As everyone knows, a caprice is something whimsical, over the top or unpredictable.
The project Capricis (Caprices) is based on Paganini’s 24 Capricci, short pieces for violin that demand great technical virtuosity and suggest a vast array of different emotions. Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840) was a unique performer and composer, with extraordinary technique and a great power to move those who heard him.
Capricis is an entertainment with a strong element of playfulness. The dance takes the musical structure of the 24 Capricci as its script, reinterpreting and building on this with the idea of making it visible, sculpting it with bodies or drawing it in the space. Above and beyond the virtuosity of the music, the structure of the twenty-four studies offers a unique dramatic proposal in which the performers, each in their individual way, embody the piece.
A caprice of caprices.
Capricis, premiered at Grec 2013, is a modular, flexible piece that can be created or recreated for specific circumstances, turning each new performance into a caprice.
Butaca de Dansa Award 2014
| Direction and choreography | Àngels Margarit |
| Creation and performance | Eneko Alcaraz, Fàtima Campos, Joan Català, Mireia de Querol i Duran, Joan Palau,Miquel Fiol, Raquel Gualtero, Roser López Espinosa, Isabel López Pérez, Manel Salas Palau, Dory Sánchez and Lourdes Solà |
| Music | 24 Capricci by Niccolò Paganini |
| Special guest appearance by the violinist | Kai Gleusteen |
| Lighting and stage design | Cube.bz |
| Costumes | Ariadna Papió |
| Costumes assistant | Carla Guillen |
| Assistants to choreographer | Lara Navarro (student in training, Institut del Teatre) and Vera Bilbija |
| Voice work | Celeste Alías |
| Sound technician | Marc Ases |
| Video documentation | Núria Font |
| Photografphy | Ros Ribas and Marga Parés |
| Production | Marine Budine / Elclimamola |
| Difusió | Iva Horvat – Agent 129 |
| Production and communication assistant | Laura Matías |
| Accounts | Begonya Companyon |
| Administration and coordination | Montserrat Llabrés_Tones |
Capricis is a production by Àngels Margarit / cia Mudances,
co-produced by Grec 2013 Festival de Barcelona,
in collaboration with Can Gassol – Centre de creació d’arts escèniques and Teatre Monumental de Mataró, and Graner Centre de Creació-Mercat de les Flors de Barcelona.
Place and date of the premiere
Grec 2013 Festival de Barcelona
Mercat de les Flors
11, 12 and 13 July 2013
Capricis
Capricis SITE – Festival Dantza Hirian – Hondarribia (Euskal Herria) Septiembre 2016
Capricis SITE – Sismògraf – Olot (Catalunya) Abril 2015
Capricis SITE – MACBA es viu – Barcelona Enero 2014
Capricis SITE
Premiered at the Festival Internacional Grec 2013, Capricis is an entertainment with a strong element of playfulness, based on Paganini’s 24 Capricci, short pieces for violin. The dance takes the musical structure of the 24 Capricci as its script, reinterpreting and building on this with the idea of making it visible, sculpting it with bodies or drawing it in the space.
MACBA’s architecture offers great espaces to perform such a modular, flexible piece that can be created or recreated for specific circumstances, turning each new performance into a caprice.
Direction and choreography: Àngels Margarit
Music: 24 Capricci, de Niccolò Paganini
Created and performed by: Eneko Alcaraz, Fàtima Campos, Joan Català, Mireia de Querol i Duran, Miquel Fiol, Isabel López Pérez, Dory Sánchez
Costumes: Ariadna Papió
Sound Thecnician: Marc Ases
MACBA es viu – Barcelona January 2014