Barcelona Arts Summer School

Alex Tentor is a sound artist specializing in transdisciplinary research through digital technology. His artistic work focuses on exploring information systems as spaces for creative expression, developing new interfaces for interaction between bodies and devices, and maintaining a commitment to accessibility and the ethical, conscious treatment of databases as potential alternative models of organization within data capitalism.

As a performer, he has directed his career toward new music, collaborating closely with prominent European ensembles and composers. He currently combines his artistic activities with teaching at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya.

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Carles Marigó is a pianist, composer, and improviser trained in both Barcelona (ESMUC) and Moscow (Tchaikovsky Conservatory). His work is rooted in the classical tradition but expands into hybrid languages that incorporate popular, contemporary, and experimental elements. Passionate about human connection through art, he sees artistic creation as a collective celebration and a meeting space for people, emotions, and cultures.



He has been an artist-in-residence at centers such as La Pedrera, La Marfà, Fabra i Coats, and ZAMUS in Cologne, where he has developed his own projects and collaborated with creators from various disciplines. He currently works on proposals where improvisation, scenography, the body, and technology engage in dialogue to create participatory artistic contexts — from sound installations to concerts open to audience interaction.



He teaches improvisation at ESMUC and is part of the teaching team for the IEM method (Emilio Molina), from which he promotes a vision of music as a living, collective language. Read more +

Mani Martínez is a Production Designer and Art Director with over 25 years of experience. Educated in Fine Arts in the UK, he has worked across all major areas of production design — from set dressing and props to costume and even directing. This broad background has allowed him to contribute to both independent productions and large-scale international films, developing a deep understanding of workflows and team dynamics within art departments.

Alongside his professional practice, he is also an educator, having led workshops and taught courses on art direction, props, and visual storytelling at institutions such as ESCAC, AFilm, and the now-closed CECC. His current focus merges classical design methodologies with emerging technologies, particularly artificial intelligence applied to visual planning and creative logistics.

He is the founder of Keynema, a software platform that supports departments such as art and costume (among others) in managing complex creative processes. Mani’s work emphasizes clarity in visual development, narrative coherence, and collaborative design thinking.

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She has worked with directors and choreographers such as Adolfo Marsillach, Calixto Bieito, Hansel Cereza, Antonio Simón, Hasko Weber, Ricard Gázquez, Marta Almirall, Marta Carrasco, Malena Espinosa, and Ester Nadal, among others. Her credits include productions such as Bodas de sangre (Grec Festival, Teatro Romea), La vida es sueño (National Classical Theatre Company), Electra (Mérida Festival), Terra Baixa (Teatro Romea), and Sangre de Edipo (Mérida Festival).



She has also created and developed original performances, including the monologues La Candidata (La Cuina, Parliament of Catalonia) and A mi no m’afecta (Sala Muntaner). Holding a PhD in Performing Arts (UAB-Institut del Teatre), her dissertation Fundamentals for an Acting Technique for the Operatic Stage formed the basis for her subsequent publications. She is the author of La interpretación actoral en ópera: Análisis en torno a una especificidad, winner of the International Artez Blai Performing Arts Award (2012), and Stanislavski, Meyerhold, Chaliapin: La interpretación operística (2017), finalist for the Leandro Fernández de Moratín Prize for Theatre Studies (2018).



Specialized in acting training for opera singers, she has directed titles such as La clemenza di Tito (Liceu Auditorium), L'Orfeu (Terrassa Auditorium), Le nozze di Figaro (Teatre la Amistat, Premià de Mar), La voix humaine (No Chal People Company, Sala Musitekton), and original productions including O pazzo desire! @sketxoslíricos (Teatre Eòlia), Ópera y erótica (Reial Cercle Artístic de Barcelona, Palau Dalmasses), and La danza de Céfalo y Procris (Almagro International Classical Theatre Festival). Read more +

Multidisciplinary artist (performance, sound art, visual arts). He is the author of various stage creations and installations, blending diverse languages in his scenographic work. In the field of education, he is a professor in the Department of Dramaturgy, Staging, and Choreography at the Institut del Teatre.



He is currently a PhD candidate in Theatre Studies at the UAB, holds a cum laude degree in Theatre Studies from the Università degli Studi di Bologna, and a Master's degree in Theory and Practice of Dramaturgy from Barcelona (UAB – Institut del Teatre – Pompeu Fabra University). Read more +

Filmmaker, artist, and anthropologist dedicated to film creation and teaching. Her work embraces both the material and immaterial aspects of cinema, engaging with the medium in a reflective, intuitive, and responsible way. She navigates between photochemical analog formats and video, presenting her work as single-channel projections, film performances, or installations. Her practice is driven by an interest in the intersection of poetics and politics, and in cinema’s potential to channel and transform states of consciousness—tools for the times we live in and those to come.



She holds a PhD and Master’s degree in Anthropology and collaborates with national and international universities, film institutions, and art organizations. She teaches courses on experimental and non-fiction cinema, diverse approaches to anthropology and ethnographic methodologies for the arts, as well as experimental practices in photochemical lab work. In Spain, she collaborates with ESCAC, BAU, XCÈNTRIC, EQZE, UB, Conde Duque, UNED, UOC, Hangar, CSIC, among others. Over the past decade, she has focused on developing and sharing DIY processes for analog filmmaking through the creation of various collective lab projects.



She is currently working on her second feature film and on the design and founding of La Numinosa, a cultural platform focused on developing social and environmental awareness through the arts.



Her work has been screened at numerous film festivals and art spaces around the world, including IFFR Rotterdam Film Festival, Oberhausen IFF, Edinburgh International Film Festival, International Video Art Festival LOOP, Museo de Bellas Artes Caracas, Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, FID Marseille, Margaret Mead Film Festival, Microscope Gallery NY, Crossroads SF MoMA, among others. Read more +

A creative consultant and producer of exuberant live spectacles, specialising in immersive production at where art and technology meet.

Ulla has tight knit collaborations with many creative and innovation directors next to comprehensive technical talent. Specialised in multi-disciplinary production and large scale installations, audacious live shows, real-time experiences and technical innovation - projects frequently use pioneering technologies or build-from-scratch prototypes - before propelling them into high-pressure live environments.

Projects include Grammys performances with Lady Gaga, the NBA, Nike, Massive Attack...

Ulla´s network of highly skilled and versatile specialists and technologies allow projects to be deployed fast, reliably and internationally.

Successful productions see through the creative idea from a concise project scoping to its live implementation. Ulla has a track record of safely balancing high-risk projects and delivering them in profit, whilst pushing the boundaries of innovation and creativity for exceptional results. Read more +

Multidisciplinary artist specialized in stage design, audiovisual installations, and multimedia projects. He studied graphic and industrial design at the Escola d’Art i Superior de Disseny de València (EASD), and pursued complementary training including a workshop on public action and intervention led by Bartolomé Ferrando at the Faculty of Fine Arts (BBVA) of Valencia; an interactive scenography workshop and a mapping workshop with Telenoika (Barcelona); and a Processing course for artists at Hangar (Barcelona).



In the field of performing arts, he has collaborated with playwrights and stage directors such as Guillem Clua, Marc Chornet, Jordi Prat i Coll, Pau Miró, Oriol Broggi, Toni Casares, Magda Puyo, and Farres Brothers. His audiovisual creations and stage designs have been produced and performed in venues including the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya, Teatre Lliure, Sala Beckett, Teatre Akademia, and Sala Muntaner, among others.



His current work explores new ways of conveying ideas and staging through the ongoing advancement of technology applied to the performing arts, always seeking a balance between technique, artwork, and concept. Over the course of his artistic career, he has also created video works and contributed to motion graphics, video installations, live visuals, music videos, video performances, and scenic environments for shows and exhibitions. He has exhibited and collaborated with other artists in museums, festivals, and art galleries such as IVAM (Valencia), MACBA (Barcelona), MACE (Eivissa), ARCO (Madrid), MMB (Barcelona), Observatori (Valencia), LEM (Barcelona), and Intramurs (Valencia).



He currently teaches at the Institut del Teatre as a professor of technology applied to performance for students in directing, stage design, and dance, as well as at CIFO Hospitalet in the MAVAE course. Read more +

Tatiana Halbach (Barcelona) and Søren Christensen (Denmark) are the creative force behind Desilence, a visual art studio founded in 2005. Their work transforms spaces, emotions, and ideas into immersive visual experiences across formats like live shows, visual scenography, dance, and innovative installations. Blending painting, technology, and sensory storytelling, each project is a deep exploration of visual language. More than creating images, Desilence awakens hidden visual worlds — “desilencing” what was waiting to be felt — and turns each piece into a transformative journey. Read more +

Antigua & Barbuda was founded in 2002 by Jordà Ferré with the aim of developing projects born from his experience across the various disciplines that have shaped his professional career, particularly within the fields of visual and performing arts, and especially in theatre.



Antigua & Barbuda thus emerged with a distinctly interdisciplinary nature, spanning from research to invention, from manipulation to construction, and from creation to staging. It brings to life an illusory world centered around machines understood as peculiar, absurd, and surreal artifacts.



A commitment to innovation and ongoing collaboration with professionals from diverse disciplines and companies—such as Royal de Luxe, Comediants, La Fura dels Baus, Colombaioni, Malpelo, Sol Picó, Metros, Zotal Teatre, Philippe Genty, Marduix, Escarlata Circus, La Machine, Carles Santos, Sergi López, Simona Levi, Los Galindos, and Teatre Lliure—has provided a unique opportunity for sharing knowledge, ideas, and projects, often resulting in original and surprising productions.



As a result of these collaborations, Antigua & Barbuda co-produced the permanent show El Gegant dels 7 Mars for the 2004 Universal Forum of Cultures with Escarlata Circus and La Machine. That same year, Jordà Ferré created Los Deméndez with Kike Salgado, bringing to life the daring and classic circus act El Hombre Bala (The Human Cannonball), which accompanied Sol Picó's dance show La Diva.



In 2006, Olatz de Andrés and Jordà Ferré founded Cia. Muda, opening new horizons in contemporary dance with pieces like Yo soy una cosa que dura and Zootropo—the latter co-produced by La Marató de l’Espectacle, where it premiered. Yo soy una cosa que dura was selected for the Young Creators Showcase in the Basque Country and went on to be presented across its three provinces.



The construction of the Catalonia National Awards trophies for the 2005–2006 editions exemplifies the aesthetic principles of Jordà Ferré’s creations, where beauty and mechanism hold equal weight. His approach is to reinvent what has already been invented—working with recycled materials to alter and breathe new life into them, sometimes granting them new functions.



In 2009, Oscar De Paz joined the company, contributing his expertise and further enriching the collective’s creative journey. Read more +