The alliance of the María Pagés Choreographic Center and the Fuenlabrada City Hall vindicates Dance as one of the essential expressions of culture in Spain, while promoting research, creation and reflection on it. Assuming the responsibility that this implies, in a year that continues to be marked by uncertainty and the risks of the pandemic, the CCMP hosts the II Choreographic Residencies of Fuenlabrada, thus applying its founding principles that have as their lifeblood the accompaniment of creators, especially emerging ones.

The program supports choreographic creation projects in all its disciplines, admitting multidisciplinarity. It seeks to promote dance, enhancing spaces for creation and approach to citizenship, through open rehearsals and samples of creative processes and meetings, both at the CCMP, as in the Josep Carreras Theater.

After the success of the first edition, this year the CCMP will host six projects that include 2 research residencies, 2 creation residencies and 2 technical residencies, with a duration ranging from one to four weeks for each modality. In addition, we continue to support young talents with the creation of the Whale Project, a new category aimed at young creators. The jury, chaired by María Pagés, is made up of choreographers Iratxe Ansa and Rafaela Carrasco, journalist Olga Baeza, programmer Luis Lozano and El Arbi El Harti, director of the CCMP.

The II Choreographic Residences of Fuenlabrada are not only about the cession of spaces. Its principles rest ethically on a broader conceptual basis, integrating the accompaniment of artists, training, the defense of Dance, mediation with new audiences and the necessary creation of community.