Catalan dance artist Maria Munoz
b'Cathy Levy speaks with Catalan dance artist Mar\\xeda Mu\\xf1oz on the eve of her National Arts Centre debut in April 2016. Mar\\xeda explains the significance of her separate encounters with Japanese dance theatre artist Shusaku Takeuchi, and with Pep Ramis, her long-time partner, collaborator and co-founder of the group Mal Pelo. In 2001, Mu\\xf1oz and Ramis acquired a historic property in Gerona which they converted to a centre for multidisciplinary creation and research named L\\u2019animal a l\\u2019esquana. On a more personal level, Mar\\xeda talks about the challenges of performing and tells us why she chose a Glenn Gould recording to accompany her intimate solo Bach.'