A BEGINNING #16161D
PREMIERED in MARCH 2023
A BEGINNING is a journey from darkness to light. It’s a piece for 5 dancers/singers equipped with portable lights who we hear breathing, walking and talking. They explore the relationship between movement, voice and light. Where choreography meets musical composition, this piece dissociates the body that sings from the body that moves. They develop a physical and movement practice that allows them to embody two movements in a single body; the movement that sounds (singing) and the movement that is seen. A beginning #16161D constructs a theatrical narrative about the eternal dialectic between the individual and the collective, in order to imagine new ways of relating.
Creation and direction: Aurora Bauzà & Pere Jou
Performance: Elena Tarrats, Maider Lasa, Isaac Baró, Diana Pop, Pere Jou
Music and sound: Aurora Bauzà
Choreography: Pere Jou
Light design: Jou Serra
Costume: Mariona Signes
Dramaturgical and choreographic collaboration: Alessandro Sciarroni
Movement assistance: Claudia SolWat
Technical and lightning assistance: Marieta Rojo
Production and support: Ariadna Miquel
Acknowledgments: Cube peak, Africa Sabé and Iguzzini
Co-produced by L'Auditori and Centre Coregraphique National d'Orleans (France)
With the support of Institut d'Estudis Baleàrics, Graner Fàbrica de Creació Nau Estruch, Hèmisphère Son, Castell de Montjuïc, and CC Barceloneta.
#16161D or eigengrau,
is the color we see in conditions of absolute darkness. This color, which is not black but a dark gray, is a kind of optical illusion generated by our retina that, on the other hand, in conditions of light, is capable of perceiving pure black in completely black objects.