During the 2025-26 season at HGO, Xevi Dorca serves as associate director and choreographer for The Barber of Seville, the same production the company presented in 2018 and 2011. Previously for the company, Dorca was associate director/choreographer of Cinderella (2024, 2007) and The Italian Girl in Algiers (2012), all created with director Joan Font, with whom he has worked throughout Europe and North America. Their production of The Barber of Seville has been seen at the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Wolf Trap Opera, Opéra de Montréal, and Canadian Opera Company, where he earned an Outstanding Choreography nomination for Canada’s prestigious Dora Mavor Moore Award. Additional choreographic work includes Leonardo Balada’s Faust-Bal at Teatro Real in Madrid. Additional stage director credits include Dido and Aenas and La serva padrona, which premiered in Barcelona. Dorca studied at Barcelona’s Theater Institute. He was awarded Best Dancer by the Madrid Choreographic Competition, which enabled him to work with the Transitions Dance Company at London’s Laban Centre. As a dancer, Dorca has worked with major choreographers and stage directors including Lindsay Kemp, Sol Pico, Carlos Santos, Andrés Lima, Mar Gomez, and Alex Rigola, as well as with such companies as Chicos Mambo, which for several years he also co-managed; Ballet Contemporani de Barcelona; Comediants; and Meekers Dance Company in Rotterdam.