La Barceloneta in Motion
Three performances scheduled between late October and mid-December showcase the vitality of Barcelona’s contemporary dance scene.
This autumn, La Barceloneta dances — to the rhythm of three artists and companies who bring their choreographic creations to the Centre Cívic Barceloneta, a venue especially dedicated to the movement arts. The season opens on 29 October with a performance by Georgia Vardarou and Marc Vanrunxt, followed by two more on 6 November and 11 December.
At the centre on Carrer de la Conreria, you can both immerse yourself in the world of dance by joining one of the many workshops on offer and enjoy performances as part of an audience. The programme keeps a close eye on the most exciting dance talents currently working in the city.
The season begins on Wednesday, 29 October (12:00–13:00) with For Blinky Palermo, an open rehearsal by Georgia Vardarou and Marc Vanrunxt. Vardarou, a Greek artist born in 1987 and based in Barcelona since 2017, explores the moving body and the perceptions it generates. Trained at the National School of Dance of Greece and at the renowned P.A.R.T.S. school in Belgium, she now collaborates with the Belgian choreographer Marc Vanrunxt, who has been creating pieces since 1980 focused on the relationship between body, space and time.
Together, they are developing two individual choreographies that will later be presented simultaneously as a single work — a split-screen performance in which each artist moves to a shared musical composition performed by two musicians. The piece draws inspiration from the abstract German painter Blinky Palermo, known for his monochrome canvases and fabric paintings, particularly his explorations of spatial perception. The work is performed by Júlia Rúbies Subirós and Georgia Vardarou.
On 6 November (19:30–20:30), two contemporary artists from the Dantia residency project — a programme at the Centre Cívic Barceloneta that supports choreographic and dramaturgical research — take the stage. You’ll first see Tarareo, by Joel Mesa Gutiérrez, a reflection on the act of humming an old, familiar song and reconnecting it with the present — an invitation to rediscover traditional song. The evening continues with Persona, a dance-theatre piece by Diego de la Rosa and Julia Vargas that questions how we communicate in an increasingly advanced yet alienating technological world. The performance invites audiences to reflect, through movement, on the role technology plays in their own lives. Marcos Xalabarder signs the dramaturgy, and Gloria García and Anna Soler perform the piece.
Finally, on 11 December (19:30–20:30), Hanna Tervonen, also part of the Dantia programme, presents Hope’s Room (in the making of), a work that contemplates forests and reimagines our relationship with them, viewing personal identity as one element within a larger ecosystem.
If you don’t want to miss the dance and movement proposals that Centre Cívic Barceloneta brings you this autumn, check the full programme on the website before attending.