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.