FLESH AND FLOWERS (2024)
Dance performance inspired by the life and work of the painter Paula Modersohn-Becker by Laura Alcala Freudenthal (Barcelona) with TanzKollektivBremen
Performances on November 14, 15 and 16, 2024, at 7:30 p.m. and on December 13 and 14 at the Zentrum für Kunst in Bremen
Credits:
Choreography and Artistic Direction: Laura Alcala Freudenthal
Concept and Production Management: Neus Ledesma Vidal
Performers: Neus Ledesma Vidal and Magali Sander Fett
Music: Thordis M. Meyer
Set Design: Gabriela Valdespino with assistance from Eghbal Joudi
Costume Design: Lilly Bosse and Malen Rodríguez
Dramaturgy: Judith Strodtkötter
Technical Support: Carlos Heydt
Movement Assistance: Emma Riba
Special thanks to the Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum in Bremen and to Simone Ewald for their research support.
The production “Flesh and Flowers” is made possible by TanzKollektivBremen’s residency at the Zentrum für Kunst during the 2024/25 season.
The Zentrum für Kunst is managed by the Senator for Culture to support independent artists in Bremen.
BALLAR EL BARRI (2024)
Community Danceoke
A project by Laura Alcala Freudenthal
A danceoke works like karaoke, but instead of copying songs, you copy dances. In this piece, the choreographer invites you to copy the dances created for the occasion by some local women who frequent the Parc Sandaru Community Center.
Directed by: Laura Alcala Freudenthal
Director of Photography: Kiku Piñol
Lighting Design: Martí Bescós
Editing: Aimar Galdós
Set Design: Penique Productions
Movement Assistant: Emma Riba
Styling: Valentina Azzati
Styling Assistant: Ambar Murgia
Graphic Design: Marc Vila Montagut
A LaSúbita production
Con la colaboración del CC Parc Sandaru
Alda Puig, Marta Colina, Marc Caballero, Marta Mercader, Anna Castelló, Aina Puig, Alba Torner
Acknowledgements: Edurne Ucero and Jordi Duran i Roldós
With the support of the Barcelona Institute of Culture
PARTICIPANTS
Anna Casanovas, Bibiana Balagué, Esperança Peracho, Glòria Navarro, Jeniffer Judith Ruiz, Lluïsa Bermejo, Maria Antònia Rico, Mercedes Manchado, Montse Ros, Muntsa Ramírez, Sandra Villalobos, Trini Gómez, Vanessa Belmonte
DISKOREOKE ft. Pere Faura (2024)
Laura and Pere invite you to a disco-danceoke, an activity that works like karaoke, but instead of copying songs, you copy dances. Laura and Pere will lead a lively music and video session so you can come dance and have a blast with us.
Technical specifications:
Director: Laura Alcala Freudenthal
Creation and facilitation: Laura Alcala Freudenthal and Pere Faura
DISSABTE LASÚBITA&AMIGUIS WORKOUTS (2022)
The SATURDAY WORKOUTS_LaSúbita&amiguis are the perfect excuse to get moving, shake off the laziness of a lazy Saturday, hang out with friends, earn yourself a delicious vermouth, meet new people, laugh, have fun, sweat, shine, jump, skip, and above all, dance a lot.
We're offering workouts every Saturday in January and February at La Turbo creative space, led by LaSúbita and dear friends with whom we're thrilled to share the experience.
CREACIÓ COMUNITÀRIA NILAK-ROCAFORT (2022)
Community creation within the framework of the Nilak itinerant tent project with 16 women from Rocafort de Queralt. This context was another branch of the project #prácticasdeloinvisible as a result of having been selected in the Carretera i dansa project of the APDC (Association of Dance Professionals of Catalonia).
With this collaboration, he participated in the book “Mutare” (Mutaré?) of the Carulla Foundation (2023)
Direction: Laura Alcalà (a tota la web apareix Alcala sense accent) and Emma Riba (LaSúbita)
Collaborators:
Milagros García, Patricia Hastewell, Aina Minguell NOMS PARTICIPANTS
About #practicasdeloinvisible:
#prácticasdeloinvisible is a container of instant composition practices that emerged from the process of creating Silver Ballad.
#prácticasdeloinvisible is a laboratory of creation and also that space of freedom shared with other creators, friends, artists, inspiring women. Practices are everything that emerges in these encounters between choreographers, dancers, writers, audiovisual creators, dance theorists. They are the result of shared actions and reflections on the invisibility of women, the consequence of putting a head and thought on it, but above all of giving it body and placing it as a central nucleus.
#practicesoftheinvisible is, ultimately, an exhibition framework, a meeting space with the public, a mutable, versatile, dynamic piece, based on instant composition and creative impulses.
#practicesoftheinvisible is an independent subproject, with its own life, that runs parallel to the creation process of Silver Ballad.
VALKIRIAS (2022)
Valkyries fictionalizes three powerful women who evolve from girls to women, not only (only) because of the passage of time, but rather because of the harshness of the profession of dancer. It is a short story that ironizes the profession of dance, the stereotyping of our bodies and above all wants to celebrate the strength that characterizes all women within this universe and, it does so, from humor, movement and the construction of powerful aesthetic images that evoke these reflections.
Valkirias is a project by La Súbita in collaboration with Mari Zaunka, the collective from Guipúzcoa formed by Oihana Vesga and Nerea Gurrutxaga. A tandem of four women who are part of the same generation, with very similar trajectories and concerns and a shared social and professional reality.
Idea and direction: Laura Alcalà and Emma Riba (La Súbita)
Creation (creation) and interpretation: Nerea Gurrutxaga and Oihana Vesga (Mari Zaunka), Emma Riba (La Súbita)
Production: Anna Feliu- La Súbita
With the support of: Sortutakoak, Dantzagunea, CC Casa Elizalde and CC Can Felipa
FANZINE #PRACTICASDELOINVISIBLE (2021)
#practicesoftheinvisible—as a space for carnal encounter and reflection on the invisible—awakens in us the need to speak from the body and materialize the trace that accumulates and emerges from it. From this arises this fanzine: one that recounts this encounter through diverse images and texts.
Clàudia Barberà lends her body to graphically generate this fanzine, through storytelling. Because to tell a story is to observe, to discern, to organize. It is to recount a tale, to leave in writing, drawing, or recording all that would otherwise remain reserved only for those who experienced it. To tell a story is to record what has been thought, danced, and said. To tell a story is to invite others to participate.
To structure this narrative, Carolina Martínez has written “My Body, Our Bodies, Like a Meadow in Chiaroscuro”: a text that, on the one hand, is the result of interaction with the materials developed so far by the #practicasdeloinvisible project, and on the other, of the sensory evocations that these materials have produced in her own experience. The final writing, an embodied and fluid text, is composed of a series of vignettes, an introduction, and an ending, seeking to create, from the fragmentary, a certain narrative in dialogue with other bodies.
Laura Alcala Freudenthal coordinates its creation and writes and recovers texts by other women that revolve around the process of “Silver Ballad and its #practicesoftheinvisible” by the company LaSúbita.
Clàudia Barberà Miró is a communicator, audiovisual trainer, and illustrator. Sometimes she films, sometimes she paints, and sometimes she writes.
Carolina Martínez-López is a “poet,” holds a PhD in Fine Arts, and is a professor and researcher in performing arts and film studies.
Laura Alcala Freudenthal is a dancer, creator, restless spirit, professor and student, and researcher in performing arts studies and modes of production in dance.
Produced by LaSúbita in collaboration with the Olot Seismic Network 2021
SILVER BALLAD (2021)
Teaser 1
Teaser 2
Interview:
60 minutes / Indoor space
30 minutes / Outdoor space
What if the first person to walk on the moon had been a woman? You are all invited to this moon. We propose a reunion of all bodies—past, present, and future—a witches' sabbath, an endless celebration.
Silver Ballad is a poetic journey through the bodies that inhabit us, a tribute to the women who inspire us and the dancers who leave their mark on us. It is the search for and discovery of a space of freedom and safety. It is the conquest of an oasis of lunar dust.
"Invisibilitzades" by Jordi Sora
"The piece allows us to enjoy these two performers, capable of creating a celebratory finale with the audience or unfolding a rich choreographic phrasing in the duets. They also know how to enhance the solos through the accompaniment and the affection they both demonstrate for dance and for themselves, as professionals who strive to move forward despite the evident obstacles of prevailing structural sexism."
"Suggerent i emancipador rastre de la lluna" by Jordi Bordes
"This moon is contagious, brimming with sisterhood, and with the will to communicate and convey that we must celebrate the years of skin, of flesh, and also of wrinkles. That the years of war and dance are a home built in community. Women are the protagonists, but no one is excluded from a pop choreography that resonates with an eighties disco, yet retains that festive and emancipatory power of believing that another world is possible. La Súbita expresses this through dance and with the voice-over of Nausicaa Bonnín, who reads a letter from the dreamer Duncan. They embody the dancers of the future imagined by the charismatic mother of modern dance in 1903, long before her sensational biography."
ARTISTIC CREDITS
Direction: Laura Alcala Freudenthal and Emma Riba Santuré (LaSúbita)
Capsule Creation: Cecilia Colacrai, Núria Guiu, Fil d’'Arena, Laura Morales, Anne LeBatard
Performance: Laura Alcala Freudenthal and Emma Riba Santuré
Lighting Design: Gabriela Bianchi (with the collaboration of Jou Serra and Sergio Roca)
Music Composition: Aurora Bauzà
External Perspective: Sarah Anglada
Production: Pere Vilarrubla | LaSúbita (with the collaboration of ElClimaMola)
A LaSúbita production
with the support of: projecte Alliansat (SaT Teatre i Fabra i Coats), Sismògraf d'Olot, Estruch de Sabadell, La Cité des Arts de la Rue de Marsella, TanzHaus Zürich, Center Cívic Barceloneta, Center Cívic El Sortidor, Teatre La Gorga de Palamós, Ateneu de Celrà, Espai d’Arts Escèniques Casal d'Alella.
About the Silver Ballad process:
Silver Ballad is LaSúbita's first full-length, indoor piece, a production born from the need to connect with our first impulses, to remember why we do what we do, to look back and recognize all those bodies that inhabit us, powerful women who inspire us and thanks to whom we have come this far.
The creative process aims to make explicit the fact that appropriation is part of learning, just as the interpretation of shared knowledge serves as a reference point. Everything belongs to everyone. We have arrived here influenced and silently guided by other women, dancers and dance workers, who have served as role models, guides, teachers, companions, and sources of emotional support... warriors who are invisibly present in our bodies.
To highlight all of this, to make it evident and celebrate it, the creative process is based on the creation of five capsules, each created under the direction of a different female artist, starting from "the invisible." Silver Ballad is the result of uniting these capsules, interpreting them, shaping them, and relating them to one another.
#PRÁCTICASDELOINVISIBLE (2020)
INSTANT COMPOSITION
The duration, location, and equipment vary depending on the context.
It also functions as a workshop/audience laboratory.
#practicesoftheinvisible is a container of instant composition practices that emerged from the Silver Ballad creation process.
#practicesoftheinvisible is a creative laboratory and also a shared space of freedom with other creators, friends, artists, and inspiring women. The practices are everything that emerges in these encounters between choreographers, dancers, writers, audiovisual creators, and dance theorists. They are the fruit of shared actions and reflections on the invisibility of women, the consequence of giving it a voice and a mind, but above all, of embodying it and placing it at the center.
#practicesoftheinvisible is, ultimately, an exhibition framework, a meeting space with the public, a mutable, versatile, dynamic piece, based on instant composition and creative impulses.
#practicesoftheinvisible is an independent subproject, with its own life, that runs parallel to the creation process of Silver Ballad.
PAST PUBLIC MEETINGS:
#practicasdeloinvisible Barceloneta (December 2020) with Cecilia Colacrai and Patricia Hastewell
#practicasdeloinvisible Barricada (January 2021) with Patricia Hastewell, Sarah Anglada, Jou Serra, Anrantza López and Blanca Tolsà.
#practicasdeloinvisible Sismògraf (April 2021) with Aurora Bauzà, Milagros Garcia, Anrantza López and Blanca Tolsà.
#practicasdeloinvisible El Sortidor (May 2021) ft. Fil D'arena
#practicasdeloinvisible sortutakoak (February 2022) ft. Mari Zaunka
#practicasdeloinvisible Rocafort de Queralt|nilak (November 2022) with the participants of the community creation of nilak
ARTISTIC CREDITS
Directed by: Laura Alcalà and Emma Riba (LaSúbita)
Collaborators:
Cecilia Colacrai, Aurora Bauzà, Marta Garcia Cardellach, Blanca Tolsà, Milagros García, Arantza López, Sarah Anglada, JoU Serra, Patricia Hastewell, Clàudia Barberà, Carolina Martínez, Fil D’Arena, Mari Zaunka
Production: Pere Vilarrubla, LaSúbita (with the collaboration of ElClimaMola)
Aliansat Project (SaT Teatre and Fabra i Coats), Sismògraf de Olot, Estruch de Sabadell, La Cité des Arts de la Rue de Marsella, TanzHaus Zürich, Center Cívic Barceloneta, Center Cívic El Sortidor, Teatre La Gorga de Palamós, Ateneu de Celrà, Espai d’Arts Escèniques Casal d’Alella.
POLS (2019)
site-specific
unconventional spaces
live music (Jordi Claret)
POLS is an exploration of a bodily, sonic, and aesthetic phenomenon featuring a body of bodies in constant dialogue.
The starting point is a dance practice based on resistance, shared weight, and dissociation, generating a dense, circular, and continuous quality of movement. Within this framework, two bodies converse to give rise to a new one, forming and deforming an interdependent mass that adopts multiple characters and opens the imagination to infinite possibilities.
The aesthetic and sonic journey we propose is intensified by the costumes, which actively contribute to the disidentification of individual bodies, transforming them into a kaleidoscope of recognizable figures, always in flux. We begin with the idea of the two-tone jumpsuit as a single skin that objectifies the wearer, allowing us to play with bilaterality, doubling, and the ambiguity of forms.
This multifaceted mass desires to be observed—or perhaps spied upon—inviting the viewer to surrender to pareidolia, to enter a living installation in an almost hypnotic way. From there, we propose a constant reinterpretation of what is observed, allowing oneself to be guided by the practice, the real-time dialogue, imperfection, and the entire imaginary universe that emerges from it.
POLS is DUST that accumulates and is not seen unless you look at it.
POLS is POLE as the extreme of the hemispheres.
POLS is PULSE that trembles in the dialogue of bodies.
Concept and interpretation: Laura Alcala Freudenthal and Emma Riba Santuré
Visual arts: Clàudia Barberà
Music: Jordi Claret
Photography: Patty Rull
Year: 2019
Duration: 20 minutes/40 minutes
With the support of: Centre Cívic Barceloneta
TALLER TRAVESSES (2018)
In these workshops, physical practices based on the relationship between two bodies, improvisation and instant composition, are worked on, which arouse interest both in the physical capacities they generate and in their compositional gaze. They also keep the body alert and in constant training, causing it to adapt to the practice and generating multiple versions of itself. This pedagogical aspect also allows La Súbita to publicize its way of working and its versatility to adapt its proposals to different audiences.
A LA PANXA DEL BOU (2018)
2018
20-minute piece for all audiences
Street version and room version
“A la panxa del bou” is a drama in four acts where two dancers reunite after having a fight while preparing for the show. A humorous dance piece for family audiences that plays with stage time and absurdity.
Creation and performance: Emma Riba Santuré and Laura Alcala Freudenthal
Year: 2018
Duration: 25 minutes
Premiere: ONADAnce festival, Palamós (4 July 2018).
With the support of: Centre Cívic Barceloneta
AURÈLIA, AMÈLIA I CARLES (2017)
A piece created from local news, fictionalizing a live radio broadcast.
Site-specific, street.
This street piece is an interactive game straddling reality and fiction where we bring into contact the abstract of movement, interpreted by two dancers, with current affairs content, mediated by a radio announcer, thus generating multiple reinterpretations of movement and journalistic material.
Created and performed by: David Menéndez, Emma Riba Santuré and Laura Alcala Freudenthal
Year: 2017
Duration: 30 minutes
Premiere: ENA (National Stage of Andorra) program, Andorra (July 20, 2017).
Specifics of “Aurèlia, Amèlia i Carles”
The piece is written spontaneously, right there where it takes place. The Detectives arrive three days before the performance, collect the local newspapers, select the content that will shape the work, and create the script.
To do this, we choose news stories of local interest—generally from the social or current events sections—that focus primarily on the people and the curiosities of the place. From there, we select headlines and excerpts that will serve as the basis and define the structure of the piece. Then we play with manipulating them and associating them with our physical and humorous practices, as well as with the dynamics of the relationship between the performers and the audience.
This is how a participatory piece is born, created specifically for the place and the audience that welcomes us.
With the support of: Escena Nacional Andorrana (ENA), Center Cívic Barceloneta, Nunart, Escola Municipal de Dansa de Celrà (EMDC),
Madrid Choreographic Competition - Step 2.
