ÀER

ÀER is a piece featuring contemporary dance and electronic music that rethinks traditional popular backstep dancing and its music from an modern, personal and subjective point of view, understanding it as a experiential, structural and social reference of the moment, with a gender based slant. ÀER reflects on the origins and execution of the backstep, religious in origin, of a solemn nature and originally done, according to some experts, by men only. ÀER approaches religion with the belief and/or confidence of group unity, from the desire for something tangible, as the will takes a leading role through persistent work to achieve something. Thus, its solemn serious nature is maintained to construct a choreography in which gender becomes less important in order to be danced by men and women. The project for ÀER won the third edition of the Delfí Colomé Prize. It was a candidate at the 2020 Max prizes for the Best choreography, and runner-up in the 2020 Dansacat Prizes for the soundscape.

Laia Santanach is a choreographer, dancer and pedagogue living in Barcelona with a career spanning more than 14 years. She currently directs her own company under her name. She created the solo Ballant Ballàvem and the proposal Rèplica, runner-up at the It prizes. Since 2018 she has been interested in ideas that work on roots from a contemporary point of view. She is currently working on a new proposal called TRADERE. She has also been assistant choreographer in different companies and in 2016 she created the Menorca en Dansa Festival which she continues to co-direct.

At the Centre Cívic Teixonera, the show ​ÀER by Laia Santanach is included on a double bill with ​Roges by Companyia miquelbarcelona​. You only have to make one booking for both shows.