Blanca Tolsá

Blanca Tolsá is a dancer based in Barcelona, where she trained in contemporary dance, and has worked and learned with choreographers such as Lipi Hernández, Ariadna Montfort, Raquel Klein, Albert Quesada, Jacob Gómez, Magdalena Garzón, Anna Macau, Constanza Brcnic, Georgia Vardarou, Núria Guiu, and Paloma Muñoz Siberia. In 2019, she began to develop an interest in choreography and embarked on a path to explore more deeply the potential of form, its most imperceptible details, and to investigate what other rhythms (antiphrasing) might emerge through a thorough treatment of textures and journeys through the imagination.

She is interested in creating spaces that lead toward the illusory and fantastical, crafting dissonant atmospheres that awaken unclassifiable sensations. She works with the voice–movement relationship and its possible desynchronizations. She premiered Ecoica, her first solo work, at the Festival Dansa Metropolitana 2022 in Barcelona.

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Photography by ©Tristán Pérez-Martín and portrait by ©Finn McLafferty 

Latest project in residence

Parafonías (2024) explores the frictions that occur between the sphere of movement and the sphere of voice and how playing with the distances between them gives rise to an unintended third entity. When two sound waves of equal frequency are emitted simultaneously, we perceive them as one. However, when two sound waves with a slight difference in their frequencies meet at a point or region in space, they beat against each other, producing a third wave in the human ear.

The starting point was to observe the harmonies that occur between body and voice during a communicative act: the ways in which, when speaking, gesture and intention support the word, the language, to emphasize its communicative mission. The research arises from the desire to undo the unison and dismantle dominant associations to connect with unknown meanings and ways of doing, allowing for less intuitive relationships and thus unexpected imaginaries to emerge.

Team:

The team behind Parafonías consists of Pepe González and Berta Pascual for movement and voice, and Rodrigo Rammsy for sound.

Graner Residency Archive

  • 2025 · Cross-residency with Colectivo RPM – Encontro Paraíso (Galicia) · Parafonías
  • 2024 · Open call · Parafonías
  • 2022 · Collaboration with Dansa Metropolitana · Ecoica

Residency videos