"Together we are capable of doing incredible things"

BarcelonaThe outgoing director of the Mercat de les Flors, Àngels Margarit, began her time at the head of the facility with Estol, a large-scale show by Roser López Espinosa. And the dancer and choreographer herself will close Margarit's run at the Mercat de les Flors with another large-scale show, FableThe production inaugurates the dance center's new season, starting October 2. "I started and I'm leaving with these two large formats, which are part of the Cèl·lula project, dedicated to producing shows from the Mercat de les Flors," says Margarit. The Chilean María José Cifuentes replaces her in office.

Roser López Espinosa has built Fable on two dimensions: the fantastic imaginary that we have as a society and the extraordinary that exists in each individual. "When we want to denote that something or some person is extraordinary, we refer to it with the term fabulous"I wanted to use fantasy to talk about the beauty that can exist within us," says the choreographer. Through the creation with eight dancers, Fable It highlights collective bodies and plays with creating networks of moving bodies, as if each dancer were a piece of a puzzle. "Rather than seeking homogenization, what we do is unite all the singularities and make that collective body move. When we achieve this, it seems like magic," says López Espinosa.

The power of connections

Behind these moving images lies a reflection on the power of community and the fact of living in society. López Espinosa cites the thoughts of authors such as Marina Garcés, Richard Sennett and John Berger to refer to everything that has inspired him during the creative process. "The connections sustain us on all levels. Together we are capable of doing incredible things. If we look at each other and listen a little more, we will see that we have fantastic people at our side doing fantastic things, beyond all the atrocities that happen every day," says the artist, who in recent years has worked primarily with this idea of the United Kingdom.

Fable It will be performed at the Mercat de les Flors from October 2 to 5 and also on October 11 and 12. It combines rock music with more "delicate" pieces to create contrast between the different stage moments. "There are parts of high physical complexity, of great force, and others that are more atmospheric. All of this is an invocation of the imagination and a collective invitation to celebrate it," explains López Espinosa, who seeks to "play through dance" and for what happens on stage "to be a trigger for the viewer." The show is a co-production with the Temporada Alta festival—it will be performed at the Canal de Salt on November 23—and has eight performances scheduled for a subsequent tour of Catalonia.