Che si può fare, che si può diré / What can be done, what can be said
MÓNICA VALENCIANO, MARÍA MUÑOZ
( MÓNICA VALENCIANO, MARÍA MUÑOZ )
L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà)
From 19/03/2026 to 23/03/2026
María Muñoz (Valencia, 1963) and Mónica Valenciano (Las Palmas, 1961) are two of the most disruptive, brilliant and important dance creators of the last forty years in Spain. Without them what we now call contemporary dance could not be understood.
They met in the 1980s, their paths crossing in workshops and at meetings, they improvised together and followed each other over the years, watching each other’s work, getting together whenever they could to talk and find out where they were, each of them.
“For the first time these two dance creators, as close as they are un-alike, have come together to make a piece. They are doing this with the Faraig Choir, with echoes of the 17th Century Italian composer Barbara Strozzi and with the memory of those two young women who in the 1980s used to dress as men on streets where there was no talk yet of gender and patriarchy, but where you had to fight every inch of the way. A hard daily struggle against the objectification of women, both social and artistic.
For both, their dance emerged through intuition and solitude in an artistic eco-system where they did not fit in. Intuition, solitude, courage, determination and endurance. They were starting from scratch and made their way as their dance developed and spaces began to open up, along with understandings between dancers who sensed that the stage in this country had grown a few feet broader. Those women changed the stage forever. Because María and Mónica are themselves, but they are also Àngels, María, Olga, Ana, Elena, María Antonia, Carmen, Blanca…
Now, in this dark time, with their wise and weary bodies, fully alive, they both wonder, as they always have, with their implacable requirement for ethical relevance, what can they do, what can they say, now, this 28th March 2026, here in the city of Valencia.”
Pablo Caruana
Creation and dance: Mónica Valenciano, María Muñoz
FARAIG Choir (8 mixed voices: 2 sopranos, 2 altos, 2 tenors, 2 bass)
Choir director: Christian Roca
Musical assistant: Quiteria Muñoz
Artistic advisor: Pep Ramis
Lighting and sound technician: Andreu Bramon
MÓNICA VALENCIANO, MARÍA MUÑOZ
( MÓNICA VALENCIANO, MARÍA MUÑOZ )
L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà)
From 19/03/2026 to 23/03/2026
María Muñoz (Valencia, 1963) and Mónica Valenciano (Las Palmas, 1961) are two of the most disruptive, brilliant and important dance creators of the last forty years in Spain. Without them what we now call contemporary dance could not be understood.
They met in the 1980s, their paths crossing in workshops and at meetings, they improvised together and followed each other over the years, watching each other’s work, getting together whenever they could to talk and find out where they were, each of them.
“For the first time these two dance creators, as close as they are un-alike, have come together to make a piece. They are doing this with the Faraig Choir, with echoes of the 17th Century Italian composer Barbara Strozzi and with the memory of those two young women who in the 1980s used to dress as men on streets where there was no talk yet of gender and patriarchy, but where you had to fight every inch of the way. A hard daily struggle against the objectification of women, both social and artistic.
For both, their dance emerged through intuition and solitude in an artistic eco-system where they did not fit in. Intuition, solitude, courage, determination and endurance. They were starting from scratch and made their way as their dance developed and spaces began to open up, along with understandings between dancers who sensed that the stage in this country had grown a few feet broader. Those women changed the stage forever. Because María and Mónica are themselves, but they are also Àngels, María, Olga, Ana, Elena, María Antonia, Carmen, Blanca…
Now, in this dark time, with their wise and weary bodies, fully alive, they both wonder, as they always have, with their implacable requirement for ethical relevance, what can they do, what can they say, now, this 28th March 2026, here in the city of Valencia.”
Pablo Caruana
Creation and dance: Mónica Valenciano, María Muñoz
FARAIG Choir (8 mixed voices: 2 sopranos, 2 altos, 2 tenors, 2 bass)
Choir director: Christian Roca
Musical assistant: Quiteria Muñoz
Artistic advisor: Pep Ramis
Lighting and sound technician: Andreu Bramon
