SALVATGE COR
(WILD HEART)

poems by albert roig and music by krishoo monthieux and marc egea, hurdy gurdy. videos by dionís escorsa. dancers àngels margarit and alexis eupierre.

at the caixaforum auditorium, in the spring of 2002, there was a performance of a dancer, alexis eupierre (companyia lapsus), a musician, marc egea (hurdy gurdy) and a poet, albert roig. it turned out to be the seed of salvatge cor. the show has since been enhanced with the music of krishoo monthieux (percussionist and composer and cofounder of the french group fff), the participation of dancer àngels margarit (companyia mudances), of the actress sílvia bel as well as that of the artist dionís escorsa (has shown his videoinstallations in germany, italy and spain). all of them accomplished artists with a solid background. the fruits of this cojoint effort are an original, fresh, yet mature show which has already been programmed on several stages though some variations have applied.
the articulation of the show emanates from the poems of albert roig who has recently published córrer la taronja (1979 - 2001), a poetry collection tantamount with over twenty years of dedication. this is the first time albert roig has allowed his poems to go on stage within the context of a show both, sensual and direct, after many years of working exclusively on printed format and since becoming one of the most outstanding and serious voices of contemporary catalan poetry.

tortosa, 1959.
in 50 collected poems titled córrer la taronja, 1979 - 2001 (ed 62/emp·ries), has compiled twenty years of dedication to poetry (awards: ausiàs march 1989, carles riba 1993 and miquel de palol 1998). l’estiu de les paparres o la societat secreta dels poetes, and el gos del poeta (empúries) are a compendium of his articles (and libels) prior to the 1990s, published in diari de barcelona, avui and the magazine lletra de canvi. in 1999  he published creació del poema (proa), an essay awarded with the premi de recerca de la fundació enciclopèdia catalana 1992, and currently, i pelava la taronja amb les dents, ars amandi (ed 62/emp·ries). between 1986 and 1988 with leonardo escoda, he co-directed t(d), a magazine devoted to art and the arts. he has also edited and prologued seven anthologies of catalan poetry and of writings about terres de l’ebre. with aurora corimina he co-scripted romàntic, a short produced by la teco and awarded in 1989 by the catalan government, with rosa maria sardà and carles santos as the cast. his texts have been included in catalogues of painters and photographers such as perejaume, zush, manel esclusa and rafael vargas. furthermore, joan carles martínez composed the music accompanying some of his recorded poems as well as those of xavier lloveras, under the title do del poema. he has also translated with patricia manresa ni-riordain the late poems of w.b.yeats, l’espasa i la torre (ed 62/empúries, in press). this year, with the singer taize and the musician edu tupi, both from brazil, he has staged the show: e descascava a laranja com os dentes/i pelava la taronja amb les dents.

 

àngels margarit

terrassa, 1960
she has been into dancing for the last 27 years, engaged in its various forms as a dancer, teacher and coreographer. after 6 years with heura, a local contemporary dance group, she founded the company mudances in 1985 with which she has staged shows such as mudances (1985), kolbebasar (1988), the series solo per a habitacio díhotel (1989 - 2000), atzavara (1991), corol·la (1992), grevenhofkai (1992), suite d’estiu (1993), saó (1995) -together with maria muñoz-, arbre de te (1996),  tèrbola (1998), l’edat de la paciència (1999), l’edat de la paciència/00 (2000), peces mentideres (2001), el somriure (2001), origami (2002) -a show for the young-, the videoinstallation with performance estances (2003) and urbs#1/càsting (2004). the shows have been co-produced and shown at festivals and other venues in europe, canada, u.s.a., latin america, japan and australia.
among others, sheís been awarded the grand prix du concours coréographique de bagnolet (1988) for kolbebasar, the premi nacional d’interpretació i dansa (1991) for atzavara, the premi ciutat de barcelona d’arts escèniques (1993) for corol·la, the premi nacional de dansa de catalunya (1986) for mudances and (1999) for tèrbola.
in the field of improvisation she works, among others, with andreu corchero, maria muñoz, rosa muñoz, alexis eupierre, mÚnica valenciano and with the musicians joan saura and steve noble.
 

alexis eupierre

u.s.a., 1966
studied dancing at the institut del teatre de barcelona and at the julliard school, n.y.university where he graduated in 1990. has danced with àngels margarit (mudances), with david zambrano, mark thompkins, margarita guergué and john jaspers. in 1997 he became the artistic director and coreographer of the dancing company lapsus, founded in barcelona that year. he is also a foundation member of la caldera, a centre for the developing of coreographic activities. in 1991 he was chosen as best young coreographer from spain by the international festival of venezuela and the following year, for the hamburg festival. the solo amarduele has been selected to tour the alternative stage circuit in spain. furthermore, promoted by the institute cervantes, the company lapsus participates in the 4th centenary of the quixote. eupierre is first class in the difficult art of dance improvisation. as well as his countless solos, he has also improvised with àngels margarit and clarinda mclow.

krishoo monthieux

paris, 1958
founder of fff (rock-funk) in 1991, a sony contract, between 1991 and 2001 tours the world several times. with fff records 4 cds: blast culture (a n.y. recording produced by bill laswell with a videoclip by spike lee), free for ever (recorded in london and produced by mark wallis, sonor & zildjan), vivants (a live recording at the belfort eurockéennes festival) and fff 4. fff, with the third album, recorded in paris, was awarded by magazine “victoires de la musique”, as the best live show of 1996. monthieux together with brother christian also produces ladja (island records). in 1998, with christian lechevretel, founds the band liquid and produce two records: this is not a labirynth (home line music/logistic records) and liquid. they are also authors of the soundtrack for michel blanc’s film embrassez qui vous voudrez, produced by ugc. also a belgian collaboration with steeve shan for rencontres live project and in spain, the album q, a recording with suzo sainz and tino digeraldo. in summer 2002 tours with yanis odua (raggamuffin) some europeans festivals. this year he has written the music of albert vidal’s latest show which opened at the tnc, as well as that of mudances, directed by àngels margarit, for the forum barcelona 2004.

marc egea

barcelona, 1973
graduated in philosophy at the universitat central de barcelona. devoted to playing the hurdy gurdy since 1996, learns from teachers such as pilles chabenat, valentin clastrier and pascal lefeuvre. collaborates in recordings of various artistic groups in the experimental, traditional and ethnic music fields. cofounder of several groups of traditional, riproposta and experimental music such as músics de safeu, suara, marmara and els cigalons. as a soloist has recorded 2 cds: d’aquí, d’allà i de més enllà (tecnosaga, 2002) and melanocetus (inedit, 2003), as well as another cd with reader francesc ten: les ratlles del mon (audiovisuals de sarria, 2003). he is furthermore the composer of the music for the show: sonets de shakespeare per a viola de roda, actor i actriu (opened april 2004) and for amarduele, of alexis eupierre, dancer. currently and apart from his own show as a soloist, he performs with el pont d’arcalís, with the hurdy gurdy symphonia quartet directed by pascal lefeuvre, is a duo with accordionist cati plana and collaborates with the macroformation els ministrils del camí ral. he has been a resident member of the lem festival of contemporary music, directed by victor nubla who commissioned him a composition for the barcelona municipal band (opened 31st october 2003).

dionís escorsa o’callaghan

albert roig, que no passa, ed.62, 1990

ofici de poeta
the poet’s craft
els llibres de meravelles d’arnaut daniel, de manoel de barros, d’abu-nuwas

in auto-retrato manoel de barros claims to have invented thirty-five no-objects, poets’ things, useless. but he only mentions five of them. elsewhere, in another poem, he mentions another two. they are: a set of creamy pliers, an opener for sunrise, a safety pin to secure silences, a grumbly nail, a velvet screw-top, a river shortener and some horizon stretchers ñ um alicate cremoso, um abridor de amanhecer, uma fivela de prender silencios, um prego que farfalha, um parafuso de veludo, um encolhedor de rios, um esticador de horizontes. barros takes his inspiration from provenÁal arnaut daniel who had invented a shovel for piling up the winds, the auras, as he put it. albert roig has only been capable of adding two: a strainer for forgetting and a wave-mirror mask with a pitch-black mouth which returns the voice of either woman or child. according to him it is a scant bare thread of a voice which inhebriates the earth, shiny as the spiderweb which spreads the dew, fullmoons and the silverwind of olivegroves.

a strainer for forgetting. the quarters for writing and marking and those of full imitation and erasing. abu-nuwas, al-hassan ibn hani, before being the poet of onethousand and one nights, before he had even written his first verse, had to learn by heart, like any other rawi, one thousand fragments from the ancient poets. after reciting them to his master, khalaf al-ahmar, he was told to forget them all before he would set to write his very first verse. poetry, like dance: an art which must be learnt and unlearnt.