CUERPO A TRAVÉS | Raquel Gualtero

Activity: Performance.

Public: Open to everybody.

Free admission without prior reservation of place.

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SYNOPSIS

‘Cuerpo a través’ is Raquel Gualtero’s new proposal. From the previous piece ‘Panorama’, the artist takes body intuition to the extreme with a mixture of fantasy, sense of humor and a touch of hope. Through the body of five women he aims to mutate language, taking it to the extreme. At the same time, it aims to refresh the public’s gaze by searching for a language with which they can empathize and thus connect with their own intimacy. Bring it to a contemplative state; to use the common places of the female body imposed by patriarchy to transform them, destroy them, multiply them. And laugh at and with them to get to, hopefully, questioning them.

BIOGRAPHY

Raquel Gualtero Soriano graduated in contemporary dance from the Hoogeschool voor de Kunstenen – Theater School / Higher School of Arts in Amsterdam in 2005. As a dancer she has worked internationally in companies such as Scottish Dance Theater (Scotland), Compagnia Zappala (Italy), Fabulous Beast Dance Theater (England), Romeo Castellucci (Italy), Compagnia Deja Donné (Italy), Tanz Company Gervasi (Austria), as well as having the opportunity to work at a national level with directors from the Catalan scene such as Àngels Margarit, in the piece ‘Capricis’, or Àlex Rigola, with the piece ‘Tragedy’.

As an author, she debuted in 2005 with her piece ‘Blanco’, which was part of the renowned ITs International Theaterschool Festival, the Makers Present. Her work ‘Persona’ won the Injuve 2011 prize for young creation. Her work ‘Brut’ was supported by El Graner, Sala Hiroshima, La Pedrera and De Warande in Belgium. ‘Nuà’ was commissioned by the Dansàneu festival with the support of Roca Umbert. Her work ‘Amaro’ (2019) has obtained the support of Sala Hiroshima, the Canal Dance Center, El Graner, the Festival Dansa Quinzena Metropolitana . With the tireless concern of wanting to finish the job, she develops ‘Panorama’ (2021) with the support of Antic Teatre. Finally, this trilogy will come to an end with the piece ‘PANORAMA’ (2022), thanks to the support of the Mercat de les Flors, Festival Dansa Quinzena Metropolitana and Festival Sismògraf. These complete her trajectory as a choreographer, being her first long pieces.

His work has been presented and co-produced in contexts such as: Pointe to Pointe Fourth Asia-Europe Dance Forum, Jardin d’Europe dentro de Art Link (Romania), De Warande (Belgium), CoNCA, Consejo Nacional de las Artes de Catalunya, Institut Ramon Llull, Beca OCIC, El Graner (Barcelona), La Caldera (Barcelona), Roca Umbert (Granollers), sala Hiroshima (Barcelona), Antic Teatre (Barcelona), Danza Canal (Madrid), Centro Coreográfico de la Gomera (La Gomera), Festival Dansa Quinzena Metropolitana (Barcelona), Festival Sismògraf (Olot), Festival Dansàneu (Esterri d’Àneu), Palma Dansa (Mallorca), Leal.Lav (Tenerife), Festival Kinani Moz (Mozambique), Cali en Danza (Colombia), Festival ACT (Zagreb), Tanecni Centrum Praha, (Czech Republic), Festival Eufònic, among others.

Organized by: ROPA / Roberto Olivan Performing Arts and L’OBRADOR Espai de Creació.
With the support of: Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya and Diputació de Tarragona.