In the month of August, we invite you to join the following visits: Take a breather... in full color. On Thursdays from 12:00 to 1:30 p.m. and from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m., we will offer a guided tour of the temporary exhibition.

Now-here man is a solo that is born from the desire to dance based on songs that, for some reason I cannot explain, evoke memories, awaken emotions or stimulate my brain and my body. Songs that make me laugh, cry, think, feel moved... Songs, many of them well-known and that, by themselves already transmit emotion. With now-here man I attempt, during the minutes that each song lasts, to unite and move those who listen to them while they observe my body existing in movement. It occurred to me after listening to the song Nowhere Man by The Beatles. This combination of "now and here" gives me the possibility to dance each day in a different place and also decide which song or songs I will use in each moment and place. This also allows me the flexibility of the duration of the performance.

Likewise, now-here man is a type of performance that I can construct in the place where I perform it, combining elements decided previously, with others that depend on the site chosen to carry out the performance. The performance space determines to a great extent the final composition, making the piece, in this specific case, a site specific.

Two women eat sunflower seeds in a park, or at the door of a house, or in a courtyard. They share a common space, a conversation, the intimacy of silence. Taranto comes from the mining area of Almería. Originally it is a primitive, simple, dry chant, without guitar, that was born from the need to sing freely.

In this piece of scenic research there is a nakedness that accompanies us and with which we experiment. Respecting the structure of the traditional tablao, we investigate how the encounter between dance and chant can give way to the random to transform itself. Without seeking something concrete, irreverent gesturality appears, humor, chance. Dance and chant modify themselves without breaking completely and what happens we integrate, as in life, to keep dancing.

Produces: Consorci de Museus de la Generalitat

Artistic Credits

Concept, scenic and musical direction, costume, set design and performer: Mª del Mar Suárez La Chachi

Chant and performer: Lola Dolores

External eye: Jana Pacheco

Graphic design: Carmen Moreno

Audiovisual: Martín de Arriba and Yolanda Montiel.

Labor managers: Metaescénicas

Distribution assistance: Luisa Hedo

Sample of collective creation from the scenic campus aimed at people between 13 and 26 years old "No more boring artists III: COLEC-002"

"WHAT REMAINS AFTER AN EXPLOSION"

It is silence. It is rage. It is color. It is a new city, from which we want to leave, or awaken.

A production by Ambulantes Lab and Cometas at the MACA.

Free admission until capacity is reached.

Precaria is a performance, a site specific, a danced monologue or a very talkative dance. It stems from a process of empirical research, reflection and collection of experiences around what it means to be an artist

in this country and how through humor the artist has managed to navigate precariousness, appropriate her difficulties and transform them

into creative material.

The work makes visible and brings to the forefront questions about the recognition of the arts, the impossibility of making a living from art and the difficulty in making ends meet.

ARTISTIC CREDITS

Direction and Performance: Irene García

Technical: Sergi Cerdan

Production: Rita Stivala

Dramaturgical Support: Oriol López

Audiovisual: Tristán Pérez

Winner of the Talía Award 2024 for best female performer.

A passage where to embrace mutations and the process of change. An intermediate place in search of a new version of oneself.

This piece is a manifesto about what is built from darkness, from doubt, in the crack that does not show but suggests.

A work that rests in the place of transit.

In search of the beauty that emerges from the acceptance of the imperfect, of asymmetry, of the irregular, and of the noise and traffic that is deposited in a loose, vulnerable and unstructured body.

The artist

Born in Barcelona in 1984. Lorena Noguera trained as a dancer at the Instituto del Teatro in Barcelona, where she graduated in 2005, and in the IT Dansa company, where she worked on the repertoire of internationally renowned choreographers such as Ohad Naharin, Jirí Kilyán, Stijn Celis and Nacho Duato among others.

For more than 10 years she has been an active part of the artistic team of La Veronal, working alongside Marcos Morau as an assistant in choreography and as a dancer, working both in the company's own choreographies and in external creations: The Royal Danish Ballet, Beijing Dance Theater, Göteborgsoperans danskompani, National Dance Company Wales, Compañía Nacional de Danza, Scapino Ballet, Carte Blanche, Norrdans, Skanes Dansteater ...

She has also worked with other renowned companies such as Gelabert-Azzopardi, Lanònima imperial and Plan B Dance Company. Furthermore, as a choreographer she has created her own works with which she has won awards in national choreographic competitions. Among the various recognitions she has received, she was awarded best female performer at the Catalonia Critics Awards 2016.

In 2018, together with several colleagues from her promotion at the Instituto del Teatro, she launched a project called HOTEL scenic collective. It is a new dance company that was born with the aim of building crossings that allow inhabiting the imagination and the world of other artists. To do this, they invite artists from different scenic disciplines to create and direct them. The company made its debut in June 2018 with two short pieces in the Hiroshima Room.

ELELEI was born in 2019 from the collaboration between Sabrina Gargano (Barletta, Italy) and Rafa Jagat (Valencia), united by the idea of bringing together their own paths in dance and theater, to unite them as a disciplinary language.

Motivated by telling stories, by questioning the why of things, and so that they could be understood by the audience, their first work A CIEGAS was born in 2020, winning the first prize at the MAIS IMAGINARIUS festival in Portugal in 2021 and the AUDIENCE AWARD at the 35 International Choreographic Competition Hannover 2021. Currently on tour.

In addition to A CIEGAS, in January 2021 they created the physical theater film MAY YOU LISTEN? belonging to the training of Jasmin Vardimon's young company JV2 in England and premiered in May 2021. In May 2022 they premiered MARATHON at Sadlers Wells, London, as a collaboration again with Jasmin Vardimon's JV2 company.

SOY MADERA was premiered on May 26, 2022 at the MAIS IMAGINARIUS festival in Santa María da Feira, Portugal.

SABRINA GARGANO

Independent dance artist. After completing the Jasmin Vardimon JV2 Professional Development Course in 2014, Sabrina performed in the United Kingdom and abroad. She collaborated with PanicLab Dance Theatre (United Kingdom), Gregory Maqoma for Companhia Instàvel (Portugal), Tom Dale (United Kingdom) Company Idem (Switzerland), Ciemulator Dance Theatre (Switzerland), Beatrice Allegranti Dance Theatre (United Kingdom), Fuora Dance Project (United Kingdom), Victoria Fox for // Tribe (United Kingdom), Mafalda Deville for Companhia Instavel (Portugal), Becky Namgauds and Jasmin Vardimon (United Kingdom), performing the lead

role of Pinocchio.

She also collaborates with Verena Schneider, her duo was performed in Italy, London and Northern Ireland. Choreography for the youth company at The Point, Pera University, Lincoln University. She teaches in the United Kingdom and Europe. She is also a teacher with the Jasmin Vardimon company and leader of the JV2 program for 2019-20 and 2020-21. She directs and choreographs MAY YOU LISTEN? for Jasmin Vardimon's JV2 company in 2021. She is part of the cast of Jasmin Vardimon's creation ALICE premiered in August 2022.

RAFA JAGAT

Actor, dancer, director and playwright. He trained for five years in dramatic arts and two more years in physical theater. He combines all this learning time with classes in different disciplines within the language of

movement. He created his own company Jagat Mata, with 6 physical theater productions since 2008. In addition to all his creations, he danced for Mey Lin Bisogno's company for 4 years, for the Omos Uno dance company for another 4 years and created a street duo with Candelaria Antelo.

He also works with David Zambrano for a month on the improvisation project "Two songs for two humans". He is a co-founder of EXIN, which organizes movement-related workshops throughout Europe. He teaches classes for dancers and actors in Spain and Europe. Since 2020 he has collaborated as a director and playwright with circus companies in Barcelona such as (Som Noise, Encuentros and Papaya).

The work of distortion as a mode of tuning form is now the starting point for choreographer and dancer Juan Carlos Lérida for this site-specific improvisation. Lérida enters the Museum space to inhabit it and encounter those forms that, through light and the people who traverse it, modify perception and emotion.

Juan Carlos Lérida is a dancer, choreographer and flamenco pedagogue, Extraordinary Prize winner 2007 from the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona. Since 2002 he has been a professor of Flamenco, Contemporary Dance and Composition at the Institut del Teatre. He has directed shows for Belén Maya, Marco Flores among others.

He has also created different solo pieces such as "The Art of War" or the trilogy on the bodies of flamenco. He curated the Empirical Flamenco cycle at Mercat de les Flors and is currently curator of the flamenco festival Tanzhaus (Dusseldorf). He is recognized as one of the current representatives of avant-garde flamenco. His latest creation: The Liturgy of the Hours (Mercat de les Flors, 2021) has been awarded best show and best dancer at the critics' awards (recomana.cat) in 2022. He has just published the book "The Empirical Flamenco Method".

Artistic credits:

Performance and direction: Juan Carlos Lérida

The April in Dance Festival returns with the "MACA EN VIVO" program that celebrates its third edition. Expanded programming carried out from the direction of April in Dance in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art of Alicante (MACA) and the Museum Consortium. An extensive proposal of various interventions related to dance, performance and live arts that begins on April 26 with Sharon Fridman, Max Award 2019 winner, which is included within the Festival's programming and we will continue until October with the premiere of Elias Aguirre (May), Juan Carlos Lérida (June), Daniel Abreu (September) and the Elelei Company (October).

From the Height of Tall Buildings

Choreographic Poem (Contemporary Dance) inspired by the homonymous poems about the 2 great universal, timeless and intergenerational enigmas, love and death, written by Billy Cowie himself and virtuously performed by Luciana Croatto in a universe of movements, choreographic structures and rhythms foreign to the times of current hypercapitalism. The music has been created especially for the work.

From the Height of Tall Buildings is a thirty-minute solo dance around the two great themes, Love and Death. As for the question of love, we have a timeless setting, the enigma of love, why do we fall in and out of love?, what happens with unrequited love?... With respect to death, we face the enigma of what happens afterwards (if anything happens) and how we give meaning to life while we continuously face this inevitability. In From the Height of Tall Buildings, the questions about these themes are articulated through various poetic texts, music and dance.

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Choreography: Billy Cowie.

Dancer / Performer: Luciana Croatto.

Musical Composition: Billy Cowie.

Voice-over: Clara García Fraile.

Texts: Billy Cowie.

Lighting: Rodrigo Ortega Portillo.

Production Director: Samuel Retortillo.

Production Company: Madrugada producciones.

Co-production: Choreographic Center of La Rioja.

Research Support: International Film, Dance and New Media Festival, FIVER.

Creation Support: Government of La Rioja