1 September 2025 – 31 January 2026
Manu Badás studied contemporary dance in France at the schools of Vendetta Mathea (Aurillac) and James Carlès (Toulouse). Since 2008, he has directed La Inquiquinante, producing and presenting pieces in Spain, Mexico, Canada, and Europe. He received the Oh! Asturias Award for Best Show of the Year in 2011 for Folias, and in 2012, his piece Sebastián was chosen by the newspaper El País as one of the best shows of the year. He has received numerous awards, including the Oh! Asturias Award for Best Show of the Year in 2011 for Folias, and in 2012,
He received the Oh! Award from Asturias for Best Show of the Year in 2011 with “Folias,” and in 2012, his piece “Sebastián” was chosen by the newspaper El País as one of the seven best dance performances of the season in Madrid. In December 2018, she premiered Eurídice sin Orfeo at the Teatro de la Laboral in Gijón, a full-length piece in which she rewrites the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice from a gender perspective and intersects with intragender violence. In 2024, she won the Audience Award with Muchos Cisnes // Cygnus Falconeri in the Territori en Dansa competition at the C.C.Teixonera. With this piece, he participated in Dancing on the Edge in Vancouver, Canada, in 2025.
Project in residence
Coreografías Bastardas is an interactive choreographic installation that investigates the ways in which undisciplined bodies destabilize normative control systems. Through the use of contact microphones that capture the sound of the body and movement, as well as video as a live medium, played from mobile devices attached to the body (tablets, smartphones, small monitors), a bastard ecosystem is created where the human, the mechanical, and the animal coexist. The installation is designed to be activated by both performers and visitors, generating a choreography that is transformed by the presence and bodily emissions of those who inhabit it.
It has these key objectives:
This project is a continuation of Ejercicios Sobre la Belleza (ESB), a research project on bodies that do not conform to the logic of efficiency, productivity, or visibility. Inspired by thinkers such as Donna Haraway, Rosi Braidotti, Karen Barad, and McKenzie Wark, the project proposes a crossover between art, science, and technology from a transfeminist and posthumanist perspective. Choreography is no longer a sequence of predefined movements, but an unstable system where the body’s sound emission, presence, vibration, and visual opacity become compositional elements. The project seeks to produce sensitive knowledge from opacity, excess, slowness, and overflow.