Coreografías Eléctricas (Electric Coreographies) is a program at Graner that unfolds through different contexts and actions around research in the scenic space. Creating the research modality in the public residency call of Graner has been fundamental to provide space for thought and research to artists who work with the space inhabited by the body. From there, organically, this intangible space of knowledge transmission, role displacement, and approach to other types of spatial compositions has been growing hand in hand with the modality and has been expanding until it became a program of its own at the center.
Contemporary creation contexts demand new relationships between the different artistic languages that are called upon (body, space, light, sound…) and the possibility of a time of research specific to each of them. This space-time for research in languages usually destined to serve favors the dilution of hierarchies between conception on one hand and execution on the other. We consider that this possibility of deepening in languages related to space, body, and perception has an impact on how dance and live arts relate to this gaze towards space and enriches it. Likewise, it promotes the consolidation of hybrid, installative, and relational pieces in the context of choreographic exhibition, beyond the body.
Since 2021, with the first artist selected in the residency call in the research modality in the scenic space, and until 2024, Graner has hosted different actions related to this growing intangible space: public process openings, a meeting of lighting designers, and in dialogue with the Postgraduate Scene and Digital Technology of the Institut del Teatre. Starting in 2024, Coreografías Eléctricas brings together and launches lines of work around these new relationships between body and space and unfolds in different axes: modality of the public residency call, a space for thought, the creation of community, and relations with related contexts.
We take this opportunity to thank all the artists who in recent years have jointly constructed with Graner the research modality in scenic space with their projects, desires, reflections, and bodies of work.