We are once again focusing on diversity via Ànima Lliure, a project that aims to turn our theatre into an artistic space open to the perspectives, voices and bodies of people we seldom see at performances. After all, we believe that a theatre is a great place to make the invisible increasingly visible.
This year’s programming includes four Ànima Lliure shows, divided between the Gràcia and Espai Lliure venues the over the course of the season, accompanied by a specific programme of informative and/or training activities that complement the shows.
Three of them are international guest productions, three tiny gems from French-speaking territories which will most certainly be inspiring for our artists with or without diversity, and for our audiences. Treballs forçats [Forced Labours], created and directed by Nico Jongen and co-produced by the Lliure, is our focus on investigation and creation in the realm of functional diversity.
In addition to the parallel activities that come with Ànima Lliure shows, which will include the participation of students from the Institut del Teatre’s social and community action classes, we will work with the Teatre Municipal de Girona and Escenaris Especials to organise a course on dramaturgy targeted at people with functional diversity. Coordinated by Clàudia Cedó, it will enlist the participation of renowned authors from Catalonia. In June, we will hold an open display of the texts that emerge from this writing workshop at the Gràcia venue.
A project in partnership with the Fundació Banc Sabadell.
Ànima Lliure
25—26 Season
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Ongoing workshops
— From February to April, Extra-ordinary theatre. Dramaturgy course for authors with functional diversity with Clàudia Cedó. Open reading of the texts in June at the Lliure in Gràcia.
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Previous workshops
— 27/09 - Lliure de Gràcia
Art and Us, with Romain Cottard, Chloé Olivères and Lorraine de Sagazan (La Vie invisible [The Invisible Life])
We invite the participants to share with us a work (literary, theatrical, cinematographic, etc.) that has deeply affected them. What does this reveal about our own history, about what moves us? We will explore these resonances together, we will build bridges between the works and ourselves and, from there, we will write, perform and sketch scenes. The workshop includes a part of playful warm-up to gain confidence making exercices and another writing on stage from the chosen stories and their echoes.
TIMETABLE from 15.00 p.m. to 18.00 p.m. / PRICE Free with pre-booking
— 12/01 at10.30 a.m. and 15/01 at 12.00 // 13/01 and 15/01 at 09.30 a.m. - Espai Lliure
Theatre, imagination and fiction workshop with Nico Jongen (Treballs forçats [Forced Labours])
Workshop with Deaf adolescents. Fiction will be explored as a creative tool to question the relationship between language and bodies. Using theatre and improvisation exercises, participants will have the chance to create collective narratives and to expand their vision of the arts, relating scenic creation to their own experiences and perspectives.
LANGUAGE Catalan sign language (LSC) and oral Catalan language
PRICE Free with prior reservation
— 23/03 Shared practices with Clément Papachristou, Guillaume Papachristou and Bastien Montes (Une tentative presque comme une autre [An Attempt Much Like Any Other])
Clément and Guillaume Papachristou present a workshop of theatrical and choreographic research open to all. The workshop will explore the different mobilities of the group members looking for their complementarities and differences that can produce the richness of a shared choreography. The workshop is designed primarily as an opportunity for amateur and/or professional artists to connect and bridge physical or cognitive differences, especially through the work in pairs based on the model developed by Clément and Guillaume Papachristou.
TIMETABLE from 16.00 p.m. to 19.00 p.m. / PRICE Free with pre-booking / LANGUAGES In Spanish and French
ADRESSED TO Amateur and professional artists with and without disabilities -
Artistic residency
— 10/06 Art centres in residences with Mohamed El Khatib, inspired by his work at the Maison Gertrude in Brussels (La vie secrète des vieux [The Secret Life of Old People]).
In Barcelona, the workshop will take place at the Centre Residencial de Primera Acollida of the district of Sarrià-Sant Gervasi, which has 100 places for women in high vulnerability and homeless. -
Extra-ordinary theater. Playwriting course to authors with functional diversity
Extra-ordinary theatre is a dramaturgy course aimed at people with functional diversity that pursues the goal of valuing the voice of those who create, and placing their story in the center of the stage.
Driven by Escenaris Especials with the collaboration of the Teatre Municipal de Girona, it is part of the program Ànima Lliure of the Teatre Lliure.
The course, coordinated by playwright and theatre director Clàudia Cedó, will also have the collaboration of Marc Artigau, Marta Buchaca, Victoria Szpunberg and Joan Yago.
The course, which will take place between Girona and Barcelona, will culminate in a dramatised reading of the texts written by its participants at the Lliure de Gràcia on 20 June and at the Teatre Municipal de Girona on 21 June.