Program Fira B! 2018
1'28
Raquel Klein
Ibiza
It is a play that seeks to travel through the idea of the neutrality, of the void. It also reflects on how to build a space through the idea of pictures that remain and blossom by means of the state of being. Pictures with physical perceptions where the void, the laissez-faire, the subtle is what prevails. The state is constructed by means of physical mechanics which are purely geometric: angles, intersections, opposed directions, shape outlines, lineup...
The idea of the void comes from an inner void, from cleaning every thought that can affect to the shape. It proposes a visual and sound journey by means of contemplation, The play is built by means of physical mechanics which result in the construction of the staging through pictures lead to movement and vice-versa.
Raquel Klein
Genre: dance
Raquel Klein is a choreographer, stage creator, and spatial designer. Graduated in Choreography and Performance from the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona and in Interior Design from ESDAP, her practice questions the choreographic potential of space through bodies that turn into choreography through the gesture of being, remaining, and occupying a place, creating long-duration contemplative choreographic landscapes.
Her debut piece, Wu Wei (Mercat de les Flors, Teatre Principal de Palma, 2020), received three nominations at the Butaca Awards, and her solo 1'28 won the Madrid Choreographic Contest (2017) and the Art Jove Award (2018). Through her research project Reflex, developed as an emerging artist at El Graner (2020-21) and activated at the Mataró Museum (MAC) and CaixaForum Barcelona, she explores the possibilities of the body-landscape and expanded temporalities.
Her international presence includes a three-year exchange program between the Mercat de les Flors and the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong, as well as the creation of No Landscape for Moveius Contemporary Ballet, presented at the Former Residence of the Ambassador of Spain / Cultural Center in Washington, D.C. (2025) in collaboration with the Embassy of Spain.
She is currently developing the solo Negro Luz, a hybrid language bridging performance and installation. Together with Raquel Gualtero, under the collective name La Rebelión de las Aburridas, she created the panoramic piece Castells a l'aire at Montjuïc Castle (Grec Festival de Barcelona, 2022-23). Since 2018, she has collaborated closely with sound artists Albert Tarrats and Adrià Juan, incorporating sound as a vital axis of dialogue with space across her projects; in her latest phase with Negro Luz, she works alongside Albert Tarrats on both the sound and lighting dimensions of the work.
