Aurora Bauzà & Pere Jou
Aurora Bauzà and Pere Jou are composers, creators and performers at the forefront of the performing arts. Their main research revolves around the human voice and its intricate connections with the body, movement, space, stage and light. Their compositions go beyond the traditional boundaries of artistic genres, treating music as a multidimensional entity with physical, scenic, visual, dramaturgical, expressive and poetic qualities.
Bauzà and Jou have presented several stage works in recent years. These explore the human voice and the complexity of identity from diverse perspectives, formats and stage devices, all unified by their commitment to creating dramaturgical narratives through the human voice. Their unique artistic approach involves a physical and movement practice that decomposes the resonant movement of sound (singing) from visual movement, creating a distinctive interaction. The choreography, seen through an acoustic lens, merges fluidly with the musical composition, shaping the essence and dramaturgical structure of their interdisciplinary work.
Born in Mallorca and Barcelona, respectively, Aurora Bauzà and Pere Jou bring an obsessive curiosity to understand contemporary human beings through the mechanisms of meaning creation, especially those involved in the construction of individual and collective identities. Their works, such as “I Am (T)here” or “A BEGINNING_expanded version”, have been highlighted in prestigious events such as the Barcelona Grec Festival, evidencing their commitment to exploring the boundaries between sound, bodies and movement, and inviting the audience to question the limits of perception and identity. Recently, their piece “A BEGINNING #16161D” has been selected for the Twenty24 edition of AEROWAVES.
AWARDS
Critics Award: BEST NATIONAL DANCE SHOW “A Beginning_expanded version”
Valencian Arts Award: BEST MUSICAL COMPOSITION “La mort i la donzella”2020. Critics Award: BEST MUSICAL COMPOSITION “Aquella nit”
PREVIOUS SHOWS:
A BEGINNING #16161D (Premiere at L’Auditori de Barcelona on 11-03-2023)
BEGINNING_expanded version (Premiere at Grec on 8-07-23)
WE ARE (T)HERE (Premiere at TNT Festival on 01-10-21)
I AM (T)HERE (Premiere at l’Eufònic on 29-08-20)
LOBO
Residence March – June – December 2025
LOBO is a stage research project that starts from the composition for 6 voices De lamentatione Ieremiæ Prophetæ by Alonso Lobo (1555-1624). Through the hybridization between choreography, musical composition and light research, LOBO wants to find new tools for contemporary stage creation. By placing otherness at the center of the dramaturgical research, it creates a stage and sensorial framework where the audience projects longings and laments around the relationship between individuals and what constitutes us as a community.
LOBO is a space full of light, where 6 people expose themselves, relate to each other, build and destroy, show themselves and hide themselves. It is an open space where everything is exposed. Without words, without text. Just a song. Just a body. Just a song without text. An ancient song, written in 1602. A song that laments. Bodies that yearn. LOBO is a piece about light, about what we expose in it, but, above all, about what remains unsaid between lamentation and longing.
Artistic details
Creation and direction – Aurora Bauzà and Pere Jou
Performers – 6 performers to be defined
Lighting design – Jou Serra
Choreography – Aurora Bauzà and Pere Jou
Musical composition – Aurora Bauzà and Pere Jou, based on De lamentatione Ieremiæ Prophetæ by Alonso Lobo
Choreographic and dramaturgical collaboration – Alessandro Sciarroni
Costume design – Mariona Signes
Production – Ariadna Miquel
Distribution – Art Republic
