La Inquiquinante / Manu Badás

The iconography of “Dying Swan”, with its symbolism and imposed cultural load, is the starting point for this challenge to conventional notions of beauty and an action to politicize aesthetics.

Is beauty apolitical? These “new swans” challenge the conventional sex/gender binarism and demonstrate the self-narratives and agency capacity of a body in its multiplicity of expressions and possibilities of being read. Movement is used as a language that transcends and explores the complexity of human-centered thought. The public is invited to question their own perceptions of beauty, politics and identity, immersing themselves in an ephemeral journey that simultaneously embraces and challenges the classical vision of beauty, thus offering other views into the power of aesthetics.

Choreographer/Performer: Manu Badás

La Inquiquinante is a performative proposal from the arts of movement, research and contemporary languages. La Inquiquinante is directed by Manu Badás as a meeting platform for movement, research and contemporary languages.

Born in 2008 under the name Inquiquinante Danza. In 2022, with this name change, it will transition to a new, more liquid and less formal format. Focused on creation fundamentally based on theoretical and somatic research, it proposes proposals in which movement and thought are the main axes. They are pieces for the stage, for unconventional spaces, for intimacy, for the digital and for the written.

Manu Badás pursues their Higher Education in Contemporary Dance in France, at the schools of Vendetta Mathea (Aurillac) and James Carlès (Toulouse). They have directed La Inquiquinante since 2008, producing and presenting pieces in Spain, Mexico and Europe. They have received the Oh! Award from Asturias for Best Show of the year 2011 with “Folias” and in 2012 his piece “Sebastián” was chosen by the newspaper El País as one of the seven best dance proposals of the Madrid season. In December 2018, “Eurídice sin Orfeo” premiered at the Teatro de la Laboral in Gijón, a long-running piece in which they rewrites the myth of Orfeo and Eurídice from a gender perspective and intersects with intragender violence. This piece has been presented at the III Festival Escèniques LGBTI at the Sala Carme Teatre in Valencia and has made they share the stage with Pamela Palenciano at the Jornadas contra la Violencia at the Filarmónica theater in Oviedo in November 2019. In 2024 they won the Public Award with “Muchos Cisnes // Cygnus Falconeri” in the Territori en Dansa contest of C.C. Teixonera. Research and conferences: In 2019 they presents the performance “Bestiario affectivo sexual” at the 3rd Conference Non Monogamies and Contemporary Intimacies in Barcelona. In 2020 “Identity Hortera, I want to dance” is selected at the II International Congress of LGTBIQ+ Studies “Maricorners” in Madrid. Also in 2020, a research project on gender and contemporary dance “Gender in movement, what is not seen” begins, which will be awarded with the “Scholarship for research and innovation in the fields of visual arts, in our creative sectors.” , of the performing arts, of music and thought” of the Department of Culture of the Generalitat of Catalonia. They is currently researching the concepts of beauty and repertoire within the history of dance, from theoretical and artistic practices at the same time and with the body and gender as the backbone.

Composer: Camille Saint Saens, Johann Sebastian Bach and Manu Badás

Lighting Designer: Antiel Jiménez

Visual artist, art director, and theatrical lighting designer. Born in Almería and currently based in Alicante, where he trained for 11 years with the company-school “Font-Viva” in both artistic and technical disciplines (acting, dance, makeup, acrobatics, set design). He later moved to Madrid, where he studied Art History while working as a wardrobe assistant for Clara Bilbao. He then specialized in Set Design at RESAD (Royal School of Dramatic Arts). He is currently the visual director for the companies "[los números imaginarios]" and "Viviseccionados." His set, costume, and lighting designs have been featured at major venues such as TEATROS DEL CANAL, TEATRO ESPAÑOL, TEATRO DE LA ABADÍA, TEATRO REAL, TEATRO ECHEGARAY in Málaga, and LA LABORAL in Gijón, as well as at prominent festivals including the ALMAGRO FESTIVAL, OLMEDO FESTIVAL, FIRA TÀRREGA, FRINJE MADRID, SPOLETO INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL, CLÁSICOS EN ALCALÁ, and the AUTUMN FESTIVAL.