A place to bury strangers, Roberto Olivan

BARCELONA DANCE HOUSE

A place to bury strangers

© Jesús Robisco

artistic direction & choreography by Roberto Oliván

BARCELONA DANCE HOUSE

A place to bury strangers The search into the purest side of the interior of human beings, and into its connection with the universe, both so close and so far, generates true happiness.

Using this starting point, the Catalan choreographer Roberto Olivan, who divides his work between Brussels and Catalonia, has conceived a show that combines the organic forms with strength and energy, always proposing fresh emotional registers, and where contemporary dance is expressed through different stage languages.

Š Jesús Robisco

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BARCELONA DANCE HOUSE

A place to bury strangers

© Jesús Robisco

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A place to bury strangers / ARTISTIC TEAM Artistic director / choreographer Roberto Olivan Created and represented: Spela Vodeb Sol Vázquez Felie Salazar Roberto Olivan Matias Marré Dramaturgy Roberto Magro Music Laurent Delforge © Jesús Robisco

Technical direction& lights Manu Martinez Costumes Roberta Petit Production MERCAT DE LES FLORS / ENCLAVE ARTS DEL MOVIMENT With the support TRANSVERSAL, xarxa d’activitats culturals Special thanks Guillem Albà

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A place to bury strangers / ROBERTO OLIVAN Tortosa (Tarragona), 1972 Spanish by origin Roberto studied at the Institut del Teatre in Barcelona and P.A.R.T.S. in Belgium. Roberto danced with ROSAS which toured all over the world before becoming the resident choreographer for the theater HET NET in Brugge where he created his first full length choreography, the award winning Natural Strange Days.

What Roberto searches for in dance is a new form of emotional beauty, which for him is a way of posing the principal that art should not stagnete. New discoveries should be made. Instead of art or new artistic methodologies should only come from established traditions, he hopes to discover new hidden possibilities. He claims that there are on ideals in dance and that dance is not simple. But dance can be simple and that can furthermore be even more complicated. What is important is the clarity. Clear question have a power to them.

Roberto's work has been extremely varied, creating choreographies for Dance Companies as well as choirs, advising actors, cinema and dance-circus. He has also been prolific within his own company, the ENCLAVE dance company, producing the much acclaimed Homeland, De Farra and Mermaid’s Call.

Roberto has worked with among others, Robert Wilson, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, Josse de Pauw and Tom Jansen and created pieces for the Korean National University of Arts in Seoul, the Ensemble Walpurgis, Vertigo Dance Company in Israel, Iceland Dance Company, Centro Coreografico Galego, E.S.A.C. (Ecole Superiore des Arts du Cirque, Belgium) among many others.

In addition, Roberto is the Artistic Director of the INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY DANCE WORKSHOP “DELTEBRE DANSA” (SPAIN) since 2004. This workshop takes place every July since that year and brings participants from all over the world.

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A place to bury strangers / VIDEOLINKS https://vimeo.com/59564067 videoclip https://vimeo.com/58539205 full performance recorded by Nuria Olivé – Mercat Flors –Barcelona 26 - 27 January2013 restricted acces / password: olivan http://www.tv3.cat/videos/4416337/Roberto-Olivan TV3 reportage with some excerpts of the rehearsal process http://vimeo.com/53801882 video-bio Roberto Olivan video-bio http://www.btv.cat/btvnoticies/2013/01/19/energetica-peca-de-roberto-olivan-ila-companyia-enclave-al-mercat-de-les-flors/ BTV information https://vimeo.com/54858938 Deltebre Festival

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