A BEGINNING #16161D | Dark MatterS
creation and direction Aurora Bauzà & Pere Jou
performed by Elena Tarrats, Maider Lasa, Isaac Baró, Diana Pop, Pere Jou
light design Jou Serra i Marieta Rojo
sound and music design Aurora Bauzà
choreography Pere Jou
dramaturgical and choreographic collaboration Alessandro Sciarroni
movement assistance Clàudia Solano Watson
costume design Mariona Signes
photography Anna Fàbrega
video Ignasi Castañé
production and accompaniment Ariadna Miquel
co-production L’Auditori de Barcelona and Centre Coreographique National d’Orleans
with the suport from Graner Centre de Creació, Associació Hèmisphère Son, Nau Estruch, Castell de Montjuïc, Institut d’Estudis Baleàrics
supported by a grant from Acción Cultural Española, AC/E
A BEGINNING #16161D is a work for five singers that plays with the relationship between voice, light, and movement, transforming our perception to the point where notions of space and time are suspended. Starting with research that begins in the dark and halfway between musical composition and choreographic writing, Bauzà and Jou propose a piece in which live singing and lights manipulated by the performers themselves become central in the construction of a dramaturgical narrative about the (re)beginning of the world.
Music and singing are the creative motors that convey the piece, combining vocal and electronic original compositions with fragments of classical repertoire and passages of vocal improvisation. The spectator is taken into an immersive and sensory experience where the bodies and voices of the five singers are constantly transformed and dissolve their limits, inviting us to imagine new ways of communicating, being, and relating to and within society.
Aurora Bauzà & Pere Jou are composers, creators, and performers at the forefront of the performing arts. Their primary research revolves around the human voice and its intricate connections with the body, movement, space, stage, and light. Their compositions go beyond traditional artistic genre boundaries, treating music as a multidimensional entity with physical, scenic, visual, dramaturgical, expressive, and poetic qualities.
Aurora Bauzà and Pere Jou bring an obsessive curiosity to understand the contemporary human through the mechanisms of meaning creation, particularly those involved in constructing individual and collective identities. Their works, such as “I Am (T)here,” or “A BEGINNING_expanded versión” have been featured at prestigious events like the Grec Festival of Barcelona, showcasing their commitment to exploring the boundaries between sound, bodies, and movement, and inviting audiences to question the limits of perception and identity. Recently, his piece “A BEGINNING #16161D” has been selected for the Twenty24 AEROWAVES Edition.
