/LA XIXA LAB/
Theatrical and Social Experimentation Space
The Company
The pandemic crisis led us to create La Xixa Lab as a response to the challenges posed by the lockdown and the growing presence of technology and virtuality in our daily lives. This space for theatrical experimentation brings together professionals in theater, music, and performing arts to improve and reimagine the tools we had used until then, dignifying and professionalizing the work of artists.
We keep asking ourselves how to advance the aesthetics of social theater as a provocative tool for change and revolution. By incorporating digital tools, social networks, and artificial intelligence, we are conceptualizing the theater of the future, suited to the speed and virtuality of our era.
We are constantly in search and evolution, remaining open to the new opportunities that destiny has in store for us.
The Xixa Lab is inspired by new social, community and individual paradigms. The changes are becoming faster and more abrupt and they impact people's lives as they influence the performing arts scene.
The Xixa Lab embraces a regenerative approach, a desire to face new challenges.
We foster a space for artists from diverse backgrounds that collaborate to explore, create, experiment and understand the historical moment we live in. Intersectionality, feminisms, climate change, new historical paradigms and deep democracy are the enigmas that the immediate future raises and La Xixa Lab is devoted to contribute its perspective to the new poetics of the millennium.
Our goal as a company is to be a Theatrical Laboratory of Scenic Investigation where experimentation, research and innovation make it possible to open paths to approach the public and celebrate collaborative methodologies that break with the unidirectional positioning of the most conventional theater. Therefore, it is essential, in our creative process, to investigate how to set up common spaces to incorporate our own experiences as well as the experiences of the audience/actor and enrich our pieces with the echoes left by each open rehearsal and each performance.
Catalog
Forum theatre
Andrea and Jenny have been flatmates for three years. They have been both out of work for a while, with no other roommate and their landlord is threatening them with kicking them out because they don't pay the rent. They need a roommate urgently. Soni is a Moroccan guy looking for a room near his job. He can afford a room, but it is not easy for him to get it. The candidate arouses prejudices and stereotypes. How to challenge them?
Racism - Islamophobia - Classism
Forum Theatre
"A gender matter" takes place during the job interview for a waiter/waitress at the restaurant "La Nébula".
The last two finalists, Monica and Robert, with very good references and professional experiences, will have to demonstrate their best skills to the interviewer to finally be the chosen one. However, it seems that the latter shares neither impressions nor opinions with Clarisa, the owner.
Gender - Classism - Racism
La Xixa presents a Forum Theatre piece to encourage dialogue and debate about aging and the rights of older people, where the audience stops being mere spectators and helps the protagonists of the play find new ways to respond to the situations presented.
Many times in our daily lives, situations that should be questioned become normalized; therefore, through the participatory Forum Theatre piece, reflection on these experiences is promoted. Teresa, Carmen, and Pau are three siblings leading very intense lives. Montse, their mother, always supports them in everything... but today she has called them to her home to inform them of her decision to go on a trip, and what else will happen...?
Forum theatre
Two Muslim women move into the Nueva Esperanza Community. Montse, recently in charge of presiding over the organization of neighbours, convokes them urgently to a meeting, since the community will receive the visit of the Councillor and everything must be in order. Montse is very worried about the new tenants and has clear intentions of expelling them from the building.
What will the other residents do? What to do in situations like these?
Gender Islamophobia
#THENEWONE
Forum theatre
A young newcomer living in a temporary apartment signs up for a coed Basketball team. He is the new one. There he meets Laura. Everything goes well and the relationship progresses but this is not so easy. What will her mother say? And her friends? Will anyone help them?...
Migration - Racism - Youth
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