Physical theatre company

We dance, we act.

Espectáculo Elelei "Too Much"
Rafa Jagat, actor, intérprete, director y autor.
Artista independiente de la danza

Rafa Jagat

Spain

Sabrina Gargano

Italy

ELELEI was born in 2020 from the collaboration between the artists, Sabrina Gargano (Barletta, Italy) and Rafa Jagat (Valencia), with the idea of being able to combine dance and theatre and create a single disciplinary language.

ELELEI was born in 2019 from the collaboration between artists Sabrina Gargano and Rafa Jagat. They are united by the idea of bringing together their respective backgrounds in dance and theatre, combining everything into one shared disciplinary language.

Motivated by the desire to tell stories and to question the "why" of things—while making them accessible to the audience—their first work, A CIEGAS, was created in 2020. The piece premiered for the first time at Abril en Danza 2021 (Alicante).

In January 2021, they created the physical theatre film MAY YOU LISTEN?, as part of the training program for Jasmin Vardimon's junior company JV2 in the UK. In February 2022, they collaborated again with the JV2 dancers on a new piece titled MARATHON, which premiered in May.

In May 2022, they premiered the solo SOY MADERA, co-produced by the Imaginarius Festival in Santa Maria da Feira, choreographed by Sabrina and directed by Rafa. Their third creation, TOO MUCH, was premiered in March 2024 as part of the Dansa Metropolitana festival and was co-produced by the festival itself.

Sabrina Gargano

Sabrina is a freelance dance artist. After completing the Professional Development JV2 course JV2 Sabrina performed in the U.K. and abroad. She collaborated with PanicLab Dance Theatre (U.K.), Portugal for Companhia Instável (Portugal), Tom Dale (U.K.), Company Idem (Switzerland), Ciemulator Dance Theatre (Switzerland), Beatrice Allegranti Dance Theatre (U.K.), Fuora Dance Project (U.K.), Victoria Fox for //Tribe (U.K.), Mafalda Deville for Companhia Instável (Portugal), Becky Namgauds and Jasmin Vardimon (U.K), performing in the title role of Jasmin’s Pinocchio, Alice Vr in Wonderland and Alice.

Sabrina also encountered David Zambranoduring her career, who completely influenced her work and kept influencing and inspiring her.

She was commissioned to choreograph the Youth company at The Point, Pera University and Lincoln University.She teaches pro classes and workshops in the U.K. and around Europe. Sabrina was the Programme Leader for JV2 2019-20 and 2020-21.

In 2021, she directed the online project, creating a dance film, "May You Listen?" for JV2. In 2022, they co-produced with Mais Imaginarius the solo work "Soy Madera", which is currently on tour.

She also collaborated as a co-creator with the circus company Akrosphere for the shows "Aux" and "Xpect" in Austria. In 2024, she had the opportunity to work with Gecko Dance Theatre Company for the R&D of The Deal.

Sabrina completed a Master in Choreography "COMMA" in The Netherlands in 2025.

Rafa Jagat

He trained for five years in dramatic art and two more years in physical theater. All this learning time is combined with classes from different disciplines within the language of movement.

Creates his own Jagat Mata company, with 6 physical theater shows since 2008. In addition to all his creations, he dances for the Mey Lin Bisogno company, for the Omos Uno dance company and creates an outdoors duo with Candelaria Antelo.

He also works with David Zambrano for a month on the improvisation project “Two songs for two humans”.

Co-founder of EXIN, which organizes movement-related workshops across Europe.

Teaches dance and physical theater in Spain and Europe. Since 2020 he has collaborated as a director and playwright with circus companies such as (Som Noise, Encuentros, Cia Papaya, Akrosphere or Iron Skulls).

Contact us

Would you like to collaborate with or hire our performing arts company in Barcelona?

companiaelelei@gmail.com