Musical and choreographic piece for nine female performers: four brass instrumentalists and five dancers. Together they invoke different imaginaries around the air, through dance, music and the rhythm of the word. How is energy generated through this element and what is it to breathe together today? The performers move in the same way as the air moves and repeat in the same way as breaths repeat.

Aina Alegre, dancer, performer and choreographer, is interested in choreographic creation as a terrain for “re-imagining” the body. She explores different body cultures and practices, understood as social, historical and anthropological representations. Fiction as a genre and cultural practice also nourishes her work. She constructs choreographic objects from different media: stage pieces, performances, videos. Her work has been performed in several countries, including Spain, France, Greece, Belgium, Switzerland, Peru, Germany, Italy and Romania.  Since January 2023, Alegre has been directing the Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble, in tandem with performer Yannick Hugron.

Concept and artístic direction Aina Alegre / Creation and interpretation Maria Astallé, Maria Cofan, Cosima Grand, Hanna Hedman, Kotomi Nishiwaki, Maria Puertas, Gwendal Raymond, Julia Soler, Asha Thomas / Light design Jan Fedinger / Electroacustic musical composition Josep Tutusaus / Design sound space Vanessa Court / Costume concept Andrea Otin / Artistic accompaniment and dramaturgy Quim Bigas / Artistic assistants  Yannick Hugron i Aniol Busquets / General direction  Juliette Rudent-Gili / Special thanks Enric Alegre, whose theme “better future blues” has accompanied the creation from beginning to end, to Pere Jou and Elsa Dumontel
Delegated production Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble / Coproduction and partners STUDIO FICTIF (Claire Nollez, Romain Courault, Clémence Padou), December Dance (Cultuurcentrum and Concertgebouw Brugge), Bèlgica; Mercat de les Flors, Barcelona (artista associada 2022 & 2023); Festival Grec, Barcelona; La Rose des Vents, Scène nationale Lille Métropole Villeneuve d’Ascq; le Manège scène nationale de Maubeuge; La Place de la Danse CDCN Toulouse Occitanie; La Briqueterie CDCN du Val-de-Marne; Théâtre et cinéma de Choisy-le-Roi Scène conventionnée; Theater Freiburg, Allemagne; Fonds Transfabrik – Fonds franco-allemand pour le spectacle vivant; Atelier de Paris – CDCN / With the support Mécénat de la Caisse des Dépôts; DRAC Île-de-France; Département du Val de Marne; la Région Île-de-France; Adami, organisme de gestió col·lectiva dels drets dels artistes-intèrprets: gestió de drets, assistència financera per a projectes, incidència i suport professional; fons de música incidental SACD; Angers CNDC
The Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble is financed by Drac Auvergne – Rhône-Alpes / Ministère de la culture et de la communication, la Région Auvergne – Rhône-Alpes, le Département de l’Isère, Grenoble-Alpes Métropole

As part of the Vibe35 project, in which six public facilities -Mercat dels Flors, Teatre Lliure, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Teatre Nacional de Catalunya, L’Auditori i el Palau de la Música- collaborate to create new young audiences and promote educational and social initiatives. We offer a special program aimed at young people 18 to 35 years old, with reduced price.

These are the activities which Mercat de les Flors Hall will host, before and after the show:

From 6.30pm to 7pm: Live broadcast of ‘La Trinae‘ (Radio Primavera Sound)

Nowadays, going to the toilet is secretive, intimate and, in short, a fact that we carry with a certain stench. In Ancient Rome, however, when public baths were the center of leisure, the lavatories of the time, the latrinae, often had more than one seat. And it was while they were shitting that the Romans struck up a conversation. XXI century, let’s get back into the habit: Cèlia, Llum and Mercè are La Trinae, a podcast made by and for young people where they shit on everything together.

From 7 to 7.45 pm: Live broadcast of ‘Plaersdemavida‘ (Radio Primavera Sound)

Paula Carreras presents some of her “Plaersdemavida”, where she invites us to enjoy life and culture, creating a space for reflection, but also relaxation. Radio Primavera Sound’s new fortnightly culture podcast has different collaborators to be able to make a complete x-ray of all cultural areas. In this case, accompanying Paula, Nil Martín, our specialist in the world of performing arts, will come to explain and recommend everything we can’t miss at the theater at the beginning of the season.

From 9.15pm to 11pm: Radio Primavera Sound session with Colmado Dj (aftershow)

Colmado Dj (FKA Dj Baldwin) is the alter ego of Sergi Cuxart, music selector of Radio Primavera Sound and now also behind the adventure of running a label with Discos El Colmado. His passion for flat wax has made him accumulate huge amounts of records ranging from the most danceable tropical groove to the most explosive disco music, passing through the epic AOR or the cult freak stuff.