The third edition of the Moujuïc Festival moves to spring (20-21 May), strengthening its commitment to bringing dance and movement to new audiences, with a dual mediating and creative approach. The Castell de Montjuïc hosts an extensive program that includes not only shows selected expressly to achieve the goal of making dance accessible to all, but also residencies, process openings, both for creation and community, a workshop for young people, and especially, a mediation team and space, a true cornerstone and hallmark of the project.
The desire to reframe the space around contemporary creation and, particularly, active citizen participation, has allowed artists in residence to be hosted since April, presenting the result of their stay during the two-day festival. This proposal also emerges after years of work with different creation factories in the city, with the conviction that it is from the languages of the body, movement, and live arts, that a proposal for access to culture can be built, in general, for those sectors of the population that feel excluded and marginalized. The triple combination of unconventional spaces, a mediation team and space, and languages and proposals conceived as a starting point and gateway, is the distinctive feature, and the raison d’être, of the festival. Spaces where we can all feel comfortable, curious, and safe. Spaces to build new experiences around arts and culture. Spaces, ultimately, to gain together.
As a result of this spirit of collaboration, the selection of proposals (both closed and those “in process,” or with a more experimental dimension) has been made in dialogue between the teams of the Dance and Live Arts Creation Factory, El Graner, and the Castell de Montjuïc, two city facilities that share territory and the will, and commitment, to articulate it. For the first time, previews are also held in different neighborhoods of the city in the days leading up to the Festival, broadening the walls of the castle and bringing dance even closer to all audiences.
The program (20-21st May) includes proposals from Los Informalls, LaSala, Joan Català, Metaplec (Gloria Ros, David Climent, Adriano Galante, Marina Prakvina, and Hoss Benitez), Park Keito, Manolo Alcántara, Maria Ferrer, Ertza, Sputnkis company, Jacob Gómez, Quim Bigas, Raquel Gualtero, Raquel Klein, Deissane Machava and Fenias Nhumaio, and Lara Brown. In the previews of Hostafrancs and La Marina, the festival programmed pieces by Clémentine Télesfort & Lisard Tranis, Los Informalls, Agnés Sales, Héctor Plaza, and the Kiko López company.
