Catalunya & Islas Baleares
- Attention: This performance is not wheelchair accessible.
Attention: these lecture-performances take place at Le Bamp, 37 Sleeckx Avenue, 1030 Schaerbeek.
T e r r i t o r i o presents at Le Bamp Catalunya and Islas Baleares, with lecture performances by Denise Duncan (Tinta Negra / WIPCOOP), Adrià Girona & Andrea Pellejero (Monte Isla / Això al poble no li agradarà), and Kristin Rogghe (Es Clot d'en Font / Art Dance Center / WIPCOOP).
- 10:00 > 11:00: lecture performance by Denise Duncan
- 11:30: lecture performance by Adrià Girona & Andrea Pellejero
- 12:30: lecture performance by Kristin Rogghe
CATALUNYA
Tinta Negra is a collective of Black actresses, actors and theatre-makers in Catalonia, founded to create a dignified and necessary space of representation for people of African descent within the performing arts. It emerged as a critical response to how these identities have historically been treated in fiction and on stage, proposing an alternative grounded in creative autonomy, an Afro-centred perspective and political engagement.
A standout production is Títuba, bruixa, negra i ramera, written and directed by Denise Duncan and performed by Kathy Sey. The piece revisits the story of Tituba—the first woman accused during the Salem witch trials—from a feminist and Afro-descendant perspective, turning suffering into celebration and exposing the historical continuity between past persecution and the structural forms of violence Black women face today.
Another key project is #nosomunhashtag, conceived as a ritual journey through the diverse imaginaries of Barcelona’s Black diaspora. Directed by Malcolm McCarthy, it brings together ten artists from different disciplines in a theatrical celebration of the uniqueness, talent and creative force of the African diaspora.
The collective also runs Periferia Cimarronas, an Afro-centred theatre in Barcelona’s Sants district. This space has become a meeting point and platform to present their own productions and allied initiatives committed to decolonising narratives and defending diversity in the performing arts.
Denise Duncan
Denise Duncan is an actress, playwright, theatre director, screenwriter and writing teacher. As a director and dramaturg, she has premiered around twenty works in Spain, Costa Rica and the United States, including Está linda la mar (Best Show at the Muestra de Teatro de Barcelona 2012), Negrata de merda (2019) and El combat del segle (2020).
She holds a degree in Directing and Dramaturgy from the Institut del Teatre in Barcelona (2012), in Performing Arts (2004) and in Journalism from the University of Costa Rica (2004). She also completed a postgraduate in Social Media Content: Community Manager and Content Curation (2017) and an MA in Theatre and Audiovisual Studies at the University of A Coruña (2004).
Her awards include second prize in the Premio Marqués de Bradomín for playwriting (2005), the Premio Ciutat de Manacor de Teatre and the Jaume Vidal Alcover (2018). She was a writer in the VII Laboratorio de Escritura Teatral of the Fundación SGAE (2019), house playwright at Sala Beckett (Barcelona, 2019–2020), co-founder of Tinta Negra, and a member of the editorial board of Acotacions (RESAD, 2020).
Això al poble no li agradarà aims to be a meeting ground between audiences and contemporary creations—an environment capable of generating new relationships between spectators and artistic practices in dialogue with their context. The festival proposes a shift in the cultural centre of gravity: an exercise in reterritorialisation that values hybrid creations by connecting artists, spaces and audiences. Its third edition unfolds over a four-month cycle, from February to May, with monthly activities in the form of labs, residencies and presentations across eleven municipalities in Girona. The cycle culminates in the established festival on 30 and 31 May, this year in Salt, Lloret de Mar and Celrà.
The festival focuses on companies and makers in the performing arts, presenting works that adapt to the contexts in which they are developed and shown. This year’s programme combines long-term projects with previously presented stage and street pieces within contemporary performance practice.
Monte Isla
The company Monte Isla—formed by Adrià Girona, Andrea Pellejero and Rut Girona—is based in Breda, a small town in Catalonia, with the intention of decentralising their practices. In 2023, together with various cultural structures and companies in the province of Girona, they founded the festival Això al poble no li agradarà to build a local network around the performing arts and contextual/performative practices.
Their artistic research focuses on the concept of landscape. From this idea, they developed “silent choreography” practices: everything that is part of the performance but is not a human body—stage technology, playing space, scenography, props. This research led to three works forming the Landscape Trilogy: Allí donde no estamos (There Where We Are Not), Donde empieza el bosque acaba el pueblo (Where the Forest Begins the Village Ends), and Escuchas del paisaje (Listenings of the Landscape). These pieces create a contemplative sense of time and invite audiences to consider a scenic landscape, with the spectator’s viewpoint at the centre of the theatrical construction. In 2024, their work Un cuerpo sin talento (A Body Without Talent) premiered at the Grec Festival. From this piece, they open a research line around the extended puppet and the body as theatrical material, which continues in 2025 with the Diptych on the Image: Cuerpo de baile and Theatrum Mundi.
Andrea Pellejero
Andrea Pellejero graduated in Visual Arts from the Institut del Teatre in 2019—a space of freedom and experimentation within the institution. During her studies she co-founded the collective Las Huecas, with works including Projecte92’ (Antic Teatre), Aquellas que no deben morir (TNT Festival, 2021), Algo de Amor (TNT Festival, 2023), De l’amistat (Temporada Alta, 2023).
In 2020, she founded Monte Isla, creating pieces such as Allí donde no estamos (Espai Nyam Nyam, 2021), Donde empieza el bosque acaba el pueblo (TNT Festival, 2022), Escuchas del paisaje (La Mutant, 2023), Un cuerpo sin talento (Grec Festival, 2024).
With Monte Isla, she launched one of her most ambitious projects: a festival for live and contextual arts in the Girona regions—Això al poble no li agradarà—whose main goal is to decentralise contemporary theatre away from the metropolitan context.
Adrià Girona
Adrià Girona studied drama at the Institut del Teatre in Barcelona. During his training he performed with several companies, including Col·lectiu Tarony-ia (Paramovidos), Ramona de Van Der Bürg (Hysteriques), and Cia. Potcuia (Veus de Txernòbil). In 2021, he completed his training as an actor-puppeteer at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts de la Marionnette (ESNAM).
He then worked as a puppeteer and object performer with El Conde de Torrefiel in Los Protagonistas, touring internationally. Alongside acting, in 2019 Adrià found a passion for sound design and composition, creating music for Solo vine a bañarme by Andrea Pellejero and Ratcatchers by Anna Ivanova. He also collaborated with Las Huecas (Aquellas que no deben morir, TNT 2021) and Col·lectiu Llegotarde (Residència 0, Sismògraf 2021).
ISLAS BALEARES
Es Clot d’En Font
Es Clot d’En Font is an artistic and ecological sanctuary, located in the heart of Mallorca, in the municipality of Lloret de Vistalegre. It serves as a haven for art and nourishment, where creativity, nature, and well-being converge in a transformative experience.
The finca hosts a permaculture farm that provides organic food for its activities, fostering a deep connection with the earth. It also features a dance studio with a wooden floor, perfectly suited for physical expression and artistic practice. Accommodation is available in shared or private rooms, as well as camping areas, creating an atmosphere of communal living and cultural exchange.
Es Clot d’En Font is distinguished by its holistic approach, offering workshops and retreats that weave together well-being practices, artistic expression, and connection to nature. These gatherings are designed to encourage self-discovery and personal growth, inviting participants to explore their creativity and to deepen their relationship with the natural environment.
Es Clot d’En Font offers a concept where art, nature, and well-being are seamlessly combined, inviting participants to immerse themselves in a nourishing experience that feeds both body and spirit.
Kristin Rogghe
Kristin Rogghe is a Brussels-based dramaturg, performer, transdisciplinary artist and researcher. In 2022 she answered the call from the Balearic island Mallorca, and has since then developed an ongoing relationship with the land, its people and artistic networks. This change of context provoked a profound reorientation of her practice, as she started to combine performing arts and dreamwork to explore inner territories. Besides her practice as a dramaturg across theater, dance and audiovisual productions, serving as the house dramaturg of Theater Arsenaal in Mechelen (2010-2015) and as city dramaturg at KVS Brussels (2016-2022), she now also develops 'dream dramaturgy', a practice that works with dreams as a gateway to the individual and collective unconscious, opening up a space for regenerative conversation and intuitive (co)creation. Her residencies at Art Dance Center and Es Clot d'En Font, and collaborations with Mallorca-based artists Natalia Lopez Santa Cruz, Pegah Khoei and Tomeu Gomila have been crucial in this evolution.
Kristin holds a degree in Philosophy from the Universities of Leuven and Lisbon (2005), and in Transmedia from the LUCA School of Arts in Brussels (2007). She received a fellowship to deepen her practice in Documentary Arts at UnionDocs in New York (2010). Her audiovisual works and installations have been presented internationally, from Kinshasa to San Francisco. Consistently exploring art's potential for social transformation, her work evolves from a deep inquiry into collaborative creation across borders – be they mental, social, geographical or disciplinary.
