For the 2024-25 school year, Graner will continue developing its educational program in schools in the Marina de Port neighborhood, including two primary and two secondary schools, within the framework of the *Caixa d’Eines* program under Barcelona’s Neighborhood Plan. The schools where the choreographic research curated and mediated by Graner will take place are: Bàrkeno School, Enric Granados School, Institut Montjuïc Secondary School, and Domènech i Montaner Secondary School. We will continue to work on the idea of continuity in secondary education, with creator Maria Ferrer once again developing her practice at Institut Domènech i Montaner, thus completing a three-year cycle, and Joao Lima returning to collaborate with Institut Montjuïc. In primary education, Emma Villavecchia joins the team of creators for Graner’s educational program, developing her research at Escola Enric Granados, while Claudia Solwat starts a new cycle at Escola Bàrkeno.
The body remains the protagonist of the sessions that will be conducted throughout the year in the classroom. These will be weekly sessions that rely on the collaboration of teachers who are involved in each of the artistic investigations that Graner discusses with each school. The classroom experimentation is complemented by artistic experiences at Graner, meetings between creators and teachers, training sessions for teachers, and visits to performances from the Mercat de les Flors program. A set of proposals that continue to support an education that places the body and action at the center of the experience: practicing, through the body, other ways of transmitting knowledge. Additionally, Graner aims to build an educational community in a broad sense: with teachers, students, families, and the neighborhood.
With the mediation of Mireia de Querol: Dancer, choreographer, and teacher in the field of movement arts. She graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Contemporary Dance from the Theatreschool, Amsterdam School of the Arts (Netherlands) from 2003 to 2007. Simultaneously, she also earned a degree in Humanities from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2001-2008). Currently and since 2012, she has been working with artists Anna Rubirola and Cecilia Colacrai, forming the Big Bouncers collective and managing the creative space La Visiva. She has a special interest in stage creation for unconventional spaces and in dialogue with other artistic disciplines; examples include collaborations with Ursa Sekirnik (Bestiari Dixit 2022) and with Lola Lasurt (El Garfi 2022 and Heliofilia 2024). In the teaching field, she has taught contemporary dance, composition, and improvisation since 2007 in various centers, including the Conservatory of Dance at the Institut del Teatre (2016-2021). She has participated in several artistic projects in the educational field, such as Tot dansa (2017, 2018, and 2020), En Residència (2018), Caixa d’Eines at Escuela Seat (2022-24), Sudansa (2022-2024), among others. Currently, she coordinates and mediates the educational projects of El Graner within the framework of Caixa d’Eines (Barcelona City Council).
Graner’s educational program is part of the Caixa d’Eines program, promoted by the Neighborhood Plan of Barcelona, which consists of introducing artistic practices into the school curriculum with the aim of reducing inequalities between the city’s neighborhoods.
