Mercat de les Flors and Graner continue this year their tandem collaboration within the EN RESiDÈNCiA program, curating and facilitating the residencies of Kernel Dance Theatre at Institut Moisès Broggi (in the Camp de l’Arpa del Clot neighborhood) and Cia Aina Lanas at Institut Escola Antaviana (in the Roquetes neighborhood), respectively. From Graner, we support the creative and working process of choreographer Aina Lanas, thus continuing for a second consecutive year the dialogue with Institut Escola Antaviana.
Cia Aina Lanas in collaboration with Irene Baeza (Iby) / 3rd-year ESO students from Antaviana Secondary School / teachers Quim Cubarsí and Carme Salinas
“Our starting point for the EN RESiDÈNCiA 2024/25 project is urban and club dances, those not traditionally taught in academies, which build their foundations on collectivity, empowerment, and group dynamics. Musicality, rhythm, and coordination will be essential aspects of the physical work, as well as the most characteristic dynamics of urban dances, which will serve as our anchor for the project and as a framework for the methodology we will apply. Concepts like Cypher, Soultrain, and Kill the Beat, among others, will guide our exploration and act as tools to expand our knowledge and practice of dance.”
EN RESiDENCIA is a program of the Barcelona Institute of Culture and the Barcelona Education Consortium, devised in cooperation with the A Bao A Qu association, which brings creators to work throughout an academic year in the classroom. This work, which concludes with the presentation of a piece, in this case linked to dance and movement, intensively and significantly brings together creation, education, and mediation
Biographies of the participants:
Aina Lanas: Dancer, choreographer, and movement director, trained in classical dance, urban dance, and contemporary dance in Spain, the USA, Japan, and Senegal. She is a graduate in photography from the IDEP school in Barcelona and is currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Arts at the UOC. Interested in improvisation, choreography, and especially scenic creation, she has worked as a performer and co-creator of movement in companies such as Kulbik, Jazzbetween, InMotus, Africa Moment, Piny Orquidaceae, Núria Guiu, and LaCerda, touring internationally with many of their productions. She has joined musical projects like Raquel Lúa and Alex Serra, performing in their live shows and music videos. Aina directs her own videodance projects, and her latest work desasosiego has won three international awards: Best Choreography, Best Short and Grand Award at the Homescreen Festival in San Diego.
She has taught Urban Dance in the Higher Degree of Choreography at the Institut del Teatre and works in the music, TV, advertising, and brand industries as a dancer and movement director. She leads her own project, Cia Aina Lanas, from which she has directed pieces such as Aye-Nah, MAWU, and Sosiego. She has been invited to festivals such as Deltebre Dansa (ES), La Machine (CR), Nòmada (SAL), Mercè (ES), Sismògraf (ES), Loop (PT), Dança Almada (PT), Grec Festival (ES), SchaubudenSommer (GER), Spoffin (NL), among others.
Currently, she is part of the creative and production team Si Los Martes Fueran Viernes, where she has contributed to productions such as Casa Nostra, The Royal Battle, Antes que se acabe el mundo, and Festival Enemigos Íntimos between Barcelona and Buenos Aires. In 2023, she won the Best Dancer award at the Critic’s Awards for her latest creation with Cia WAN, You Are Not a Ghost.
Irene Baeza (Iby): A dancer and choreographer from Cádiz, Irene began her training in Barcelona in 2015/2016, focusing on urban dances with national and international teachers. Soon after, she started to learn, experiment, and blend other styles like contemporary dance and afro-contemporary dance. Currently, she is focusing on tap dance and body percussion at the Luthier School in Barcelona (2021). Irene is a co-choreographer and dancer for the Col·lectiu Kampai, and she is also a dancer for Cia Aina Lanas, La Banda Street Groove, Cia Kiko López, and Cia Els Oiseaux Perxis by Julien Rossin. She has also worked as a dancer in videodance, music videos, and audiovisual projects such as ITRW by Alex Serra, Claudia Herran, Anticossos for TV3, and Loop Fest.
Antaviana Secondary School: Institut Escola Antaviana is characterized by an educational project that prioritizes inclusion and attention to diversity as its main goals. Its students represent a wide range of social realities from the neighborhood and display a high level of diversity in terms of individual educational needs and socio-economic background. Antaviana also maintains a strong connection with families, the neighborhood, and its facilities, such as the Ateneu de Nou Barris, which serves as a reference for its entire educational community.
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