corro sardanista

Corro Sardanista is a workshop to learn and unlearn some forms of collective popular dance, such as sardanes. The objective of this proposal is to explore the ability to dance together to create collectivity, and to rehearse how we construct the notion of “popular,” attending to the tensions that arise between institutionalized practices and those on the margins.

Dancing in a circle, the corro, is the most widespread choreographic formation in the world, found in numerous cultures across Europe, the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Oceania. The corro is an ephemeral, physical, and symbolic space — a circle formed by bodies that come together. A group, a corrillo, a meeting, a penya, a colla, a gathering, an assembly. In a corro, bodies encounter each other, for a while, as part of a collectivity, a communitas, sharing a muscular memory — a muscular bond.

The proposal emerges as a starting point for a research project in which Joana Capella Buendia questions which aspects have been institutionalized in certain cultural manifestations, and which mechanisms of maintenance have favored this process — to the detriment of other expressions that have remained on the margins of collective body memory. At the same time, the project senses that these collective dances can give rise to spaces of resistance and encounter — horizontal and playful — that suspend the dynamics of capitalist hyper-productivism in which contemporary bodies exist.

The workshop consists of two sessions, led by Joan Codina (musicologist, dancer, and sardana dancer) and Joana Capella Buendia (resident artist).

bios

Joana Capella Buendia (1990). Degree in Design; Master in Research and Experimentation in Design. Currently resident at La Escocesa from 2021 to 2025. Part of the team of educators at INTERSECCIONS Arts Visuals in El Prat de Llobregat. Collaborates in the Art i Escola d’AcVic. She has been a resident at Fabra i Coats with Sant Andreu Contemporani (2023), part of Ex-Libris, of Homesessión (2023), at the Centre Arbar (2022), at the Centro de Arte Huarte (2021), at Casa Tres Patios de Medellin (2018). She has received support from Beques OSIC, Beques CREA, CentroHuarte, Idensitat, La Escocesa, Homesesión, Sala d'Art Jove, Centre Art La Panera. She has exhibited at La Capella, CCEBA, Centre d’Art Contemporani Fabra i Coats Contemporary, Centre d’Art Maristany, LOOP Festival, SWAB Ephemeral.

She is a visual artist, moving between different languages, from performance, installation, material production and text. She approaches different practices and materialities, sensing that the process is a meeting place where things happen, between the bodies, materials and spaces that participate in it.

Joan Codina Vila. A professional musician (flutes and singing) and a diploma in music teaching, it was during the completion of his studies at the Conservatori that he discovered traditional and folk dances from the streets and associations. Currently, he is a professor at the Escola Municipal de Música Blai Net de Sant Boi de Llobregat, where he teaches flute, choral singing, instrumental ensembles, and regular workshops in traditional, ancient and folk dance. He is a member of the traditional Occitan music group Mirabèl, the duet Codina et Riera and BanDuolers, of which he is also the dance master. In addition, he regularly collaborates as a musician and dancer with the dance and ancient music company Xuriach. He also conducts numerous occasional workshops in folk dance, traditional and ancient dance. He continues to train today with Carles Mas, Loida Grau, Maria Bossi and Bealia Guerra.

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