Graner-Mercat de les Flors is participating in the 2018/19 edition of ENRESiDÈNCiA by facilitating a dialogue between Andrés Waksman and Constanza Brnčić and the IES Barri Besòs and Josep Comas i Solà.
Andrés Waksman (Uruguay, 1968) is a performer, creator, and stage director. He trained as an actor and dancer in Uruguay, Spain, and France. He has worked with various choreographers and directors, including Graciela Figueroa (Montevideo), Wim Vandekeybus (Belgium), Régine Chopinot – Ballet Atlantique, Veronique Ros de la Grange, Dominique Boivin (France), and Tomàs Aragay (Spain), among others. He has created and performed several solos, and in 1997 he staged his first production in Montevideo, Persona, a piece based on the poetry of Fernando Pessoa. He moved to Barcelona in 1999 and joined the General Elèctrica collective, collaborating with Tomàs Aragay. Within General Elèctrica, he developed the Laboratorio de Solos project between 2000 and 2008, creating twenty-two solos with different performers (Sofía Asencio, Sònia Gómez, Tomàs Aragay, and Bebeto Cidra, among others) which were presented in Spain, France, Italy, Croatia, and the USA, culminating with El perro alado, his solo presented at the Mercat de les Flors. Between 2008 and 2012, he developed the Azul petróleo project, a Barcelona-Montevideo co-production awarded by Iberescena and presented in Montevideo, Antic Teatre, and La Caldera in Barcelona. In 2013, he began developing the Laboratorio de Creación project, a space where professional and non-professional artists engage in a process of artistic research and creation. Since then, he has created Manada (2014), Desde el fuego (2015), Que corra el aire (2016), and Mar de fondo (2017). In 2015 and 2016, he directed Criatura, premiered at Antic Teatre in Barcelona and Nave 73 in Madrid, which won the Godoff Lemon Press Award for Best Dance Performance, and Consuelo Trujillo, performer of this piece, won the Union of Actors Award for Best Leading Actress.
Since 2001, he has taught dance, theater, and authentic movement workshops. These workshops have been conducted in various cities and artistic and therapeutic educational contexts across Europe, notably his collaboration with Dr. Claudio Naranjo within the framework of the SAT Program for Integrative Psychotherapy since 2003. Since that same year, he has directed his own space in Barcelona, Alas, artes en movimiento.
The Institut Barri Besòs (el Besòs and el Maresme, Sant Martí) has been built step by step since 1977, through joint efforts of parents, teachers, students, neighbors, administrations, entities, and institutions. This collaboration has resulted in a public educational center rooted in its social environment, open to the neighborhoods it serves, functioning democratically and participatively, striving to offer a quality education sensitive to the compensatory treatment of social inequalities, and seeking to promote scientific and technological education and the values of humanistic culture.
2nd ESO students; Jashira Aguilar, Andrea Barreras, Nerea Bueno, Meriem Chakroun, Mª Carmen Esquitino, Francisco Javier Ferrón, Sara Guitard, Tabassum Iqbal, Christian Tammoschath, Tarik Trbovic, Teresa Vargas, and Antonio Vigo, along with teachers Jordi Sánchez and Laura Domingo.
EN RESiDÈNCiA is a program of the Institute of Culture of Barcelona and the Barcelona Education Consortium, devised in cooperation with the A Bao A Qu Association.
