On March 5, 2025, the Contamination Session for 3rd-year ESO students at Institut Escola Antaviana took place with the Aina Lanas company. The students, together with Aina and Iby, had prepared a showcase of the materials they have been creating in their weekly sessions and shared the EN RESiDÈNCiA creative process with the entire teaching staff.
After an introduction by the choreographers, the session was divided into different parts, beginning with the screening of a video created by the students. Part of the creative process they are developing with the Aina Lanas company involves producing a one-shot video, where they combine the exercise of filming with movement exercises, position changes, camera shifts, and more. After the video, attendees were able to see firsthand how this dual material—both videographic and choreographic—has been developed. To close the session, a Soul Train was created, which grew until it invited the entire teaching staff to join in, which they did enthusiastically.
Following the material showcase, the choreographers and students answered questions and comments from the staff and explained their biggest challenges, which movement language from the urban dance styles they had practiced interested them the most, how they created storyboards to visualize what they wanted to film, and what movements needed to be planned in advance for it to work. The entire teaching staff agreed that they had done a great deal of work and that from now on, they just needed to persist and maintain their confidence and creativity leading up to the premiere of the piece in May.
The Contamination Session is always a unique and crucial moment in the creative process; the group engages in an exercise of commitment and extra involvement to showcase their material and ensure that everyone is aligned with the proposal.
EN RESiDÈNCiA is a program by the Institut de Cultura de Barcelona and the Consorci d’Educació de Barcelona, developed in cooperation with the A Bao A Qu Association, which brings creators to work in the classroom throughout an entire academic year. This process, which concludes with the presentation of a piece— in this case, related to dance and movement—establishes an intense and meaningful dialogue between creation, education, and mediation.
