Every winter for three weeks, Dansa Metropolitana overtakes Barcelona and its 12 satellite cities with free outdoor shows and ticketed indoor performances in a rich mix of international names and local heroes—an alchemy of rootedness in Catalonia and responsiveness to the larger European scene. This year, the organizing idiom is street dance. The Artèries Project, as the outdoor strand is named, celebrates French hip-hop, which came into its own in immigrant communities on the outskirts of Paris, Lyon, and Marseille in the 1980s. The established troupes at the festival include Compagnie Kafig, Kader Attou’s Accrorap, and Dyptik. Meanwhile, indoors, unanticipated themes crop up, such as that old standby Women—gazed upon and gazing, brought to ferocious new Spanish life. As for the international stars, vogue-inflected experimentalist Trajal Harrell and choreographer-mesmerist Sharon Eyal continue to make the European rounds, while the modernist flamenco soloist Israel Galvàn, the autofictionalizing Argentine Madrileña Marina Otero, and Catalonia’s own Rafael Bonachela (with Sydney Dance Company) come home. —Apollinaire Scherr