Projections "Double Takes: Danses interdites"

Film Program by Le Nouveau Printemps x Loop Barcelona x KADIST

Le Nouveau Printemps, Loop Barcelona and KADIST are pleased to announce a new collaboration bringing together moving images, sound and embodied histories through a shared programme of films drawn from the KADIST collection.

The programme is part of the 2026 edition of Le Nouveau Printemps, conceived by Rossy de Palma, which explores the theme of forbidden dances — dance forms that have been suppressed, censored or outlawed across different contexts, whether for religious, political, moral, or colonial reasons, and that persist as gestures of resistance, desire, trance, celebration and collective memory. The programme creates a dialogue between the festival’s theme and the conceptual framework of Loop Barcelona 2026. Entitled Xiu Xiu (Whispers) : "Artists’ Cinema and Barcelona’s Shared Spaces", the theme explores how movement circulates through spaces that host multiple forms of life.

Across these works, dance appears as a whispered language: a choreography of survival, an underground transmission of culture, a ritual gesture that refuses disappearance. The selection of works presented considers the body as a living, ever-changing archive, and dance as a form of knowledge that is transmitted through rhythm, voice, breath, and the shared spaces—urban, rural, spiritual, and digital—that frame our gestures. 

The programme, curated by Filipa Ramos, will be presented during the opening weekend of Le Nouveau Printemps in May 2026, before travelling to Barcelona as part of Loop Festival in November 2026, where it will resonate within the city’s broader landscape of artists’ cinema. 

Together, Le Nouveau Printemps, Loop Barcelona and KADIST propose a translocal encounter between film, sound and forbidden movement—foregrounding dance not only as performance, but as a site of transmission, transformation and collective whispering across time and places.

The artists presented at Nouveau Printemps with Loop Barcelona and KADIST are: Cecilia Bengolea, Caroline Déodat; Choy Ka Fai, Elyla, Beatrice Gibson, Joachim Koester, Xavier Marrades and Joshua Serafin.

Lightning Dance, Cecilia Bengolea, 2018

Discover the scheduled films and their screening dates below.

Screenings presented by Filipa Ramos, writer and curator, artistic director of Loop Barcelona. 

• Someplace in your Mouth, Beatrice Gibson & Nick Gordon, 2024 (4'36")
  → Fri, May 29 at 5:00 PM
  → Sun, May 31 at 2:30 PM
  
  
• Void, Joshua Serrafin, 2022 (10'34")
  → Fri, May 29 at 5:00 PM
  → Sun, May 31 at 2:30 PM
  
  
• Exodus, Ka Fai Choy, 2024 (18'52")
  → Fri, May 29 at 5:00 PM
  → Sun, May 31 at 2:30 PM
  
  
• Tarantism, Joachim Koester, 2007 (9'17")
  → Fri, May 29 at 5:00 PM
  → Sun, May 31 at 2:30 PM
  
  
• Landslide, Caroline Déodat, 2020 (12')
  → Sat, May 30 at 2:30 PM
  → Sun, May 31 at 2:30 PM
  
  
• Lightning Dance, Cecilia Bengolea, 2018 (6'03")
  → Sat, May 30 at 2:30 PM
  → Sun, May 31 at 2:30 PM
  
  
• Tierra retumbante (Rumbling Earth), ELYLA, 2024 (12'48")
  → Sat, May 30 at 2:30 PM
  → Sun, May 31 at 2:30 PM
  
  
• Murmurations, Xavier Marrades, 2025 (21’29’’)
  → Sat, May 30 at 2:30 PM
  → Sun, May 31 at 2:30 PM

Opening week-end : 29-30-31 May 2026 / Free entrance

RELATED

- The group exhibition Forbidden Dances, curated by Clément Postec.

An additional screening session:

- Let's Dance!, a programme curated by Pascale Cassagnau, curator and collection manager, with the support of the Centre national des arts plastiques.