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Image courtesy of Grec Festival

IT Dansa returns to the Barcelona Festival, which this year celebrates the twenty-fifth anniversary of its creation and its first performance at the Grec. They perform a program with three pieces in very different styles and a very modern language.

In 1997, the young company IT Dansa was created as an educational project of the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona to encourage the improvement and professionalization of young dancers. They performed for the first time the following year, in 1998, twenty-five years ago. That same year, they also premiered at the Grec Festival in Barcelona, performing the choreographies Jardí Tancat, Violeta II, Passo Mezzo and Via Durga at the CCCB (the ticket cost 2,000 pesetas at the time). A quarter of a century later, the company has performed a dozen times at the Grec.

They will be celebrating the anniversary of their early days, performing three works by choreographers linked to IT Dansa since the beginnings of the young company. Twenty-Eight Thousand Waves, a choreography by Cayetano Soto (one of the first graduates from IT Dansa and now an internationally renowned choreographer), conveys the strength and energy of the waves of the sea. Next, the company's dancers will perform Lo que no se ve, an intimate creation by Gustavo Ramírez Sansano conceived in 2021 exclusively for IT Dansa, focusing on couple relationships. The program closes with Minus 16, by Ohad Naharin, a key piece in the repertoire of contemporary dance and one of the company's greatest successes, which proposes a journey through different states of mind, from despair in solitude to fun in a group to the rhythm of cha-cha-cha, mambo and popular songs from Israel.

IT Dansa was born to build bridges between choreographic teaching and the stage through stage practice. It operates as a two-year postgraduate course for professionalizing and improving young dancers and currently enjoys great national and international recognition. At the same time, IT Dansa also works to disseminate dance through various choreographies, allowing a broad range of audiences to enjoy dance. From its beginnings to the present day, the artistic direction of IT Dansa has been the responsibility of Catherine Allard, who trained as a dancer at the Nederlands Dans Theater and the National Dance Company.

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