To commemorate the centenary of the birth of the actress and founder of the Lliure Carlota Soldevila, we began the Artistic Residencies program which bears her name in June 2019.
The program has the commitment to opening up the concept of authorship to any theatrical artist, and to supporting the younger generations in order to promote collective creation and living authorship on four types of residency.
The Carlota Soldevila grants are possible thanks to the partnership with the Fundació Banc Sabadell.
Carlota Soldevila Creation Grants
Resident artist
Magda Puig Torres / 'Thauma (un poema escènic)'
Magda Puig Torres is the resident artist this season. She and Andreu Martínez explore the concept of thauma, which means surprise and wonder, and which Aristotle considered the origin of knowledge and philosophy.
The residence of Magda Puig Torres is mentored by the Greek stage director Dimitris Papaioannou. This support is part of the international mentoring program of the Institut Ramon Llull.
Resident company
Íntims Produccions / 'L'anorak'
The company we accompany this year is Íntims Produccions. Their proposal is a physical and visual version of the famous story The Coat by Nikolai V. Gogol for puppet theatre. A wordless story.
Matthieu Siefridt of the French company Blick Theatre mentors the residence of Íntims Produccions. This support is part of the international mentoring program of the Institut Ramon Llull.
EN RESiDÈNCiA Artists
Lucia Del Greco
Artists EN RESiDÈNCiA is the program of the Institut de Cultura de Barcelona (ICUB) and the Consorci d’Educació de Barcelona (CEB) that wants to promote the practice of contemporary creation in the city’s public secondary schools. The Lliure participates as mediator, with Lucia Del Greco chosen by public call.
Del Greco’s work proposal is about friendship, the physical and emotional proximity it implies and how it is experienced as you get older. This project is carried out with ESO 3rd year students from the L'Alzina public institute in Barcelona.
Lucia del Greco’s residence is mentored by Chilean stage director Marco Layera. This support is part of the Institut Ramon Llull’s international mentoring program.
Creative exchange residencies
The National Theater & Concert Hall Taipei (Taiwan)
Creative exchange residencies are possible thanks to the collaboration with an international cultural equipment that changes every year. In 2024 we will link this experience with the National Theater & Concert Hall of the city of Taipei, in Taiwan: a reference center for performing arts in Asia and around the world.
The residents, selected by public call, are Chien-Han Hung with Qualified Mother (provisional title) from the Taiwanese side, and the formation Monte Isla by the Catalan, with the project Un cuerpo sin talento. Both will spend a month of residence hosted in each equipment, and in the second half of the season they will be able to open their research processes on the ProCarlota 2024 professional day.
The Monte Isla residence is mentored by Swiss stage director Marion Duval. This support is part of the Institut Ramon Llull’s international mentoring program.
Resident artist Public space
Ferran Orobitg / 'OPIA'
In 2024, we added a new modality to the Carlota Soldevila Creation Grants, Resident artist Public space. The Teatre Lliure offers two weeks of residency at the Espai Lliure to Ferran Orobitg and LlampBorda with OPIA, the winning project of the call promoted in collaboration with Fundació Carulla and FiraTàrrega, focused on the impact of the artist on the improvement of relations on and with the public space.
Ferran Orobitg’s residence is mentored by Belgian stage director Sara Dandois. This support is part of the international mentoring program of the Institut Ramon Llull.
ProCarlota
Residencies program professional day
Due to the need to bring together and show the work done by all the artists who have passed through this residency program from its foundation in 2019, in June 2023 the ProCarlota conference was born. The event that brings together artists and programmers will be consolidated in June 2024 on a single day.
DATE
07/06/24
PRODUCTION
Teatre Lliure
PLACE
Espai Lliure