The Catalan National Art Museum reverberated to the beat of the Calanda drums in 2020, when choreographer Marcos Morau and his company premièred a show dedicated to the surrealist filmmaker Luis Buñuel. It was called Sonoma, a made-up word from the Greek and Latin roots of ‘sound’ and ‘body’. The show went back to the basics, to the body and flesh, to create a work suspended between dream and fiction, alluding both to rural Calanda and cosmopolitan Paris, settings from the surrealist director’s life. Now Sonoma (inspired by the piece Morau himself created for the Ballet de Lorraine, Le Surréalisme au service de la révolution, which was later performed at the Palais des Papes at the Festival d’Avinyó) returns to the festival, but in an open-air venue, the Teatre Grec, and in an expanded version with more performers on stage, more drums beating in unison, and the special participation of singer Maria Arnal and all the dancers who have performed in the show over the years.
It is the culmination of a long-standing friendship between the Barcelona Grec Festival and La Veronal, whose development we have been following since they presented Vorònia as their inaugural show in 2015. With a dazzling international résumé that has made them one of the most sought-after contemporary dance companies in Europe today, we have also seen them perform Pasionaria (2018), Opening Night (2022) and Firmamento (2023) at the Grec.
Co-produced by Coproducció: Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Tanz im August/ HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Grec 2020 Festival de Barcelona – Institut de Cultura Ajuntament de Barcelona, Oriente Occidente Dance Festival, Theater Freiburg, Centro de Cultura Contemporánea Conde Duque, Mercat de les Flors, Temporada Alta, Hessisches Staatsballett as part of Tanzplattform Rhein-Main
In collaboration with Graner - Fàbrica de Creació and Teatre L’Artesà.
Beneficiary of the cross-border cooperation project Pyrenart, under the Interreg V-A Spain-France-Andorra programme
POCTEFA 2014-2020 - European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
Supported by the INAEM - Ministry of Cultural Enterprises and the ICEC - Ministry of Culture of the Government of Catalonia.
Idea and artistic director: Marcos Morau. Production director: Juan Manuel Gil Galindo. Choreography: Marcos Morau in collaboration with the performers. Performed by: Anabel Barotte, Alba Barral, Àngela Boix, Julia Cambra, Tanit Cobas, Laia Duran, Gloria Garcia, Anna Hierro, Laura Lliteras, Ariadna Montfort, Núria Navarra, Lorena Nogal, Marina Rodríguez, Anna Serra, Sau-Ching Wong. Special musical collaboration: Maria Arnal. Text: El Conde de Torrefiel, La Tristura, Carmina S. Belda. Répétiteurs: Estela Merlos, Alba Barral. Dramaturgical advice: Roberto Fratini. Vocal coach: Mònica Almirall. Technical management and lighting design: Bernat Jansà. Stage, machinery and special effects manager: David Pascual. Original music and sound design: Juan Cristóbal Saavedra. Singer: María Pardo. Set design: Bernat Jansà, David Pascual. Costume design: Silvia Delagneau. Costume fabrication: M. Carmen Soriano. Hats: Nina Pawlowsky Masks: Juan Serrano, Gadget Efectos Especiales. Giant: Martí Doy. Props: Mirko Zeni. Production and logistics: Cristina Goñi Adot, Àngela Boix
