Luis Tabuenca

Luis Tabuenca

Composer and percussionist. His music integrates elements from other disciplines, with compositions ranging from opera, installations, sound sculptures, films, ballet, chamber music and solo works.

He studied at the Conservatories of Zaragoza, Barcelona, Amsterdam and the University of California at San Diego with Steven Schick, Philippe Manoury and Mark Dresser, also attending workshops with Tristan Murail, Carola Bauckholt, Rebecca Saunders and Alexander Schubert, among others .

As a leader, he has released seven critically acclaimed recordings that feature his work as a composer and percussionist. He has recorded for Mode Records, Aural Terrains, Diatribe, Verso, Sinkro, Naucleshg and Acheulian Handaxe Records. He is co-founder and Artistic Director of the International Experimental Music Festival (FAT) and he has been Artist in Residence at the New York University, Electroacustic Music Days (Portugal), Canterbury University, and the Phonos Foundation, among others.

Tabuenca has received awards and support for his creative projects from the Fulbright Commission, the Ministry of Culture of Spain, Government of Aragon, Institut Ramon Llull and the ICUB from Barcelona. Tabuenca has given lectures and workshops on composition, percussion and improvisation in numerous universities and cultural institutions, such as Goldsmith University, National University of Colombia, American University in Cairo, Bulgaria National Conservatory and New York University.

More information: http://www.luistabuenca.com/

Manuel Rodríguez, dance

Manuel Rodríguez develops his work through different artistic disciplines and formats
revolving around dance and visual arts. Which means that his work can arise through different practices and dynamics where special attention is paid to what is procedural.

His interest and reflection on the performative act itself, leads him to a continuous exercise of reinvention of the body and space. His practice of it invites contemplation and proposes a
catharsis in the gaze as an essential tool for true and deep understanding of things.

The image becomes conceived and perceived as in a photograph taken by means of the
"overexposure". Physicality is activated in this context, manifesting itself in states of
hypersensitivity and introspective, becoming an aesthetic and conceptual channeling tool.