Intensive with Roser López Espinosa

December 27th to 29th, from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

advanced / professional

Groundwork and Partnering

This workshop offers technical training focused on movement rooted in an articulated, supple, agile, swift, and powerful body. We’ll use the richness of spinal movement as our motor: curves, twists, spirals, linked movements, undulations, and combinations. Special attention will be given to functional anatomy, observing points of support and weight transfers to maximize movement potential. We’ll move through floor practices with simple acrobatic movements, jumps, and glides. Contact work will involve building structures and strategies that progressively unfold from subtlety to shared paths of greater complexity. We’ll develop listening and collaboration skills, practicing various aspects of focus, detail, precision, and play.

Roser López Espinosa

Trained at the MTD / Higher School of Arts in Amsterdam (Netherlands), in 2005 she received the danceWEB scholarship from ImpulsTanz in Vienna and trained with former Olympic gymnastics coach Jaume Miró. She has danced in the Netherlands with Katie Duck / Magpie Music Dance Company, Marta Reig Torres, and Pere Faura. In Barcelona, she has mainly worked with Àngels Margarit / Cia Mudances (Capricis, Flexelf, Kolbebasar, and the solo Corol·la), as well as with Cesc Gelabert, Lipi Hernández, director Iago Pericot, and filmmaker Isaki Lacuesta, among others. Her work as a creator has been internationally recognized since 2006, with pieces such as The Lizard's Skin, Lowland, Novembre, and Hand to Hand. In 2017, she created the large-scale piece L’estol for the National Dance Production, and in 2019 premiered Trama at Mercat de les Flors, awarded Best Choreography at the XXII Premis de la Crítica. In 2020, she collaborated for the third time with Skånes Dansteater (Sweden), premiering Fine Lines as part of the European inclusive dance program Europe Beyond Access. In 2021, she created Cometa, her first piece for children and families, co-produced by the German network Vorpommern tanzt an, captivating audiences in over 190 performances worldwide. She has been a guest choreographer for international companies such as Skånes Dansteater (Sweden), Conny Jansen Danst (Netherlands), Zagreb Dance Company (Croatia), MiR Company (Germany), and Scottish Dance Theater (UK), among others. She also collaborates with circus companies like Circ Pànic, MuMusic Circus, INO Kollective (Catalonia), and Compagnie XY (France). Roser has been an associate artist at La Caldera creation center since 2012 and was a resident artist at Mercat de les Flors 2018-21 in Barcelona, as well as an exchange artist in 2022 at NTCH – National Theater Concert Hall in Taipei (Taiwan) in collaboration with Mercat de les Flors. Her work has been showcased at major international festivals across Europe, North America, Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia.