On 26 February the choreographer Carme Torrent is taking part in the Foros 2020 series of lectures, with a performance entitled “While listening to the place” in cooperation with dancers Ana S. and Jordi Mas.  

Carme Torrent studied architecture at ETSAB-UPC while also working in various architecture studios, such as that of Enric Miralles.  At the same time, she developed her career in the field of dance.  She was a dancer for choreographers such as Min Tanaka, Carmelo Salazar and Xavier Le Roy. Her interest in Body Weather (a corporeal climatological laboratory) set up by Min Tanak and Hisako Horikawa, led her to travels in Japan, where she worked in the Tokason company, directed by Tanaka, between the year 200 and 2009.  Between 2012 and 2016 she worked with choreographer Xavier Le Roy on projects for exhibition spaces, including Retrospective (Tàpies Foundation, 2012), Untittled, 12 Rooms (Ruhrtriennales Festival in Essen, 2012), 13 Rooms (Sydney, 2013) and Untitled (ImpulsTanz, Vienna, 2016).

She currently gives workshops for the MACAP Master’s Degree in Performing Arts Girona - Ljubljana- Dartington within the E.X.E.R.C.E master’s programme in Montpellier. 

The performance explores the relationship of the body to the place.  “While listening to the place”, it’s tactile nature is brought back to us.  Places have the power to invent other moments, other rhythms, open up the limitations of space and also become captured by them.   An adventure in form, without a fixed or stable identity, making and unmaking itself”, explained the choreographer.  

The action will take place in the exterior space outside the Contemporary Art Museum of Barcelona (MACBA), in the covered walkway between Plaça dels Àngels and Plaça Joan Coromines. 

Foros, an annual series of lectures about architecture, this year is entitled “Co-benefits”. The aim of Foros 2020 is to reflect on the links and processes of cultural interaction between contemporary architecture and other artistic expressions such as dance, sculpture, cinema and comics.

Admission is free