Sara Manubens

Artist, choreographer and transvestite in Barcelona. Her work moves between site-specific, performance and dance and focuses on trans-corporality and its impact on reality. She approaches transvestite practice and identity from an experimental, choreographic and critical point of view. She has been developing her own creative processes since 2015. She situates herself in a trans-doing, crossing and displacing issues to produce new spaces of relation where the uncertain becomes a choreography. She is also interested in producing methodologies that challenge the usual times of production.

She designs and executes educational projects with a gender perspective in different programmes and public schools, among them Drag Kids (2020), a family cross-dressing session, or Teen Horror (2023), a horror film with teenagers. She has been a member of the collectives Misión Divina and TeknoDrag. He collaborates as a performer in projects by Cuqui Jerez, Pere Faura, Aimar Pérez Galí, Idoia Zabaleta. She writes programmes and reviews on dance, theatre and performance for the Mercat de les Flors Blog. She is studying for a Master’s degree in Performing Arts Practice and Visual Culture (Museo Reina Sofía and ARTEA group), directed by Victòria Pérez-Royo and José Antonio Sánchez. She is trained in Contemporary Dance, Improvisation and Physical Theatre.

www.saramanubes.cat
@Symphony_performance

Fotos ©Tristán Pérrez Martín ©Victoriano Moreno y Estudio Perplejo.

Last project in residence

SYMPHONY OF HORROR is a transvestite horror story, a study of implausible, irrational, terrifying and unknown processes. The project relates the expressionist vampiric phenomenon to the transfeminine and hormonal body, updating the original Nosferatu film’s questions of sexual desire, body terror, social hunting and reproduction of the monster. This research highlights trans-transvestite narratives through an experimental and critical stage language between Drag, Performance and Dance.

Residency archive Graner

  • 2025 · collaboration with Nau Ivanow · Symphony of horror
  • 2021 · open call · Symphony of the Seas

Residencies videos