in practice
Maria Jerez
Maria Jerez

(1978). Her work travels “between” choreography, cinema and visual arts. Since 2004, she has made pieces that explore the relationship with the spectator as the space in which the modes of representation are put into crisis. From “The Case of the Spectator” to her latest pieces, this relation has mutated from a place of “understanding” of theatrical and cinematographic conventions, that is, from the expertise, to the intentional loss of references where the artist, the piece and the spectator behave towards each other as strangers. She combines the production of her artistic work with educational, curatorial and editorial projects.

Quim Pujol
Quim Pujol

(1978) works between poetry and live arts. His last pieces are “The Message From Other Worlds” (2021) and “Variety of varities” (2022). He has participated in exhibitions such as “Interval. Sound Actions” at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies or “Visceral Blue” at La Capella. He edited with Ixiar Rozas the affect theory volume “Ejercicios de ocupación” (Ediciones Polígrafa, 2015) and he also curated the experimental arts program at Mercat de les Flors (2011-2015) and the Picnic Sessions at CA2M (2023).

Volmir Cordeiro
Volmir Cordeiro

Born in 1987, in Brazil, Volmir Cordeiro firstly graduated in theater and worked with the Brazilian choreographers Alejandro Ahmed, Cristina Moura et Lia Rodrigues. Volmir Cordeiro graduated in 2012 from Essais, Angers Choreographic Centerʼs experimental dance training, with Céu, a much-regarded solo work that extensively toured European and Brazilian dance festivals, and he is now working on a PhD thesis on the figures of marginality in contemporary dance. Volmir Cordeiro has performed in the projects of Xavier Le Roy, Laurent Pichaud, Rémy Héritier, Emmanuelle Huynh, Jocelyn Cottencin et Vera Mantero. In 2014, he created the solo Inês, and in 2015, the duet Epoque with the Paris based chilean dancer Marcela Santander Corvalán. He has just closed a first cycle of his work, made of the three solos : Céu, Inês and Rue (created in october 2015 at Musée du Louvre, in collaboration with FIAC). Volmir Cordeiro was the associate artist at Ménagerie de Verre in 2015 and since 2017 is associate artiste at Centre National de la Danse (CND – Pantin). Volmir regularly teaches in choreography courses such as Master Exerce in Montpellier (France), or Master Drama in Gent (Belgium).

Alessandro Sciarroni
Alessandro Sciarroni

Alessandro Sciarroni is an Italian artist active in the performing arts, visual arts and theatrical research. He has presented his work in dance and theater festivals, museums, galleries and unconventional places, in important institutions and events around the world, among which Biennale de la Danse de Lyon, Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), Impulstanz stand out (Vienna), Festival d’Automne, Centquatre and Center Pompidou (Paris), Festival TBA (Portland), Biennale di Venezia, The Walker Art Center (Minneapolis) or Museo MAXXI (Rome).
His work goes beyond gender definitions – he uses the theatrical structure, but he can use techniques and experiences of dance, circus or sport, regularly involving professionals from different disciplines. In addition to rigor, coherence and clarity, it seeks to discover obsessions, fears and weaknesses in the act of interpreting, through the repetition of a practice up to the limits of the physical resistance of the interpreters, considering a different dimension of time and an empathic relationship between the audience and the artists.

Vânia Rovisco
Vânia Rovisco

Vânia Rovisco distinguishes herself as a performative visual artist since 2008. She places her body in the art gallery where she then further expands her work to other mediums – through live installations, lights or video. From 2001 to 2007 she was the interpreter of choreographer Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods. From 2012 and 2015, she collaborated in curatorial terms with the Museum Arpad Szenes Vieira da Silva. In 2013 she debuted the solo The Archaic, Looking Out, The Night Knight and in 2014 she staged Silos de carros e estradas giratórias for 10 men. Currently she gives workshops, does movement direction and continues her work as an interpreter. She is co-founder of Aktuelle Architektur der Kultur –AADK art platform, and her latest project Reacting to Time – Portugueses na Performance deals with the archiving and transmission of works from the late 60’s. She was invited to curate and course-manage the Advanced Creation Program in Performing Arts (PACAP3) at Fórum Dança.

July 5 to 9 > Next edition with the artist María Jerez and with the writer and curator Quim Pujol. July 5 to 9 > Next edition with the artist María Jerez and with the writer and curator Quim Pujol. July 5 to 9 > Next edition with the artist María Jerez and with the writer and curator Quim Pujol.