UN HURACAN AVANZA ALEGREMENTE / A HAPPILY ADVANCING HURRICANE
SUSANNA BARRANCO
( SUSANNA BARRANCO )
L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà)
From 10/04/2026 to 12/04/2026
Un huracán avanza alegremente is a hybrid performance piece that combines performance, audiovisual language and dance. The piece is based on a creation process shared between the director, who is also a performer, and Junco, a young man with functional diversity, who acts as co-protagonist and performer of his own experience.
The starting point is a key moment in the life of Junco: taking part in his most important ever casting. Based on this real event, the work looks into questions such as desire, identity, intimacy and autonomy, focusing on the body as a space for possibility, vulnerability and strength. As suggested by Spinoza’s question, “no one knows what a body is capable of,” the piece explores what a body-person is capable of, who has often been seen in terms of limitation.
The piece is built around the intimate dialogue between director and performer, who are also mother and son. This bond crosses the stage and gives rise to an open, honest and political conversation about desire as an act of affirmation, resistance and freedom. The voice and body of Junco are accompanied by others who have travelled this same path. Their experiences become a dialogue that questions, reaffirms and supports the existential questions that arise when you want to desire and to live in this present world with an intellectual capacity of 75%.
Author and director: Susanna Barranco
Artistic assistant: Marta Galán
Script: Susanna Barranco
Musical composition: Vitalic
Performers: Jonc Mira Barranco and Susanna Barranco
Lighting design: Cube.bz
Set and vídeo: Manel Barnils
Sound space: Juan Navarro
Movement advisers: Mal Pelo company
Wardrobe: José Duarte
Assistant coach: Montserrat Casanovas
Consultant: Antonio Centeno
Producer: Cia. Susanna Barranco, Mousiké
Assistant producers: Elsa Julià and Helena Colom
With the backing of Fundación Llar Hospitalitat, la Fundación Elna, la Fundación Astres and la Fundación Montilivi of the Grup Fundació Ramon Noguera.
A coproduction by El Teatre Lliure, El Canal. Centro de creación de artes escénicas and Ayuntamiento de Salt
With support from OSIC, Ayuntamiento de Barcelona, L’animal a l’esquena-centro de creación and Fundación Joan Brossa Centre de les Arts Lliures.
SUSANNA BARRANCO
( SUSANNA BARRANCO )
L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà)
From 10/04/2026 to 12/04/2026
Un huracán avanza alegremente is a hybrid performance piece that combines performance, audiovisual language and dance. The piece is based on a creation process shared between the director, who is also a performer, and Junco, a young man with functional diversity, who acts as co-protagonist and performer of his own experience.The starting point is a key moment in the life of Junco: taking part in his most important ever casting. Based on this real event, the work looks into questions such as desire, identity, intimacy and autonomy, focusing on the body as a space for possibility, vulnerability and strength. As suggested by Spinoza’s question, “no one knows what a body is capable of,” the piece explores what a body-person is capable of, who has often been seen in terms of limitation.
The piece is built around the intimate dialogue between director and performer, who are also mother and son. This bond crosses the stage and gives rise to an open, honest and political conversation about desire as an act of affirmation, resistance and freedom. The voice and body of Junco are accompanied by others who have travelled this same path. Their experiences become a dialogue that questions, reaffirms and supports the existential questions that arise when you want to desire and to live in this present world with an intellectual capacity of 75%.
Author and director: Susanna Barranco
Artistic assistant: Marta Galán
Script: Susanna Barranco
Musical composition: Vitalic
Performers: Jonc Mira Barranco and Susanna Barranco
Lighting design: Cube.bz
Set and vídeo: Manel Barnils
Sound space: Juan Navarro
Movement advisers: Mal Pelo company
Wardrobe: José Duarte
Assistant coach: Montserrat Casanovas
Consultant: Antonio Centeno
Producer: Cia. Susanna Barranco, Mousiké
Assistant producers: Elsa Julià and Helena Colom
With the backing of Fundación Llar Hospitalitat, la Fundación Elna, la Fundación Astres and la Fundación Montilivi of the Grup Fundació Ramon Noguera.
A coproduction by El Teatre Lliure, El Canal. Centro de creación de artes escénicas and Ayuntamiento de Salt
With support from OSIC, Ayuntamiento de Barcelona, L’animal a l’esquena-centro de creación and Fundación Joan Brossa Centre de les Arts Lliures.
