Habitar transforms Faura into an international contemporary dance laboratory for artists, community and rural landscape coexist during two weeks of creation, thought and encounter. We live in a world made of contacts, distances, continuous transformations and coexistences. every cos, each space and each form of life emerges in relation to others: visible or invisible, near or far. In this context, cohabiting is presented as a way of attending to these plots that sustain existence.
In this seventh edition of HABITAR, under the motto COHABITAR, we open a space to explore what it means to live beyond the idea of occupying a place. Dwelling can be understood as a practice of perception, a way of being present to what surrounds us and changes us. Cohabiting implies recognizing that to exist is always to exist with: with the other bodies, with the rhythms, with the memories, with the environments and with the changing forms of time. This meeting is not thought from the point of view of harmony or fusion. Living together also involves friction, opacity, disruption and difference. There are relationships that are not resolved, silences that sustain and boundaries that shape the shared space. To cohabit is to remain in this tension without the need to turn it into consensus. The festival understands coexistence as an open and situated practice: a form of listening, attention and experimentation. An exercise to observe how relationships appear, how they transform and how they produce unique ways of being together without canceling the differences.
The performing arts occupy a central place here because they work with what is present, ephemeral and embodied. Through samples, Immerse yourself in the device, site actions- specific and relational structures, the body becomes a space of perception and a means of connection. Not to represent an idea of community, but to activate experiences where forms of relationship can emerge, displace-se and reformulate-se. Cohabitation does not propose a correct way to be together. It opens up a field of possibilities to observe how we affect each other, how we share space without owning it and how we inhabit processes that always exceed the individual. Perhaps it is not about inventing new forms of belonging, but to learn to perceive the relationships that already shape our way of existing – and to ask ourselves how to continue inhabiting them.
