28 - 31 August 2024
Düsseldorf, Germany
28 - 31 August 2024
Düsseldorf, Germany
Networking presentation: CataLANDance, the new dance international marketplace in Terrassa – Barcelona
Friday 30 August, 11:30 - 13:30 h
Location: Networking Island no. 3
Powered by Catalan Arts. Presenter:
Clàudia Brufau, dance writer and cultural manager
For the tenth year running, the Government of Catalonia, through the Catalan Institute for Cultural Companies (ICEC), is supporting the presence at Tanzmesse of a large Catalan delegation, with 18 representatives attending the fair, most of them as coexhibitors at the Catalan Arts - Government of Catalonia Stand. This booklet contains information on the companies, agents, key marketplaces, festivals and venues attending Tanzmesse 2024. If you want more information on a particular institution or artist, please don’t hesitate to contact them directly. You can also get in touch with us at the Agora stand (41) or by contacting any of our offices – located in Barcelona,
Berlin, Brussels, London and Paris – for further assistance. We hope you will have a chance to meet them all and have interesting conversations. Under the label of Catalan Arts, we strengthen the presence of Catalan companies and creative works at international fairs and key professional events like Tanzmesse, in our aim to connect, mentor and support creative companies on their international journey. Please visit our website to find out more about us: www.catalanarts.cat
Data last updated on July 2024
Africa Moment fosters diversity and innovation in the field of performing arts by promoting the work of acclaimed contemporary artists from the African continent and its diaspora in Latin America and Europe. We specialise in distribution, training, mentoring, consultancy and curating services for theatres, festivals, art centres and public institutions.
La Caldera Centre de Creació de Dansa is a dance creation centre member of the Barcelona City Council network of creation factories, managed by the Cultural Association ACDAC.
A referential space with 29 years’ history that accompanies and imaginatively supports the work of local, national and international artists.
Cuevas Director
Clàudia Brufau is a dance writer and cultural manager, and communications manager for Aerowaves. She collaborates with several media, curates CaixaForum’s Dance on Screen programme and facilitates presentations and after talks.
March brings the spring, time for Dansa Metropolitana. The annual festival, one of the most wide-ranging dance events in Spain, fills twelve cities in the Barcelona Metropolitan Area with movement, featuring many outstanding local and international artists performing in the different cities.
Since 1994, Fani Benages has worked as a cultural agent, especially in the contemporary dance field, and since 2002 she has been working as a freelance. She is currently running her agency, Fani Benages, in which she develops coaching and distribution tasks for dance companies and performing arts makers for movement and physical theatre.
Graner is a dance and performing arts creatino centre located in a former light bulb factory in the Marina de Port district of Barcelona. Graner promotes and supports artistic creation processes and research related to the body, movement and choreographic language.
We believe each human is a cosmic dancer, with a unique gift: the body. Here lies a Portal patiently waiting to reveal the depth of our human potential. Regardless of age, background, or ability, we all possess the artistry to access the transformative power of movement.
Show: Famulus 4.0 & Azul Petróleo
We are a Theatrical Breakin’ dance company residing in Barcelona. Since 2013 we have focused on investigating and innovating the movement limits through hybridizing breaking (breakdance) with other disciplines providing sensibility and virtuosity with the goal of transmitting culture.
| PRODUCTION | DISTRIBUTION | SUPPORT
Magrana Escena is a company dedicated to supporting the production and distribution of shows by performing arts artists and groups working for the growth and development of their creative ideas and their careers.
Mercat de les Flors - Casa de la Dansa is a public structure for the performing arts that welcomes, publicises and promotes projects around dance, body and movement in all its diversity of contemporary creation. Its mission is the dissemination, creation and transmission of dance.
HYBRID FORMATS | CONTEMPORARY PERFORMING ARTS | CONTEMPORARY FLAMENCO
Show: Invocation & Qué Quiere la niña
In La Monde Flamenca
Management we work with contemporary flamenco, hybrid performing arts & female talent.
Palosanto Projects works with Catalan and international artists in the national and international distribution of performing arts projects selected for their quality, their artistic contribution to the art scene, and their potential projection in the market. All of them are related to our artistic sensibility.
Show: NO/MAS/SACRE
NO/MAS/SACRE is a piece that avoids small talk with Stravinksy and directly jumps into the thick of it all. The performance unfolds within the seemingly classical triangle of piano, pianist, and dancer, only to subvert expectations through a dazzling ritual of the ludic, the grotesque and the transgressive.
Show: Intimate variations
Fragility as a starting point, the piano provides backing for the movement to travel to its abandonment.
Flamenco always as an impulse, dance in all its breadth and contemporaneity to place us in the state today.
Upper Vol. II is a contemporary dance project by choreographer Sebastián García Ferro that reflects on the relationship between human beings and their verticality, between the body and its gravity, questioning the proportion and disproportion thereof.
Impostor is a conversation with one’s alter ego, imaginary yet apparently real. An exercise in contemplation and observation, a meditative piece where the struggle for balance is the goal. A celebration of Andre Mello’s incredible sculptures set in a beautiful light installation.
The Catalan Institute for Cultural Companies (ICEC) is a public institution of the Catalan Ministry of Culture that oversees the development and consolidation of the creative sectors as an uplift for its professionalisation. ICEC advises and accompanies Catalan companies in their development process in sectors such as music, performing arts, visual arts, audiovisual, books and digital culture. It offers grants and financing tools, as well as services for internationalisation, business and audience development.
Catalan Arts is the ICEC’s brand for the international promotion of Catalan companies. With a network of European offices (Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, London and Paris), the ICEC works in a variety of areas of action to connect, accompany and support the internationalisation of creative businesses. To this end, Catalan Arts strengthens the presence of companies and their creations at international fairs and major professional events and publishes resources for professionals.
Neus Mèlich
Director, ICEC Berlin
Project Manager
Performing Arts- Market Development Area
The Institut Ramon Llul supports artists, organisations, institutions and festivals while fostering exchange in the fields of Catalan studies, literature, performing and visual arts, film, music, design and architecture.
Catalan Institute for Cultural Companies (ICEC)
ICEC Barcelona
+34 933 162 770
ICEC Berlin
+49 30 551 95 40
ICEC Brussel / Bruxelles
+32 2 230 72 21
ICEC London
+44 207 842 0853
ICEC Paris
+33 1 43 250 435