PARAPENTE

PARAPENTE Artistic Collective is the new stage and name of MARABULA barcelona • berlin, marked by the relocation of most of the collective to the Iberian Peninsula.
United by common and complementary points of view in how we understand creative work processes, we have had the pleasure of designing and activating stage and audiovisual projects, installations and performances, as well as projects of social reflection through the arts.

Parapente understands artistic research as a place for dialogue from which to find physical forms of expression that give priority to the sensorial and allow the development of a shared poetic field, born from the different creative realities that meet.

Our projects have been supported by cultural institutions such as Mercat de les Flors, Antic Teatre, the Cultural Center of Spain in Mexico, FONCA and CONACULTA, Carme Teatre, Festival Nu2’s, Festival NOF, CONCA, Goethe-Institut, the Spanish Embassy in Johannesburg, Institut Français, Institut Ramon Llull, OSIC, l’Estruch, ApdC, Dance Umbrella, National Arts Festival (SA).

We have been artists in residence at: L’animal a l’esquena, l’Estruch, the Multimedia Research Center of Mexico’s National Center for the Arts, Hangar Barcelona, Sala Taller22, Sol Picó - La Piconera, Laboratori Tísner, C.C. El Sortidor, Estudis de Teatre, Central del Circ, Carme Teatre, Espai La Granja, Espai Cankun-Vallgorguina, Ateneu Sant Celoni, Fabra i Coats, Studio 44 - Berlin (DE), Uferstudios - Berlin (DE), CulturArte - Maputo (MZ), La Villette - Paris (FR), Random Collision - Groningen (NL), KORZO - The Hague (NL), Marameo Berlin (DE).

Some of our works have been shown in Spain, Mexico, South Africa, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Greece, among others.

Elpida Theodorakakou

Project Management for Social Impact.
With a background in performing arts and over fifteen years of professional experience in project management, she designs and runs initiatives with a passion for creating a positive impact and making a difference. A firm believer that art, culture and experiential learning are driving forces for social transformation and change.

Hansel Nezza

Studied performing arts in Barcelona at Estudis de Teatre, following J. Lecoq’s pedagogy; completed the Nalanda Philosophy Master Course at Tibet House Delhi, and a BA in Arts at the Open University of Catalonia.
He has worked in Berlin as a performer and dancer with, among others, Constanza Macras | Dorky Park, Berliner Philharmonie, and as choreography assistant in Thomas Ostermeier’s Der Tod in Venedig at Schaubühne Berlin. There he continued training with Meg Stuart, Kirstie Simpson, Julyen Hamilton, Susan Klein, Hanna Hegenscheidt and Juan Kruz de Garaio Esnaola.
He collaborates with visual artists, musicians and multimedia creators, developing interdisciplinary proposals and working in Mexico, the Netherlands, Greece, South Africa, Germany, Spain and Mozambique.

Irene Molina

Graduate in Performing Arts under the Lecoq methodology, she completed her training in acting and dance with professionals such as Manuel Carlos Lillo, Txiqui Berraondo and Andrés Corchero.
As a performer, she has worked with companies such as Colectivo La Zurda, MARABULA, L’Alakran, Títeres etcétera, and Teatro de los Sentidos, among others, as well as with organizations like the Barcelona Human Rights Film Festival. She is the founder of Kermés Teatro and, together with Parapente Collective, premiered and won the CINTA award for Best Performance for Rita or the Becoming, directed by Hansel Nezza.
For over ten years she has developed her professional work with entities and platforms dedicated to theatre as a tool for social transformation, prevention and community intervention, facilitating workshops and diverse stage creations.

Laura Maure

Singer, songwriter and involved in various cultural projects.
She is currently developing an artistic residency at Fabra i Coats Creation Factory, working on musical compositions while researching—through binaural sound and 360° experiences—technical aspects and possible applications for live performances.
She has received two research and creation grants for the artistic project ATZUCAC on endangered languages, premiered at the Grec Festival 2022. Her main musical projects have been Le Fou, Liviana Mauretti and, more recently, LIVIANA and Efímeres.
Through the FINMATUN Cultural Association she has participated in the LAVDA project, a video-dance laboratory developed over years in prisons in Catalonia in co-production with Nats Nus Dansa. These experiences have resulted in several audiovisual works and performances with Toni Mira and Cecilia Colacrai.
BA in Psychology from the University of Barcelona.

Meritxell Checa

Born in Sabadell in 1983, she studied different artistic disciplines within the world of dance independently for years, and completed her studies in 2008 at the German university Folkwang Hochschule in Essen.
Throughout her career, she has combined her own artistic creation—under the name wilky_troc (including works such as “Last Picture”, “Protocolo” or “Etairas”)—with work as a performer with various international artists and companies: in 2006 with Alias Compagnie (Switzerland); from 2007 to 2011 as a guest dancer at Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch (Germany); and in 2009 with Johannes Wieland at Staatstheater Kassel (Germany).
Since 2010 she has worked with DCA-Philippe Decouflé (France); and since 2016 with Stopgap Dance Company (England).
In 2015 she created the Tanztheater Social Project (TTSP) to bring creation and dance to groups of non-professionals and/or people with functional diversity.

Linn Johansson

Linn Johansson works in dance, performance and movement pedagogy. She trained at the Royal Ballet School in Stockholm and continued her studies in Paris and New York.
She has offered contemporary dance / physical training and improvisation classes at various centers and schools in Sweden and Spain since 2001, including ACIDH (Catalan Association for Integration and Human Development) for people with functional diversity.
Artistic collaborator with Andrés Waksman since 2001, and with Roseland Musical, Konic Theatre, Leo Castro (Mal Pelo Company), Vero Cendoya, Experimenta Butoh, Natalia D’Annunzio, among others. She currently works as a dancer and performer in different artistic projects.

Andréa Vibert

She studied contemporary dance in Barcelona, at Varium and Freebodies, with choreographers such as Nadine Gerspacher, Jonathan Sanchez, Danae + Dionysos, Marion Castaillet, Nicolas Ricchini, Lali Ayguadé, The Informalls, and Ombline Huvelle, among others. She followed a theatre course at Théâtre Le Hangar in Toulouse to continue her performing arts studies.
Professionally, she works as a dancer, performer and actress in several audiovisual, stage and artistic research projects. She lives between Toulouse and Barcelona. She currently works with the Nadine Gerspacher company, Vero Cendoya and Parapente Collective.

Gemma Pastor

With a degree in Audiovisual Communication, she has developed much of her professional career as an editor and assistant director on TV series, programs and documentaries for the main national broadcasters—working with production companies such as Mediapro, El Terrat, Gestmusic and Lavinia—and streaming platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime.
She combines her audiovisual work with her passion for the performing arts and writing. She is the author of the plays Experimento Milgram, Flamingos Club, Generación Selfie and Igual que un pez necesita una bicicleta, directing the first two as well.
With MARABULA barcelona • berlin she participated in the interactive audiovisual video installation Cámara Oscura and the stage piece Cenital.

Jordi Espinach

Jordi Espinach began composing songs in the late nineties. In the early 2000s, together with Anna Capacés, Toni López and Eduardo Chirinos (Las Ruinas), he formed the band Kitou.
Initially influenced by psychedelic neo-folk movements and Anglo-Saxon music, he started the musical project Liannallull. In parallel, he has composed music for stage works such as Cenital and Inter.Fear, directed by Hansel Nezza.
He has received awards in literary competitions for short stories (2020–2022), and has completed his second novel. In 2022, with Liannallull, he created part of the soundtrack for the film L’Últim Salt by Nando Caballero.
He has released seven LPs with Liannallull, one LP with Las Ruinas and an LP + EP with Llum Pepa & the Beats. He has been a member of various musical projects such as Esperit! and Le Petit Ramon.