Boombeta

BOOMBETA is a series of artistic initiatives in La Marina neighbourhood driven by the Graner dance and performance arts creation centre. This will be the fifth edition of BOOMBETA, a programme of events revolving around movement, the body and the many different identities around us, which aims to foster dialogue between local residents and the research processes of the artists in the Graner community.

BOOMBETA generates local and work contexts with La Marina's local residents, contexts which are being opened up to the neighbourhood and the rest of the city through a variety of events and activities, all of them free of charge.

In this edition of BOOMBETA you can enjoy the following events:

JazzBetween
With Marina Pravkina
1 July at 6 pm
Espai Jove La Bàscula (outdoors)
Admission is free, and no advance booking is required
Improvised show featuring DJs and various types of dance.

BOOMBETA's opening event will be a live DJ and music session (including hip-hop, jazz, funk, house and contemporary music) with dance improvisation in all sorts of styles. An event for exploring the contemporary nature of jazz and embarking on unexpected relationships between urban and folk, as well as contemporary, music and dance. Where does jazz begin, and where does it end? Come and find out at the improvisation session and artistic rendez-vous in a dialogue between Graner and La Bàscula and their dance and music communities.

Marina Pravkina is one of Graner's resident artists, as well as founder of the JazzBetween project. She is an artist, teacher and choreographer based in Barcelona.

https://jazzbetween.com/
Instagram: @jazzbetween @mariinjazz

El Jardí
Opening of La Taimada company's process
2 July at 7 pm
Graner
Admission is free, but you must book in advance by sending an email to info@granerbcn.cat
A visual representation of human fragility and sensuality

El Jardí is part of a trilogy entitled The Garden, which is loosely inspired on Hieronymus Bosch's triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights. It is a work conceived for the normative and non-normative bodies of a set of 18-to-99-year-old volunteers with the aim of exploring the human body from the point of view of a single non-exclusive ability: the ability to experience pleasure. The work uses this perspective to place humans in all their diversity on a completely equal footing in a huge garden of earthly delights. La Taimada uses a blank landscape to present a garden of bodies, a space occupied by the physical beauty of a set of beings who act based on simple instincts regardless of shape, needs or physical and motor abilities.

In the midst of their creative process, Graner's 2022 resident artists La Taimada open up their rehearsals to the public to share this garden. There will also be a group discussion about the content of the open rehearsal.

www.lataimada.com
Instagram: @lataimada

Contact mapping
Practical session / workshop led by Dianelis Diéguez
7 July at 10 am
Graner
Admission by invitation
A meeting place to review the narrative that links La Marina neighbourhood to Graner over ten years of close existence.

This relationship-based practical session will provide an opportunity to review the story of the relationship between La Marina neighbourhood and Graner over the last ten years. We will revisit these narratives as if they were set in the present time, based on the need to understand our skills and ability to act, in order to build permanent yet malleable and transformable fabrics or ties.

The event will feature the participation of local residents, the Graner team and other local agents attending as guests.

Dance the Internet
Workshop with Guillem Jiménez – laSADCUM
8 July at 6 pm
Graner
Free admission by booking at info@granerbcn.cat until capacity has been reached
Workshop for young people (16 years and up) to learn to build a virtual body

The workshop, named Dance the Internet, is a proposal by laSADCUM based on the work Aclucalls. A variety of moving bodies will be explored from the perspective of the effects experienced by the post-internet generation, to which the company's members belong. Both the piece and the workshop are based on concepts such as workout, screens and computer programming. A session about the body that provides physical tools to anyone wishing to move and find out and test how the body is affected by the virtual nature of the Internet (which is full of moving images of bodies, lots of movements by lots of different bodies) using improvisation, their own imagination and physical restrictions as their guidelines.

Amor a Plutó
Opening of Alejandro Curiel's, Gemma Polo's and Les Aventureres' process
15 July at 7 pm
Graner
Admission is free, but you must book in advance by sending an email to info@granerbcn.cat
Creation lab closing event with local residents Les Aventureres (who sing in the Sant Cristòfol choir) as part of the Territory/ies, Community/ies and Artistic Practices project.

The aim of this project by Les Aventureres is to take a more in-depth look at their stories and work in a sustainable way with the vitality they exude; to light up these minute details that would otherwise go unnoticed; to share time and space in order to, together, "draw" four impressionist portraits combining their individual personalities to create a common whole with no clear boundaries between them. Looking after one by looking after the other people.

Instagram: @gemma.polo @alejandrocuriel

Collective creation by: Gemma Polo and Alejandro Curiel, feat. Les Aventureres Director and dramatist: Alejandro Curiel Performers: Amàlia Bisbal, Soledad Cabañes, María Luisa Martín, Enriqueta Queralt, Gemma Polo Supported by: Marta Galán, Helena Tornero Technical assistance: Conchita Pons Mediation: Dianelis Diéguez

Alta conductivitat
Creation lab closing event with the group Big Bouncers
22 July at 8 pm, at the Casa del Rellotge civic centre (outdoors)
Admission is free, and no advance booking is required
The final event in the BOOMBETA series will be a street-based proposal that looks at infection as something positive and transformative.

The group Big Bouncers have prepared a creation lab with fifteen people to be held at Graner from 18 to 22 July as part of their research for their new project Plata, to be held in this public venue. In this creation lab, they have worked on the idea of infection as something that is positive and transformative: an expansion, infectious movement, laughter or energy, for example, that starts from a single person, from their body and everyday actions, and interacts with their immediate environment, connecting them with other people.

The proposal aims to claim public space as something that belongs to everyone, and the act of going from one place to another as one that is necessary and that, as it connects us to others, affects and changes us.

www.bigbouncers.info
Instagram: @bigbouncers

Idea and director: Big Bouncers group Performers: To be determined Artistic collaboration: Ursa Sekirnik, Diana Gadish, Ariadna Grau Sound collaboration: Joan Ros Produced by: Rita Stivala Support: Carlota Soldevila award (Teatre Lliure), Creation support: Fira Tàrrega, Graner, La Visiva

BOOMBETA 2022, The La Marina neighbourhood series of dance and performance events has been promoted by Graner.
With support from the Barcelona Grec Festival
In collaboration with Espai Jove La Bàscula and the Casa del Rellotge civic centre.

For further information and bookings, here.