CIM – Improvisation in Movement Cycle aims to promote, disseminate and provide space for improvisational dance as an artistic discipline within the city of Barcelona. It does this by programming training activities and performances based on instant composition.
With CIM we aim to make you as an audience enjoy, think about and value the artistic aspects of improvisation, the magic of the present moment. We also offer creators and dance professionals a space in which to practice and exchange tools and strategies for improvisation.
The third edition of CIM will take place from 17 to 23 September 2018 and will include a workshop and training labs imparted by professional performance arts teachers who work with improv from their own particular viewpoints, as well as a showcase of instant composition performances. We invite you to come and experience this art in all its forms.
The cycle is part of an initiative started by dancer and improviser Helena Pellisé in collaboration with Centre Cívic Barceloneta, Antic Teatre and La Caldera Les Corts.
SEPTEMBER 22, 8 to 9.30pm.: Improv showcase
+ Discussion with artists (9.30 to 10pm.)
DuoDau amb Arnau Millà & Maria Mora (New body languages)
A musician and a dancer.
Who plays? Who moves? Movement is sound and sound moves. Two on stage. A coded language to communicate. Confusions, manipulations, interactions, disobedience, accords and chords, understanding. Music that moves. Dance that is heard. Two on stage
Real time composition that mixes up improvisation and direction using the Soundpainting sign language. [+ INFO]
Víctor Turull, Enric Ases, Santiago Arteaga, Álvaro Prats-Bertomeu
Tomb (New body languages)
The turn a body makes when it falls; something turned around; the change something experiences on its course; the direction a conversation, or a theme take; a short walk that usually ends at the same place it began.
Víctor Turull (voice), Enric Ases (theatre), Santiago Arteaga (electric bass) and Álvaro Prats-Bertomeu (dance-theatre) dare to take a turn together beyond themselves and are ready for everything to change at the whim of the audience.
A multidisciplinary instant composition show created from audience contributions. [+ INFO]
Carles Casallachs & Nav Vilain
PA POW POWAH POETRY (New body languages)
We take the sound emitted by a poet on stage and the movement a body creates; we place them on the same level and treat them equally. We invent guidelines that can treat voice and body in the same way and we explore the various ways in which they can affect each other. We encourage a symbiosis that provides neither plot, nor illustration, nor narrative, but is based on fragmentation, rhythm, repetition and the use of cacophony, with emphasis placed on defining the complicity between the two presences on stage.
Two poems will be our connecting thread, both in their grammatic and phonetic content and in the shared vision they create. [+ INFO]
SEPTEMBER 23, 8 to 9.30pm.: Improv showcase
+ Discussion with artists (9.30 to 10pm.)
Denitsa Dikova & Glòria Ros
The Meeting II (Instant composition)
The Meeting II has been scheduled in advance. We know where it will take place, at what time, and who’s going to be there. It’s the stimulus for a chemical reaction, a point of change with limited time.
Common. Unknown. New. Reinventing old languages that everyone understands.
The direction-towards started as soon as the idea-seed was planted. It’s filled with intentions, expectations, ideas and wonder. It’s natural. [+ INFO]
Iris Hinojosa, Javier Olaizola, Gerard Vilardaga
Atàvic (concert-performance)
Atàvic is the completely programmed life that took place inside factories, around the textile colonies where we grew up. And, at the same time, it becomes a staged game through which we recover our collective memory by unexpected means: texts by Miquel Martí Pol, spoken word by Gerard Vilardaga, Iris Hinojosa’s movement and traditional roots music from Javier Olaizola. [+ INFO]
Urša Sekirnik
Radio Hit: YOUR PRIVATE DANCER (New body languages)
Your Private Dancer forms part of the Radio Hit project, a piece about the joy of dancing to our favourite music hits. This version takes a close look at our personal hits and the stories connected to them. [+ INFO]
Centre Cívic Barceloneta is a local council installation for the Barceloneta neighbourhood and Barcelona that aims to promote and create awareness of culture by means of two strands: dance and visual arts. With regard to dance, the centre has more than 15 years experience of supporting creation with residencies, performances and training.
La Caldera Les Corts is a new centre for dance and performance arts created in 2015 as part of Barcelona city council’s Creation Factories network, headed by the management team from the original La Caldera that emerged in Gràcia in 1995. La Caldera Les Corts is a centre for hybrid creation that aims to be flexible, open and empowering for performance arts creators. We want to support today’s creation and we strive to reinforce the connection with audiences by opening up the wide range of artistic languages and forms of expression to all citizens.
Antic Teatre is one of the reference points for cutting-edge independent performance arts. It is a resource centre for multidisciplinary arts focusing on research, innovation and the development of new languages in performance. It’s mission is to support and encourage professional artists in their experimentation, creation, production, exhibition, promotion and dissemination endeavours. It is dedicated to the search for new languages in body and movement, new dramaturgies and new technologies that avoid established techniques and repetition of methodologies.
Helena Pellisé is a dancer, improviser and teacher from Barcelona. She trained in contemporary dance specialising in improvisation under an AECID grant (Israel, 2008). Since then she has been committed to this discipline as the foundation of all her work on the body and movement. As a dancer she has been showing her own creations and working with artists from other disciplines since 2005. She is currently dancing with Societat Alaka collective and directs CIM, Cicle Improvisació en Moviment. She has been teaching both nationally and internationally for the past 10 years.
