The Big Bouncers Collective is made up of Anna Rubirola, Cecilia Colacrai and Mireia de Querol.
All three are independent creators based in Barcelona. They have extensive experience as solo creators and in collaboration with other artists, as well as in dance teaching.
The collective received the Critics’ Award for Performing Arts (Catalonia) for the piece PLATA, best street arts show 2024. In 2018, they were nominated for the Critics’ Awards for Performing Arts (Catalonia) with the piece O.V.N.I. as best national dance show. Sebastià Gasch Award, Applause for Emerging Creation, FAD 2015, for the piece BIG BOUNCE.
In 2019, the Mercat de les Flors (Barcelona) invited Big Bouncers to present several of their own pieces and those of artists linked to the collective as part of a Constellation within its programme.
They began working together in May 2012, sharing their concerns and developing a common practice, with the aim of researching and exploring new theatrical languages and generating their own working methodology. From the outset, the collective’s work has been developed and articulated around three areas of action: the creation of stage pieces, the creation of performances for unconventional ‘site-specific’ spaces, and pedagogy.
The collective’s interest and inspiration lies in the body and its possibilities, although it allows itself to go beyond the limits of dance in order to understand and treat each element involved in the performance (set design, lighting, sound, objects, words, etc.) with the same parameters. Big Bouncers generates a specific practice that allows it to discover the appropriate physical language for each proposal.
Its stage pieces aim to invite without imposing, to suggest without limiting the viewer’s imagination. To date, it has premiered the following pieces: PLATA (2023), Si estiguéssims soles a l’Univers, seria una gran pèrdua d’espai (2019), Acte Reflex (2018), Jungla (2018), O.V.N.I (2017), I see a spider on the wall (2014), Doppelgänger (2014), Big Bounce Site Specific (2013) and Big Bounce (2013).
Over the years, the collective has presented its pieces in different venues and festivals such as: Teatre Mercat dels Flors, Festival Salmon, El Més Petit de Tots Festival, Fira de Tàrrega, CCCB, Fundació La Pedrera, MACBA, Museu de la Ciència de Terrassa, Festival Sismògraf, Teatre Principal de Mallorca, Convent dels Arts d’Alcover, Antic Teatre, Festival Grec, La Caldera, El Graner, Fundación Baluarte, Festival Dansa Metropolitana, among others.
Other activities in which the Collective has participated in recent years:
Educational project for teachers and nursery schools organised by GRANER 2019-2020. First Day of Reflection on Drivers of Creation 2019, organised by the APDC at the CCCB (Barcelona); Project In Residence 2018, carried out at the Moisès Broggi Secondary School and promoted by the Barcelona Institute of Culture (ICUB) and the Barcelona Education Consortium (CEB); They perform the piece Big Bounce in the Repertoire II course at the CSD Institut del Teatre in Barcelona 2019; They offer workshops on creative tools and family dance workshops in different venues in the city of Barcelona and its surroundings.