indifferent. The quality of her proposals and the humor and dialogue with the spectators are the essence of the work of this challenging and enterprising choreographer. Throughout her career she has premiered more than 30 shows, where theater in small venues is combined with large street productions that she has presented throughout the world, visiting more than 40 countries. Some of her most emblematic pieces are Bésame el Cactus, Paella Mixta, Amor Diesel, El lago de las moscas, Sirena en la Plancha, One-hit wonders, Dancing with frogs, We Women or Malditas Plumas. The creative facet is also nurtured by the pedagogical one, teaching workshops in places such as Carlos III University, the National Dance Academy of Rome or superior Dance conservatories.
The April in Dance Festival has had the "MACA EN VIVO" program since 2023. Expanded programming carried out from the direction of April in Dance in collaboration with MACA and the Museum Consortium.
