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5100 m/s

invites the spectators to join a unique physical, sonorous journey.

Joan Català spent his childhood in a family workshop, surrounded by the smell, sound and coldness of iron. He now turns this material into the centre of a circus, music, dance and theatre-of-objects show that evokes the craft work of artisans.

5100 m/s is the approximate speed of sound through metal.
The inorganic matter METAL is the protagonist of this piece.

At the workshop.
which is a place where you train your skills by trial and error,
a place of precision and detail.
Where beauty is forged at the blow of a hammer.

This performance unites three lines of work:

The manipulation of different objects (plates, tubes, tools, etc.) to create their own universe.
A choreography that interweaves acrobatics, balancing and dance while blurring the boundaries between them.
And finally, the composition of a unique soundscape of our own, with the aid of the contemporary percussionist group, Frames Percussion, who will play live, while co-existing with and supporting the other two aspects of the work.
Any intention beyond this would be to quite simply provide the spectator with a physical, sonorous journey. A unique moment in which the performers that enable this, do so by going beyond the idea of ‘skills’; thus drawing from the wide range of emotions that derive from being totally immersed in a task that is being carried out to the best of one’s abilities.

Production planning messed up a bit - due to the effects of Corona. Instead of having the premiere at GREC 2020, Joan Cataà now presents some extracts at GREC 2020 and he calls these extracts "taste of 5.100 m/s". The premiere will be postponed to 2021 Jan 8 / 9 / 10 at Mercat de les Flors, Barcelona.

Joan Català (1978, Barcelona) is a curious observer interested in visual art and movement. His family history related to metallurgy and craft work nourish him and is an important pillar in his way of concieving performing arts. Català understands the stage as a space for dialogue between humans, objects and the environment where game and work melt together with the tools, experiences and ideas that each of us bring. Studies and trainings in plastic arts and contemporary dance, physical theater and clown with different professionals. In 2012, after several collaborations, Català starts to develop his own approach around scenic arts. Since 2013, he is touring worldwide with Pelat.