Aina Alegre in Residency at Bard College
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Villa Albertine celebrates the culmination of four years of partnership with the Bard College Dance Program with the French-based Catalan choreographer Aina Alegre.
Aina Alegre is invited to Bard College for a week of creative residency and research for her new project, RODA, from May 11 – 16, 2026.
RODA Upstate New York
Aina Alegre is a multidisciplinary artist trained in dance, theater, and music in Barcelona, and co-director of the Centre Chorégraphique National de Grenoble since 2023.
She sees choreographic creation as a way of opening up imaginary worlds around the body. Through dance she explores different relationships with the collective body, and her choreographic work is conceived as an ‘orchestration’ of movement, sound, light, and space. For several years, her writing has been as much choreographic as it is musical. Through her creations, Aina Algre also conducts research into the notions of memory and archive that run through all her work.
Her new work, RODA, is another attempt to experience, through dance and music, an ephemeral community. Coming from the Latin rotare, “to move in a circle”, RODA is a choreography based on walking, jumping, and turning to trigger multiple loops. Swing, rhythm, weight, and counterweight will be the tools for a ‘choeretic’ composition of unisons, canons, and variations, whose persistence will allow for the experience of repetition to lead the bodies to a state of ecstasy.
Celebrating a Four-Year Long Partnership with Bard College
For the past four years, Villa Albertine has been proud to partner with the Bard Dance Program, led by the wonderful Tara Lorenzen.
Through a dual framework of both teaching residencies every semester, and creative residencies, each Spring semester, students were immersed in French creative practices throughout their studies, enriching their training with new technical as well as stylistic approaches.
Following the teaching residencies of Marcella Santander and Volmir Cordeiro (Fall 2023), Walter Dundervill and DD Dorvillier (Spring 2024), Wanjiru Kamuyu and Georgey Souchette (Fall 2024), Noémie De Almeida Ferreira and Yuval Pick (Spring 2025), and the creative residencies of Marcella Santander for Agwas (Spring 2024) and Ashley Chen for La Croissance Exponentielle des Petites Erreurs (Spring 2025), Aina Alegre is the final artist in the residency program between Villa Albertine and Bard College.
An open studio at the LUMA Theater, Fisher Center, will be held on Thursday, May 14, at 5pm. Free and open to the Bard community.
In partnership with
Bard College
Founded in 1860, Bard College is a four-year, residential college of liberal arts and sciences located 90 miles north of New York City. It offers Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, and Bachelor of Music degrees, with majors in more than 40 academic programs, graduate degrees in 13 programs, eight early colleges and numerous dual-degree programs nationally and internationally. The undergraduate program at Bard’s main campus in upstate New York has a reputation for scholarly excellence, a focus on the arts, and civic engagement. Bard is committed to enriching culture, public life, and democratic discourse by training tomorrow’s thought leaders.
Since 2009, the Bard Dance Program has hosted an in-residence dance company or performing arts organization bringing professional technique and composition to the academic program in the form of teaching, educational licensing projects, master classes, full-Company production residencies, and public performances.
Read more here: https://dance.bard.edu/