2015   La Pluie et le Beau Temps   Performance   (Personal project)   Directed by Tuixén Benet.   Produced by Les filles Föllen.  

La pluie et le beau temps is a project that explores the world of cryptography and encoding through the body and movement, inspired by the idea that both disciplines relate to language and message in an ambiguous way.

Cryptography is the science that studies ways of encrypting messages through codes and transformations so that they can only be read by those who know the code, creating a play between concealing the original message and revealing the encrypted one. Dance, on the other hand, is characterized by its atavistic fear of not meaning anything, yet at the same time it resists creating a fixed language and is in constant reinvention.

La pluie et le beau temps applies concepts from cryptography to choreographic composition, highlighting the absence of fixed meaning in dance through the concealment of the message by means of the bodily encryption of original texts written by Jacques Prévert.

Director and choreographer: Tuixén Benet

Dramaturgy: Raquel Tomàs

Setting: Adrià Pinar

Music: Hans Laguna

Production: Melissa Mustefaga for Les Filles Föllen

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Tuixén Benet

EDUCATION

Tuixén Benet is a choreographer, dance-film director, and educator based among Barcelona and Los Angeles, whose work moves fluidly between stage, screen, and pedagogy. Her practice explores choreography as a cinematic, social, and spatial language, engaging bodies, cameras, and collectives as co-authors of meaning. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Choreography and Interpretation Techniques from the Institut del Teatre of Barcelona (2013) and a Master of Fine Arts in Film Directing from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) (2020). Her training bridges contemporary dance, film direction, and visual storytelling, further expanded through specialized studies in video dance and body poetics in Spain and Mexico.

CHOREOGRAPHY FOR FILM

Tuixén Benet has maintained an extensive freelance career as a choreographer for music videos, fashion films, and commercials since 2010. Her choreography has been featured in productions shot across Spain, the United States, Argentina, the United Kingdom, Lebanon, Jamaica, Hungary, Romania, and Colombia, collaborating with internationally renowned artists such as Polo & Pan, Tame Impala, Phoenix, Juanes, Bomba Estéreo, Justice, Two Door Cinema Club, and Javiera Mena, among many others. She recently choreographed the film Romería by Carla Simón. Her work has been commissioned by leading production companies and global brands, resulting in a body of work that balances strong physicality with cinematic precision.

LIVE CHOREOGRAPHY

From 2010 to 2015, Tuixén Benet was the founder and co-director of the dance company Les filles Föllen, alongside Margherita Bergamo. Together, they created and performed stage and video works presented at major cultural institutions and festivals across Europe and North America, including MACBA, Mercat de les Flors, Matadero Madrid, Kumu (Tallinn), Le Lieu Unique (Nantes), Zebulon (New York), and Zoofest (Montreal). Their creations, such as Entrance With Charge, Unter der Schönen Haut, Escena Simultánea, and Projecte13, were recognized with multiple awards and grants, establishing the company as a significant voice in contemporary performance and experimental choreography.

Tuixén Benet has also choreographed large-scale live performances and tours, notably for El Guincho and for the international tours of Chilean artist Javiera Mena between 2014 and 2017. For Javiera Mena, she developed choreographic systems adaptable to different scales—from intimate stages to massive televised events—culminating in the 2016 Viña del Mar Festival performance, viewed by over 150 million people worldwide.

She’s also choreographed the opera La Gata Perduda at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, a participatory large-scale work involving over 3,500 community members. More recently, she directed the movement for the new experimental opera work by cabosanroque Mil Tres, Say Cheese that premiered in Teatre Lliure, Barcelona.

EXPERIMENTAL FILMMAKING

Tuixén Benet directs and choreographs dance-driven narrative works that investigate intimacy, ritual, collective movement, and the emotional architecture of bodies in space. Her films Lazarus, Aloma i Mila, and Solution for Sadness have been widely screened and awarded at international film and dance-film festivals, including Leeds International Film Festival, Palm Springs International ShortFest, BAFICI, Cinedans, Choreoscope, and many others. Her work has received numerous awards for choreography, cinematography, and contribution to the field of dance film, including a Flaherty Grant from CalArts and an Exceptional Contribution to Dance Film Award from Choreoscope. Her first feature-length dance film, Clausura, is currently in post-production.

TEACHING

From 2019 to 2024, Tuixén Benet has been a Dance and Film Special Faculty member at the California Institute of the Arts, teaching graduate and undergraduate students across disciplines. The courses include Dance Film Foundations, Dance Film Projects, When Screen Dances, Cinedance, Making Music Videos, and Film Production. Through these classes, she guided students from conceptual development to post-production, emphasizing visual design, embodied cinematography, interdisciplinary collaboration, and critical reflection on time, space, and performance in moving images. She has also served as a teaching assistant in film directing and as a guest instructor in cinedance and narrative film contexts. She is trained in experimental film techniques filming in cellulloid, hand processing and scanning.

FILM JURY

In addition to her artistic and academic practice, Tuixén Benet regularly serves as a jury member for international film and dance festivals such as Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastian, UK Music Video Awards, Dance Camera West, Choreoscope and Sicilia Queer Film Fest.