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Date: Fri 17 April - Time: 18:00 & 20:45 -Duration: 65 mins Venue: Sala Pina Bausch - Mercat de les Flors

Dan Canham – Still House (UK)

Milena Ugren Koulas (CY)

30 Cecil Street - 25 mins

Manlike - 35 mins

The Limerick Athenaeum at 30 Cecil Street is a building with a history that stretches back over 150 years. Within that time it has served as an art college, a bingo hall and everything in-between.

Manlike is inspired by the stories of women who had to become men. The ‘sworn virgins’ of the Western Balkans took vows of chastity, dressed and lived like men in order to avoid the harsh treatment that women usually experienced

Closed to the public for the last 17 years, the insides have slowly started to crumble and rot; original tickets from club nights in 1998 and random keys to doors that are no longer in use have been left to fade and rust.

Milena Ugren’s movement style is incredibly evocative dramatic, terse, based on tense isolations of different parts of her body interspersed with moments of release. Coupled with Koulas’ vocal percussion, she creates a quietly violent and subversive duet that raises stark questions about gender.

What you see tonight is a sincere bid on my behalf to make alive the spirit of a building that now lies empty. What you hear are sounds associated with the building’s history and the voices of people who once worked or frequented there Created & performed by: Dan Canham Supported by: National Lottery through Grants for the Arts, Bristol Old Vic Ferment, Escalator Performing Arts and Battersea Arts Centre. Dan Canham is a theatre-maker and choreographer based in Bristol, UK. Through his company, Still House, he makes visually poetic work that includes dance-theatre, film and installation. Still House works 30 Cecil Street and Ours Was the Fen Country have toured extensively throughout the UK and internationally. As a performer he has worked with Kneehigh, DV8, Punchdrunk and Fabulous Beast among others.

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Choreographer / dancer: Milena Ugren Koulas Musician / performer: George Koulas Composer: Tasos Stylianou Lighting design: Aleksandar Jotovic Costumes: Ase Lazarou Supported by: The Cultural Services of the Ministry of Education and Culture of Cyprus / programme Terpsihori 2013 Dancer / choreographer Milena Ugren Koulas and musician George Koulas have been collaborating for last 9 years. Both of them graduated from Codarts Academy in Rotterdam, Netherlands. They have presented their work in different venues in Cyprus and abroad in Croatia, Czech Republic, Poland, Italy, Greece, Sweden, Germany, France. In 2007 the piece While Walking received a prize from New Europe Festival in Prague, Czech Republic. In 2012, Ugren’s choreography House of Heaven II was nominated to appear at the International Choreographic Competition in Hanover and No-Ballet in Ludwigshaven, Germany.

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Programme 2 Date: Fri 17 April - Time: 19.15 - Duration: 95 mins Venue: Sala Ovidi Montllor – Institut del Teatre

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Tabea Martin (CH)

Hodworks (HU)

Aerowaves Encore - FIELD - 40 mins

Aerowaves Encore - Conditions of Being a Mortal Movements I & III - 42 mins

Three bodies. One field. The 100 best love songs. They long for something to happen, for some explosion. They fight fiercely for love, for affection, for recognition. Startlingly athletic and dynamic, this trio is a battlefield. Limbs tangle like tentacles, as the dancers cling to and struggle with each other. But is it just a frenzy signifying nothing? The more they are together, the more they feel alone.

Full of operatic melodrama, Conditions of Being a Mortal opens a window to the subconcious of four characters. It is a wildly physical work that explodes in a tangle of bodies and heightened emotions. Robust humour, splinters of sexuality, arias of impulsive gasps and full-blown shrieking arguments are rarely far away. Sensual, athletic movement abounds in a quartet that offers a colourful and raucous triumph over dull urban reality.

Choreography: Tabea Martin Choreographic assistant: Viola Perra Dancers: Kateřina Dietzová, Carl Staaf, Luca Cacitti Dramaturgy: Youness Anzane Lighting design: Minna Heikkilä Light: Joris Visée Costume: Mirjam Egli Production and distribution: Cecile Brissier / Kilim Production Thanks: Sebastian Nübling, Matthias Mooij, Rebecca Weingartner, Laura Pregger, Pol Bierhoff Production: Kilim Production Coproduction: Gymnase CDC Roubaix; Kaserne Basel Partners: Rotterdamse Schouwburg; Theater aan het Vrijthof, Maastricht; Grand Theatre, Groningen; ADN Neuchatel. With the support of Centre National de la Danse, Paris and Kanton Basel-Landschaft Tabea Martin is a choreographer and performer based between Amsterdam, Basel and Zürich. Duet for two dancers was selected by Aerowaves in 2011 and was awarded in 2013 by (Re)connaissance in France. It has since toured extensively in Europe. She has created several new works in recent years at Stadttheater Bern, Maxim Gorki Theatre Berlin and Schauspielhaus Zürich, and regularly collaborates with Sebastian Nübling and Sibylle Berg. In 2015 Tabea will create Pink for Girls and Blue for Boys to premiere at Tanzhaus Zürich in January 2016. She will also work at Gessnerallee Zürich in collaboration with Sibylle Berg.

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Choreography: Adrienn Hód Performers: Marcio Canabarro, Emese Cuhorka, Júlia Garai, Csaba Molnár Music: Franz Liszt: Faust Symphony Music consultant: Zoltán Mizsei Consultant: Zsolt Sőrés Dramaturgy: Ármin Szabó-Székely Supported by: Ministry of Human Resource; National Cultural Fund; Budapest City IX. District; New Performing Arts Foundation; Workshop Foundation; SÍN Cultural Center; OFF Foundation (Hungary); Zagreb Dance Company and Art Centre Svetvincenat (Croatia) Adrienn Hód is a choreographer and teacher known for her radical approach to bodies, space, experimental music and the interrelation of these - including the audience. Her works are based on improvisation and she concentrates on the human body taken out of its cultural context. Three of her choreographies Basse danse (2012), Dawn (2014), and Conditions of Being a Mortal (2015), have been selected by Aerowaves. Hód has been awarded the Rudolf Laban Prize twice, with Basse danse in 2012 and Dawn in 2014 and has been nominated again this year.

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Programme 4 Date: Fri 17 April - Time: 22:00 - Duration: 40 mins Venue: Sala Maria Aurèlia Capmany - Mercat de les Flors

Guy Nader | Maria Campos (ES) Time Takes The Time Time Takes Time Takes The Time Time Takes is a physical dynamic conversation through movement, repetition and pendulum leitmotiv that embodies mechanisms measuring time and space. A journey of dangling movements that burst into different encounters evolving towards perpetual motion. TTTTTT considers time as a continuum – and as a perceptual experience. Through metric measurements and the exploration of oscillations and rhythm, we contemplate time as an eternal present rooted in materials and forms.

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This work will be presented in its full length at Mercat de les Flors in autumn 2015.

Guy Nader | Maria Campos is an independent ensemble based in Barcelona, Spain, since 2006. The Lebanese and Spanish artists have collaborated on various creations presented at international festivals and venues. Guy Nader is an associated artist at La Caldera dance and scenic arts creation centre in Barcelona and he was awarded the first prize at Masdanza International Festival for his solo Where The Things Hide. Maria Campos studied at SEAD in Austria and graduated from the Amsterdam School of the Arts (MTD) in 2003. She has worked with Meekers, Protein Dance, Sol Picó, Angels Margarit/Cia. Mudances, among others.

Concept: Guy Nader | Maria Campos Direction: Guy Nader Creation & performance: Maria Campos, Thais Hvid, Guy Nader, Roser Tutusaus, Magí Serra Music: Miguel Marin Lighting design: Israel Quintero and Lidia Ayala Costume: Viviane Calvitti Production: Raqscene, Marine Budin/Elclimamola Administration: SMart ib Coproduction: Mercat de les Flors Support: Graner- fàbrica de creació, L’Estruch, CO2 Festival, Paso a 2 and Universidad Carlos III Thanks: Francesco Barba, Charlotte Mathiessen, Fátima Campos, Miquel Fiol

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Programme 5a / 6b Date: Sat 18 April - Time: 11:00 & 15:00 - Duration: 105 mins Venue: Antic Theatre

Euripides Laskaridis (GR)

Vilma Pitrinaite – We Compagnie (LT)

Relic - 35 mins

Miss Lithuania - 40 mins

In a makeshift room, decorated in a haphazard DIY fashion, a performer puts his notably awkwardly shaped body under the magnifying glass. Magic comes from the mundane and references to cabaret, vaudeville and slapstick abound.

The performance invites you to cheer on Miss Lithuania as she goes through the stages of the Miss World contest: Traditional Dances, Beauty with a Purpose, Interview, Performing Talent, Bikini Contest. At first glance she is an idealistic girl, armed with national pride and conviction. But isn’t her authenticity a product of pop culture? As the contest proceeds, Miss Lithuania becomes entangled between her conditioned desire to represent her country, to be a role model, and her instinctive quest for liberation from conformity.

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Greek artist Euripides Laskaridis is preoccupied by ideas about transformation and ridicule. By testing the limits of our acceptance of the incongruous and unfamiliar, performer and audience alike will experience a moment of transcendence. Director, choreographer, performer, set design: Euripides Laskaridis Consultant to the director: Tatiana Bre Costume: Angelos Mendis Sound design: Kostas Michopoulos Lighting installation: Miltos Athanasiou Music consultant: Kornelios Selamsis Dramaturgy consultant: Alexandros Mistriotis Lighting consultant: Eliza Alexandropoulou Assistant director: Ioanna Plessa Special constructions: Marios Sergios Eliakis, Ioanna Plessa Creative production: James Konstantinidis, Natasa Kouvari Photos by Miltos Athanasiou Music/audio heard during the performance: Dá-me um Beijo by Elis Regina Kapia Mana Anastenazi by Vaggelis Perpiniadis Dialogue from the film 12 Angry Men Euripides Laskaridis is a stage director, short filmmaker and performer. He founded Osmosis Theatre Company in 2009 and has since presented their work in various settings in Greece, such as at the Athens and Epidaurus Festival, the Greek National Theatre, the Embros Theatre Occupation, the Ancient Venue of Hephaestia and others. Outside Greece, his work has been hosted at international festivals and venues such as the New York City Fringe, Judson Church, Dixon Place, and the 11th Biennale of European & Mediterranean Artists.

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Concept & performance: Vilma Pitrinaite Coaching: Davis Freeman, Dina Khuseyn, Juliane v. Crailsheim Dramaturgy: Thomas Pondevie Lighting design: Florian Leduc Image: Evaldas Semiotas, Nicolas Geny Production: We compagnie Thanks to: Artūras Areima, Audrys Karalius, Jurgis Pazera, Simonas Sidlauskas, Aiste Ramunaite Vilma Pitrinaite trained as a dancer and began her career with Dance Theatre Aura in Lithuania. Following her studies in France (CDC Toulouse, ex.e.r.ce and National Theatre of Strasbourg) she and Thomas Pondevie founded We Compagnie, engaging dancers and actors and performing in France and Lithuania at venues such as Theatre de la Cité Internationale, CND Pantin and at festivals such as Premières and New Baltic Dance. Vilma also collaborates as a performer withDance Theatre Aura, François Verret, Karine Ponties, Philippe Grandrieux, Karim Bel Kacem.

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Programme 5b / 6c Date: Sat 18 April - Time: 14:30 & 17:30 - Duration: 55 mins Venue: Sala Pina Bausch – Mercat de les Flors

Meytal Blanaru (BE)

Giorgia Nardin (IT)

Aurora - 15 mins

All dressed up with nowhere to go - 35 mins

In this refined and honest solo, Meytal Blanaru searches for a raw place. She asks – how much of who we are comes from within us, and how much is carved by society’s norms? Delving deeper into these questions, she was inspired by stories of feral children, many of whom developed unique ways of moving and expressing themselves while in isolation. This piece is dedicated to Genie, whose remarkable resilience captured the hearts of many. In another life she could have been anything she wanted.

A man and a woman are dressed in nothing but neatly tailored shirts. Side by side, they fold cuffs, collars – making gestures as if idly passing time on the street. Slowly, they react to a gradual loss of balance and try to avoid falling. Bathed in soft light, this mesmerising and gentle duet hovers between concrete reality and abstraction. It casts a spell that gradually fills the stage – and the body reacts to all this.

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Created & performed by: Meytal Blanaru Music: Noam Dorembus Costume: Yaarit Eliyahu Born in Israel, Meytal Blanaru is a Brussels based dancer, choreographer and teacher. Since moving to Europe in 2009, she has worked with Lisi Estaras in Les ballets C de la B, Damien Jalet in Eastman Dance Company, Samuel Lefeuvre, Roberto Olivan, Martin Kilvady and Clara Furey. Meytal’s work is represented by the agency SEVENTYSEVEN. Recently Meytal has assisted Damien Jalet in his new creation for Scottish Dance Theatre - Yama. In spring 2015, Meytal will choreograph her first group piece, commissioned by SEAD - Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance.

Choreography: Giorgia Nardin Created with & performed by: Marco D’Agostin, Sara Leghissa Research: Amy Bell, Marco D’agostin, Sara Leghissa, Giorgia Nardin Sound editing: Luca Scapellato Lighting design: Matteo Fantoni Costumes: Edda Binotto Developed as part of ChoreoRoam Europe 2012: CSC/ Centro per la Scena Contemporanea, Bassano del Grappa; The Place, London; Dansateliers, Rotterdam; Paso a 2/ Certamen Coreografico, Madrid; Dance Week Festival, Zagreb. Developed as part of B Project 2013: Jheronimus Bosch 500 Foundation, ‘s-Hertogenbosch; CSC/Centro per la Scena Contemporanea, Bassano del Grappa; Dance Umbrella, London; D.ID Dance Identity, Pinkafeld; La Briqueterie-Centre de développement chorégraphique du Val de Marne, Paris; Dansateliers, Rotterdam. Additional support from: El Graner/Mercat de les Flors, Barcelona; La Piccionaia/I Carrara/Teatro Villa dei Leoni, Mira; La Conigliera, Resana; INTEATRO Residenze, Polverigi; Teatro FondamentaNuove, Venezia; Associazione Culturale Arearea, Udine; Associazione Culturale VAN. Giorgia is an independent choreographer and performer. She teaches regularly and has performed in works by Sonia Brunelli and Igor and Moreno. Dolly, her first solo creation, was finalist at the Premio GD’A 2012 and received a special mention from DNA|RomaEuropa Festival. It was also included in the Italian Showcase at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2012. All dressed up with nowhere to go, her first duet, was the winner of Premio Prospettiva Danza 2013, and was selected to be presented at the NID Platform 2014.

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Programme 6a / 5c Date: Sat 18 April - Time: 11:00 & 16.30 - Duration: 110 mins Venue: Graner

Markéta Vacovská, Lenka Dusilová & Spitfire Company & Damúza (CZ) One step before the fall - 40 mins

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A hypnotic wave of voice and sound by Lenka Dusilová and power dance by Markéta Vacovská converge in a single moment in the boxing ring. This multi-genre project by the acclaimed Spitfire Company deals with the themes of fighting, exhaustion, the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, and collapse. “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can’t hit what the eyes can’t see.” - Muhammad Ali. Dedicated to Muhammad Ali and all the fighters around us. Concept & direction: Petr Boháč Choreography: Markéta Vacovská Dance: Markéta Vacovská Music & vocals: Lenka Dusilová Scenography: Petr Boháč, Jeník Bubal Lighting design: Martin Špetlík Producers: Tereza Havlíčková, Barbora Kalinová Production: Studio Damúza o.s., Bezhlaví o.s. Coproducers: UFFO – SCT, Experimental Venue Roxy / NoD Spitfire Company is an artistic company that includes works of physical and dance theatre. It is currently one of the most progressive ensembles of author theatre in the Czech Republic. Spitfire Company holds several international awards such as: Herald Angel Award, shortlisted for Total Theatre Award, Dancer and Lighting Design of the year – Czech Dance Platform 2013, Award of Skupova Plzeň festival, and DanceTransit Festival award, among others, and was selected by Aerowaves in 2014.

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BOD.Y (SK) BAKKHEIA – dancing on the edge - 40 mins Three dancers teeter on the edge. They are close to each other, sometimes touching - but you can feel their loneliness. They try to communicate but don’t connect. You might laugh at how absurd their attempts are. Music by Bach and The Knife drives their disjointed and pulsating movements to greater intensity. Sweat drips, their human instinct to reach out becomes more urgent. BAKKHEIA makes space for us to think about how connected to each other we actually are. Created by: Peter Šavel Created with & performed by: Gyula Cserepes, Soňa Ferienčíková, Tereza Ondrová Lighting design: Ints Plavnieks Music: J.S.Bach, The Knife & Henry Purcell Video: Richard Chomo & Peter Kotrha & Algis Kaveckis Production: BOD.Y & SKOK! Financial support: Ministry of Culture of Slovak Republic Residency support: DK Lúky & Stanica Žilina – Záriečie Peter Šavel has a BA in Dance Pedagogy from the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Bratislava. His work Boys Who Like To Play With Dolls, created with the Czech dancer Tereza Ondrová, was successfully presented at Spring Forward 2014 in Umeå. Peter is currently based in Brussels and has collaborated closely with Belgian choreographer Pierre Droulers since 2011 and with Salva Sanchis since 2013. Peter became an artist in residence at Charleroi Danses in 2014. BOD.Y, the brain-child of Slovak dancer Soňa Ferienčíková, is a non-profit organisation focused on the creation and production of new dance works from young Slovak artists working at home and abroad.

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Programme 7

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Date: Sat 18 April - Time: 20:00 - Duration: 100 mins Venue: Sala Ovidi Montllor – Institut del Teatre

Cie. Ayelen Parolin (BE)

Marco da Silva Ferreira (PT)

Heretics - 40 mins

Hu(r)mano - 40 mins

Heretics invites us into a modern ritual for two dancers, with live piano as a third partner. Everything about the piece is based on triangles. From a simple beginning, the mechanical, geometric gestures become enthralling to watch. The rhythm drives the dancers on as they push the limits of their memories and physical endurance. Heretics sparks thoughts about our relentless pursuit of efficiency and profitability in this obsessive, but also meditative trio.

Using urban dance as its main movement style, Hu(r)mano creates a world of ever-shifting relationships between its four dancers. There is a tension between the ‘human me’ and ‘urban we’: an echo of urban reality brought to life in the performance. The dancers’ fluent popping exposes beauty, awkwardness, connection and alienation. Expressive depths are opened up in an otherwise abstract and bare world and we connect with the individual characters and moods of the dancers.

Concept & choreography: Ayelen Parolin Performers: Marc Iglesias & Gilles Fumba Musical composition: Lea Dramaturgy: Olivier Hespel Lighting design: Colin Legras Lighting technician: Claude Taymans Costume: Stéphanie Croibien Production: RUDA asbl Coproduction: Charleroi Danses, Les Brigittines, Théâtre Marni With the support of the Ministère de la Communauté française Wallonie-Bruxelles – Service de la Danse, Kunstenwerkplaats Pianofabriek, La Briqueterie, WBT/D, SACD, WBI. Ayelen Parolin is accompanied by Grand Studio. Ayelen Parolin was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and now lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. As a performer she has worked for Mathilde Monnier, MossouxBonte, François Peyret, Mauro Paccagnella, Louise Vanneste, Alexandra Bachzetsis, Anne Lopez, and Riina Saastamoinen. She has created and shown her work in Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Norway, Finland, Germany, Luxembourg, Estonia, Greece, and Argentina. She was a laureate of Pépinières Européennes for Young Artists Programme XXL. For her latest work, Heretics, Ayelen Parolin collaborated with composer Lea for the first time.

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Artistic direction & choreography: Marco da Silva Ferreira Assistant director: Mara Andrade Performers: Anaísa Lopes, Gonçalo Cabral, Marco da Silva Ferreira, Vítor Fontes Technical director & lighting designer: Wilma Moutinho Musicians: Rui Lima & Sérgio Martins Executive production: Marco da Silva Ferreira & Joana Ferreira Production: Pensamento avulso, associação de artes performativas Partners: Jazzy Dance Studio; Feira Viva; o espaço do tempo e Teatro Virgínia Supported by: Governo de Portugal; Secretário de Estado da Cultura; DG Artes Direção Geral, Materiais Diversos and Teatro Municipal Rivoli - Campo Alegre. Marco da Silva Ferreira began his dance career in 2004 has performed with André Mesquita, Hofesh Shechter, Sylvia Rijmer, Victor Hugo Pontes, and Paulo Ribeiro, among others. He premiered his first solo Nevoeiro 21 in 2012. In 2013 he premiered Replic...eplic...eplic, a site-specific solo, at maisImaginarius festival. He was invited to co-creat Land(e)scape in 2014, a multidisciplinary site-specific piece bringing together a painter / video artist, musician / soundinstallation artist and dance, for Imaginarius Festival. That same year he created Hu(r)mano. In 2015 he will return to solo work with White Giant.

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Programme 8 Date: Sat 18 April - Time: 22:00 - Duration: 100 mins Venue: Sala Maria Aurèlia Capmany – Mercat de les Flors

Berstad / Helgebostad / Wigdel (NO)

Luís Guerra (PT)

Jordjenta (Soilgirl) - 40 mins

FOG - 40 mins

Secret rooms and the dark side of the human mind inspire this visually arresting trio. Three young women look for something tangible and real. They create a world as disturbing as it is funny. Jordjenta launches itself onto the stage with gale-force energy and a lust for experimental tearing-it-up. Death is the most normal thing that could happen.

As we enter the space for FOG there is already hypnotic music playing. We can guess that there’s a wall in the background or maybe a smaller stage than usual. When the lights go down on our side, another space is revealed. Behind the wall four dancers move speedily, virtuosically. Their dancing is at times mechanical, at times lustful. Someone seems to have pressed the fast forward button. They are half naked. And then...

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It’s all gonna rot. It’s all gonna – yes, waste away There’s something deeply unsound about not accepting that Concept, choreography & performance: Kristin Helgebostad, Ida Wigdel & Ingeleiv Berstad Composer: Siri Schippers Skaar Set design: Silje Linge Haaland Costume design: Berstad / Helgebostad / Wigdel & Chrisander Brun Lighting design: Chrisander Brun Dramaturge: Huy Le Vo Poem: Maria Tryti Vennerød Producer: Anne Cecilie Bodin Larsen Video documentation: Vibeke Heide Berstad / Helgebostad / Wigdel has been defined as a powerful group with a strong artistic signature. The group consists of the performers and choreographers Ingeleiv Berstad, Kristin Helgebostad and Ida Wigdel. Berstad and Helgebostad started their collaboration through their MA in choreography at Oslo National Academy of the Arts, which they finished in the summer of 2012. Wigdel has performed in Ingun Bjørnsgaard Prosjekt, Zero Visibility Corp and is one of the choreographers in theline.no and Haagenschmagen.

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Direction & choreography: Luís Guerra Performers: Jácome Filipe, Lander Patrick, Luís Guerra & Teresa Silva Music: Ulrich Estreich Lighting design: Zeca Iglésias  Producer: Luís Guerra Produced until 2014 by: Bomba Suicida Supported by: PACT Zollverein; DeVIR/CaPa; Centro Cultural do Cartaxo & Materiais Diversos; EDIFÍCIO - Fórum Dança & O Rumo do Fumo and O Espaço do Tempo Luís Guerra attended the National Dance Conservatory in Lisbon, Portugal from the age of nine. During his final years there he began performing with Rui Horta and since then has worked with worked with various choreographers, directors, bands and filmmakers. He collaborates regularly with choreographer Tânia Carvalho. Since 2010 he has also made his own stage works, including: the solo The 1st dance of Urizen, the duets Hurra! Arre! and Thunderstorm and the group pieces FOG and Laocoi. Between 2008 and 2014 he was part of the performance group Bomba Suicida.

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Programme 9a / 10b Date: Sun 19 April - Time: 12:00 & 15.30 - Duration: 100 mins Venue: Graner

Deutinger & Gottfarb (AU)

Idiot-Syncrasy - 40 mins

When two men take the Y out of irony, all they are left with is iron. Alexander Deutinger & Alexander Gottfarb, in full body armour, question the prevalence of knightly valour and blood-spattered fantasy in TV and gaming. No horse, no damsels, no enemies –how can they keep up their medieval ideals of morals and manliness now? Must chivalry come to a clanking halt?

We started with wanting to change the world with a performance. We felt like idiots. Then we danced a lot. We jumped. We called on the folk traditions of Sardinia and the Basque Country. We sang. We jumped some more. We committed. Now we promise to stick together. We promise to persevere. We promise to do our best.

Idea & performance: Alexander Deutinger, Alexander Gottfarb Sound design: Stephan Sperlich Lighting design: Peter Thalhamer Coproduction: Kunstverein Archipelago; PI22 and WUK performing arts. Supported by: Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien; Stadt Graz Kultur; Kultur Land Steiermark; Bundeskanzleramt Österreich and The Place, London.

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Igor and Moreno (UK)

Chivalry is Dead - 40 mins

Alexander Deutinger studied contemporary dance at Anton Bruckner University, Linz. Since 2008 he has been creating his own works together with Marta Navaridas, including Your Majesties (selected for Aerowaves in 2013), Speaking of Which, and On the Other Hand. He is a member of THE LOOSE COLLECTIVE, whose works include Here Comes The Crook, The Old Testament According To The Loose Collective. Alexander Gottfarb studied dance at the Stockholm Ballet Academy. As a performer he has worked, among others, with Chris Haring/liquid loft, Elio Gervasi and Iztok Kovač. Selected works: Baga-Basta with Milan Tomášik (Les SlovaKs), Marvel at the World, Political Movements, Moved by Faith, On Celebration and Lamentation. He is also a member of THE LOOSE COLLECTIVE.

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Choreography & performance: Igor Urzelai, Moreno Solinas Artistic associate: Simon Ellis Sound design: Alberto Ruiz Soler Lighting design: Seth Rook Williams Set & costume design: Kasper Hansen Costume maker: Sophie Bellin Hansen Voice coach: Melanie Pappenheim Management support: Sarah Maguire Music (sung live; extracts from): Procurade ‘e moderare (Francesco Ignazio Mannu) When I’m Sixty-Four (The Beatles) Quanto t’ho amato (Roberto Benigni) Al Alba (Luis Eduardo Aute) Zure Begiek (Mikel Laboa) Idiot-Syncrasy was commissioned by The Place and created using Arts Council funding through Grants for the Arts and with support from Yorkshire Dance, Cambridge Junction, Centro per la Scena Contemporanea (Bassano del Grappa) and BAD Festival (Bilbao) Thanks to: David Harris, Roberto Casarotto, Dantzagunea, Wieke Eringa, El Graner, Keren Kossow, Justyna Latoch, Lola Maury, Laura Ortu, Alicia Otxandategi, SÍN Culturalis Központ, Jitka Tumova, Ann Van den Broek and everyone who has helped us. Igor Urzelai and Moreno Solinas are two London-based artists working with the moving body and the immediacy of action as a vehicle for meaning, ideas and desires. They are currently Work Place artists, the associate artist programme of The Place, and have been creating works together since 2007. Igor and Moreno are also among the founding members of BLOOM! dance collective. IdiotSyncrasy (2013) is their first choreographic venture as a duo. In May 2015, they will premiere a new work created in collaboration with Aoife McAtamney.

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Programme 10a / 9b Date: Sun 19 April - Time: 12:00 & 15.30 - Duration: 85 mins Venue: Sala Pina Bausch Mercat de les Flors

Poliana Lima & Ugne Dievaityte (ES / BR / LT) Flesh - 40 mins Without name, without identity. The body in its physical, sensual nature. Dreamlike and surreal animal shapes get lost and reappear, blend into and separate from each other. Familiar and unknown images in the flesh.

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In movement, the body is reclaimed, and the flesh becomes a place of struggle and reconciliation between human nature and animal instinct. Flesh is a duet of volatile and fleeting realities that seduces and mesmerises. Concept, direction & interpretation: Poliana Lima & Ugne Dievaityte Music: Pablo Sánchez Pulido Lighting design: Pablo R. Seoane Costume design: Poliana Lima & Ugne Dievaityte Photo: Barbara Crossetti Video: Pau Amengual & Isabella Lima Poliana Lima and Ugne Dievaityte began collaborating in 2012 with their duet Es como ver nubes, which was awarded at three prominent choreographic contests in Spain. Ugne Dievaityte has presented her own works Uninvited presence and Alkis in Spain and Lithuania. Poliana Lima, originally from Brazil, won first prize at XXVIII Certamen Coreográfico de Madrid for her most recent work Atávico. She was also selected as the Spanish representative for the EU project Performing Gender in 2013.

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Location X – Taneli Törmä (FI / DK) ZOOM - 30 mins ZOOM endeavours to see things that we forget in the bustle of everyday life. Merging dance in an unexpected way with an exquisite lighting and sound design, ZOOM takes a fresh look at life from close up and far away. Taneli Törmä’s arresting, monochrome solo stops time – to show us life from a different perspective. Choregraphy & performance: Taneli Törmä Lighting design: Petri Tuhkanen Sound design: Esa M. Mattila Funded by: DIVA- Danish International Visiting Artist programme; Odense Kommunen; Teater Momentum; Danish Arts Foundation – Residency pool; Zodiak-Centre for New Dance in Finland Taneli Törmä is a Finnish contemporary dancer/ choreographer/teacher/dance film maker based in Odense, Denmark. He is the Director of LOCATION X - Projects, collaborating with different international artists to produce projects for stage and site-specific locations. Törmä has worked as a performer and choreographer with such companies as: Finnish National Opera and Ballet (FIN), Mancopy (DK), Oldenburg Staatstheater (DE), Kobalt Works (BE), Random Collision (NL), ZodiakCentre for New Dance (FIN), Söltumatu Tantsu Ühendus (EST) and has recently created several projects at Teater Momentum (DK).

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Date: Sun 19 April - Time: 18:00 - Duration: 110 mins Venue: Sala Ovidi Montllor – Institut del Teatre

Roser López Espinosa (ES)

Edhem Jesenković (DK)

Aerowaves Encore - Lowland - 40 mins

M.E.N - 40 mins

Fascinated by the migrations of birds, we want to learn to fly. Lowland returns us to the animality of the body and movement, to learning, effort, tenacity and endurance, to beauty, the spirit of self-improvement and the spirit of freedom. To leave or to put down roots? Lowland is each individual’s landscape and journey. We can only fly with our bodies and we will need inventiveness and imagination in order to get a pair of wings. An imaginary world of birds and men, full of light and vitality in the lowland.

M.E.N grabs life by the balls. Balancing humour and seriousness, with a healthy dose of irony, four male dancers raid the lives of modern men to give us a fresh and sensitive take on male identity. Packed with energy, fragility, passion and beauty, M.E.N exposes inner worlds and outer conflicts in this honest and athletic piece.

Concept & choreography: Roser López Espinosa Creation & performance: Guy Nader, Roser López Espinosa Original music: Ilia Mayer Lighting design: Katinka Marac Movement assistant: Maria Campos Dramaturgy consultant: Raquel Tomàs, Maria Campos Costume design: Lluna Albert Zoetrope: Noemí Laviana Artistic accompaniment: Àngels Margarit Technician: Israel Quintero Production: L’escènica, Elclimamola Management: Marine Budin / Elclimamola Coproduction: Mercat de les Flors Created in residency at: El Graner and La Caldera creation centres, and Àngels Margarit / Cia Mudances, Barcelona; L’Estruch, Sabadell; KREA / Azala, Vitoria; and Losdedae, Alcalá de Henares; Madrid Choreography Contest / Paso a Dos, Madrid; Melkweg Theater, Amsterdam and Dansateliers, Rotterdam. With the collaboration of Culture Department of Generalitat de Catalunya and INAEM - Instituto Nacional de las Artes Escénicas y de la Música.

Choreography & concept: Edhem Jesenković Performers: Asher Lev, Alexandre Bourdat, Thomas Holm Radil & Edhem Jesenković Music: Håvard Pedersen & Edhem Jesenković Lighting design: Adalsteinn Stefansson Producer: Thilde Maria Kristensen Supported by: The Danish Arts Council; Augustinus Foundation & Wilhelm Hansen Foundation Edhem Jesenković – dancer/composer/choreographer – is currently based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Edhem has worked with many different projects, companies and choreographers such as Danish Dance Theatre, Carte Blanche, Galili Dance Company, Ballet Gulbenkian, Ohad Naharin, Philippe Blanchard, Andersson Dance, Skånes Dansteater, Granhøj Dans, Zero Visibility, Kitt Johnson X-act, among others. As both a choreographer and musician, he works intensely with rhythm, musicality and an insisting kind of humanism.

Roser López Espinosa has danced in The Netherlands with Katie Duck / Magpie Music Dance Company, Marta Reig Torres and Pere Faura. In Barcelona she has worked mainly with Àngels Margarit / Cia Mudances, Cesc Gelabert, Iago Pericot and film maker Isaki Lacuesta, among others. Since 2006 she has also developed her own work as a maker. Miniatura was selected by Aerowaves in 2011. In 2013 she premiered the duet Lowland and it is currently touring internationally. In 2014 she created the piece Hand to hand for Conny Janssen Danst in Rotterdam, which was selected for the company spring tour 2015.

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Programme 12 Date: Sun 19 April - Time: 21:30 - Duration: 80 mins Venue: Sala Maria Aurèlia Capmany – Mercat de les Flors

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Kompani Haugesund / Mia Habib (NO)

Karel Van Laere & Vanja Rukavina (NL)

MONO - 40 mins

BOKKO – the ultimate fusion - 20 mins

MONO is a turquoise cartoon filled with figures meeting their own chaos. The performance is a research on variation, multiplicity and virtuosity. The physical language flirts with vocabulary from animated films and ideas of heroes and antiheroes. MONO draws on a myriad of dance styles, cultural and political gestures, and mixes humour with seriousness and reinvented meanings. Zapping through images and situations, MONO uncovers blurry realities and absurd fantasies.

Fast, furious and fun – enter a world where Karel and Vanja are Bokko kings. Sharp routines and sharp suits. Screaming fans and Manga-inspired avatars. They have it all. Empty fantasy is dressed up with explosive visuals. Inspired by a South Korean dance craze, this show is breathless and allconsuming. Step inside.

Choreography: Mia Habib Dancers: Nuri Ribera Anfinsen, Jon Filip Fahlstrøm, Eva Grainger, Ingeborg Haakonsholm & Eirik Folkedal Musicians: Linn Frøkedal (Anne Lise Frøkedal original cast), Ørjan Haaland & Simon Næsse Lighting design: Ingeborg Olerud Light: Martin Myrvold Scenography and costumes: Olav Myrtvedt Assistant scenography: Njål Lunde Producer: Eva Grainger Coproduction: Festiviteten Haugesund and Haugesund Theatre Supported by: Art Council Norway; FFUK; FFLB; Rogaland Fylkeskommune; Haugesund Kommune; Tysvær Kommune; Karmøy Kommune; Haugesund Sparebank Commissioned by Kompani Haugesund in 2013. Kompani Haugesund is a project based company based in Haugesund, Norway. MONO was part of a double-bill which premiered January 23rd 2014. Mia Habib Productions is an international touring company based in Oslo, working at the intersection of performance, exhibitions, publications, lectures, teaching, mentoring and curating. Habib’s new work A song to... for eighteen dancers will premiere at DansensHus Oslo in September 2015. An ongoing project, We Insist, will premiere her work a stranger within, created with Jassem Hindi and Rani Nair, in 2016. Her work has been coproduced by various houses such as DansensHus Oslo, BIT-teatergarasjen, Black Box theatre, Carte Blanche (NO); Theatre Freiburg (DE); MDT, Göteborg Dans & Teater festival, Riksteatern (SE); CCN Belfort, CND Pantin (F); and deVIR CAPa-Faro (P).

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Choreography & video: Karel van Laere & Vanja Rukavina Music: DJ イアソン Video editing: Peter van Til Manga cartoons: Mustayaki Dance: Karel van Laere, Vanja Rukavina, Julia Mitomi, Jihane El Fahidi, Tessa Wowor Lighting design: Raoul Baeten Technician: Tomas Vondracek Final direction: Helena Muskens & Quirine Racké Production: Lisa van Woersem Dramaturgy: Suzy Blok / Dansmakers Amsterdam Producer: Talitha Stijnman / Paradiso Melkweg Productiehuis BOKKO is a coproduction of Paradiso Melkweg Productiehuis with Dansmakers Amsterdam. Vanja Rukavina and Karel Van Laere’s first production together was Dance Dance Revolution and they are now touring with BOKKO. Both trained at Toneelacademie Maastricht. Rukavina has made his own performances, such as The Rukavina Method and From Russia With Love. He also tours with his performance Nobody Home. Van Laere also studied video art and has made two video installations Slow and Impact. He designs sets and costumes for theatre and opera, such as Kepler by Philip Glass.

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