Radical d'Arrel: ERA, Enviró d’ERA i L’Hereu Riera
12 pm / Plaça Ovidi Montllor (located behind Mercat de les Flors)
This project has provided an opportunity for Esbart Rocasagna to create something from scratch with a new and collaborative look, participating in symbiosis with Quim Bigas, which goes beyond traditional or contemporary dance genres. Esbart has worked with the elements that characterise it to create a piece with a character of its own, in which the emphasis is on people and the links that unite them, links that are made with the land, with the history of places, of bodies and collectives, and looks towards the future. Links that weave, like macramé, ways of meeting and continuing to build together.
1 pm / Sala MAC
In this Enviró d’ERA, Quim Bigas shares with us the process of creation of the show ERA, opens up anecdotes, rescues materials and things that were made in the studio and explains a little about this ERA macramé.
Enviró d’ERA is a spoken and danced explanation of the gestation and creation of ERA that shows how the process sometimes transcends the result, or rather, how this process crystallises not only in the choreography and the music of the show, but also and especially in the mood, in this case in the enthusiasm of the dancers. It reveals the questions, reflections, exercises, experiences, discoveries and motivations of the creative process of ERA: from the first mail received, to walks through Gelida with Montserrat in the background, to a macramé workshop with local people and a visit to a Penedès Marítim archaeological site. An honest, personal, intelligent and not at all regulatory format.
5 pm / Plaça Ovidi Montllor (located behind Mercat de les Flors)
A solo dance and performance piece that explores a constant dialogue between the primary language of traditional Catalan dance and various contemporary dance techniques. Melody and popular dance appear as a vehicle to validate traditional practices from other possible interpretations, a process that culminates in the re-appropriation of the traditional for the individual.
L’Hereu Riera is a frontier piece: It questions a diverse audience while parading on the margins of traditional and contemporary dance, shaking its limits and playing with a hybrid language. The main figure appears redefined and is presented as an opportunity to relearn the cultural legacy we have inherited, to shake it up and revive it as a communicative tool. A ritual that invites us to reflect on Catalan popular imagination and its relationship with our contemporary society. Is there room for reconciliation?
The first piece from the L’Esbord platform, a space from which to open a professional path of research and investigation of traditional Catalan dance, from the legacy of troupes to a new look at the roots: deviant, unproductive, sterile, and wild. With no transmission but equally necessary. Traditional dance with no reproductive function.
