| 2022 |
 The Improper PointL'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) From 18/04/2022 to 23/04/2022 Presentation : On 23/04/2022 at 19:00 in L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) Javier Martín By tuning into certain textures of movement we can take apart the patterns of tension that form the fulcrum around which bodies flow. Investigating the textures - and recording the sounds - of the interior of a body in motion in a technological space, a semi-anechoic chamber: frictions, steps, spasms, clicks, tinnitus, blows, air currents and so many other phenomena emitted by the body in motion. Through the formal process of recording in the chamber, we create a soundscape. A study of the relationships between textures of vibration and their anatomical correlations as a procedure to construct the choreography and state of the body. An exercise in kinesthetic attunement. We have to think of our flesh.  |
| 2019 |
| Tuning Scores L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) From 28/10/2019 to 02/11/2019 Presentation : On 02/11/2019 at 19:00 in L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) Lisa Nelson We have planned our first international outreach project as part of our collaboration with La Caldera Les Corts, enabling figures from the world of contemporary dance to visit Catalonia and putting on a programme of events so as to bring these international names together with Catalan creators whether in the context of training, exhibitions, master classes, communication or laboratories. It is within this framework that from 28th October to 15th November this coming autumn, L’animal and La Caldera are inviting the distinguished US movement researcher and creator Lisa Nelson to be their guest. Since both organisations were interested in the legendary US choreographer Lisa Nelson, they held discussions with a view to inviting her to spend a week at L’animal a l’esquena with creators connected to this arts centre in Celrà and regular members of the company Mal Pelo. Later some of these artists and other international guests invited by Lisa held a week-long creation laboratory at La Caldera, the results of which will be presented as part of the Corpografías programme. To complete this immersion in her world, Lisa will share her working methodology Tuning Scores as part of the Sporá Prógram season.  |
| 2016 |
| Procesos de trabajo con el Teatro de objetos documental L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) On 26/10/2016 Presentation : On 26/10/2016 at 19:00 in L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) Xavier Bobés, Shaday Larios, Jomi Oligor, EL SOLAR In this conversation El SOLAR will share some of their views and working processes. These combine various focusses of creative attention: material culture, collective memory, documentary, the theatre of objects, etc. They research the idea of “documentary Theatre of Objects” in specific contexts. They will talk about how they question ways of relating to communities and the objects that carry their real and symbolic stories, and what this means when it comes to turning their ideas into performances. They will also tell us about the evolving methods they have used to approach people’s private material lives and how, from close up, it is possible to decipher minute details of fact and feeling about a trade, a neighbourhood or a city.  |
| 2012 |
| APPROACHING "GO" L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) From 17/12/2012 to 22/12/2012 Presentation : On 21/12/2012 at 20:00 in L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) Lisa Nelson, Scott Smith, María Muñoz, Pep Ramis, Pascale Gilles, Baptiste Andrien, Franck Beaubois, Nuno Rebelo Investigating ways to induce a dancing state from any starting place using communication tools of Tuning Scores, an improvisational approach to ensemble collaboration initiated by Lisa Nelson. With multidisciplinarian performers including Nelson, Scott Smith, Maria Munoz, Pep Ramis, Pascale Gilles, Baptiste Andrien, Franck Beaubois, and Nuno Rebelo.  |
| 2008 |
| Night Stand L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) From 08/11/2008 to 16/11/2008 Presentation : On 15/11/2008 at 22:00 in L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) On 16/11/2008 at 19:00 in L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) Lisa Nelson, Steve Paxton A dance by improvisational artists/performers: Lisa Nelson and Steve Paxton. Nelson and Paxton's performing partnership dates back to 1975. Paxton's approach to physical improvisation is sourced in his ongoing investigation of the technique underlying Contact Improvisation, which he initiated in 1972. Nelson calls her approach to dancing Tuning Scores which she developed through examining the relationship of the sense of vision to the performance of movement. Their collaboration is choreographic, improvisational, and theatrical. Night Stand premiered in 2004 in Montpellier, France.  |
| Tuning Scores (Partituras de afinación)- Composición y el sentido de la Imaginación L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) From 03/11/2008 to 07/11/2008 Lisa Nelson Performing artists of all disciplines welcome. This research focuses on the physical base of the imagination. Composition, communication, and performance are the subjects. By altering the way we use our senses while moving and watching movement, we can begin to identify the genetic, cultural and idiosyncratic movement patterns our senses use to construct our experience. These patterns both inform our desire for action and what we see when we are attending to anything. Tuning scores offer tools for communication that cross disciplinary lines and give insight into and practice of performance and dance-making processes.  |
| Tuning L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) From 21/10/2008 to 02/11/2008 Presentation : On 31/10/2008 at 19:00 in L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) Lisa Nelson, Steve Paxton, Scott Smith, Peter Hulton, Philip Jeck, Pep Ramis, María Muñoz The Tuning project is a meeting place between scenic artists (Lisa Nelson, Scott Smith, Philip Jeck, Steve Paxton, Peter Hulton, Pep Ramis and María Muñoz) to investigate the basic premise of dance on stage through the tools the Tuning Scores that Lisa Nelson has developed in the last 20 years.With key players including Nelson and Scott Smith, the scores are a communication framework for ensemble collaboration. Where does the dance image come from-dancer, choreographer or viewer? Is there a unified experience of a dance event we-performer and spectator-can agree upon? As performers, what is the relationship between our spectator-selves, our composer-selves and our performing-selves?  |
| 2005 |
| Tuning Scores (Partituras de afinación) L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) From 14/11/2005 to 18/11/2005 Lisa Nelson Intensive workshop with Lisa Nelson. This course investigated the physical bases of imagination through composition, communication and performance. |
| Tuning L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) From 14/03/2005 to 24/03/2005 Presentation : On 24/03/2005 at 18:00 in L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) Lisa Nelson, Scott Smith, Charlie Morrisey, Carme Renalies, Antonjia Livingstone, Pep Ramis, Julyen Hamilton Creation Laboratory. The project Tuning was a meeting place for 6 artists from the scenic and musical arts at L'animal a l'esquena whose purpose was to search the fundamentals of dance in the scene through instruments related to Tuning Scores by Lisa Nelson. Documentación: Julyen Hamilton |
| 2002 |
| Tuning Scores (Partituras de afinación) L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) From 25/03/2002 to 01/04/2002 Peter Hulton, Núria Font Workshop conducted by Lisa Nelson, about the composition, the comunication and the meaning of the imagination. The always present question of, what do we look at when we are observing dance; the objective is to make our view visible. The workshop also had the daily participation of Peter Hulton and ocassionally of Núria Font. They were invited to coordinate this workshop with the Seminar of Reflection about Documentation, Archive and Dissemination of the Process of Creativity that was carried out during the second week of the activities cycle. |
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