From 21 to 23 February 2025, in the same session, two companies will present their shows consecutively. First, Dformadxs by Cia Nisham, followed by #OmniaVanitas by the company El salón de los invisibles.
Cía Nisham – Dformadxs
Dformadxs. As political subjects belonging to a social community, we experience unpleasant situations and suffer states of total physical and emotional fragility and vulnerability. We introduce a “dissident being” who, throughout his/her progress and development, will experience a construction of him/herself while becoming aware of all the construction/manipulation that the hegemonic, patriarchal system exerts on his/her mind and body. A mutable and perfomative substance that will (de)form and (de)construct itself anew. “We create our identity from a hypercultural background of life forms and practices.” Anonymous (2019)
Nisham is a hybrid urban dance company formed by different groups of performers, directed by Nia Torres, founded in 2020. It has toured nationally and internationally. It receives support for creation from a range of organisations including La Barceloneta Civic Centre, Fábricas de Creación Fabra i Coats, the Hop Bcn platform, l’Estruch de Sabadell and La Unió Santcugatenca. In 2022 they crossed the Atlantic to tour Ecuador and perform in several Latin American festivals such as A Cielo Abierto, supported by IBERESCENA and PICE – MOVILIDAD 2023 grants. Their work is based on investigations that address questions about sexgender identities, mental health, transformation, social provocation, and any type of question that may emerge during creative processes, placing the body as the vehicle and main driver of experimentation and materialisation of these concerns. The resulting pieces always evolve around the body in movement, generating spaces for interaction and the juxtaposition of the various media, and developing scenarios and actions that invite a continuous mutation in the ways of understanding dance.
image Cía Nisham: Joseph Merrick (@buenaramones)
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El salón de los invisibles – #OmniaVanitas
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#OmniaVanitas is clickbait: a techno consumerist dystopia that races forward recreating the fragmentation we’re living in, entertainment as diversion and political deterrent, and the neurological hyperstimulation to which we voluntarily subject ourselves every day. Through repetition and the continuous juxtaposition of images, sounds, movements and words, the banality and self-destructive megalomania of a new Prometheus is revealed. A narcissistic, hyper-motivated character chained to the frenzied rhythms of technological innovations and constant hits from likes.
El salón de los invisibles is an arts association created in 2018 by Maria de Prada (dramaturgy and direction) and David Rovirola (dramaturgy, scenography and visual arts). For each new work, el Salón tries to associate with collaborating creators who are specialists in different artistic languages, especially music and dance. Maria de Prada holds a degree in art history from the Central University of Barcelona and in theatre direction and dramaturgy from the Eòlia Higher School of Dramatic Art. She completed her final course in dramaturgy and direction at the Higher School of Applied Arts (ADK) in Ludwigsburg (Germany). In 2018, in Berlin, she met David Rovirola, a self-taught painter till the age of 25, who from 2005 to 2008 continued his artistic development thanks to the Art Seminars conducted by conceptual artist and sculptor Antoni Llena at the University of Girona. In 2019, they founded El Salón de los Invisibles, with which they have created four pieces: Atrabilis (about depression), #OmniaVanitas (about burnout and attention deficit), Re-view (co-produced by the Píndoles Festival where they explore nomophobia and with which they are currently touring theatres and schools), and Popol Vuh (premiered at the Nu theater and in Chiapas, Mexico, as part of the XI International Theater Festival Otras Latitudes). They collaborate with dramaturgy, devices, and aesthetics for other companies such as las maleantes (based in Berlin) with their street performance titled Caprice) based on Goya’s Caprichos series) and with the dance company Nishelma on their new piece O-kulto (about gender identity).
image El salón de los invisibles: Fran Ruíz
