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Sonen ballades

Show of ancient dances, popular and academic music of iberian origin. From root to tradition.

Sonen ballades

SONEN BALLADES : the essence

The vitality of a Mediterranean city

Towards 1700, Barcelona was an extraordinary vital and splendorous city. There were celebrations every three days and among shining colours and deep smells, one could hear those wind instruments which, from the Middle Ages, have been used and played in .

Ministrils, musicians and Dancing Masters.

Since the 16th century, the ministril was a musician who played both wind, bevel, double and mouthpiece instruments. Often he could also act as Dancing Master.

The Dancing Masters used to accompany their lessons with several instruments : a tabor pipe, a guitar or a pochette (small pocket, in french), one so small violin that could be kept in your pocket.

SONEN BALLADES : the show

« Sonen ballades » : early dance and music, academic and popular. Iberian origin and Mediterranean influences. From root to tradition.

You will listen, watch and enjoy music and dances that travelled all over the Iberian Peninsula and Europe, along the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.

Some of these dances are still danced in the open air in catalan towns and villages and so keeping alive anonymous Rennaissance and Barocco melodies and basses, strongly reminding us catalan rhymes and children songs, carols and other traditional melodies.

At times, you will feel as if you are really at the Archduke Charles’ court or at the small palace of Sir Jourdain, and at some others as if you were at the ancient Barcelona’s main square, named in our days as Born Avenue.

In this show, music and dance share space and time in a very intimate dialogue. As early Dancing Masters used to do, today dancers accompany their selves with their instruments, and musicians evolve around the stage while they play, sometimes drawing winding spaces with basic steps. Also, they can leave aside their instruments and start a Matutxins dance (a Renaissance dance, origin of the catalan ball de bastons, a kind of Morris Dance).

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STAGING

! A dynamic show.

Halfway between concert and ballet, "Sonen ballades" is a total show: light and darkness, appearances and disappearances, costume changes, voice contrasts, and some other surprises …It may have more than one single argument, and also contains diverse human stories: Gallantry, hierarchy, learning, joke, duel ... small glances of complicity, defiance or passion.

! A pair of dancers.

Two dancers act linking those steps that were learned in dancing schools of the 17th century, and have been recovered from still surviving sources of that time. In fact they link some of the old dances with those others that have kept alive through oral tradition and are still danced in catalan villages and squares.

! The de ministrils.

A quartet of musicians, playing both woodwind and brass instruments, combining old and traditional instruments, and always adapting themselves to the country and period in which they are placed. According to the type of dance, they can use either historical harmonization (Cabezón, Praetorius, Gaspar Sanz, and Martin Coll ...) or Mediterranean polyphony of oral tradition.

! The guitarist.

Guitar, being the main dance instrument in the Iberian Peninsula also participates in the show. Guitar or "guitarró" (small guitar) either as soloist or accompanist, both improvise following the directions of the main music treatises of the time.

RECREATE, IMPROVISE and SHARE. Thanks to spontaneity, improvisation, emotion, exchange and joke, people attending the show are able to share with the dancers the dance spirit, in some unique and precious moments.

Quan el pare no té pa, la canalla fa ballar... (catalan popular song, with Villano’s melody)

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THE PROGRAMME

“El que dança el Alta, continùa la Escuela en esta manera: Dança dos mudanças de Pavana, Gallarda, dos mudanças de , dos de Rey, dos de Villano, Chacona y Canario; y rematase la Escuela con el Torneo, o el Pie de gibado, que es todo lo que se dança en las Escuelas: y aunque ay Rastro, Jacara, Zaravanda, y Tarraga, estas quatro pieças son una mesma cosa...” – Esquivel de Navarro, 1642

ENTRANCE of the PAVAN PAVANE d’ESPAGNE TRADITIONAL PAVANA

guitar solo VILLANO guitar solo

FOLIES d’ESPAGNE IBERIAN

CANARIO

ESPANYOLETA ESPUNYOLET

variations of PASSAMEZZO MODERNO / traditional melodies les BOUFFONS and MATUTXINS DANCE

PARADETAS SARABANDE CHACONA

JACARA

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WORKSHOP

! XURIACH also suggests a dance workshop with live music of some dances from "Sonen ballades". The aim is to familiarize, experiment, understand and enjoy this dance style, so badly known in Europe. The spontaneous performers will feel not being in a class at all but in a street dance, like those still alive in Mediterranean towns and villages.

Also, musicians will exhibit and play a good number of those ancient traditional instruments that were then already used for dance accompaniment.

IN CREATION

A future proposition, is the « pocket show ».

! Small scale show (scheduled for 2011). A musician and a female dancer : a duet in which, during some moments, noubody knows who is who, because performers exchange their roles...

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« XURIACH » : the artists

XURIACH has been born from some revival desire, with historical criteria, of ancient music and dances of the Iberian Peninsula that have survived thanks to oral tradition. These arts are brought near to everybody through dynamic, poetic and current performances, either at the stage or at the street.

XURIACH is the family name of a dynasty of builders at Barcelona. They worked during much of the eighteenth century, and we know that many of them were also musicians. In the Music Museum of Barcelona there are some of their works, still maintaining an exceptional quality.

« Sonen ballades » is the first creation of the group. Premiere scheduled for summer 2010.

Musicians : NÚRIA SANROMÀ – cornetto & recorder DANIEL CARBONELL – , , baroque & XAVIER BANEGAS – tenor & bass sackbut MARC RIERA – i tamborí (catalan tabor pipe), , dulcians & baroque with JOSEP MARIA MARTÍ – guitar & guitarró

Dancers : ANNA ROMANÍ – dance, pochette, recorder & JAIME PUENTE – dance & castanets

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ANNA ROMANÍ Barcelona, 1984. She studied music, dance and visual arts since she was very young. She studied recorder, violin and singing, and she incorporates it in some of the shows in which she has participated.

As a dancer, she is trained in classical dance and contemporary techniques (Limon, Release, Graham, Contact), in traditional dance from around the world... and in early dance with Peggy Dixon, Ana Yepes, Begoña del Valle, Marie-Geneviève Massé, Françoise Deniau, Bruna Gondoni, Cecilia Gracio Moura, Béatrice Massin, Barbara Sparti.

At present, she is a dancer in French companies L’Eventail & Compagnie Ana Yepes. We've seen her dancing in "Cadmus et Hermione," production of the Opéra Comique de Paris, with Le Poème Harmonique (conductor Vincent Dumestre and Benjamin Lazar, recorded on DVD by Alpha). Among other productions, in 2006 she participated in the Ambronay Académie as a dancer & choreographer assistant in "Ercole Amante," directed by Gabriel Garrido.

She is the choreographer in the company Els Pirates Teatre and in danced concerts with Diatessaron, Forma Antiqva, Ensemble Santenay ... She is a founding member of Xuriach.

JAIME PUENTE Madrid, 1977. At the age of 8 starts dancing & he specializes in traditional Spanish dance. Later in 1999, he finishes his studies of spanish dance at the Real Conservatorio Profesional de Danza de Madrid. Julia Estevez, Alicia de la Corte, Rosa Ruiz, Antonia Camacho, Carmen Rollán, Paco Romero, Jose Granero, Antonia Martinez, Alejandro Granados, Carmela Greco, Pedro Azorín, Juanjo Linares have been some of his teachers.

He develops his activity in numerous professional Spanish and dance companys: Ibérica de Danza, Ballet Folclórico de Madrid, Razas, Ballet de María Rosa, Luisillo, Carmen Cubillo, Antonio Márquez, Carmen Cantero… In the early dance speciality, he studied French and Italian Renaissance dance, Iberian and French Baroque with Mª José Ruiz, Marta Guisado, Lieven Baert, Barbara Sparti, Ana Yepes, Françoise Denieau, Bruna Gondoni, Cecilia Gracio Moura and Teresa Alvés.

He takes part in diferent companys : Esquivel, La Españoleta, Orfeo, Axivil, Barroc Ballet. Under the conduction of Gustavo Tambasio, he participates in « Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme » of Molière.

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NÚRIA SANROMÀ Barcelona, 1981. She began her musical studies in the Orfeó de Sants, where he studied recorder. She obtained the recorder diploma in Barcelona in 2001 and that year began his studies of cornetto with Jean-Pierre Canihac in the ESMUC (Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya) where she obtained her degree in 2006. Currently, she continues her master studies in cornetto in the CNSMD (Conservatoire Nacionale Supérieur de Musique et Danse) with Jean- Pierre Canihac & William Dongois, and at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with Bruce Dickey. She also had lessons with Paco Rubio, Fritjoff Smith, Marleen Caerlen, Wim Becu, Charles Toet & Daniel Stellmann.

Professionally, she has collaborated with Hesperion XXI of Jordi Savall, Les Sacqueboutiers Toulouse of Jean-Pierre Canihac and Daniel Lassalle, Le Concert de l’Hostel-Dieu of Frank- Emmanuel Compte, Capilla Peñaflorida under conduction of Josep Cabré, Los Músicos de su Alteza conducted by Luís Antonio González, Capilla Hispalense, Ministriles de Marsias of Paco Rubio, Exaudi nos of Joan Grimalt and the sephardic music ensemble Aljama. He has performed Monteverdi's Vespers with the Maitrise of Bretagne & with Luc Denaux in Grenoble.

She takes part in the groups Concerto Scirocco & Duo Andarta with residence in Basel. Since 2005, she conducts the groups Ars Iberica & Lux Venti with who works about the Spanish Renaissance and Baroque repertoire.

DANIEL CARBONELL Daniel Carbonell has a passion for the instruments. In traditional music he is an specialist in gralla & tarota (catalan double reed instruments). He takes part of Ganxets, Grallers del Baix Camp, Bufalodre, Metralla & Banda Aèria. He is the director of the traditional music school in Reus, Aula de Sons. He teaches at l’Aula de Música tradicional de la Generalitat de Catalunya & at ESMUC (traditional catalan music & gralla/dolçaina).

In 2007 obtains his degreee in the speciality of historical at ESMUC, being the second graduate that gets the degree in this discipline. He has been teached by Xavier Blanch, Alfredo Bernardini, Paolo Grazzi, Pep Borràs and Paco Rubio, among others. He has been trained with the oboes family and currently he is specializing in shawms & soprano and alto dulcians.

He participates in the groups Ministriles Hipalensis, Exaudi nos & Concertare. He also collaborates with groups like Capilla Nivariense de Tenerife, Orquestra Barroca Catalana, Ars Iberica, Hexacordo, Academia del Piacere or La capella de ministrers de València.

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XAVIER BANEGAS Barcelona, 1982. He began his musical studies in his hometown. At the age of 10 began playing the euphonium, and two years later began his studies at the Conservatory of Barcelona specializing in trombone.

In 2001 started studying the sackbut with Daniel Lassalle and Jean Pierre Mathieu at ESMUC. There, receives improvisational & chamber music classes with teachers such as Jean-Pierre Canhiac and Paco Rubio. He obtains the title of Early Music in 2006.

From 2007 to 2009 he did a Master in baroque trombone with Wim Becu at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne. Collaborates with groups like Al Ayre Español, Los Músicos de su Alteza, La Caravaggia or Orquestra Barroca Catalana. Recently he has recorded an album with Los Músicos de su Alteza, and another with La Caravaggia, winner group of the audience award at IYAP 2007 held in Antwerp.

MARC RIERA Barcelona, 1978. He began studying classical music and woodwinds of the traditional catalan music. After, by the Aula de Música Tradicional i Popular de la Generalitat and Aula de sons de Reus he was trained as a flabiol i tamborí (catalan tabor pipe) performer.

He studied historical with Josep Borràs. In 2006 he obtained the superior diploma at ESMUC. There, he also complemented his studies in flabiol in the classical aspect of the instrument.

He also has received historical bassoon lessons from Carles Cristóbal, Alberto Grazzi & Giorgio Mandolesi ; orquestra and group lessons with Lorenzo Coppola, Alfredo Bernardini, Xavi Díaz, Wim Becku, Jean-Pierre Canhiac & Paco Rubio.

He participated in the last two editions of the Ambronay Academy: « Triomfi Sacri » conducted by Jean Tubery and "Une Soirée avec Mozart" conducted by Martin Gester.

Founding member of Xuriach and the classical orchestra Sibil!la, he has also collaborated in the groups Espremulls-cobla antiga, Capilla Real de Madrid, Cobla Sabadell, Els Perdigots, Música Antiga de Girona, Ex audi nos, Bufalodre. Also in classical orchestras: NJO & JONC.

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JOSEP MARIA MARTÍ Vilafranca del Penedès, 1981. He obtained the superior degree in guitar at the Conservatori Superior de Música of Barcelona under the direction of Jordi Codina.

Later, ends the superior studies of historical plucked string instruments at ESMUC, obtaining the highest grades, in both soloist and chamber music speciality under the guidance of Xavier Díaz Latorre, Laura Mónica Pustilnik. Also he is being specialized in the baroque opera at "La nuova Fabbrica dell’Opera Barroca" in Novara (Italy).

His continuist activity is developed in the groups Aljama, Vespres d’Arnadí, Ars Iberica, Orquestra Barroca Catalana, Los Mvsicos de sv Alteza, La Dispersione, Ministriles de Marsias, Les sacqueboutiers de Toulouse & La Terza Prattica, with whom he has performed numerous concerts throughout Catalonia, Spain and Europe in numerous prestigious festivals. He has recorded several times by France Musique, Catalunya Ràdio and the Alpha label.

He has worked with renowned musicians and conductors such as William Christie, Jean-Pierre Canihac, Massimiliano Toni,Paco Rubio, Wim Becu, Daniel Espasa and Luís Antonio González.

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SHOW FILE

Duration large show format: 1 hour without break dance workshop : 1h30

Public for all audiences

Stage required for large format show: 8x6m (adaptable according to space)

Scenography stands and chairs

Lighting without specific requirements, we will use the possibilities of the theatre

Number of people large format show : 7 persons travelling with workshop : 3-5 (to specify)

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