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From the depths of our imagination, a forest appears, inhabited by plants, human beings and their fantasies. In this millenary forest, the space is shared with the wind. This place full of tales and fables evokes a reality close to a vivid dream. What is shown is a testimony of the desire to live and to dance. Differentness is based on the show Happy Island, choreography by La Ribot with company Dançando com a Diferença. Creation September 2018 at Grütli – Centre de production et de diffusion des Arts vivants, in the framework of La Bâtie-festival de Genève.

Born in Madrid, La Ribot is based in Geneva and works internationally. « La Ribot is a choreographer, dancer, and visual artist. She began working in the 1980s, towards the end of Spain’s transition to democracy, and has gone on to profoundly change the field of contemporary dance. She defies the frameworks and formats of the stage and the museum, borrowing freely from the vocabularies of theatre, visual art, performance, film and video to instigate a conceptual shift in choreography. Her solo works, collective explorations, experiments with amateurs, installations and moving images are the many facets of a protean practice that constantly focuses on the rights of the body. » — Marcella Lista, writer and chief curator of the New Media Collection, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2020) La Ribot’s choreographic and visual work has won numerous awards, including the Golden Lion for her entire career at the Venice Dance Biennale in 2020, the Grand Prix Suisse de danse awarded by the Federal Office of Culture in 2019, the Premio en Artes Plásticas de la Comunidad de Madrid (Spain) in 2018, the Medalla de Oro al Merito en las Bellas Arte in Spain in 2015, and the Premio Nacional de Danza awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Culture in 2000. Her choreographic work has been shown at the Tate Modern (London), Théâtre de la Ville and Centre Pompidou (Paris), Reina Sofia Museum (Madrid), Festival d’Automne in Paris, the Aïchi Triennale (Nagoya, Japan), Museu Serralves (Porto), Art Unlimited - Art Basel, S.M.A.K. (Ghent) and MUAC (Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico DF), among others. Her visual work is part of the private and public collections of the Reina Sofia Museum (Madrid), Centre Pompidou (Paris), CNAP - Centre national des arts plastiques (Paris), MUSAC (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León), Artium (Centro - Museo vasco de arte contemporáneo), the FRAC Lorraine and Franche-Comté, FMAC - Collection d’art contemporain de la Ville de Genève...