la soledad sonora is a solo dance piece that, inspired by the poems of San Juan de la Cruz, proposes a quest (for the beloved, for knowledge, for universal wisdom… for BEAUTY) during which we are confronted with such human themes as love, solitude, faith, and the search for being. The piece is structured in five chapters in which, through the interrelation of the body with other elements (sounds, objects, light, costumes, words…), dialogues of dual ideas are generated, such as absence and encounter, everything and nothing, light and night, death and life. Loss, solitude, the search, night, and encounter are the path traveled to form “the sonorous solitude.”
Celia Espadas (Úbeda, 1997) trained in flamenco (from the age of 3 to 18), urban dance and contemporary dance in her hometown, then moved to Madrid in 2014 to study Contemporary Dance at the Real Conservatorio Profesional de Danza Mariemma, as well as Art History at the Universidad Complutense. Later, she moved to Barcelona to pursue a Bachelor’s Degree in Dance Pedagogy and Choreography at the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona, graduating in 2024, and subsequently completing a Postgraduate Degree in Live Arts and Contexts at the Vic campus of the Institut in 2025. As a stage creator, she has presented three works. CUERPO Y MEMORIA (2022), a solo piece, which premiered at the Flamencos y mestizos Festival in Úbeda and was also performed at Espacio FCI in Madrid, the 3ladosDanza Festival in Valencia, and PlaRoig in Barcelona. In 2023, she presented her second work as director and choreographer, CUERPO MÍSTICO, this time in a group format. It was performed at Sala Oracles and remained on the programme for a month at Sala Versus in Barcelona. Her most recent work, LA SOLEDAD SONORA, premiered in 2025 as part of the ESCENA PATRIMONIO 2025 festival. She was also the choreographer for the staging and performance at the launch of the fashion book Beyond at JVDW.Gallery in Düsseldorf (2025). As a dancer, she has taken part in numerous stage projects with various choreographers (Carmen Muñoz, Manuel Rodríguez, Janet Novás, Óscar Lozano, Pedro Berdayes, Dani Pannulo…). She was part of Catalan company Per Poc, touring with the works Petruska and Romeo y Julieta throughout Asia and Europe. Since 2020, she has combined her creative work with teaching, giving professional dance classes in different specialised centres in Barcelona. Her interest in dance pedagogy in socially vulnerable contexts has led her to conduct research and develop new working methodologies focused on using dance and improvisation as tools for expression/creation/communication in contexts related to eating disorders. This research led to the publication of EL VIAJE, a dance creation and improvisation methodology fully adapted to that context. She has also collaborated with choreographer Aimar Pérez Galí at the ACE centre, a foundation specialised in Alzheimer’s treatment, and conducted movement workshops at ASPACE.
