AINA ALEGRE / CCN Grenoble – STUDIO FICTIF

AT CASTELL DE MONTJUÏC

For the first time in Catalonia, Aina Alegre presents her participatory work PARADES & DÉSOBÉISSANCES at Montjuïc Castle in Barcelona. Drawing on ritual gestures developed through her artistic research, she creates a monumental dance piece, rooted in rhythm and performed by around one hundred amateur dancers. The crowd becomes a temporary community and a living architecture, its movements resonating with the site and giving it a new, embodied and festive memory. The powerful gestural and sonic qualities of the piece, and the dialogue between bodies, space and architecture, are at the heart of Aina Alegre’s approach to this project: “What interests me is creating a collective body while making room for all forms of diversity, bringing the work into dialogue with public space, and giving heritage sites a new energy through a collective dance that is powerful and exhilarating.”

Aina Alegre has been co-director of the National Choreographic Centre in Grenoble since 2023. She sees choreography as a way of opening up imaginary worlds around the body. Through dance she explores different relationships involving the collective body. She conceives her shows as an “orchestration” of movement, sound, light and space. In her creations she also investigates the ideas of memory and archive, which run through all her work. Aina Alegre has been an associate artist at the Mercat, which has staged several of her pieces in recent seasons.

Artistic design and direction Aina Alegre / Transmission and interpretation alternating between Aniol Busquets, Elena Sevilla, Claudia Solano Watson, Víctor Pérez Armero and 100 amateurs dancers / Project Assistant Séverine Bauvais – Capucine Intrup al Festival de Marsella / Sound design Aina Alegre / General direction, sound and sound edition Guillaume Olmeta / Costume and accessories Aina Alegre and Andrea Otin in collaboration with the participants / Music Cathédrales de Romain Mercier / La jeune fille et la mort de Franz Schubert / Production Colette Siri / On tour Damien Valette
Production Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble & STUDIO FICTIF / Coproduction Festival de Marseille / With the support Convention Ville de Grenoble / Institut français