The new Mercat de les Flors’ CÈL·LULA project production is currently being developed, which will open the 2025-2026 season. The show is a new chapter in Roser López Espinosa’s exploration of the group and collective construction. Ground’s work, acrobatic elements, partnering, group mechanics, construction of architectures and contact strategies are at the service of awakening the imagination and the desire to fable with the body. From 9 to 12 December 2024, a first research was carried out with a group of dancers selected by audition, within the framework of the CÈL·LULA_LAB # 12. During 2025, different open rehearsals have been planned: 20 May and 5 July, at the Graner, and 13 and 25 September, at the Mercat de les Flors.
Roser López Espinosa has been present on the international scene since 2006 and has created large-scale pieces such as L’estol for the National Dance and Drama Production (Best Choreography Award at the XXII Critics’ Awards). Cometa, co-produced with Vorpommern tanzt an (Germany), has fascinated young and old around the world. Guest choreographer for international companies such as Skånes Dansteater (Sweden), Scottish Dance Theater (United Kingdom), Zagreb Dance Company (Croatia) or MiR (Germany), she collaborates with several circus companies. Associated artist at La Caldera, artist in residence at Mercat de les Flors 2018-21 and resident exchange artist in 2022 at the National Theater & Concert Hall (Taiwan), she conveys her work through her company Lowland.
The auditions were held from January 29 to 31, 2024 and 319 people showed up, of which a selection of 10 dancers was made (Amanda Rubio, Jacob Gómez, Lara Misó, Marta Santacatalina, Blanca Tolsà, Alejandro Fuster, Paula Parra, Wilchaan Roy Cantu, Joan Ferré and Edoardo Brovardi). Throughout the creation process there were different open rehearsals on 2024: June 20, July 5, September 13 and September 26 (only for members and ambassadors).
The fifth Mercat’s CÈL·LULA project is carried out by Paloma Muñoz, choreographer and dancer, she has worked with companies such as IT Dansa, Metros, Ramón Oller, Thomas Noone Dance and Norrdans. In 2018 he founded his own company, Siberia. The resident artist at the Mercat de les Flors, developed the process of creating her piece and premiered it in the fall of 2024.
PALOMA MUÑOZ presented La Quijá from 3 to 7 October 2024 at Mercat de les Flors
CÈL·LULA #5 is part of II Pla d’impuls de la dansa de Catalunya 2023-2026, an initiative of: Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya, Associació de Professionals de la Dansa de Catalunya (APDC), Associació de Companyies Professionals de la Dansa de Catalunya (ACPDC) and Mercat de les Flors. With the collaboration of Consorci Transversal, Xarxa d’Activitats Culturals, Especial Dansa – Ajuntament de Tarragona and Associació de Professionals de la Gestió Cultural de Catalunya (APGCC), and the complicity of several municipalities, organizations and stage facilities in Catalonia.
This promotion plan consists of 9 specific measures that aim to encourage the presence of Catalan professional dance throughout the country, create quality employment, promote professional training, and promote greater dissemination of dance and movement arts in the public sphere.
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On 2023 we asked Núria Guiu to create a production within the framework of CÈL·LULA. During this 2023/2024 season, the artist-in-residence presented the solo piece Medium (30 September to 1 October 2023), the starting point for the new creation Supermedium, which was premiered at Mercat de les Flors from 24 to 28 January 2024. To produce this creation, Guiu, accompanied by the Norwegian choreographer Ingri Fiksdal, held four open sessions in which participants were invited to let themselves be possessed by the dance that is already in their body. A dance that is not situated in the past, the present or the future, but in all times at the same time. A practice where individual and collective memory meet through bodies in movement. During the last quarter of 2023, three open rehearsals were also offered to Mercat de les Flors ambassadors and season ticket holders so that they could enjoy a more direct experience of the performance prior to its première. This formula brought creators and spectators closer together, favouring a shared complicity and trust.
In this new work for CÈL·LULA 4, Núria Guiu was accompanied by the Norwegian choreographer Ingri Fiksdal. Supermedium is a large-format version inspired by Medium, a solo piece created by the two choreographers in 2022 and which opened the 2023-24 season. In the history of dance up to the present day, there have been different approaches to the incarnation of that which is virtual or invisible. Witches and mediums have always been women associated with the fringes of society and with superpowers.
The piece explores the metaphor of the ghost, stage creation and presentation as a ritual, and the body as a channel and archive that invokes other bodies. Supermedium is also a metaphor for today’s “Super Ballerina”, a person who lives on the threshold of what is a precarious job and a valued, remunerated job with the rights of any other worker. In this creation, nine female dancers will channel movements and dances that invoke a singularity crossed by a common past and present. An exorcism that burns, expels and invites to rebirth the dance, the ballerina and the live arts of the future.
NÚRIA GUIU premiered ‘CÈL·LULA 4: Supermedium’, January 24 2024, at the Mercat de les Flors
