ANTOLOGIA FANTASMA [GHOST ANTHOLOGY]
A site-specific project

The site-specific project that Societat Doctor Alonso worked on with the pupils generated a re-reading of the shared space and the private space on the part of the pupils, connecting them to their nearest environment (the neighbourhood) and encouraging them to think about such vital ideas as life, death, expectations and adolescence. They did all this through the prism of creativity, their creative comfort zones expanding as they explored their potential in the musical, visual, conceptual and theatre arts under the guidance of teacher Anna Pantinat and tutor Vicenç Santamaria, who also took part in the final performance.

In conclusion, IN RESIDENCY introduced the IES Montjuïc secondary school to artistic practice and made its pupils participants in a process of research and creation, in this case linked to the living arts and contemporary theatre creativity, mentored by Societat Doctor Alonso (Sofia Asencio and Tomàs Aragay).

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The experience in this second edition of the project between the IES Montjuïc secondary school and Societat Doctor Alonso involved working with pupils who live in the neighbourhood, in a site in the neighbourhood, rediscovering the neighbourhood. That is why many of the sessions took place outside the classrooms, and included walks around the local streets, work at El Graner Art Factory and in the classroom (including specific sessions, such as the visit to the National Theatre of Catalonia, where Societat Doctor Alonso presented the theatrical work La naturalesa i el seu tremolor, and attending rehearsals for a new play by Ernesto Collado, watching and taking part). The group did not work with a highly specific language such as choreography, but explored forms of movement, conceptualisation, dramaturgy, site-specific creativity and the hybridisation of languages, exploring the limits of the theatrical language.

The work that Societat Doctor Alonso undertook was to provide the pupils with tools so that they can develop their own judgment and their own artistic criteria and abilities, learning how to build things without imposing, but by listening. The artists themselves say that working outside the theatre space with young people has led them, also, to question the limits regarding who is an artist and who is not. In two-hour sessions, while always remember more holistic aspects, they worked with poetry, music, movement, text and so on, and created a route around the neighbourhood that connects directly, through spoken off, with those who travelled it. A hugely interesting combination of the personal and the communal, especially considering the work that the pupils did in discovering hidden stories about the neighbourhood, reviving familiar memories, and learning to relate to the environment and the landscape from a different perspective.

PRESENTATION WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF FESTA MAJOR LOCAL CELEBRATIONS IN LA MARINA NEIGHBOURHOOD

At 7.30 in the evening on Monday, June 20, as part of the programme for the Festa Major local festivities in La Marina neighbourhood // Site-specific intervention beginning in Plaça de La Marina de Sants

“We walked around the neighbourhood. We surveyed it from a more personal to a more abstract point of view. Finally, we stopped in a street, a street where the living cross paths with the dead. A cul-de-sac in La Marina neighbourhood. In the background, far away, Montjuïc cemetery. On the left is a bar offering set lunches at nine euros. On the right is a guesthouse. Further on is a workshop and at the end is the back door of the Santiveri factory. There is also a little house with a front garden. In the garden are plants and a motorbike. There are a few parked cars. Not much traffic. Not many people.”