Natural Order of Things
strong>idea, concept, stage design: Guy Nader|Maria Campos
direction: Guy Nader
co-direction: Maria Campos
music: Coti K.
light design: Conchita Pons
technical management: Albert Glas
sound design: Raimon Segura
stage design assistance: Pablo Huerres
costumes: Marina Prats
performers, creators: Alfonso Aguilar, Maria Campos, Joana Couto, Guy Nader, Pierre Lison, Jovana Zelenovic, Francesco Grilli, Olatz Larunbe, Mimi Wascher
duration: 60’
premiere: Grec Festival de Barcelona at Mercat de les Flors, 2024
production: Raqscene, MGM-Marta Guzmán Management, Yara Himelfarb
co-production: Mercat de les Flors, Grec 2024 Festival de Barcelona, La Biennale di Venezia/Biennale Danza 2024, Kurtheater Baden, Switzerland
acknowledgment: Pere Faura
with support of: CondeDuque Centro de Cultura Contemporánea, Roca Umbert, Graner creation center, L'Estruch
Funded by Departament de Cultura - Generalitat de Catalunya
Inspired by the notion of order disorder, we look into the complexity of self-organizing systems in nature, seen as a micro-cosmos, as a tiny universe made up of a multitude of self-propagating organisms. We will reveal ourselves as an invented organism that manifests itself as a resistance to the loss of order and the tendency to chaos, reorganizing itself in a genius and harmonic way.
As an ode to life and its fragile atmosphere, this is an attempt to reassure our statement as a protest through beauty and harmony as the only way to reconnect to nature and restore balance. We can regain perspective even in the greatest challenges through survival and recognition of the beauty, purpose and perceptible patterns in the universe and in nature. An attempt to imagine what we are made of, a mass of kinetic possibilities. “Natural Order of Things” has been awarded three Max Awards 2025 in Spain: best choreography, best male dancer Alfonso Aguilar and best female dancer Maria Campos.
GN | MC Guy Nader | Maria Campos is an independent ensemble based in Barcelona. The Lebanese and Spanish artists Nader – Campos, have collaborated together since 2006, their works have been shown in various festivals and venues around the world. They have been invited as guest choreographers to create for different companies such as EnKnapGroup in Slovenia, Eva Duda Dance Company/Movein Mission in Hungary, TanzMainz in Germany, XieXin Dance Theatre in Shanghai, and recently for Irish National Dance Company in Dublin. GN|MC has been awarded the German theatre prize Dear Faust in 2017 for their work created with State Theater in Mainz / Company TanzMainz, and received the Prize City of Barcelona 2019 for their artistic research.
Guy Nader graduated from Institute National des Beaux Arts at the Lebanese University in Beirut. He has received the danceWEB Europe scholarship in 2012 and he was awarded the first prize in Masdanza International Festival in 2010 for his solo “Where The Things Hide”.
Maria Campos studied at SEAD in Austria and in The Netherlands where she graduated from the Amsterdam School of the Arts (MTD) in 2003. She has worked with Meekers, Protein Dance, Sol Picó, Angels Margarit/Cia. Mudances, and many others.
We should call it a miracle, but it is the result of tenacity and effort… A production with a flavor of vital reflection and with a fluid and precise choreography, where the result is at the service of the message and with an indisputable technical quality.
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It is worth highlighting the virtuosity of the performers, who not only maintain the rhythm of the piece like a clockwork machine, but also demonstrate great skill in acrobatics and group poses, the house's trademark.
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