CRA’P Residents November 2025 to March 2026

PER COS SIÓ

An impro-vision duet based on the sound of the tablas and on the body of kalaripayattu. Two disciplines stemming from India converge in the encounter between Jordi Rallo and Esther Freixa, in which they open themselves up to new movements, new sounds, and new impro-visions.

Esther Freixa i Ràfols is a performer, actress and theater maker with a degree in acting from the Theatre Institute of Barcelona. Since 2007, she has been collaborating with actor and director Toni Cots, with whom is researching performing arts language. Since 2013, she has travelled to different countries in Europe and Latin America giving workshops and touring with performances. At the same time, she searches for pedagogic outlines to allow the transmission of knowledge about the body and the creative act. Since 2012 she is learning Kalaripayattu in Hindustan Kalari Sangam, Kozhikode, India. She is a founding member of CRA’P. www.medealacarta.org / www.treintaños.org

Jordi Rallo studied tabla with the master Uttam-das in Rishikesh (India). Darbouka at the Traditional Music Centre Studies of Tunis; and with a scholarship he furthered his knowledge at the Kalakchetra School of Fine Arts in Madras (India). Over the last 40 years he has been introducing these instruments into different genres. This experience together with other musicians, poets, actors and dancers has led him to expand and build up a set of percussion instruments: Tabla – Dabouka – Tambourines – Kanjira – Uddus – Cajon – Gongs – Samplers, etc. https://jordirallo.blogspot.com