For the 2025–26 school year, Graner will continue developing its educational program in schools in the Marina de Port neighborhood—two primary schools and two secondary schools—within the Caixa d’Eines program of Barcelona’s Pla de Barris. The schools where the choreographic research projects curated and facilitated by Graner will take place are: Escola Bàrkeno, Escola Enric Granados, Institut Montjuïc, and Institut Domènech i Montaner.
In primary education, Emma Villavecchia will continue developing her research at Escola Enric Granados, and Claudia Solwat will do the same at Escola Bàrkeno, both of them entering their second year of collaboration with their respective schools. In secondary education, we will continue working with the artist Joao Lima at Institut Montjuïc, and we are incorporating a new artist into the program, Johan Pérez Viera, who will develop his project in a new cycle at Institut Domènech i Montaner.
The body remains the central focus of the classroom sessions carried out throughout the year. These will be weekly sessions supported by the teachers involved in each of the artistic research projects that Graner develops in dialogue with each school.
Classroom experimentation is complemented by artistic experiences at Graner, meetings between creators and teachers, training sessions for teachers, and visits to performances in the Mercat de les Flors program. Together, these proposals continue to support an approach to education that places the body and action at the center of experience: practicing, through the body, other ways of transmitting knowledge. At the same time, Graner works to build an educational community in a broad sense: involving teachers, students, families, and the neighborhood.
This work is mediated by Mireia de Querol, an artist, teacher, and facilitator in the field of movement arts, who works at the intersection of performance creation, education, and community, with a special interest in collaborative practices and the body as a tool for knowledge. She has been part of the Big Bouncers collective since 2012, developing artistic and pedagogical projects. She has also collaborated with artists such as Urša Sekirnik, Lola Lasurt, Albert Quesada, Ariadna Estalella, and Àngels Margarit. She has participated in curatorial projects such as Motors de creació (APDC) and Mostra In SITU (Arts Santa Mònica). Teaching is a central pillar of her trajectory. She has taught improvisation and composition at the Conservatory of Dance of the Institut del Teatre and has collaborated with institutions such as the CCCB, MACBA and El Graner, where since 2024 she has been responsible for mediation and coordination of educational projects. Trained in Humanities (UAB) and in contemporary dance at the AHK in Amsterdam, she understands her practice as an open space where creation, thought, and community nurture one another.
Graner’s educational program is part of the Caixa d’Eines initiative, promoted by Barcelona’s Pla de Barris, which introduces artistic practices into school curricula with the aim of reducing inequalities between the city’s neighborhoods.
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