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Spanish program booklet for the Olga Mesa and Francisco Ruiz de Infante Constellation

Olga Mesa’s work is situated at the intersection of dance, performance, filmmaking and installation. It explores the boundaries between digital and analogue, audio-visual and corporeal worlds. Early in her career, she was part of the new Spanish contemporary dance scene of the late 1980s and gained recognition for her solo works, before settling in Strasbourg in France in 2005. Since 2010, she has been working with the visual and multimedia artist Francisco Ruiz de Infante, whose large-scale installative works involve visual arts, literature, music and video. Together, they create choreographic pieces for the stage and performative works for non-stage spaces such as museums, as well as exhibitions and artistic research projects. Their company is Hors Champ // Fuera de Campo

The full programme of the Olga Mesa and Francisco Ruiz de Infante Constellation can be found here.

Spanish program booklet for the Bach Project Constellation by Mal Pelo

The Bach Project Constellation focuses entirely on Mal Pelo’s tetralogy of works to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Mal Pelo, the artistic endeavour of choreographers and dancers Pep Ramis and María Muñoz, was founded in 1989. “Bach”, María Muñoz’s seminal solo work set to preludes and fugues from Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, is a rigorous piece of movement language which requires her to fully inhabit the music. It has been performed more than 150 times since its premiere in 2005. In 2016, María Muñoz transmitted the piece to Federica Porello, an Italian performer who works with Mal Pelo and has since also been performing “Bach”.

The full programme of the Bach Project Constellation by Mal Pelo can be found here.

Spanish program booklet for the Deborah Hay Constellation

Created in collaboration with Cullberg, Sweden’s main contemporary dance company, the Deborah Hay Constellation features four pieces by Deborah Hay, including “Figure A Sea”, the large-scale improvisational work choreographed by her for Cullberg, with a score by Laurie Anderson. Hay also performs two solo pieces from her decades-long career, “A Lecture on the Performance of Beauty” and “my choreographed body… revisited (2015)”. It is the first time that she herself has performed in Spain.

Deborah Hay was active in the Judson Dance Theater in New York in the 1960s and went on to develop her own conceptual approach to choreographic creation, which emphasises the responsiveness of the dancing body to its surroundings.

The full programme of the Bach Project Constellation by Mal Pelo can be found here.

The Lucinda Childs Constellation celebrates the American icon of postmodern dance with a programme of performances of her minimalist works from the 1960s and 1970s. “Dance”, created in 1979 and set to music by Philip Glass, was her first large-scale collective ballet and is now considered one of the pinnacles of postmodern dance. The constellation also features the Dance On Ensemble with Childs’ “Works In Silence”, as well as a programme by Ruth Childs, who has revived three of her aunt Lucinda Childs’ solos, which she created performed at the Judson Dance Theater in the 1960s.

The full programme of the Lucinda Childs Constellation can be found here.