A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS

Choreography: Roberto Olivan
Dancers: Sol Vázquez, Spela Vodeb, Matias Marré, Felipe Salazar, Roberto Olivan
Dramaturgy: Roberto Magro
Music: Laurent Delforge
Lighting design: Manu Martínez
Photo by: Jesus Robisco
With the support: Institut Ramon Llull

A Place To Bury Strangers is a return to the starting point, to what is essential. In time of global supersaturation, we all need to return to what we really are and what determines our actions.

The show deals with the turning points in life, which all of us can relate to from our own experience. Inevitable moments in life can be more or less beautiful, but they force us into introspection and realization that it is important to live, but even more important to have hopes and dreams for future.

This show is an amazing journey into fears, anxieties and uncertainties, but also into hopes, dreams and the utopian search for spiritual liberation with which modern man is confronted. It speaks about the difficulties of confronting society, but most of all about finding the place where we belong; there we find our home without a house, we feel rich without money, connected with everything and everyone, and in touch with our true being which leads us towards the happiness we are constantly searching for.

Roberto Olivan studied at the Performing Arts Research and Training Studios (PARTS), and took his first steps as a professional dancer in prestigious Rosas Dance Company directed by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker. Some of the creations of the company in which he participated are: Just before (1997) and World Drumming (1998), I said I and Achertland (1999). Since 2003, he runs his own company, Olivan Enclave Dance Company, with which he has so far created De Farra (2003), Homeland (2006), and Kiosko das Almas Perdidas (2008). Roberto Olivan, who also heads the annual International Contemporary Dance Workshop Deltebre Dansa since 2004, teaches at various schools and centers worldwide and creates for PARTS, Roses and Needcompany, among others.