Individual residencies / Olot
SEBASTIAN FERRO
From Tuesday, 6 April 2021 to Sunday, 11 April 2021
Bio
Choreographer, dancer, perfomer and composer based in Barcelona since 2005. He has been directing his dance company formed in the city of Barcelona since 2000. So far he has premiered the choreography of 22 contemporary dance pieces and has co-directed them. He has won several prizes: Tot Dansa 2011 competition awarded by the Mercat de les Flors, the IMEB and the Institut del Teatre, first prize in the 12th Maspalomas Choreography Competition (2007), second prize in the Madrid Choreography Competition (2006) with his piece Back, third prize in the Salt Choreography Competition (2006) with his piece On Your Mark. He has also premiered ten theatre pieces and more than twenty performances and installations, both of his own creation and for various companies in South America and Europe.
Project
Conceived from an aerobics class, with all its tics and commonplaces, in which three professional female performers, a DJ and several local non-professional "infiltrated" performers of various ages will participate and be the guide. This piece will be participative for the audience, who will take part and learn this kind of aerobics, which turns into a choreography and ends up being a party. It is the end of a party where the cult of the body and fitness ceases to matter, in order to give total freedom to our movement.
UPPER is a site-specific that raises the need or belief that the body that practises various sports wants to look fit, toned and stretched and above all it seems that it needs this verticality of the gym to be seen, exhibited and admired.