CRA’P Resident September 2026 to June 2027

SOL INTERIOR (INNER SUN)

Sol interior [Inner sun] is a new dance of death that invokes the existence of two abysses: that of nothingness and the one that lies in my breast (Mallarmé). Melodrama is a defence of the defilement, of the appearance and disappearance of the body with writing and paper. The original wound (the one in the chest, the one of nothingness) is treated with humour and lightness. I strike my body to resurrect it, I paint my body to become paper, I crumple the paper so that it becomes a landscape. I name what I construct: a mountain, a valley, a river. Through play with dance and writing, erasing the object/subject, dead/alive binaries, I propose a choreographic funeral ritual to keep dying eternally and to erotically reincorporate ourselves into the continuity that is inherent to our being. I demand and desire to die on stage, again and again.

Pau Masip is a choreographer, researcher, performer and masked painter. He holds a degree in Art History from the University of Barcelona and is a graduate in dance and choreography from SEAD (Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance), where he was selected to take part in the Choreography Major Program. As a dancer, he has performed in Olivier Dubois’s piece COME OUT with the Bodhi Project dance company, Matteo Fargion’s The Stealing Piece, and Shirin Neshat’s production of Aida at the Salzburger Festspiele. He also took part in the LABOR project by the Bleiburg/Pliberk Choreography Centre (CCB). In 2022, he co-founded the dance company La Morgue, which is currently touring with Don Lifar / Un duelo en gris (2025). Since 2023, he has been organising an annual interdisciplinary art festival at the Kulturzentrum Kerzenfabrik in Salzburg.