GELABERT AZZOPARDI companyia de dansa i Present TRANÇ Tranç is a show directed by Cesc Gelabert and filmmaker Isaki Lacuesta. Gelabert himself is in charge of the stage performance, together with dancers Roser López Espinosa and Lorena Nogal. A group of young dance students are to take part in this production and complete the cast. Metamorphosis, transfigurations, and time machines: a dancer starts to turn centuries ago and the turning ends up in a present-day body. A choreographic phrase that crosses time, connecting dancers of different generations. Tranç aims to show dance as a continual gesture transmitted by the maestros of the past and inherited by today’s choreographers, who embody it and transform it to obtain a new variation every time. A play of ever-distorting mirrors. Tranç combines echoes from the past and splits from the present onstage; live dancers with images projected onto transparent acrylic glass sheets: evocations of figures from our history (Carmen Amaya, Vicente Escudero, Joan Magriñá, La Maña, Rosita Mauri, Tórtola Valencia), living maestros (Yiya Diaz, Anna Maleras, Albert Sans), and fleeting projections of flashes of movement from some of our contemporaries (Marta Carrasco, Andres Corchero, Àngels Margarit, Maria Muñoz, Thomas Noone and Sol Picó). Phantasmagorias that will serve as a preamble to the bodies of the dancers who will give a live performance of this game of translations and betrayals, of gestures transmitted from creator to creator. Artistic direction Cesc Gelabert / Isaki Lacuesta Coreography direction Cesc Gelabert Stage space and audiovisuals Isaki Lacuesta Coreography Cesc Gelabert, Roser López Espinosa, Marcos Morau Performers Cesc Gelabert, Roser López Espinosa and Lorena Nogal Original music Borja Ramos Additional music Xavier Montsalvatge Wardrobe, make-up and hairstyling for the filmed material Lydia Azzopardi Dancers’ stage costumes Lydia Azzopardi, Roser López Espinosa, La Veronal Lighting Conxa Pons Assistant to the Cesc Gelabert Toni Jodar Assistant to the Lydia Azzopardi Georgina Misser Audiovisual technical director Albert Coma Audiovisual technical director Diego Dussuel and Alberto Rodríguez Camera operator Abel Garcia Roure Sound Amanda Villavieja Technical stage director Conxa Pons Photos Ros Ribas Projections Personifications: Cesc Gelabert (Joan Magriñá, Vicente Escudero), Roser López Espinosa (Rosita Mauri, Tórtola Valencia) Lorena Nogal (Carmen Amaya, La Maña) Filmed presences: Yiya Diaz, Anna Maleras, Albert Sans Short flashes: Marta Carrasco, Andrés Corchero, Angels Margarit, María Muñoz, Thomas Noone, Sol Picó. Executive producer Isa Campo of Termita Films and Maria Rosas of Gelabert Azzopardi Communication / Coordinator Montse G. Otzet Accountant Xavier Vigas Co production Mercat de les Flors / Institut Ramon LLull / Gelabert Azzopardi Companyia de Dansa / La Termita films With the collaboration of: Arts Santa Mònica Thanks Ballet Nacional de España, l’Institut del Teatre de Barcelona, Teatre LLiure, Menkes, Damaret Atrezzo i Taller d’Escenogràfia Jordi Castells Other thanks Guillermina Coll, 6th-year dance students from l’IEA Oriol Martorell and IT Dansa – Institut del Teatre Premiered: 28th september 2012 at the Mercat de les Flors, Barcelona Duration 45’ without intermission CESC GELABERT Barcelona choreographer / dancer Gelabert is one of the most influential choreographers and dancers working in Spanish contemporary dance today. He is a versatile artist who has made a significant contribution towards creating a dance culture in Spain. Gelabert is not a follower of any specific movement and proposes a signature style, a personal dance language that is the result of a long professional career and great passion. His choreographies are based on symbols and historical references and are characterised by a clear and easy-to-understand language, where every gesture is born of a heartfelt intention. Cesc Gelabert originally studied architecture and began his dance studies with Anna Maleras, joining her group in the year 1969. In the year 1972 he produced his first choreography, a year later he created his first solo, Acció O, and in 1976 Acció I with Toni Gelabert, both in collaboration with Frederic Amat, and later presented as Espai de dansa at the Teatre Lliure in Barcelona and other theatres. In 1977, with Espai de dansa, he presented Ver-estiu-altumne-ivern-1, a work for seven performers, at the Saló Diana in Barcelona. Between 1978 and 1980, he became an active member of the dance community in New York, presenting his pieces at La Mama, The Kitchen and other venues. In 1980, back in Barcelona, he began collaborating with Lydia Azzopardi and they formed Gelabert Azzopardi Companyia de Dansa, in 1985. Desfigurat was the first of over thirty productions that Gelabert Azzopardi has presented on national and international tours. During their first years as a company, Gelabert Azzopardi based their activities at La Fàbrica, an important venue in Barcelona directed by Toni Gelabert and Norma Axenfeld. After many years associated with the Teatre Lliure de Barcelona, the company became its resident dance company from the year 2003 until 2012. From the start of the 1980s and until 2003, Gelabert Azzopardi was co-resident dance company at the Hebbel Theater in Berlin. During his long career, Cesc Gelabert has choreographed, performed and collaborated in opera, video, theatre, cinema and cabaret productions at Europe’s main theatres. He has reconstructed three solos by German choreographer Gerhard Bohner: Im (Goldenen) Schnitt I/II in 1996 and 1999, respectively, and Schwarz Weiss Zeigen in 2010. Cesc Gelabert created the solo In a Landscape for Mikhail Baryshnikov. Furthermore, he has produced commissions for David Hughes, Balletto di Toscana, Tanztheater Komische Oper, Ballet Gulbenkian, Larumbe Danza and Hermès. He has also collaborated with major personalities from the performing arts world, prominently including Fabià Puigserver, Núria Espert, Jorge Laveli, Montserrat Caballé, Milva, Gerardo Vera, Pilar Miró, Lluís Pasqual, Emilio Sagi, Carles Santos, Frederic Amat, Mario Gas, Julia Migenes Johnson, José Maria Sánchez-Verdú, Kanjuro VII, Lorenzo Mariani and Giancarlo del Monaco. ISAKI LACUESTA Girona filmmaker Isaki Lacuesta has directed six feature-length films: the most recent, Los pasos dobles (2011), won the Golden Shell at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. He had previously directed El quadern de fang (2011, Golden Medal at FIPA Biarritz), La noche que no acaba (2010, best documentary at the Toulouse Film Festival and audience prize at the Memorimages Festival), Los Condenados (2009, Official Section at the San Sebastian International Film Festival, Fipresci International Critics’ prize and Sant Jordi Prize for the best actress), La leyenda del tiempo (2006, Rotterdam IFF, best Spanish film of the year according to the Catalan Critics Association) and the documentary Cravan vs Cravan (2002, Sant Jordi Prize for the best first work). His filmed correspondence with Japanese filmmaker Naomi Kawase, In between days (2009) was premiered at the Locarno Film Festival. Lacuesta has also shown his artistic work at museums and galleries (Metrònom Gallery Barcelona, CCCB, Arts Visual Institute of Leipzig, Spanish Academy of Rome, Frankfurt Book Fair, Artium Vitoria). In autumn 2012, his films were screened at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and at the MOMA in New York. In the last year, Lacuesta’s film output has been the subject of different international retrospectives (Florence, Cali, Las Palmas, Rome, etc). In parallel, Lacuesta has received such awards as the Hall Screen Award at the Ibn Arabi Film Festival de Murcia, the Eloy de la Iglesia prize at the Malaga Festival and the National Film Prize of Catalonia. Publishers Phaidon Press have chosen him in their book Take 100: The Future of Film, as one of the hundred filmmakers who, according to the directors of the ten most important international festivals, will mark the future of film. BORJA RAMOS Barakaldo composer As a composer, Borja Ramos has worked mainly in the field of contemporary dance. He has composed music for choreographies by Damián Muñoz, Gelabert-Azzopardi, Germán Jauregi, 10 & 10 Danza, Víctor Ullate Ballet, Asier Zabaleta, Natalia Medina, Idoia Zabaleta, Larumbe Danza and Blanca Arrieta, among others. Together with the composer Bingen Mendizabal, he wrote music for the soundtracks of the films “Frágil”, by Juanma Bajo Ulloa, and “Nos miran”, by Norberto López Amado. Also working under Mendizabal, he created the electronic sets for the soundtracks of “Kamchatka”, by Marcelo Piñeiro, “El arte de morir”, by Álvaro Fernández-Armero, and “Skin Deep”, by Sacha Parisot. In addition, he has collaborated with the Basque singers Mikel Urdangarin, Mikel Laboa and Ruper Ordorika. As a composer of contemporary music has written original pieces for instrumental ensembles as well as electroacoustic works. He has also worked with Sigma Project, the Krater Ensemble and the Ensemble Espacio Sinkro. His creations have been presented at festivals and institutions in France, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Holland, the United Kingdom, Poland, Slovenia, Hungary, Cuba, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Canada, USA and Japan. LYDIA AZZOPARDI U.K. styling Dancer, choreographer and teacher, Lydia Azzopardi is a designer and a stylist. She began studying classical ballet, and during 1972 - 1976 completed her training in contemporary dance at the London Contemporary Dance School. She toured Great Britain