c.in.e. RESIDENCIES 2025

TEATRE PRINCIPAL DE PALMA RESIDENCIES PROGRAMME

La Lioparda Teatre 

Ceci n’est pas une poupée by La Lioparda Teatre is a hybrid exploration that combines movement, manipulation of hyperrealistic artifacts and sound art to question the border between body and artifice. The artificiality of the trans body becomes the center of this stage research, where the prosthesis is not just an object, but another body in motion, dissolving the limits between living beings and matter.

Albert Herranz

The project Un mar en col·lisió starts from the Mediterranean as a symbol of beauty and collapse, to denounce the ecological crisis that threatens its ecosystems. Through an immersive visual and sound proposal, it combines conceptual art, ecocriticism, and digital technology to create an interactive space that invites us to reflect on environmental destruction and our collective responsibility.

Inés Sarmiento

The HEREVA show by the Inés Sarmiento company is a stage piece that is built on the metaphor in which woman and land are one body. This choreographic proposal draws a bridge between the rural landscape of Ibiza and the feminine legacy of our ancestors, exploring the body as a territory of living memory that preserves the traces of habits, customs, celebrations, and conflicts transmitted from generation to generation.

Lluki Portas & Joan Tomàs Martínez

The Mudanzas Portas project by Lluki Portas and Joan Tomàs Martínez is presented as a performative piece that starts from a family removals company located in Mallorca. The proposal uses real materials and objects to build a narrative about displacement, the symbolic charge of objects, and the construction of family memory. With a dramaturgy that combines physical action and documentary, the show explores how the domestic archive can become a stage tool. The staging raises questions about forgetting, movement, and the value of material memories.

Cia. Moviments

Sembrart is a project that explores hand-to-hand and clown techniques to talk about the art of sowing from the perspective of a clown. The creative process focuses on developing a playful show that invites reflection on the need to care for the planet through the laughter and poetry that a duo of clowns can unleash. The ultimate goal of Sembrart is to plant a seed in each place where a function is held so that a plant or a tree can grow there.

TEATRE PRINCIPAL DE PALMA + island connect RESIDENCIES PROGRAMME

Hermanas Picohueso

An astronaut —or perhaps a cosmonaut— crosses celestial space. The audience is invited to explore the sky of today, very little by little. We do not know who she is, nor where she comes from, nor where she is going. She simply floats… observing in horror the sky where, finally, she has arrived. This is the premise of the show Skai is ful by the Hermanas Picohueso company. Residency within the Teatre Principal de Palma program and the Island Connect project, co-financed by the European Union. With the collaboration of the Institut Ramon Llull.

Cecilia Molano

The project by the artist Cecilia Molano shares a possible journey through cinematography in relation to the text, to the word. Sobre el terreno is a research on the cinematic narrative that starts from a fiction narrated in parallel to the image. This fiction is not dramatized or acted, but rather constructs a story that –explicitly, through the device of the text– comes into contact with and modifies the perception of what we see. Thus, what we see is included in the story. Either as a scenario, or as a fantasy or abstraction.

Mar Grimalt

El cant de les dones d'aigua is the project of the Felanitx artist Mar Grimalt that was chosen within the Islander Focus program of Island Connect, which focuses on research on insularity as a creative phenomenon. Combining music and sound with a scenic facet, Mar Grimalt's creative process has three phases this 2025: first, the residency in Vis; second, a residency in the Norwegian islands of Lofoten (which has received the support of the Institut Ramon Llull), and a third residency at the C.IN.E.

TEATRE PRINCIPAL DE PALMA + FESTIVAL Z RESIDENCIES PROGRAMME

Oda als cinc

Morí de gust addresses the theme of incommunication and connection with others, based on different artistic expressions. This research by the young artist Tòfol Cladera presents a restaurant full of absurdities and masks, where the senses, the arts, the body, and pleasure are intertwined. This residency is part of the C.IN.E. exchange program with the Festival Z in Girona, a live arts exhibition of shows created by and for young people.

TEATRE PRINCIPAL DE PALMA + el canal RESIDENCIES PROGRAMME

Maria Antònia Roig

Cordada is a contemporary circus project by the artist Maria Antònia Roig, selected in the joint call promoted by the C.IN.E., within the framework of the residency program of the Teatre Principal de Palma and El Canal – Centre d'Arts Escèniques de Salt. With Cordada, Maria Antònia Roig delves into a scenic research based on the acrobatic gesture, the balance, and the physicality of the body, exploring the symbolic dimension of the connection and the bond, both with oneself and with the environment.

TEATRE PRINCIPAL DE PALMA + united cowboys RESIDENCIES PROGRAMME

Cia. Fiblada

BETADINE JOHN, BETADINE is a proposal for contemporary stage creation that investigates the wound as an expanded concept: bodily, emotional, territorial, and digital. Through a hybrid dramaturgy that combines dance, text, performative action, and visual archive, the piece delves into the imaginaries surrounding pain, healing, and the scar as metaphors of resistance and transformation.

international residencies programme

Anthony Van Gog (Belgium/Netherlands)

With Clarice Lispector's La pasión según G.H. as a source of inspiration, Anthony Van Gog's show The quiet explores the extremes of what silence is and how it is experienced. The artist investigates the performative interaction of the physical limits of the body, the spatial configuration of sound, and the architectural design of light. The language of body movement, voice and breathing participate, becoming part of the sound composition.

Silvia Bandini company (Italy)

Mal de Roca is a piece by Silvia Bandini, whose creation is part of the Island Connect program, co-financed by the European Union. The project explores movement and insularity as forms of bodily and emotional archiving. Accompanied by visual artist Ilaria Melis, this journey between body and stroke starts from the island of Sant'Antioco to build a shared narrative between dance and painting. Stone, territory and memory become the axis of creation.

Tianjun Li (Finland)

Tianjun Li (Timjune), originally from Finland, is one of the artists selected to participate in the Island Connect 2025 program, co-financed by the European Union. His project Free as Birds is a sound, visual, and poetic journey that explores the symbolism of birds as a metaphor for freedom, from ecological collapse and human displacement.

Guro Rokstad Clausen (Norway)

Guro Rokstad Clausen is a young Norwegian actress and creator who is part of the Island Connect 2025 project, co-financed by the European Union. Through interviews with the local community, Guro explores different ways in which grief manifests itself and the process that people experience to overcome it. What remains investigates the healing process of some losses or traumas, and the connection that is established with nature.

Nikolina Komljenović & Emma Lohan (Croatia/Ireland)

YOLO / I DO IT is a participatory project that engages with the critique of mass tourism through interaction with the local community. The project’s promoters, Emma Lohan (Ireland), a sound artist who creates immersive compositions for site-specific performances, and Nikolina Komljenović (Croatia), an aerialist and dancer who has created her own aerial apparatus from fishing line and also participatory performances, have designed a framework in which visitors, through games, adopt different roles in society and create the community in which they want to live.

Island Connect Co-creation Residency

A co-creation residency project, within the framework of the Island Connect program, of seven artists from the seven islands participating in the Island Connect project: Camilla Sidu (Bornholm), Pauline Guillier (Corsica), Sara Granda (Ireland), Pau Pascual (Mallorca), Aldo Scarpitta (Sardinia), Marta Arteaga (Tenerife) and Antonia Cvitan Vuletić (Vis). Accompanied by the gaze of Biel Jordà and Roberto Magro, this research reflects on the interconnection of elements and the fragility of balances: how a small change can alter everything.

Other residencies 

Carns Soltes (Catalonia)

Solo vine a ver el jardín is a visual-sound installation that presents an apparently uninhabited garden. Through an immersive and interactive device, the installation explores how we relate to memory and the footprint we leave in the world when we are crossed by desire, pain, comfort and discomfort, and presents the need and desire to build new utopias, generating ephemeral and spectral spaces that unite past, present and future. This residency is part of the C.IN.E. exchange program with the Festival Z in Girona.