ENRESiDÈNCiA 2014/15 with Aimar Pérez Galí at Institut Menéndez y Pelayo

Aimar Pérez Galí expresses his art as a dancer, choreographer, researcher, pedagogue and writer. He graduated as a performer in contemporary dance from the Amsterdam University of the Arts (AHK) and later studied on the Independent Studies Programme at MACBA. He teaches Composition at the Conservatori Superior de Dansa of the Institut del Teatre, where he was a member of the management team between 2019 and 2022. His work, which has been seen nationally and internationally, includes stage performances such as Sudando el discurso: una crítica encuerpada, The Touching Community and èpica, the film Touching Blues, and publications such as Sudando el discurso, Lo tocante and Cuadernos sobre el tocar. He wrote this last publication with Jaime Conde-Salazar, with whom he shares the CondeGalí BL project, creating works aimed at school audiences, such as DITDIT and Subjecte · Verb · Predicat.

Institut Menéndez y Pelayo took part in the fourth edition of In Residence in the 2012-13 academic year with a visual art project by the artist Fernando Prats. At this latest edition of the programme, the school is taking part with pupils in the fourth year of ESO compulsory secondary education taking the optional course in dance. One of the school’s main goals is to encourage across-the-curriculum education and the opening up of minds to other experiences of expression that can help to raise pupils’ self-esteem. The building that currently houses the Menéndez y Pelayo secondary school dates back to 1933 and was designed by the architect Jaume Mestres i Fossas, a member of GATCPAC (Group of Catalan Architects and Technicians for the Progress of Contemporary Architecture). The building’s concept is a result of the application of European rationalist architectural criteria to school buildings of that period.