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Mal Pelo

dance group in Spain

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 2, 2025
Entity authorityQ6740638 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mal Pelo is a Catalan contemporary dance ensemble based in Barcelona, Spain. The ensemble was established in January 1989 by choreographers Pep Ramis and María Muñoz, who continue to act as Artistic Directors. Since its inception, the company has made itself well known in Spain and the rest of Europe. The ensemble has also performed in the U.S. at festivals and in New York City at the Baryshnikov Arts Center. The group's work is described as "rooted in its own poetic view of the world".

Works

The company produces both traditional and multi-media works.

Editorial summary

“Mal Pelo” enters the record as dance group in Spain. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Pelo, dance and group can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1989—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1989-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Pelo, dance and group.
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Why this record matters

“Mal Pelo” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Pelo, dance and group provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 2, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6740638. VIAF identifies the subject as 305883720. 2 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1989.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mal Pelo” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.