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  • Ramon Simó is the new director of the Grec

    Wed, 27/07/2011

    The theatre director and stage designer Ramon Simó is to be the director of the Grec for the next four years, replacing Ricardo Szwarcer. His appointment was announced by Jaume Ciurana, the Deputy Mayor for Culture, Knowledge, Creativity and Innovation.

    Born in Tarragona in 1961, Ramon Simó graduated in Philosophy and Educational Science from Barcelona University. He teaches at the Institut del Teatre and directed the Fira de Teatre al Carrer de Tàrrega in 1996, 1997 and 1998. He has also been a member of the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya Advisory Council.

  • Grec Archives: the entire history of the festival is now available on the net

    Wed, 29/06/2011

    How much did a ticket cost for a Teatre Grec show in 1984? Who directed the festival in 1992? How many times has Peter Brook directed productions at the Grec? You will find information on all this and quite a bit more in the Barcelona Grec Festival digital archives, which you can consult online at www.bcn.cat/grec.

  • The sardana is a metaphor for the relationship between individuals and groups, according to Gelabert

    Tue, 14/06/2011

    Besides being the traditional dance of Catalonia, the sardana has other interpretations to it as well. For example, it may express the relationship between individual and group. At least, that is how it is seen by the choreographer Cesc Gelabert, who presented the inaugural Barcelona Grec 2011 Festival show La muntanya al teu voltant, at a press conference on Wednesday 8 June,.

  • Barcelona Grec Festival invited to the European Culture Congress

    Thu, 09/06/2011

    What does the concept "European culture" mean today? What is its future and what role does it have in social change?These are some of the questions the European Congress of Culture aims to answer. It is being organised in Wroclaw (Poland) between 8 and 11 September, 2011, and the Grec Festival of Barcelona has been invited to take part in its Council, along with other prestigious festivals like the Avignon Festival, the Athens International Festival of Theatre, the Wiener Festwochen and the Berlin Film Festival.

  • The 2011 Barcelona Grec Festival speaks French

    Thu, 09/06/2011

    Peter Brook, Patrice Chéreau, Bartabas ... They all have three things in common: they are theatre people, French and very closely tied to the culture of our neighbouring country. In addition, they all feature in the programme for the 2011 Barcelona Grec Festival which, this year, is devoting its Panorama section to France.

  • Sol Picó or the origins of monstrosity

    Wed, 09/02/2011

    We are all, in some way, monsters. Indeed, monstrosity is a growing, persistent
    phenomenon in our society. That, at least, is what the dancer and choreographer
    Sol Picó believes. As part of the Grec 2011 programme, Sol will bring a new
    dance show to the Teatre Lliure de Gràcia (July 1 - 4), a piece exploring the
    causes behind this monstrosity, which we can sum up as a lack of what makes
    us human: love. Once again, Picó and her company demonstrate their interest
    in mestizaje, the fusion of genres, bringing together a cast of dancers and text

  • “All the Names”, or language made dance, by María Muñoz and Mal Pelo

    Wed, 09/02/2011

    The Valencian choreographer and dancer María Muñoz has spent a lifetime
    seeking new languages, both on her own and as a member, with Pep Ramis, of
    leading contemporary dance company Mal Pelo. It is no surprise, therefore, that
    in this dance solo, programmed at the Teatre Lliure, Gràcia (June 18 - 20), as part
    of the 2011 Grec Festival, Muñoz focuses on language or, what amounts to the
    same, words. For, as the artist herself says, words are capable of constructing our
    environment and, even, of defining and shaping our bodies.

  • La Caldera: emerging artists and an anniversary choreography

    Wed, 09/02/2011

    La Caldera centre for the performing arts continues its Grec 2010 initiative
    with Mov-i-ment #2 (June 29 - July 14), a generic title embracing a series of
    performances that seek, not only to celebrate talent, but also to open a forum for
    dialogue amongst programmers, artists and audiences. As always, the stars at
    La Caldera are emerging artists. Mov-i-ment #2 features pieces by artists from
    different nationalities that have been in residence at the centre this year, as well
    as giving us the chance to see the results from a cooperation project involving

  • Dance made in Catalonia, the focus of the 2011 Grec Festival

    Wed, 09/02/2011

    According to the first programme preview, presented on Wednesday, February
    9, the star attractions at the 2011 Grec Festival will be dance in general and
    dance shows produced in Catalonia in particular.

    The festival will open with a show by the Gelabert Azzopardi company entitled
    La muntanya al teu voltant [The Mountain Around You], with stage design by
    the Catalan fine artist Perejaume and live music by Barcelona Municipal Band.
    The Grec 2011 programme will also feature such outstanding Catalan artistes

  • Artistic collaboration between Àngels Margarit and Thomas Hauert

    Wed, 09/02/2011

    The dancer, choreographer and teacher and 2010 National Dance Prize winner
    Àngels Margarit belongs to a generation of contemporary artistes that emerged
    from Barcelona Theatre Institute in the late-1970s. After a spell with the
    Mudances company, Margarit has now gone in search of joint ventures with her
    fellow artists to explore different dance languages. As a result, Àngels Margarit
    will now take to the stage in the Maria Aurèlia Capmany Hall (Mercat de les
    Flors; July 22 - 24) with the Swiss dancer and choreographer Thomas Hauert.

  • For the first time ever, a Catalan dance production opens the festival

    Wed, 09/02/2011

    For the first time in the festival’s history, the inaugural show will feature a
    choreography produced in Catalonia, a sample of our country’s fertile, dynamic
    dance scene. The Gelabert Azzopardi company will open the festival at the Teatre
    Grec with a performance of La muntanya al teu voltant [The Mountain Around
    You; June 17 - 18]. In this choreography, Cesc Gelabert focuses on the presence
    of the dancer as an individual who is, at the same time, a member of a group. The

  • Andrés Corchero pays tribute to his masters in “Domo arigato”

    Wed, 09/02/2011

    In Japanese, domo arigatō means, more or less, ‘many thanks’. And that is
    exactly what Andrés Corchero and his company, Raravis, set out to transmit at
    the Mercat de les Flors theatre (July 8 - 13). In Domo arigato, Corchero gives
    thanks, in Japanese, to two important figures in his career, two Butoh masters
    with whom he has also forged a long-standing friendship. We refer to Kazuo
    Ohno and Min Tanaka, two artists that Corchero met in 1986 when he went to
    Tokyo to study Butoh, and from whom he learned much more than techniques of