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Pere Seda

I am Pere Seda, and I have been connected to traditional dance since the age of 3 with the Esbart Maragall in Barcelona. At 22, I graduated in Contemporary Dance at the Professional Dance Conservatory of the Institut del Teatre. I have developed my professional career as a dancer in companies and projects, most notably the award-winning Oblivion by Silvia Batet’s company. As a choreographer, I began my path in 2019 with various projects such as NUeS, premiered at the ÉsDansa festival, always with a focus on the roots.L’Esbord is a space from which to open a professional path of research and exploration of Catalan traditional dance. From the legacy of the esbarts towards a new perspective on the roots: deviated, unproductive, sterile, and bastard. Without transmission, yet equally necessary. Traditional dance without a reproductive function. The productions of L’Esbord are L’Hereu Riera, premiered at the Fira Mediterrània de Manresa 2022, AUTOODI premiered in July 2023, and Folk as Queer in 2024 at the Obrador d’Arrel of the Fira Mediterrània de Manresa.

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Last project in residence

Crossed Transmission: Resonances of Memory is a creative laboratory that brings together four Catalan dancers and four Colombian dancers in a shared space of research with choreographers Andrea Bonilla and Pere Seda. Drawing from their bodily archives and the memory inscribed in their bodies, the performers explore the geographies of movement, seeking bridges between identities, traditions, and languages. The encounter becomes a field of experimentation where dance transforms into a shared territory, capable of shifting boundaries and expanding the limits of the body. Through dialogues, frictions, and discoveries, the eight artists trace ways of dancing together, building a living cartography that celebrates diversity and the possibility of communion through gesture.

Crossed Transmission is a project that emerges from the dialogue between the International Dance Biennial of Cali and Fira Mediterrània, inviting Pere Seda and Andrea Bonilla to work with young people from the Impulse Program and the Incolballet company to engage the audience through the language of the body, valuing the essence and authenticity of each culture.

Residency archive Graner

  • 2025 · collaboration with Fira Mediterrània · Transmissió creuada (project with Andrea Bonilla)