Program Fira B! 2025
Pájaros (El somni d'una migdiada mironiana. Acte II)
Mar Aguiló
Saturday, 4 de October / 19.00 h
Duración: 25'
Originally, the birds were only the sparrows.
Oh sparrow, sparrow, where were you, where did the afternoon take you!
...and that; the afternoon took you to discover that the boundaries of your body-matter
might not have been so bound. End? Far from it.
You left, you flew, you brought your finger close to the flame and you didn’t burn. You returned
brave at siesta to camouflage your desires from that adult tyranny: everyone in
their place and in silence. As terrible as the night: the siesta.
Bird, from Latin passar, passer – Sparrow–. Very Mediterranean, indeed.
Around the idea and individual discovery of disappearance, the fugitive body, one of those happy days when you were a feather-rock (neither ground nor sky nor anything at all), Mar Aguiló has articulated a series of encounters with other artists.
Non-consecutive episodes (or maybe consecutive) that began at the Miró Foundation in
Mallorca with Élan d'Orphium and continue in this ACT II with Marisa Pons and Roberto Lúa. Encounters that strengthen the shared need in
the search for lightness, the antagonistic question of transcending history and
feeling important, better disarmament as an act of calm and rebellion.
There went the sparrow, you didn’t catch it. Like that space between the tips of the
dancer and the floor, the voice and the lip, the arm throwing and the thread to the sky woven
by the goddesses, you wanted and you couldn’t. Slippery, the dreamed kiss escaped, but
left forever the trace of what could have been. And sometimes, it happens, it’s just
a matter of going out for a walk at siesta.
Artistic team:
- Concept and direction: Mar Aguiló
- Creation and performance: Marisa Pons, Roberto Lua, and Mar Aguiló
- Choreography: Roberto Lua and Mar Aguiló
- Sound design: Marisa Pons
- Costume design: Elandórphium
- Text: Javier Orcaray
- Photography: Lourdes Cabrera
- Video: Sam Fuentes
Mar Aguiló
The choreographic projects of Mar Aguiló (Palma de Mallorca, 1987) are primarily nourished by her experience as a dancer: trained with Maurice Béjart in Lausanne (Switzerland), she later joined the CND (National Dance Company of Spain) for over fifteen years, which allowed her to work with figures such as William Forsythe, Jiri Kylian, Nacho Duato, Mats Ek, and Ohad Naharin, among many others.
It was within the CND that Aguiló presented her first choreographies: Arriaga, Afterlove, and Fandangos y tonadillas (the latter in collaboration with the Compañía Nacional de Teatro Clásico). She has also collaborated as co-director and choreographer with the dance production company ELAMOR, developing projects in Madrid venues such as the Prado Museum, CentroCentro, the Royal Botanical Garden, Museo de Colecciones Reales, CaixaForum, and Fundación Enaire, as well as at the MACBA (Barcelona).
In 2021, she had a “Creation Residency” at the Teatros del Canal to create her first large-scale stage work, STELLA, which premiered at the same theaters. In 2022, she directed and choreographed the Max Awards gala held at the Teatre Principal de Maó, as well as the fashion show for designer Juan Duyos at Madrid’s Mercedes Fashion Week. In 2023, she presents SWAN, a solo performed by Clémence Gross (member of the Paris Opera Ballet), co-produced by Teatros del Canal and Teatre Principal de Palma. In 2024, she creates SWANS, her latest large-scale work, co-produced by Teatros del Canal and the Ajuntament de Palma.
Since 2024, she has been the artistic director of the dance festival Palma Dansa.
