L'elemental

A fiery cross on the ground illuminates the darkness. Does it invoke spirits? No need for that. Rather, it expands a play of elements and perceptions encompassing dance, actions, recitation, projections and music. They are five people whose only real definition is in what they do and how they do it together. And it is this combination of what and how that makes the elemental a process, and the process elemental. It is not a question of understanding it, let alone explaining it. It's about living it.

Activity curated by LaBastida del Rec

With the participation of Zoe Balasch, Maria Santfores, Wade Matthews, Albert Cirera, Àlex Cuadrado


Zoe Balasch Arumí

Performing artist, researcher and performer with more than 20 years of experience in the field of dance, live arts and performance practices. She works on her own projects that lean towards the site-specific format and performative collective activation. As an improvisational dancer, she collaborates with improvisational dance and music artists from the local scene. She has worked in national and international festivals and has shown and performed in Catalonia, Cyprus, the United Kingdom, Germany, Thailand, Denmark, India, Slovakia, Portugal and in the city of Berlin, where she lived for a time.

zoebalaschdansa.com


Maria Santfores Salla Solà

Multidisciplinary artist linked to the plastic, visual and musical arts. She has been a singer in groups such as U-Tòpics, Princes plan, Dril and Aspre, and has collaborated with different groups and artists. Since 2000, she has been performing in groups, duos and solo shows. She creates performative video art pieces in collaboration with Àlex López. She is constantly searching for her own code that allows her to interact artistically with other people and with as many languages as possible.

@msantfores


Wade Matthews

A long-time sound creator, he has been a key figure in the Spanish experimental music scene for more than three decades. A specialist in free musical improvisation with electroacoustic media and a regular collaborator with acoustic improvisers, he has been working with dance since 1978. He has recorded for the BBC, France Culture, SODRE, WFMU, RNE and RTVE, and has recorded numerous albums on European and American labels. With a PhD in Music Composition and Electroacoustics from Columbia University in New York, he is the author of several books as well as numerous essays for specialist journals.

www.wadematthews.info

@wade.a.matthews


Albert Cirera

A mature, adventurous, risk-taking and courageous musician who throughout his career has taken countless paths, always pushed by the sting of the search for new expressive languages, treading on the territories of classical jazz, free-jazz or free improvisation. He brings with him an over 15-year partnership with drummer Ramon Prats with the Duot project and with Andy Moor, Abdul Moimême, Olie Brice, João Lencastre, Agustí Fernández, Valeria Miracapillo, Kristoff K.Roll, Sonia Sánchez, Florian Stoffner, Johannes Nästesjö or Clara Lai.

albertcirera.com

@albertcirerajimenez


Àlex López Cuadrado

Freelance graphic designer, he works jointly on various projects related to design and visual communication, as well as in the field of photography and video. Audiovisual creator and founder of the Output_Video collective, he has participated in different performances with several members of the Telenoika visual community, as well as in video performance projects with Maria Santfores and different artists. Currently, he is also a member of the association LaBastida del Rec de Igualada (labastida.cat), where he develops different video, sound and cultural management projects.

@tresdosu_