ANDREA FAGARAZZI HAS BEEN INVITED BY LA MEKANICA TO JOIN THE NEW PROJECTS OF THE FESTIVAL COMPLICITATS 2008.

Festival Complicitas 2008  |  Barcelona

THINK-TANK | ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE / 2008   [http://www.lamekanica.com/blog/?cat=5]
from 15 till 24 February 2008

Ten emergent dance professionals from the Mediterranean and beyond were invited to be part of an international “think–tank” encounter as Artists-in-Residence of the DBM Mediterranean Dance Meeting in Barcelona. During seven days, this group (choreographers, visual artists and theoreticians) will exchange artistic knowledge, experiences and practices in group debates about the projects each one of them have just made or are working on, individually or in collaboration with other artists. The participants will also be immersing themselves in the performances, conferences and talks bringing their feedback and reflections to the discussion table.

Andrea Fagarazzi | Italy
Perfomer, visual artist and choreographer, using different medias.

Filipe Viegas | Portugal
Founding member of the Lisbon collecive Bomba Suicida. Creator, curator, technician, light designer, costume designer, video artist and producer.

Florent Delval | France
Performer and critic.

Jaime Conde Salazar | Spain
Dance Critic.

Karima Mansour | Egypt
Choreographer and dancer based in Cairo. Founded Ma'at Company in 1999.

Marcela Levi | Brazil
Dancer and choreographer. Develops a practice between contemporary dance and visual arts.

Masu Fajardo | Spain
Dancer and choreographer.

Mohamed Ben Benaouisse | Algeria/Belgium
Autodidact performer. His work has been presented at a large number of exhibitions and integrated in dance and theatre productions.

Sara Gebran | Lebanon/Venezuela/Denmark
Venezuelan/Danish/Lebanese choreographer and performer.

Talin Büyükkürkciyan | Turkey
Dancer, choreographer and founding member of ÇATI - Contemporary Dance Artists Association


LA MEKANICA   [http://www.lamekanica.com/complicitats08/index_08_eng.html]
La Mekanica is a non-profit professional cultural organization based in Barcelona whose mission is to develop contemporary performing artsin Spain within an international context.
Focusing on contemporary dance and performance, and by listening to artists, La Mekanica facilitates a variety of activities that provide artists and cultural workers supportive resources for the development of their own work in contexts of research, creation, presentation, debate andexchange.
These activities include the organization of an artist-in-residence program, projects of international collaboration with partner organizations in and outside of Europe, and the organization of FESTIVAL COMPLICITATS, a biannual international dance event that is dedicated to the presentation of "new" approaches, values and works in the field of international contemporary dance and committed to artistic mobility and intercultural exchange.
A space for research, creation, encounter, meeting and exchange.
Nowadays La Mekanica is based in an old industrial ship in Barcelona which houses the organization offices as well as a studio for rehearsals and residencies.