Halfway between lecture performance and dance, Núria Guiu elaborates a speech about the social value of a ‘like’ in nowadays digital societies. With a clever view, sense of humor and a trained body, Guiu sets out two widespread trends in social networks: the cover dance and the yoga videos. Through these practices, she moves from pop to sacred and, through movement, she creates an image of the body in the digital era.

Kanana is a Sotho word referred to a promised land that has never existed: what was bound to be a free and prosperous space is, in fact, a land full of greed and corruption. In Via Kanana, however, the dream of a better world overtakes that of the nightmare. The world has changed from what we imagined, we are all victims, overwhelmed by fear, says Gregory Maqoma, one of the creators of the show. The work hides the dark cloud and brings us light and hope, and it rebels against the fear of living. It's a cry to life.

Things seem to be existing just by themselves; then they are named. Before the words, we perceive the light, the sound, the matter, the body. But these experiences only get registered in our memory and a meaning when we assign them a name in the volatile world of our own perception. This is the starting point for Nom, a performance created by the collaboration between the choreographer Cesc Gelabert, the composer Borja Ramos, the Lighting designer Conchita Pons and the costume designer, Lydia Azzopardi.

After El dia de la bèstia, Aina Alegre buries herself once again into the universe of festivities and rituals to explore the concept of self-celebration and the various ways in which human beings  are celebrated. LA NUIT, NOS AUTRES is a gestural and plastic experience around the many identities that coexist within each person. Alegre resorts to the self-portrait to represent this individual, intimate and liberating celebration: the transfiguration and transformation of the body to adapt to each of the different presences that inhabit it.

Dansa Metropolitana invites the boys and girls from different years in state primary schools in Badalona and L’Hospitalet to dance. Under the guidance of music and physical education teachers, and with the coordination of the live dance and music teachers of the Escola Municipal de Música - Centre de les Arts (EMMCA), in L’Hospitalet, and of the Escola de Música Moderna de Badalona (EMMB), in Badalona, the pupils will move to the rhythm of jazz, pop or traditional songs.

SIN-CON-TACTO speaks of people’s need to be in contact with others and, at the same time, with themselves. Of the need for solitude and company, for hope and uncertainty. Of how the different senses help us to establish relationships, to belong to a group or to strengthen the bonds with a partner. Of a diverse world where anything can happen.

Artists and audience establish a dialogue and collaborate in the creation of a unique, unrepeatable proposal, a small piece of ephemeral art based on flamenco. Cronexiones is an exercise in improvisation, but also a reflection on art. A commitment to creative freedom, to the search for new mental and performing spaces and to the feelings that arise in each new session.

Everyone has the basic need to love and be loved. People with functional diversity too. The satisfaction of this need means increased self-esteem and acceptance of their body as it is. Sin vergüenzas (Unashamed) speaks about this acceptance, which leads us to show our body naturally, without fear or shame, and of the visibilization of non-normative bodies and gender roles, rejected for being outside the canons of beauty and normativity imposed by society.

Dansa Metropolitana hosts a new edition of Barris en Dansa (Dancing Neighbourhoods), a project by the choreographer Álvaro de la Peña that invites the citizens to be part of a collective creation. The show, which will have been created in different places in Barcelona and L'Hospitalet, will be presented to the public in Plaça dels Àngels in Barcelona.

Balla’m un llibre is a journey to rediscover books beyond their usual use, a participatory show for everyone that looks at dance by making a book dance, making it our dancing partner and transforming it into a thousand objects or ideas. A choreographic look, too, at the act of reading, at the different positions of the body and ways of walking and moving when he are engrossed in reading a book.