SACRESIZE is the project by Alberto Velasco, with which he is a resident artist at El Graner 2025 through a public call. SACRESIZE is a ballet of fat people, inspired by “The Rite of Spring” by Stravinsky.
During his creative residency, Alberto opens a movement research workshop to share practices and materials related to the questions explored in his project SACRESIZE, aimed at fat bodies. Participation is free of charge through an open call. The lab sessions will include a physical warm-up, creative device practices drawn from his regular training workshops, and specific choreographic work from SACRESIZE. Each session will be guided by play, ease, and care.
We are looking to form a group of fat people aged 18 and over with some experience in dance (any style, amateur or professional). There will be a selection process led by the artist, based on a video or motivation letter, to form a stable group that ensures participation in all scheduled sessions. Open call: November 3–23.
- Lab dates: 6 sessions on Tuesdays and Thursdays in December 2025 (dates: 2, 4, 9, 11, 16, 18). An open showing of the lab is planned for December 18.
- Schedule: 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
- Venue: El Graner, center for dance and live arts creation (c/ Jane Addams 14–16, Barcelona: location)
- Availability: Participants may attend one or several sessions, not necessarily consecutive.
- Apply to the open call through this FORM
Hello. I’m Alberto Velasco, author of the piece SACRESIZE. My life and my career as a performer and creator are deeply marked by my reality as a fat person, and this has become a fundamental element in all my previous works: ¡VACA!, Danzad malditos, Dance to Death, La Inopia: Choreographies for a 120-kg dancer, or Mover montañas…
I approach the creation of this new project with the determination to build a space for encounter, celebration, and recognition of body diversity. A performance inspired by “The Rite of Spring” by Stravinsky, full of new physical possibilities based on the authenticity of fat movement, its particularities, and its unique bursts—beyond the weight of the norm and the structural violence we endure day after day. Inspired.
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