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No country for old myth
Five myths have been closed in their spaces for centuries, feeling the time goes by.
They are now opening their doors to the world for a brief moment, and the audience can visit them in the spaces where they were once trapped forever. Oedipus, Creont, Antigone, Medea, and Hamlet receive the visits in the hope that they will be released by anyone who visits them.
Through these myths, cia. Sargantana offers us a reflection on today’s society, on current politics, on the human being we have become. On justice.
The team
Written and directed by Jordi Pérez i Soldevila
2012 team:
Cast: Ruben Pagani-Pellicer, Miguel López, Mar Montón, Carla Vallès, David Barceló.
Music: Daniel Carles
2014 team:
Cast: Mireia Estrany, Carlos Briones, Saoro Ferre, Jordi Pérez, Carla Vallès.
Music: Jordi Pérez i Soldevila
Ball d’hivern
It proposes a double contact with the scene: live communication and Twitter communication between the audience and characters during the performance.
An eternal dance that transports us to an unreal space but at the same time very well-known: the winter inside us.
5 characters from different eras caught in a dance try to escape from what one day led them to enter. Waiting for a security that will allow them to go out and recapture what they left one day stuck – their lives – they keep on dancing. All you can do is dance, give up.
5 testimonials about one idea: Why does winter settle inside us? What do they have in common 1714 and World War I? And George Orwell with 1714? And us with all this? What if the rhythm stops?
The team
Year of the production: 2013
Cast: Carlos Briones, Georgina de Yebra, Saoro Ferre, Jordi Pérez, Carla Vallès.
Written and directed by Jordi Pérez i Soldevila
Assistant director: Marilou Roqueplan
Lighting: Edgar Garcia
Fragndismut, la història d’un Nadal
Premiered in 2005 at the Ribes de Freser theater.
Written by: Jordi Pérez i Soldevila
Director: Eudald Casals
Music, light and sound: Dani Carles
Cast: Jordi Pérez
basis and statement
Basis
Art is a vehicle to shift society’s vision toward deep questions that involve our everyday lives.
Art can change time and space to let the audience find answers to deep questions unreachable in our everyday lives.
As creators, we have to find a way to become a connection for the audience with themselves.
We have to discover the path that will lead the audience to their own answers.
This is an inner development as a human being, but also as creators. We must redefine the language.
This quest will help us in creating the experience that hopefully will let the audience connect with themselves and find an answer.
This sincere and real dialogue that we wish to establish is an ethereal goal that needs specific tools, implication and, why not, a dose of luck to achieve it. Luck is not in our hands, so we focus on developing these tools in order to grow as creators and performers.
Statement
All the work is framed under the working ideas of our decalogue:
A creator must have commitment.
A creator needs courage and honesty during all stages of his work.
He has to develop his imagination, stimulating it and training it daily.
Knowledge opens the door to the imagination and sets the limits and rules of play in relation to each work process.
A creator needs a body and a spirit trained and ready for the possibilities of the imagination. A body and a spirit must not become an obstacle but rather a vehicle.
The work of the creator is connected to his present state and it must serve to improve his self-knowledge and the knowledge of his surroundings. On stage, this knowledge must allow him to transcend, becoming a physical channel for the audience with themselves through life on stage.
The final goal of an actor-creator is to become this physical channel, which means embodying what is required in each moment of the performance. If it is a realistic work, for example, it will be necessary to create a sample of behavior giving it physical, psychological, emotional and verbal life.
Deep knowledge comes from the entrails. Life cannot be transmitted through any other way.
The impulses, instincts and the management of these constitute life. An actor can only live through the action.
The world changes, and the art changes with or ahead of it. The audience changes. There are universal images, but there are perceptions and values strongly linked to cultures. Only through these images and cultural perceptions will we reach universal values.
iam system
iam system
Since 2009, the research group has developed a methodology that includes definitions, exercices, procedures and an open-minded structure that guides our work as creators and performers. This system, known as “impulse-action motion” (iam system), has been used in very different kind of productions and is always evolving, even if its roots are clearly defined.
The system, with strong connections with the physical actions systems, combines ideas of NLP or quantum physics among others, with the aim of offering a healthy and useful way of living the profession and helping creators reach their audiences.
Impulse: inner pulsion, the need to act produced by a real need that grows inside ourselves.
Action: verb that produces a transcendental shift in me and in everything that surrounds me.
Impulse-action: action made in the exact moment.
“Living through action” is our first line of research. It is dedicated to the growth of the artists through physical and vocal exercises. An actor needs to be attentive and calm so as to establish a sincere dialogue on stage, needs courage to keep this dialogue all over the performance, and must be free to act and react to the needs of this dialogue.
“The dramaturgy of the action” explores different aspects of a creation, from the creation process to the relationship between the performer and the audience, the role of the audience or the performing place.
Our research in this field is based on research on quantum physics (quantum, multiverse, observer, mass-energy), NLP (neuro-linguistic programming), as well as the introduction of new technologies and the use of traditional music.
la Cuina
la Cuina
“La Cuina” – The Kitchen in Catalan – was our creative laboratory that focused its research on two main aspects: the preparation of the actor-creator and the dialogue with the audience.
Since 2009, many actors from different countries joined the team and developed what became the iam system, “living through action” and “the dramaturgy of the action”. The group has developed exercises, tools and theoretical documents that are in constant evolution. La Cuina offered a work-in-progress space to go further into our own discourse while exploring new ways of reaching the audience.
From 2009 to 2013, the research was divided in periods, where we focused on only one of our two lines of work, alternating between them. In this period, we developed most of our regular exercises and established the basis for a deeper practice and research.
From 2014 to 2018, the research group increased its labour, working at the same time with the two lines, and defying all that was found in the previous periods.
In 2015-16, the group began a collaboration with sociologists from GRECS (Grup d’Estudis de Cultura i Societat) from UOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya), with the aim to develop better dialogue with audiences, using a more scientific approach with new themes for the research. We held open working sessions in which we put our theories into practice.
After this intense period, La Cuina reached its goal, and we decided to stop the research group.
Since 2012, “La Cuina” has offered regular presentations to the audience, sharing its discoveries through very specific creations. The last performance was on 4th may 2018 in Ripoll.
However, all the knowledge and the procedures guide the regular work of the company and lead to new research projects.
Barricidi -a project of Art i Part
“Barricidi” is a show resulting from the municipal project of community creation Art i Part Poble Sec. Based on the driving force of gentrification, the expulsion of neighborhood residents and the loss of identity, the social, artistic and cultural diversity that enriches Poble Sec through different artistic disciplines is shown.
This proposal has been developed by a working group of the community culture table of Poble Sec. The various participating people and organizations are the ones who have created the show, and this project is understood as a transformative and vindictive artistic process, involving the neighborhood and groups that are directly or indirectly suffering the consequences. of the gentrification of the neighborhood in recent years.
An immersive and site-specific proposal, the result of a process of community creation, which aims to bring the viewer closer to the reality of gentrification.
The assembly aims to offer a multifaceted view of the problem, focusing on those realities that most affect the neighborhood at the moment and projecting them towards a not-too-distant future. It shows the two sides of the same coin: the face, the Poble Sec 2030, a fashionable neighborhood in the heart of Barcelona, and the cross: the social costs of the “Barricide” necessary to build this new face.
Partnership: Pla Comunitari del Poble-sec, Art&Coop, La Vilella (Cia. Sargantana), Transductores, Associació Susoespai, Institut del Teatre, Mercat de les Flors, Trama SCCL.
Emerging artists: neighbours of Poble-sec (Barcelona).
Established artists: Jordi Pérez and Vero Cendoya, co-directors of the show.
Collaborators: Taula de cultura del Poble-sec.
Pictures: Justin P. Brown.
Art i Part. Community artistic creation
The ART i PART program of community artistic creation in the neighborhoods is an initiative of the Barcelona City Council, managed through the Institute of Culture, which invites the residents of the city to take part in a community proposal in the which they act as creators. ART i PART, which already carried out a first season in 2018 in five neighborhoods of the city, came in 2019 to the Besòs, Gòtic and Poble-sec neighborhoods.
contact
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direccio@ciasargantana.cat
_Production and communication
produccio@ciasargantana.cat
calendar
Workshop – la dramatúrgia de l'acció
16 de setembre de 2025
Ripoll, 17500 Ripoll, Girona, Espanya
Workshop – la dramatúrgia de l'acció
23 de setembre de 2025
Ripoll, 17500 Ripoll, Girona, Espanya
Workshop – la dramatúrgia de l'acció
30 de setembre de 2025
Ripoll, 17500 Ripoll, Girona, Espanya
Breus, Mouteatre Manresa
8 de novembre de 2025 17:30 – 18:30
Els Carlins Carrer de Monistrolet, 3, 08241 Manresa, Barcelona, Espanya
li/ea/ving project
“Li/ea/ving project” starts from the verification that the need to leave is increasingly intense in today’s societies around the world.
Needs to escape, to find a way out, to try to live instead of survive.
The title “Li/ea/ving project” plays with the words “living” and “leaving”, living and leaving, as a synthesis of the dialogue it wants to provoke between the creators and the public.
What are the relationships between living and leaving today? Leave to be able to live? Live waiting to leave? Emigrants, refugees, expatriates… all under the label of immigrant in the countries of arrival.
Our societies are increasingly multi-cultural, more complex, and, at least in Western society, there is a feeling that traveling anywhere is simple, that any part of the world is within reach. This leads us, sometimes, to consider travel as the real option to find a better life outside, quickly and seemingly easily.
The need to see the world, the hope of a new life or the need to save themselves, push entire populations to set off.
The vain attempts of host countries to maintain an impossible and debatable balance, and to contain human migrations, often make these journeys difficult and dangerous, even once the desired destination has been reached.
“Li/ea/ving project” wants to be an exploration of the vision of the Exodus from as many societies as possible, contrasting them with the vision that we, as Catalan and European citizens, have. Through this exploration we want to generate spaces for dialogue between the public and creators from all over the world.
In the li/ea/ving project the creative process is alive, allowing the proposal to breathe and advance in each public presentation and with the contributions of each participating creator. The public thus receives a live, close and site-specific experience.
The dramaturgical tools and images created in Barcelona will be the starting point of these creative processes that will give unique pieces, just as unique are the work teams that will be generated.
The aim is not to show the same piece, with the exact same texts and scenes, but to take the risk and start from the experience of each creative group to develop a site-specific proposal.