Barceloneta

Choreography and Dance Magdalen Hayes Margarita Zafrilla Olayo Set Design Thomas Pausz Light Design Marie Le Saux Music (London performance) David Leahy Music (Perigueux performance) Jamie Craggs Costume Design Miriam Kraut Video Kekko Danieli Screening Raw Goods Festival, Soundaffairs, Tour through Wales and London 2004 Funding Ray Finnis Trust

Barceloneta (who is that woman hanging from my laundry line?) is a site specific performance which premiered at Wimbledon School of Arts Theatre in June 2003. The two dancers interacted with both the existing architecture of the performance space and purpose-built props to challenge physical boundaries: a 2 meter high rake or slope and 6 bungee jumping ropes rigged across the space. The body is placed in this "conditioning environment" to create the dance from its necessary reactions. Barceloneta was revised for Mimos, the international Mime festival, Perigueux, France in 2004. With a portable set it was adapted to the small plazas of the medieval city and its audience. Composer and trombonist Jamie Craggs performed the original sound score live in interaction with the dance. Synopsis: In "La Barceloneta", the old fishermen's district in Barcelona, lives a young woman called Maria. She stays in one of the oldest buildings of the barrio, with the laundry lines connecting the balconies of different buildings. One afternoon, as she was hanging her laundry, Maria toppled over the balcony railings and fell through five floors of laundry. The clothes hung by her neighbours cushioned her fall and saved her life. (Original Idea and Set design: Thomas Pausz)

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