Stripart is a festival of artistic projects by young creators held in different venues around the city. The Antic Teatre will be one of these venues from 14 to 17 May 2026.
PROGRAMME:
14 and 15 May at 8 pm, two performances per session:
- FRAGILE by Humancía
- The Mis$education by Julia Romero
16 and 17 May at 8 pm, three performances per session:
- ATTRACTIO by Paula Sánchez & Matilde Casini
- Pour te dénouer by Cia La déborde
- Col·lapse by Cia. Soma
1. FRAGILE • Humancía
/// new body languages///
FRAGILE is a journey that begins with the first beats of life, when we are no more than a tiny body, fragile and vulnerable, tossed into the world with no power of decision. The journey takes us to adulthood where, despite the layers we’ve learned to put on, we quite often find ourselves to be just as fragile and vulnerable as before, subject to the silent forces of a society that moulds us. FRAGILE invites us to view vulnerability through different eyes: not as a weakness but as a portal to what is really human. Fragility is inherent to the human condition and, if we embrace it, perhaps we can learn to know ourselves a little better.
Humancía is a company that works with very young professional dancers. In this way we aim to approach younger audiences who may feel attracted to and represented by our dancers, and so encourage cultural appreciation in this demographic which will become the cultural future of our country. Since the premiere of our first piece, EGO, in 2021, the company has been consolidating its trajectory, showing at a range of performance art festivals both nationally and abroad, and as part of programmes in various localities and venues in Catalonia, having completed in total more than 50 performances. Currently the company has begun touring with its second show, FRAGILE.
Authorship, artistic direction and production: Irina Pineda
Choreography: Irina Pineda in collaboration with the performers.
Outside eye and production assistant: Alejandro Ordóñez
Performers: Alba Ruiz, Andrea Bretcha, Marina Grifols, Marina Fieux, Anaís Prat, Elsa Díaz, Agnès Muñiz, Mar Andreu and Noa Valldepérez.
Covers: Carla Fieux and Júlia Coll
Lighting and stage design: Arnau Benach
Photography: Jordi Martín
Video: Marc Costa
Set design and construction: Juanjo Martín and Pedro Martínez.
Rehearsal spaces: La Central de la Dansa; Escola de dansa Trackdance
Music: various artists, original music with variations.
In collaboration with Montornès Town Council
https://humanciadansa.wixsite.com/humancia/ca
@humanciadansa @andreabretcha @marinagrifols @anaispraat @albaruiz14
2. The Mis$education • Julia Romero
/// new body languages///
The Mis$education is a piece composed of two performers and two school desks (body-object, flesh-material) that speaks to us about the physical and psychological violence suffered by institutionalised bodies in schools, using concepts such as violence, discomfort, institution and obligation.
Julia Romero is an artist specialising in movement, dance and choreography. She explores themes such as trauma, violence and darkness through sensitivity and irony and with a highly aesthetic approach.
Direction and choreography: Julia Romero
Performers: Mar Pérez and Julia Romero
Sound: Robert Lippok
Outside eye: Amaranta Velarde and David Castejón
Costumes: Julia Romero
3. ATTRACTIO • Paula Sánchez & Matilde Casini
/// performance ///
There are many ways to get closer, some are easier than others, it can be done in lots of ways: not so close, closer, emptier, fuller… sometimes it’s as if there were a magnetic force. Like two magnets attracting and repelling each other, coming together and becoming stronger, moving apart and back together, connecting and letting go, but each time with greater force than before.
We are a duo of contemporary dance artists: Paula Sánchez and Matilde Casini. We chanced to meet thanks to young company Free Bodies’ programme and that’s when we decided to work together, given the similarity of our interests in arts and movement. So, in August 2023, we started work on our two-person show Attractio, our first joint project, with which we venture into a language that combines movement, physicality, and association. We had a residency at the La Barceloneta Civic Centre. Attractio premiered on April 18, 2024, in La Toscana, Italy, and so far it has been performed a total of 14 times in Madrid, Barcelona, Tarragona, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Italy, and Germany.
Direction, choreography, and performance: Paula Sánchez and Matilde Casini
Creation assistance: Nico Ricchini
Costumes: Anna Maria Cheler
Video: Miguel Álvarez
Special thanks: CC Barceloneta and “Free Zone” Barcelona
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4. Pour te dénouer • Cia La déborde
/// new drama ///
Small, danced form. A duo who delve into the intimacy of friendship by playing with the codes of fiction. An exploration of the concept of friendship, at times using everyday situations and at others more abstract ones. To speak to each other and tell stories we use the body, the earth and silver foil. The objects are revealed on stage, some functional, some abstract. Throughout the piece, the movement of bodies expresses different qualities of presence and connection: from complicity to adversity and from humour to pathos, to expose, on stage, the knots that bind a friendship together.
La Déborde is a Franco-Spanish company established in Barcelona. Océane Luguern and Clémence Meekel met at the University of Paris, studying philosophy and language; a few years later they met again in Barcelona, this time through dance. With the aim of sharing and manifesting their concerns and creative ideas in a common project, they decided to create La Déborde in 2024. Their work mixes dance, text and performance, and questions our ways of being and connecting.
Direction, creation and performance: Clémence Meekel and Océane Luguern
Concept and set construction: Francisco Casola
Sound: Gaston Fischer
Outside eye: Patricia Hastewell
Support and residencies: La taula de cultura, Centre Cívic La Barceloneta, Centre Cívic Can Felipa, Espai Laroc, Studio Cie Chat Perché.
www.cieladeborde.fr/
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5. Col·lapse • Cia. Soma
/// performance ///
Col·lapse is an experimental contemporary dance project arising from questioning how a body behaves when it’s taken to its limits. One of the definitions that we can find for the word ‘collapse’ could be: ‘abrupt deformation or destruction of a body from the action of a force’. This piece aims to place on stage the many demands we face nowadays and the impossibility of fulfilling them. Col·lapse presents a body deformed by external and internal forces that pull it in all directions: a body trying to get everywhere but which, conditioned by its form and substance, may end up falling apart.
Lucía García graduated in Choreography and Performance Techniques from the Institut del Teatre in 2020. Her final project was a videodance titled Abbiosis (2021) that allowed her to start fusing audiovisuals with dance. Abbiosis was shortlisted at more than twenty international festivals, winning the final award in several: Cinedans (Ámsterdam), Choreoscope Dance Film Festival (Barcelona) and F-O-R-M Festival of Recorded Movement (Vancouver) among others. As part of the Dansa Metropolitana programme the short was available on streaming platform Filmin. In addition, in 2022 Abbiosis was nominated to the Dansacat awards from the Association of Dance Professionals of Catalonia, in the screendance category. In 2021 she was selected for the Creation Residency for Young Cinema in Valencia. There, she established the bases for her new audiovisual project, Umbra, which later became a finalist in the Pitch Competition at the Cinedans Fest. After completing her degree she began training in photography at the Catalan Institute of Photographic Studies. Col·lapse is her latest stage piece. It was a finalist in the Institut del Teatre’s 2024 Dance awards. It has also been shown at venues such as Les Arts en Viu (in collaboration with ESMUC) and at the Stripart festival. The choreography is being further developed with the aim of turning it into a street performance. She currently works as a live arts choreographer and photographer. Her choreographies revolve around research on movement, looking for ways of taking the basic concepts of dramaturgy to the bodies of the performers and so create a specific language for each piece. Dance as a medium is particularly of interest to her because of the possibilities it offers in the creation of alternatives to everyday reality.
Direction and choreography in collaboration with performers: Lucía García
Performers: María Cerezo, Judith Capdevila and Rebeca Barroso
Soundscape composition: Marc Vilaseca and David Mormeneo
Soundscape collaboration: Clàudia Fernàndez and Judith Capdevila
Costume design and creation: Ana Gracia
Scenography: Roger Badia
Coproduction: Institut del Teatre
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