HIGHLANDS.
Bad Hair

Thursday 22 Sep, 19:30 h
28€, 30€ y 32€
90 min

After more than a decade exploring the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, Mal Pelo presents Highlands, the last piece of the tetralogy inspired by the composer's music. A dance performance in dialogue with other disciplines by an exceptional cast. 16 performers: 8 dancers, 4 singers and 4 string musicians. 

Highlands is a hatching of the work gestated and matured in the previous shows(Bach; On Goldberg Variations / Variations and Inventions) where they have analyzed and deepened in the listening and visualization of the structures, harmonies, voices and development of the music of J.S. Bach. A study that, over many years, has generated many questions about the dialogue between dance and baroque music of counterpoint.

Sacred, solemn, vitalist, sometimes mundane and with a touch of surrealism, Highlands is a spiritual refuge built with dance and Bach's music in dialogue with other composers such as Henry Purcell, György Kurtag, Ärvo Part, Benjamin Britten and Friedrich Händel. The word bursts in between dance and music with texts by John Berger, Erri de Luca and Nick Cave. 

A sonorous and visual journey where the spectator feels the strength of the different disciplines; a work about the search for spirituality, about the mundane, about unanswered questions, about the temporal paradox of the human in front of the deep time of history. A concert of space, bodies and music.

ARTISTIC FILE
Direction: María Muñoz, Pep Ramis
Creation and dance: Pep Ramis, María Muñoz, Federica Porello, Leo Castro, Zoltàn Vakulya, Miquel Fiol, Enric Fàbregas, Ona Fuster
Musical direction: Joel Bardolet, Quiteria Muñoz
String Quartet: Joel Bardolet (violin), Jaume Guri (violin), Masha Titov (viola), Daniel Claret (violoncello)
Voice Quartet: Quiteria Muñoz (soprano), David Sagastume (countertenor), Mario Corberán (tenor), Giorgio Celenza (bass)
Music: Johann Sebastian Bach, Henry Purcell, György Kurtág, Arvo Pärt, Benjamin Britten, Georg Friedrich Händel.
Texts: John Berger, Erri de Luca, Nick Cave
Collaboration in the direction: Federica Porella, Leo Castro

Lighting: August Viladomat, Irene Ferrer
Sound space: Fanny Thollot
Scenic space: Kike Blanco
Costumes: CarmePuigdeValliPlantés
Video edition: Leo Castro
Technical direction: Irene Ferrer
Sound technician: Andreu Bramon
Stage technician: Genís Cordomí
Production: Gemma Massó
Communication and distribution: Rita Peré
Photography: Tristán Pérez - Martín
Acknowledgements: Eduard Teixidor, Yves Berger

Production Mal Pelo
Coproduction Mercat de les Flors; Théâtre de l'Archipel - Scène Nationale de Perpignan; Théâtre Garonne - Scène européenne de Toulouse; ICEC - Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya; Teatre Principal de Palma de Mallorca, Consell Insular; Festival de Otoño, Comunidad de Madrid; Festival Temporada Alta
Creation Residency Théâtre de l'Archipel - Scène Nationale de Perpignan
With the collaboration of Théâtre des Quatre Saisons de Gradignan - Scène Conventionnée, L'animal a l'esquena - Centre de Creació de Celrà

COMPANY
Mal Pelo, co-directed by Pep Ramis and María Muñoz, is a group of scenic creation characterized by a shared authorship that has resulted in more than 30 shows so far. Since 1989, Mal Pelo has developed its own artistic language through movement and the creation of dramaturgies that include text, original soundtracks, live music, the construction of scenographic spaces, light and video, among other scenic tools.

María Muñoz and Pep Ramis have found in the stage and the creation of shows, an ideal place to deposit the need to experiment, question and share the issues that are vital in their career.

The company has received several awards, including the National Culture Award of Catalonia, the City of Barcelona Award and the National Culture Award for its trajectory both in the field of choreographic creation and in the opening of new paths in contemporary dance.

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