Following the interest in creating connections between science and art (started in the prevoous performance Plancton), Aurora is inspired by the phenomenon of the northern lights. It is a work in progress for a dance piece for children that focuses on the concept of impact as a generator of movement, energy, light, and change.
It starts from the wish to create a piece for children where the idea of experience and event is the central focus. I think that theater is the context in which we can give value to sensory experiences through light, sound, movement. I believe that it is essential to create situations where we can share a time and space in which our senses are stimulated collectively, and give importance to the theatrical event as an experience, essential for humans, and especially for children.
Biography
Anna Rubirola
Choreographer, performer and dance pedagogue based in Barcelona. She is interested in collective creative practices in which the body acts as a motor and trigger for a creative process, and in how this body enters into dialogue with other elements.
She is currently part of the Big Bouncers collective together with Cecilia Colacrai and Mireia de Querol, with whom she has directed several pieces for both the hall and the street. Big Bouncers received the Applause for Emerging Creation from the Sebastià Gasch Awards 2015 for the piece Big Bounce, and the 2024 Critics Award for best street show for Plata. The Mercat de les Flors held a constellation of the collective in 2019, where they presented a retrospective of their projects.
She is also part of the LaBolsa Group, which has created pieces such as The measure of disorder in collaboration with Thomas Hauert, and Retrats Errants. She has directed the dance piece Poruszony Las for the Pryzmat Company in Olsztyn, Poland.
She has recently premiered the piece for family audiences titled Plàncton, which is currently touring in several countries. As a choreographer, she has previously collaborated with artists such as Pere Faura, Joao Lima, Maria Montseny, Mira Calix and Alexander’s Annex, Oriol Roca, and Vrak’ Trio, among others.
As a performer she has worked with Àlex Rigola, Erre que Erre, Sol Picó, Iliacan, Búbulus, Array, F.& C. Ben Aïm, Julyen Hamilton and John Jasperse. Since 2015 she has been co-directing La Visiva space for creation in Barcelona in collaboration with Mireia de Querol and Ursa Sekirnik. She has been involved in other cultural management projects such as G.R.U.A (Grup de Recerca d’Universos Artístics) together with Pere Faura and Claudia Solwat.
She was also responsible for curating the Danses Volubles cycle of the Brossa Foundation 2022.
In recent years she has collaborated with theatre directors such as Pau Carrió and Àlex Rigola, and film directors such as Mikel Gurrea. She has been teaching contemporary dance, improvisation and composition courses since 2000 at different international centres. Since 2016 she has been a regular teacher at the CSD (Conservatory of Dance) of the Institut del Teatre.
