Highlands is Mal Pelo’s new production, a show where music opens the gates of time, a membrane vibrating in the imaginary of spirituality.
The show tells us about passion and the wish to find that inhospitable, savage and endless place called the Highlands. It also reflects about our questions, those asked by us, little humans.
This is a show where one gets surrounded by dance and music and thus we get projected towards a vertical poetic art located somewhere in between light and darkness.
Highlands is the last piece of the Bach project by the renowned company Mal pelo. It establishes a dialogue between Bach’s music and that from other composers such as Ärvo Parte, Haëndel, Kurtag and Purcell, as well as with texts adapted to be staged from authors like Nick Cave, John Berger and Erri de Luca; these texts are sometimes kept in their original language and sometimes they have been translated into Catalan.
Highlands stands as the closing show of the tetralogy around Bach’s music the company has been working on for the last few years. Their previous works where Bach, On Goldberg Variations / Variations and Inventions.
A Mal Pelo production
Co-production Mercat de les Flors; Théâtre de l’Archipel – Scène Nationale de Perpignan; Théâtre Garonne – Scène européenne de Toulouse; ICEC – Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya; Teatre Principal de Palma, Consell Insular; Festival de Otoño, Comunidad de Madrid / Residència de creació Théâtre de l’Archipel – Scène Nationale de Perpignan / with the collaboration of Théâtre des Quatre Saisons de Gradignan – Scène Conventionnée, Season Alta – Festival Internacional d’Arts Escèniques, L’animal a l’esquena – Centre de Creació de Celrà
Director
María Muñoz, Pep Ramis
Director assistants
Leo Castro, Federica Porello
Choreography and dance
Pep Ramis, María Muñoz, Federica Porello, Leo Castro, Zoltan Vakulya, Miquel Fiol, Enric Fàbregas, Ona Fusté
Musical director
Quiteria Muñoz, Joel Bardolet
String quartet
Joel Bardolet, violí; Jaume Guri, violí; Masha Titova, viola, Daniel Claret, violoncel
Voice quartet
Quiteria Muñoz, soprano; David Sagastume, contratenor; Mario Corberán, tenor, Giorgio Celenza, baix
Music
Johann Sabastian Bach, Arvo Pärt, Henry Purcell, Georg Friedich Haendel, György Kurtág, Benjamin Britten
Texts
Nick Cave, John Berger, Erri de Luca
Sound designer
Fanny Thollot
Stage lighting design
August Viladomat, Irene Ferrer
Scenography
Kike Blanco
Costume designer
CarmePuigdevalliPlantéS
Leo Castro
Head technician
Irene Ferrer
Sound technician
Andreu Bramon
Stage technician
Genís Cordomí
Photography
Tristán Pérez-Martín