The MUN: a meeting point between art and science, and between artistic disciplines.

Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro (A Coruña, 1970) has been appointed as artistic director of the Museo Universidad de Navarra. With extensive experience in university museums and other centers in Europe, the United States and Latin America, he is now the new head of the artistic strategy of the MUN together with Teresa Lasheras.

Pérez-Barreiro assumes this position after six years linked to the MUN as a professor of the Master in Curatorial Studies. He frames his start in a "mission of listening". He values the dialogue between visual and performing arts in a "unique Museum", among other reasons, for having a Theater; and also the importance of dialogue with the spectator and with the University, which "enriches artistic production".

Teresa Lasheras coincides with him. The also artistic director of the MUN has presented the VII edition of the cycle Museo en Danza, which brings together the contemporary dance proposals offered by the MUN. She explained it as a "curatorial project, in the field of current creation in the world of dance" and "with a broad view", as it includes flamenco, urban, stylized, contemporary dance... It is focused on the viewer and the links that are generated with him, looking for innovation in languages and formats, and in the way of linking with the public. It also looks at academic research and its relationship with creative processes, as well as the encounter between arts and science in a broad sense. A good example of this are the two absolute premieres that the cycle includes this season: Súper viviente and Incubatio.

After Baile de bestias ( 2021), Jesús Carmona returns to the stage of the MUN with Súper viviente, next Thursday, September 26, co-produced by the MUN and the Jesús Carmona Company, with the support of the Community of Madrid. The work has the support of members of the promoting board of trustees. The award-winning best dancer in the world wanted to emphasize "the affection, respect and trust" that the Museum has placed in him.

After reading an article on dissociative identity disorder, the choreographer began to wonder about the identity of the artist, who must constantly create characters with their own identity and psychology. The answers (and other new questions) have come from the hand of an artistic and research project, accompanied by experts from the University.

Psychiatrist Enrique Aubá and psychologist Francesco de Lorenzi, from the Clínica Universidad de Navarra (CUN); Carmen Urpí, dedicated to art education, and Luis Humberto Eudave, to psychology, at the School of Education and Psychology of the University of Navarra; and María Asunción Pastor, who has focused on neurology at CIMA, are the professionals who have contributed their points of view to the dancer. With this type of synergies, Carmona relates, the MUN provides artists with possibilities of accessing information or evidence that would otherwise be out of their reach.

The result is a show that shows four scenes belonging to different moments of the performer's psychology: the presence before the media, what the public expects from him, the reconciliation with the child one has been, and the social context with friends. "My goal is for people to be moved and feel - he says -: hate, love, repulsion, like it, dislike it...".

Benois de la Danse Award 2021, she shares the artistic direction of Súper viviente with María Cabeza de Vaca, also a dancer and choreographer, as well as a teacher. Regarding the title, she clarifies that it is an optimistic show: "It sheds light on the shadow, it looks from a celebration of life to suffering".

As part of its purpose of mediating and approaching the public, Museo en Danza offers activities with which to deepen in the shows, and in the figure and trajectory of the artists who make it up. Today, Thursday 19 at 19h., Jesús Carmona will have a meeting with the public, interviewed by two students of the University: Isabel Adalid Albarrán and Adrián Canseco Linares, both from 4th year of Audiovisual Communication (Faculty of Communication). Admission is free with prior withdrawal of an invitation at the box office or on the web.

Instituto Stocos (Muriel Romero and Pablo Palacio) stars in the second absolute premiere of this season: Incubatio, (October 31) combines dance, music, artificial intelligence models, virtual reality and motion capture techniques.

Tickets for both proposals are available at the box office and on the MUN website.