This is a call for applications for a residency and exhibition for five young companies, selected through an internal call for applications among Massana students and alumni, seeking to promote contemporary performance among young multidisciplinary artists and their contact with the professional circuit.
PROGRAMME:
1. Apagón en el vagón • FAGUS FADES
theatre /// premiere
(He switches on the mic in the radio booth. His voice trembles). Tonight Barcelona has been invaded by some Fairies. Various sources confirm that they come from the city’s sewers. Little else is known. Metro traffic has been halted and parties have kicked off inside the carriages. No one has gone to work. Several adults have been spotted playing in playgrounds. Grandparents and children have started a march that, at this point, already covers several streets of the capital. They’re threatening to enter every house until there’s not a single sad soul left. Chaos has become a ritual.
FAGUS FADES is a collective that uses spells and hexes to take on this overwhelming life from the stage. A symbiosis of actresses, dancers, musicians, who are also writers, artisans, waitresses, instructors… and who foster each other’s mutual development. Having met during the creation of The Day the Fairies Invaded the Sad Souls of Barcelona and Surrounding Areas (2023), the group has come together again to give birth to Blackout in the Wagon. A performative regurgitation.
Direction: Klaudia Montferrer Bara and Adela Lafuente Medina
Dramaturgy: Klaudia Montferrer Bara
On stage: Alba Munuera Borrell, Júlia Boncompte Fradera, Mireia Croca, Klaudia Montferrer Bara, Adela Lafuente Medina and Maria Cano
Movement direction: Adela Lafuente Medina
Technical accompaniment: Fèlix Beltran
Costumes, Stage scenography and Sound design: Fagus Fades
With the support of ANTIC TEATRE (Barcelona) and Escola Massana (Barcelona) through the 2026 residency and exhibition call.
#fagusfades #animestristes #tmb #teatre #diversió #amigues #cargoltreubanya #anticxmassana
2. Cuerpo de poeta • German Chocero
performance /// premiere
Cuerpo de poeta (Poet’s Body) is based on the idea that poetry is, essentially, movement: a displacement from A to B that moves us because it mobilises. This implies the existence of C, a body that relates and transforms. When two gazes—two C’s—meet, something emerges: respect. Because to respect is to *spectare* again. The piece therefore questions the notion of “writing with the body” and asks whether it is possible to write without one or more bodies. In contrast to a tradition linked to dance, the piece explores what happens when the body in motion is not that of the dancer, but that of the poet, understanding poetry as a physical movement, a displacement and an act of attention towards the other.
German Chocero is a poet, visual artist and educator. His practice sits at the intersection of poetry, visual arts and pedagogy. He explores writing and performance as tools for reappropriating language, and conceives of the classroom and artistic spaces as mutually permeable domains. Since 2019, he has participated in literary festivals and gatherings across the country with his spoken word work. From 2022, he has been running poetry workshops in state secondary schools. He holds a degree in Arts and Design from the Escola Massana and a Master’s in Comparative Studies of Literature, Art and Thought from UPF. He is currently studying for a Postgraduate Diploma in Live Arts and Context at the Institut del Teatre and is a member of the curatorial collective Grup d’Estudi.
Dramaturgy: German Chocero
Performer: German Chocero
Open call for residency and exhibition at Antic Teatre – Espai de Creació with Escola Massana
With the support of ANTIC TEATRE (BARCELONA)
#poesia #danza #performance
3. #allweneedislove! • Júlia Bazan Durany
performance /// premiere in Barcelona
Dear friends, #allweneedislove is a performative conference aiming to share research which, by explaining the movement of inertia, explores the need for affection and the desire to love and be loved and how this is leading people to enter into romantic relationships with AIs and fictional characters. When we meet, I will introduce you to Knkmaxx, a Chatbot that I started programming and we’ve ended up falling in love! I can’t wait!!! Sincerely and with affection, Júlia Bazan Durany
Júlia Bazan Durany. Hello, it’s a pleasure to be here with you. My name is Júlia, and I’m from Vilassar de Dalt. I’m at the Massana school finishing my degree in art and design. Actually, it seems I don’t do a stroke on either of those subjects, since at most I’ll design the dossiers that I submit and when people ask me, “So, what do you do at uni” I answer, “Not much, my profile is more academic “, then they pull a face and don’t know where to put themselves. I’ve heard a phrase that says: “I like everything, and everything interests me” and it’s been like that for me. That’s why my practice is based on letting things happen and sharing, like kissing the palm of your hand and blowing on it making pfff*** pfff*** pfff*** noises. A big hug, always yours, Júlia Bazan Durany
Dramaturgy: Júlia Bazan Durany
On stage: Júlia Bazan Durany
Residence project at the Antic Teatre in collaboration with the Massana school.
With the accompaniment of Laia Arqueros and Raul Nieves
@pinayas.te.zeduzen @que.imp0rta
#allweneedislove
4. Resonants • Maria Amor Oró, Eva Caro García, David Mormeneo Carvajal & Sofía Romeo Gascón
performance
Resonants is a stage-based project of digital arts, performance and sculpture that explores the connection between bodies through touch and sound. Its aim is to construct and activate, in a performative context, an assemblage made up of sculptures, microphones and acoustic exciters, electricity, and human bodies. In this project, technology serves to highlight the constant processes of transformation and correspondence between bodies, as well as the fluidity of their condition in relation to otherness. Ultimately, it seeks to generate a collectivity that enables an intimate connection with the strange and the unknown.
Maria Amor Oró (2000, Barcelona) is a composer. She studied musical composition and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in contemporary jazz composition at HKB, Bern. Eva Caro García (1999, Barcelona) is an architect. She has studied set design, dance, and music, and has been involved in the development and creation of artistic projects in Barcelona. David Mormeneo Carvajal (1998, Barcelona) is a sound artist. He studied biology and musical composition and is currently researching the poetics of digital media in performance. Sofía Romeo Gascón (2000, Barcelona) is a sculptor and researcher. She studied fine arts and crafts and is currently doing her doctoral thesis at the University of Barcelona.
Direction: Maria Amor Oró, Eva Caro García, David Mormeneo Carvajal and Sofía Romeo Gascón
Performance: Eva Caro García, David Mormeneo Carvajal and Sofía Romeo Gascón
Production: Maria Amor Oró, Eva Caro García, David Mormeneo Carvajal and Sofía Romeo Gascón
Sculptures: Sofía Romeo Gascón
Technical development: Support Programme for the Creation of the Convent de Sant Agustí Civic Center
Performances: Les Setmanes d’Arquitectura, 2025, Canòdrom de Meridiana (Barcelona); PROJECT’ART, 2025, Convent de Sant Agustí Civic Center (Barcelona)
Residency and collaborator: La Escocesa
Artistic residency: Antic Teatre (Barcelona)
@dmormeneo @soffiaromeo @mariamoorr @evanoseque_ @conventagusti @canodrombcn
#performance #escultura #sonido #cuerpos #materiales
5. Instruccions per construir un carrusel • TiesLlenties
performance /// premiere
Using the allegory of the fairground carousel as a rotating structure that opens the door to a new fiction, TiesLlenties aim to get closer to their original desire: to become a rock band, even if it only exists on an imaginary plane. The group members use costumes, sets and stage presence to embody the fiction of becoming a music group, but they never perform any tunes, only getting as far as reading out a technical manual for building their carousel. As the different phases of construction of the manual progress, the way they perform these will escalate in terms of sound to the point of generating a situation of disorder, breaking up the script and experimenting with body and movement.
TiesLlenties was born from the desire to create as a collective, understanding shared work as an engine of learning and transformation. We operate from within a horizontal creativity that crosses disciplines, languages and themes, placing the process at the centre. Sharing is our methodology and the space where everything comes into play. We work from the dialogue between performance, visual arts and scenography, imagining possible realities and spaces using interdisciplinarity and imagination as a research tool. We have been friends and colleagues for five years, linked to Escola Massana, and we stand for the collective as a space for meeting, experimentation and continuous learning.
Actresses: Paula Cerezo, Aina Bullón, Elisenda Guixeras, Emma Corchero, Joia Aguilar, Lara Chust, Georgia Garrigós, Elena Gonzalez
Direction: Paula Cerezo, Aina Bullón, Elisenda Guixeras, Emma Corchero, Joia Aguilar, Lara Chust, Georgia Garrigós, Elena Gonzalez
Authors: Collective TiesLlenties
@tiesllenties @elenagonzalezi @lalaalara @florgroga___ @georgia.garrigos @e3e3e3eli @jjjjoia @cerezzzoo @emmac0rchero
