Unlike traditional criticism, carried out by a subject on an object of study, in this work the simultaneity of the physical and intellectual discourse makes subject and object coincide in the same person: the dancer. Criticism is embodied and thus sweats. With this proposal, I will try to take a step ahead, to convey the alternative potential of this kinaesthetic language while unfolding critical analysis of how the figure of the dancer has been historically a figure of subalternity, a muted subject with no political voice.

"Sweating the discourse / Sudando el discurso", the book that accompanies this performative work, was published on July 2015, and the second edition came out on December 2015.

BIO
Aimar Pérez Galí
Developed his artistic practice in the dance and performing arts fields as a dancer, choreographer, researcher, pedagogue and writer, always considering the body as a reference. He studied modern dance at the Amsterdam School of Arts and completed a Masters on museology and critical studies at the Independent Studies Programme of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona. He is cofounder and director of Espacio Práctico since 2010, and has been teaching at the Choreography Department of the Conservatori Superior de Dansa of the Institut del Teatre of Barcelona since 2014.

Understanding physicality as a battery of changes and exchanges that happen in a body when is in action, our interest focuses on everything that is transmitted by a body in full activity, something difficult to share because often this information, linked to areas of self-perception, sensitive and intuitive, doesn't circulate through the usual channels of logic or understanding; and because most of these changes occur inside the body. This is where sound comes into play as a way to share this physicality.
We have developed a device that monitors different processes happening inside a body at maximum effort, so that the body - thanks to the device - becomes an instrument that produces and modifies its own sound while building a soundscape. All sound is born from the body and it is the body itself which modifies it in real time to create a soundscape.

BIO
Sergi Fäustino
Studied dance and performance at the School for New Dance development (SNDO) in Amsterdam (Netherlands). On his return to Barcelona he worked with various local companies. Since 2012 he has been developing FÄUSTINO I, II, III, IV. Working with the idea of the body as a container of personal history.

Marc Romagosa
He has created sound designs for shows by Rodrigo García, Pep Bou, Teatre del Liceu and Carme Portacelli. He has worked as sound technician for La Fura dels Baus, Teatre Lliure, Rafael Amargo and Increpación Danza among others.

Within the universe, being as it is a closed system, entropy grows constantly. At a given moment, entropy reaches its maximum, producing a balance of all temperatures and pressures that results in the heat death of the universe. An end as a new beginning. Because we descend from monkeys and bacteria, but also from stars and galaxies. We are composed of dust from the Big Bang. As Hubert Reeves asks himself, do we contain the memory of the universe? We activate scientific concepts in a (theatrical) space, creating new (fictionalised) realities, reformulating and re-questioning the codes of theatre and installation.

BIO
Ariadna Rodriguez
Her work takes the stage as the meeting point for the various disciplines/tools she uses and develops in order to activate or trigger actions that question the format and the codes of the representational act. Adriana Rodriguez holds Higher Certificates in Music from the Santiago de Compostela Conservatory and from Berklee College of Music (Boston), for which she received a grant from the Fulbright Foundation. She also studied Performance Art and Sound Art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. She has trained in Classical and Contemporary Dance and Body Weather, studying under Oguri in Los Angeles and Andres Corchero in Barcelona. She studied Contemporary Theatre with Rachel Rosenthal in Los Angeles as well as as at the Espacio Abierto school in Santiago de Compostela. She has presented her own work in the US, Germany, France and Spain. She has been directing and co-ordinating the nyamnyam platform, together with Iñaki Alvarez, since 2012.

We want to take this opportunity to remember, recalling our beginnings and our journey, both artistic and personal, along the fertile path represented by these 5 years of working together.
On this occasion the performers will draw from their own experiences to create the narrative of the piece, without excluding the shadows cast by their own light; the idea being to show not only what we may consider our successes, but also what we see as our failures. We would also like to thank all the artists who have worked with us during this time - and there have been many - for their willingness, their generosity and their strength. Thank you for your breaths of fresh air, friends!

Some of our neighbours have been dancing regularly in our auditorium for five years now. Their ages ranging from 65 to 91, they all live in Barcelona's Casc Antic neighbourhood. Someone said, after seeing them perform, that they're just like our own grannies, or even the grannies we ourselves will become some day. And the fact is that they too deserve to have, in their own neighbourhood, visibility, as well as access to the space and resources necessary for expressing themselves artistically, given all they have to tell us.

At each presentation they face new challenges and take their artistic capabilities ever further, freeing up the creativity that was hidden to them for so long.

Antic Teatre's community project in the neighbourhood consists of dance and movement workshops for older people and a series of public performances over the year. This provides access to the language and artistic expression of dance with the accompanying benefits that this has in terms of social inclusion and cohesion. At the same time, we create awareness of the needs and methods of expression of the least visible members of our community – the elderly.

Also included in the project are various activities designed to encourage relations across the generational divide, between the eldest and youngest residents of our neighbourhood.

BIO
Isabel Ollé and Quim Cabanillas
We met in 2010 at some Shiatsu sessions where we were respectively patient and Shiatsu-Shi. From the first session we became aware of a meeting point between our two disciplines: the centre as the origin of movement. Additionally, the knowledge and experience we both have in movement: Isabel Ollé (dance) and Quim Cabanillas (martial arts) made putting the idea into practice a lot easier. From this moment we embarked on our joint professional journey, creating QuimBel-do and bringing movement and dance to people of all ages and characteristics, maximising their most creative potential. We have been artistic directors of the Antic Teatre's community artistic programmes since 2011. We also collaborate with the Ateneu de les Arts de Viladecans and our work has been produced as part of a collaborative project between entre el Festival Al Carrer de Viladecans and la Fira Mediterrània de Manresa.

A hypothetical scenario places us in an independent Catalonia during the filming of a magazine programme for the main television channel at peak broadcasting time. The most ridiculous situations and the most unlikely anecdotes take place between the programme's mediator, the presenter, and the guest artist, all mixed up with the set crew who are, for the most part, immigrants from neighbouring Spain.

BIO
Eduardo Gión
Film and theatre director, documentalist. He has worked as assistant director on short and feature films in 35mm. He created the party based on underground horror cinema event "Transilvania Club" together with film maker Luis Macías and musicians XSDJ. He writes and produces articles for magazines, including Candy, Paraíso, and Odda. His documentaries have been screened at film festivals such as Sitges, Portland and New York.

Victor Guerrero
Was educated at the French Lycée and went on to study Fine Arts. He specialised in the Grotowsky method and in singing and dance. This led him to the world of cabaret in the 70s and 80s, where he became one of the stellar figures as master of ceremonies and presenter. He has worked in the best venues and cabarets, becoming a well-known and respected name throughout the profession as well as developing a unique style.

Gilda Love
Mythical icon of Barcelona at its most rebellious and sleazy in the 70s y 80s. Home-grown drag queen who has performed in the most emblematic cabarets of Barcelona and París. She is a MYTH.

Brigitta Lamoure
One of the most genuine drag acts currently around, her comic character has reached the hearts of BTV viewers. She is also a member of mythical Catalan drag group "The Chanclettes".

Cocoteva Company
Emerged in 2012 under the direction of Xavier Villena; more than 15,000 spectators have enjoyed their art. Collaborators with “El desplume”. Art and colour.

"A Notebook Without Content" is a project by María Jerez to which she invited me, together with four other artists, to provide a reaction through a particular text: the book "The Man Without Content" written by Giorgio Agamben in 1970. For my part in the presentation of the project I suggested the difficulty of integrating the past into the future at any given moment in history, while also looking at how artistic practice makes this possible. I will be presenting the development of this idea at the GREC festival.

BIO
Juan Dominguez
Is a performer, choreographer, theatrical director and programmer. He lives and works between Madrid, Berlin and Brussels. His work explores the relation between different codes and opts for the dissolution of the lines between fiction and reality, using one to produce the other and vice versa. At present he is working on the construction of contexts that generate stronger and longer-lasting relations through continuity. He is also working on the idea of co-authorship between all the agents involved in a live performative experience. His works include: Todos los buenos espías tiene mi edad (2002); Shichimi Togarashi in collaboration with Amalia Fernández (2006); blue (2009), Ya llegan los personajes in collaboration with Los Torreznos (2011); El Triunfo de la Libertad (2014) in collaboration with La Ribot and Juan Loriente; Clean Room pilot seasons 1, 2, and 3. (2010-2016). Over the past few years he has curated various festivals and programmes. He was artistic director for the In-Presentable Festival/La Casa Encendida (2003-2012), co-director of the Living Room Festival (2010-2013) and co-programmer for the Picnic Sessions at C2M-Madrid (2013-2015).