INVENTIONS

Pep Ramis and María Muñoz

Dance

Directed by  Pep Ramis and María Muñoz
Choreographer Pep Ramis and María Muñoz
Photogragher  Tristán Pérez Martín or François Passerini

Duration : 60 minute, without intermission

Cast:

Creation and dance :  Pep Ramis, María Muñoz, Federica Porello, Leo Castro, Zoltan Vakulya, Miquel Fiol, Enric  Fàbregas.

Musical direction: Joel Bardolet

Musical direction assistant: Quiteria Muñoz

String Quartet :  Joel Bardolet, violin ; Jaume Guri, violin ; Masha Titova, viola, and Daniel Claret, cello. 

Voice Quartet : Quiteria Muñoz, soprano ; David Sagastume, contratenor; Mario Corberán, tenor, and Giorgio Celenza, bass.

Music : Johann Sabastian Bach

Text : Nick Cave, Erri de Luca.

Soundscape : Fanny Thollot.

Light :  Luís Martí, August Viladomat 

Set design : Pep Ramis

Wardrobe : CarmePuigdevalliPlantés.

Sound : Andreu Bramon

Set technician : Genís Cordomí. 

Production : Mal Pelo; Coproduction : Festival Grec 2020 Barcelona ; Temporada Alta; ICEC, Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya; Diputació de Girona. 

Collaborations : L’animal a l’esquena – Centre de Creació de Celrà ; Théâtre de la Ville – Paris / La Villette.

Production : Gemma Massó / Communication and distribution : Rita Peré / International relationships : Anso Raybaut.

ABOUT PERFORMANCE: 

After over a decade exploring the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, Mal Pelo presents Inventions, the third piece in their tetralogy inspired by his music. Inventions is the fruition of the work created and matured in the previous pieces (Bach, On Goldberg Variations/Variations), in which we analysed, listened and visualised more deeply the structures, harmonies, voices and development of the music of J.S. Bach. This study, over many years, has inspired questions, curiosity and many hours of research into the dialogue between dance and baroque counterpoint music.

Inventions is a piece of work on the search for spirituality and the mundane, on unanswered questions, the temporal paradox of humanity faced with the deep time of history.

A journey in sound and images in which the spectator feels the strength of the group in the space, the presence of the individual, and where the mingling of different disciplines conjures a plural body, open to being inhabited and influenced.

PRESS: 

A passionate, sinuous and wild journey towards an unknown land, an inhospitable landscape in which to find peace, a place that is always hard to seek out in the interior of human beings. The black and white video images of harsh, uninhabited landscapes that surround the group, underline the inner solitude of each of them. Though they move together in a herd, the spectator can see the individualism corroding them.”

El País. Carmen del Val. 9/5/21

“Elegance, truth, beauty, austerity, choreographic and intellectual fertility and sophistication, as well as a certain earthiness of taste, are qualities woven harmoniously together in the hypnotic dance of Mal Pelo, a contemporary dance group led by Pep Ramis and María Muñoz that has become one of the most prestigious in the recent dance history of our country, with a strong international career. After their latest premiere, Highlands, the descriptions of these qualities become superlatives.”

El País. Carmen del Val. 9/5/21