Malas Carnes is a solo for the stage which delves into a physical and conceptual drama focussing on the objectification of the female body. The piece explores presence, desire and the fall as the key elements of an investigation that puts the body under constant tension. At the centre there is a body that works in opposition, activated by a fall as its opening gesture and as a mechanism for transformation, alternating between consciousness and unconsiousness.

The project expresses a play on perception through three simultaneous lenses: the body live, tangible and present; its distorted, fragmented projection; and the image through the medium of a screen, blown up despite the distance. These presences live together like ghosts of one body, revealing the layers of opinion, construction and external gaze that pass over it.

Mal Pelo offers a workshop in which to try out the mechanisms of action and what they may unleash. A look at movement and writing with the body in action.

Precision, duration, commitment, intensity, silence, absence, presence, punctuation, habitability, surrender, phrasing, punctuation, linearity, temporality, musicality, rhythm, writing - these are some of the terms that we shall be questioning during this course.

Activate:
Carry out an action.
Carry out movements and gestures to make something understood.
Activate a mechanism.

Mal Pelo workshops are given by the company’s two co-directors, though both may not be present at any given session.

The workshops will be held from 11:30 to 18:30 from Monday to Thursday (with a break for lunch) and from 10:00 a 15:00 on Friday.



Once acceptance has been confirmed, it will be necessary to make a payment of 50% of the enrollment fee (€150) via bank transfer to formalize the registration.

In the afternoon of the autumn equinox I buried a book, a book that had already been buried seven years earlier. I buried it in the ring of holm oaks near the pond, to the right of the creek, up towards the tunnel. That ring is a place that had been calling to me since the beginning of last summer. Soon after I buried the book, some animal tried to dig it up. Several times in a row. It pulled up a few leaves and scattered them at the top of the slope. It was funny to see the fragments of illustrations from the Kama Sutra left there among the bushes. Since then I have been almost every day at dawn to see if that animal, or any others, are still interested in digging up the book.

BARNA ARTS ofrece a los estudiantes la oportunidad de conocer y aprender de artistas locales, colaborar y sumergirse en el rico paisaje cultural de Barcelona - desde la arquitectura de Gaudí y el Festival GREC hasta el teatro contemporáneo, las actuaciones de danza y una infinidad de ofertas artísticas por toda la ciudad. "BARNA ARTS es un espacio para compartir e intercambiar - un lugar donde los artistas se reúnen en igualdad de condiciones para compartir herramientas, conocimientos y fomentar una unión genuina. Somos íntimos y curados: cada interacción es pensada a mano, con un compromiso y retroalimentación uno por uno que honora el viaje individual de cada artista.

BARNA ARTS offers students the opportunity to meet and learn from local artists, work together and immerse themselves in the rich cultural landscape of Barcelona - from the architecture of Gaudi and the Festival GREC to contemporary theatre, dance performances and an infinite array of art all over the city. BARNA ARTS is a space for sharing and communicating - a place where artists meet on equal terms to share tools, knowledge, and foster a genuine bond. We are intimate and curataed: every interraction is considered in person, with committment and individual feedback that honours the individual journey of each artist.

L'ARREPLEGADA is a cross disciplinary, arts and social festival. It was first held in 2022. It is organised by the group Varema, in close collaboration with L’animal a l’esquena, where the event takes place. The festival and the project cover a wide range of artistic disciplines, from performance arts, graphic and plastic, visual and literary arts to music.

The aim is to provide a kaleidoscopic and plural space to share, get to know and nurture the work of young and emerging artists. The event hopes to be a catalyst, as a creative exchange between participants, who come from different branches of the arts. in this way it hopes to encourage the formation of a decentralised and active artistic network.

A residency for communication and reflection by Amaia Gabilondo and Juli Pérez from the team Garaion.
The word “relief” comes from the Latin “relevare": to lift up again, lighten the load, support with many hands what a single one cannot. It originates in a friendly, almost intimate gesture, that of sharing a load so that a journey can continue. As time went by, this act became change, subsitution, movement; bringing in the relief like someone being passed a torch that doesn’t go out. The word relief comes with all its meanings, of relief in a post, relief-work in carving, and lightening of a burden, all of them related to the idea of sustaining, handing on or transforming a shared load.

For the team at the Garaion centre for creation, art and nature (www.garaion.eus), relief appears as a need to stop and contemplate the path they have travelled. After twenty years of activity, supporting processes, mee-tings and creation, they feel a desire to understand what all this experience has meant, what it has brought to the artists, the environment, and to the cultural eco-system around them. This pause is for a moment of care and reflection, a time to ask themselves what deserves to be kept, what told and what can be changed.

This process will take shape through a residency by the members of the Garaion team at L’animal a l’esquena, a legendary and much-loved space. This involves a physical and symbolic move from the Atlantic to the Medi-terranean, uniting two creation spaces in rural settings that are connected by long histories of experience.

It is essential to meet up with other people working in the same field: to pause together, talk, share experiences and take a closer look at what creation spaces are and have been. At this meeting, memories will unfold, intuiti-vely, emotionally and from experience, giving proper value to the margins, the minorities and the intersections to be found in these places. Voices will be collected in recordings, drawings and personal maps that, when gathered together, will make an archive of shared wisdom.

In this way, relief ceases to be seen as substitution and begins to feel like a process of conscious transforma-tion, a way to carry on building on what we have learnt.

Garaion is a creation space in the Basque Country that promotes creative processes, research and experiment by artists and creatives so that they can be shared with the community, so as to socialise creative experience, and to encourage the development of artistic capability in the Basque Country and so enrich the collective Bas-que imagination in the field of artistic creation and cultural production. It is located 15km from Vitoria, in an amazing natural environment.

Socialising creativity, taking responsibility for the improvement of nature, through programmes dedicated to nature, art and participation, revitalising old jobs so as to bring these skills back into the communtiy and legiti-mise them as part of our intangible cultural heritage - these are our foundations. A space for continuous lear-ning, through participatory processes to make new, innovative paths based on sharing traditional wisdom with mistresses and masters of basket weaving, bioconstruction, cookery etc. We are happy that all this is done in Basque.

El propósito de esta nueva residencia es continuar investigando sobre los materiales que despacio van dando forma a la nueva pieza escénica de Vicent, que se estrenará en noviembre del 2026 en Valencia. El proyecto parte de la idea fundamental de hacer frente a la aceleración, creando en escena paréntesis temporales a partir de la elaboración de atmósferas. Cuando estas se materializan, se produce un lugar de salvación donde el tiempo no se mide por horas, minutos y segundos.

Nueva residencia de Mónica Valenciano y su grupo de intérpretes que lo acompañan desde hace años en esta investigación G:I:B. (Grupo de Investigación Bailadero), en el cual exploran y profundizan en diferentes aspectos del lenguaje, como acceso a la voz del cuerpo en su polifonía