Transitioteen
This project aims to bring transfeminist studies and policies to secondary schools. What happens to a transgender body when it enters the school? Starting from this question, we organize a series of artistic sessions where we analyze the spaces, protocols, performativities, and choreographies of the educational center from a gender perspective.
At IES Lluís Domènech i Montaner, the TRANSITIOTEEN project brings transfeminist practices to schools from a performative, experiential, and critical point of view. Focusing on the processes of transition during adolescence, Sara and Lin address the lack of training in queer theory and trans-inclusive gender at the school. The pedagogical practice focuses on the experiential and sensitive experience of adolescents both inside and outside the school: highlighting their emotions, questions, and rejections with artistic practices linked to the body and choreography. This subject matter, what they are to themselves, as well as the recognition of ‘THE OTHER,’ involves jointly constructing a narrative, shifting their own perspective on the world, and questioning what has always been accepted as normality. The goal is to review the school space-building from a trans perspective: What needs to change in the school to make it a more welcoming space for trans bodies?
Sara Manubens: Artist, choreographer and transvestite in Barcelona. Master in Stage Practice and Visual Culture (Museo Reina Sofía, ARTEA group). Her work moves between site-specific, performance and dance and focuses on trans-corporality and its impact on reality. She engages with transvestite practice and identity from a critical and experimental point of view. She has been developing her own research projects since 2015.
She has designed and carried out educational projects for institutional programmes and public schools, including DRAG KIDS (2020) and TEEN HORROR (2023). She has worked as a performer with Cuqui Jerez, Aimar Pérez Galí, Idoia Zabaleta. She writes critical reviews about dance and performance for the Mercat de les Flors blog.
Reference teacher: Ada Vázquez
The educational program of Graner is part of the Caixa d’Eines program (Toolbox), driven by the Barcelona Neighborhood Plan, which consists of introducing artistic practices into the school curriculum.
