We close the Phonos 2021-2022 season with a very special event: the presentation of Una Cosa Rotta project, with music by Demian Luna and movement / dance by Moreno Bernardi. The musical program will consist of 3 pieces by Luna, El elogio de la sombra, Memorias del Abismo V, and a premiere for ensemble and live electronics, Nostalgia del absoluto. The musical performance will be given by the Barcelona Modern Ensemble, with Ángel Faraldo on electronics.

Dance-coreography | Moreno Bernardi
Music | Demian Luna
Costume | Josep Abril

Musicians | Barcelona Modern Ensemble
Clara Saleiro – flute
Xavier Castillo – clarinet
Nacho Gascón – saxophone
Léo Belthoise – violin
Carmen Kleykens – violoncello
David Casanova – piano
Ismael Azidane – percussión
Xavier Pagès-Corella – musical director
Ángel Faraldo – electronics
Demian Luna – artistic direction

a project by | Lo Spazio, Barcelona Modern Ensemble and MEp
in collaboration with | Phonos
and the kind support from | Nando and Elsa Peretti Foundation, ICEC

Moreno Bernardi is a choreographer and dancer: after training with Carolyn Carlson, Herns Duplan, Dieter Heitkemp, Antonella Bertoni and Michele Abbondanza he developed an original dance, in technique and composition, which combines the knowledge of dance techniques, biomechanics , from "primitive expression" and studies in solfege and music theory. He is a director and actor: after graduating from "La Scuola di Teatre Alessandra Galant Garrone" (Bologna) and specializing in theatrical biomechanics and mask techniques with the master Nikolaj Karpov of GITIS in Moscow, in addition to the intense training experiences with Judith Malina (the Living Theater), developed an idea and a theater practice where acting techniques are the only vehicle of stage expression; he is researcher with the support of the academic coordination of the Institut del Teatre of the Diputació de Barcelona. He studied music (solfege and theory) and classical guitar at the "Centro Chitarristico Pretelli- * Corradi" (Verona) and specialized with Polish master Lucyan Wesolowski. Since 1992 he has been a freelance artist (choreographer, director, performer, pedagogue) and has signed more than 60 stage plays, including dance, theater and dramaturgy, with an uninterrupted involvement in training, dissemination and artistic research since 1997.

Argentinian composer, born in Córdoba on January 22, 1975, Demian Luna studied musical composition and piano at the "School of Arts" of the "National University of Córdoba", Argentina. In 2002 he traveled to Barcelona (Spain) to study " Perfeccionamiento y especialización musical en Composición e Instrumentación" at the "Conservatorio Superior de Música del Liceu", being a student of the Spanish composer Benet Casablancas. He later expanded his training in composition at the CRR 93 in Aubervilliers-Paris, with Martin Matalon. Since 2013 he has been artistic director of the Barcelona Modern Ensemble and director of the International Composition Course and the Barcelona Modern Festival. Since 2016 he has been a professor of Composition, Instrumentation and Analysis at the Conservatorio Superior de Música del Liceu.

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