Constanza Brnčić
Choreographer, dancer and stage director. Graduate in Philosophy and Master degree in Contemporary Thought and Classical Tradition at University of Barcelona (UB), where she is currently engaged in the Phd program in Contemporary Philosophy, developing her research project on french philosopher Merleau-Ponty, under the tutorship of catalan philosopher Josep Maria Esquirol.
Currently, Constanza Brnčić is composition and improvisation teacher at the CSD (Dance Conservatory of Barcelona’s Theater Institute), and chief of Choreography Department. She is guest teacher at the ESAD (School of Dramatic Art of Barcelona’s Theater Institute). She has published articles on her work and other art related subjects in scientific and divulgation magazines.
In 2000 she starts La Sospechosa Cultural Association, developing projects that focus on the relations between body / environment, teaching / learning, and perceptional processes. All these projects seek to take artistic action into unusual contexts, in order to generate a critical reflection about art and in particular on performing arts. La Sospechosa has been suported by the Department of Culture of Catalonia Government, by the ICUB (Barcelona Arts Council) and Women Institute of Catalonia Government.
In 2002 Constanza Brnčić receives the KRTU scholarship from Catalonia Government and, in 2003, Catalonia Culture Department grants her a visual artists subvention to develop the projects PA CK and DERRIBOS (transdisciplinar research in body and technology). Both projects were in residency at Metrònom Conceptual Art Gallery (Barcelona) and at the Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB). In 2003, her video-dance Blank-emotive wins the the best video-dance award at International Video-dance Festival of Barcelona.
Since 2009, she works as a choreographer and director of projects at the Municipal Music School and Centre of the Arts of Hospitalet de Llobregat (EMMCA). Together with playwright Albert Tola, she directs the project PI(È)CE (intergenerational creation project) since 2010, produced by Tantarantana Theater (Barcelona). In 2016 this project was presented at Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB) in the context of Grec Festival of Barcelona. Participants of this project range from teenagers to elderly people, with different backgrounds, languajes and cultures, living in Raval, a central neighborhood of Barcelona. Together, they create a piece that seeks to reflect the rich, diverse, and sometimes problematic human landscape of the city.
Since 2009 she starts an ongoing collaboration with musician Nuno Rebelo, ranging from an improvisation duo to several dance and music performances. She has created several pieces in collaboration with artists like: Gabriel Brnčić (composer), Agustí Fernàndez (pianist), Victòria Szpunberg (dramatist and playwright), Carme Torrent (choreographer), Joan Saura (composer), Nuno Rebelo (composer), Albert Tola (dramatist and writer), Matt Davis (musician), Ferran Fages (musician)… Her last dance solo, What is the Word, based on Morton Feldman’s Triadic Memories, was premiered at Mercat de les Flors de Barcelona in the context of International Grec Festival 2017.
She has been comissioned by Grec Festival 2018 to direct an choreograph the participative opera Monster in the Maze, by Jonathan Dove, presented at Grec Theatre in Barcelona in the context of Grec Festival 2018, with the participation of 300 singers of different ages, de JONC (Young Orquestra of Catalonia), and Orfeó Català, directed by Simon Hasley. She has been comissioned by Mercat de les Flors to direct and choreograph the 2018 edition of Totsdansen Project, a project of dance that involves 960 teenagers from different highschool of Catalonia. She has been comissioned by Auditori of Barcelona, to direct and stage the concert for children Planeta Clarinet, that has been performed every year since 2014.
As a dancer she has worked with the company Raravis/Andrés Corchero and Rosa Muñoz (1996-2009) and with Malpelo dance company (2002-2005). She has been soloist dancer at The Magic Flute, by W.A. Mozart, choreography by Min Tanaka and stage direction by Piere Audi, at Salzburg Festival, 2008.
