A whole day dedicated to dance that will occupy spaces and corners in and around Plaça del Poliesportiu in the Centre of L’Hospitalet de Llobregat and which includes the Can Sumarro Garden and the patio of the Museum of History. Very different urban landscapes: from the asphalt of a square to the grass of the gardens, the historic buildings and the park full of trees and earth. A non-stop programme of exceptional shows that will show you very different views of dance. A combination of productions by professional companies in all styles along with exhibitions of works by the city’s schools.

11:30 am
Steps
Young Blood
Cía. Arnau Pérez
13 minutes
We are this generation of young people with energy, creativity and involvement to develop new paths, but which finds itself cut short by the nature of this society. We have a lot to say and protest about everywhere. You are seeing us. We are ready, but... are you?

11:30 am
Can Sumarro Garden
Blanc Borrombori
Ca La Vidala
15 minutes
Blanc Borrombori is the silence and the pause before the ideas, the emotions and the beauty of movement explode. It is the inevitable and necessary space for creation. It is the repose before the fertility of inventiveness. It is the silence and the internal tempo preceding the thunder of ingenuity, the riot of creativity.

11:45 am
Steps
Anónimas raíces
Premoh’s Cru
15 minutes
Anónimas Raices is a unique mixture that fuses flamenco and urban dances in the shadow of a question: Who are we?

12 noon
Museum patio
Contraste
ACA L’HOSPITALET / Susana Escoda, Miriam Vallejo and Fran de Malena
25 minutes
From the magic of the tablao to the agony of the heel. The sweetness of arms and the quejío of sorrow. Happiness, coldness, tragedy, craftiness, sensuality… In short, flamenco.

12.15 pm
Can Sumarro Garden
Black
Oulouy
30 minutes
Oulouy, one of the artists who we have seen the most lately on the urban dance scene in Barcelona, once again demonstrates his talent in a choreographed piece based on improvisation and which uses elements of different styles of the most modern dances in African cities today, such as coupé-decalé, afrohouse, azonto or krump. With this language, the artist speaks to us about how blackness is experienced in today’s society.

1 pm
Pl. Poliesportiu
De2en2
Brodas Bros
30 minutes
The urban dance company Brodas Bros presents a piece for 8 dancers that speaks about the involvement between pairs of brothers and sisters (blood or life). Created specially for Dansa Metropolitana.

1:30 pm
Pl. Poliesportiu
UPPER Vol. 1
Cia Sebastián García Ferro
35 minutes
Come on everybody, let’s sweat. A DJ, a table and three goddesses of dance. You will see them dancing on the podiums until they decide to come down from Olympus and invite the mortals to share the dance floor with them. This is a site-specific proposal that takes aerobic exercise classes as a model, with all the tics and the clichés of that kind of activity. Join in and you will end up being the stars of a choreography that little by little turns into a great party.

5 pm
Steps
Us
Arias Fernández “Joker”
20 minutes
You ask me who I am?... Nobody. I am nobody. An attempt at being, we might say. Somebody’s mental blackout or perhaps a message wrapped in a body. Something that is trying to say something... Someone drunk on humanity! A silent singer, an unresolved loner, a palpable shadow, ashes dancing, your reflection! That is what I am, a simple reflection of you.

5 pm
Museum patio
Contraste
ACA L’HOSPITALET / Susana Escoda, Miriam Vallejo and Fran de Malena
25 minutes
From the magic of the tablao to the agony of the heel. The sweetness of arms and the quejío of sorrow. Happiness, coldness, tragedy, craftiness, sensuality… In short, flamenco.

5:15 pm
Can Sumarro Garden
4 estacions
Escola de dansa 4 hores
30 minutes
Taste the fruits of each season
The fragrance of gardens in bloom
The warm sunlight of the day
The sound of falling leaves
The touch of icy snow

6 pm
Can Sumarro Garden
Antares
ACA Marismas del Guadalquivir
30 minutes
ACA Marismas del Guadalquivir presents us with a very diverse sample of their current work. From the most traditional flamenco to Preludio, a contemporary piece premiered at the L’Herència festival, the sum of the work of the bailaora and choreographer Carmen Muñoz and the members of Zyryab, the company’s Andalusian and flamenco dance formation.

6:30 pm
Can Sumarro Garden
Poema circular
Lorena Nogal and Conservatori Superior de Dansa de l’Institut del Teatre
15 minutes
Poema circular is an exercise in composition. A work about the beauty of moving that highlights the simplicity of the crossing of bodies and the transformation of a collective mass. A kaleidoscope in motion that leaves room for the time to be able to appreciate the change it brings. This choreography has been created and directed by Lorena Nogal, a dancer and assistant choreographer of La Veronal.