En esta sala hay magia
En esta sala hay magia is a project born from the epilogue of the opera "La flauta mágica", which investigates the mechanisms of the operatic genre by examining them through an experimental artistic perspective. This investigation focuses on questions that challenge the dramaturgy of this genre and its components: the dramatic nature of the action, the interludes, the exchanges that sustain the scenes, the figuration, the movements that occur within view of the audience, stage design, lighting, props, special effects, artist entrance cues, etc. All this analyzed material is taken as a source for choreographic material. The symbolism inherent in this polysemic allegory that is "La flauta mágica"—madness, sexuality, and carnality—is revisited from a contemporary perspective, thus updating this European sonic heritage piece.
Noela Covelo & Élise Moreau
Noela Covelo Velasco (Pontevedra, 1994) graduated in Design, specializing in Fashion from ESDi and completed a Master's in Sound Art at the Universitat de Barcelona. Her artistic practice focuses on the voice as material, medium, and sonic space, increasingly approaching choral composition.
Her multidisciplinary artistic work was awarded by Novos Valores in 2018, and was exhibited individually at Bombon Projects and the Museo de Tortosa in 2022. Some of her performative projects were showcased at the Nyam Nyam space in Mieres, and at the Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid in 2023. She has collaborated with artists such as Maguette Dieng, Mookie, Quim Pujol, Víctor Ruiz Colomer, Júlia Rúbies, and Arash Fayez.
She is a co-founder of the pedagogical experimentation environment c h o r o, Foc, and a member of the study group Cascades y Escuela de Voz, La Capella. Since 2022, she has been part of the working group at Radio Web MACBA.
Élise Moreau (Avignon, France, 1992) is a dancer, choreographer, and pedagogue. She has worked as a performer for creators such as Romeo Castellucci, Dominique Boivin, and Jaco Van Dormael.
Upon her arrival in Barcelona in 2017, she co-founded the collective Iniciativa Sexual Femenina, with which she develops performative and pedagogical works from a libertarian, anti-academic, and feminist perspective. Since 2018, she has been part of Makrâl, a Franco-Belgian multidisciplinary collective that seeks in situ forms to activate collective memory in rural areas. In 2023, she began “Sensibilidad artificial”, an individual project supported by La Caldera, La Visiva, and La Poderosa (Barcelona).