Núria Guiu
Núria Guiu Sagarra is a choreographer and dancer from Barcelona. She graduated in classical dance from the “Professional Conservatory of Dance of the Institut del Teatre”. She was part of the young company “IT Dansa” and later worked as a dancer in national and international companies such as Gisele Vienne (Fr), Carte Blanche Dance Company (No), Cullberg Balletten (Se), Batsheva Dance Company/Rikseatern (Se/Il ), Ingri Fiksdal (No), Jasmin Vardimon (Uk), La Veronal (Sp), Kobalt Works (Be) among others. She is a certified Iyengar Yoga teacher and a student of the Degree in Anthropology and Human Evolution at the UOC university. She has worked as an artistic assistant to Gisele Vienne and also as a performer of some of her creations such as Crowd or This Is How You Will Disappear.
Since 2012, she has been interested in choreography and investigates the relationship between body-image-power. Her perfromance Likes(2017), was selected for the European platform Aerowaves 2018, won a special mention for best dance performance at “Premis ciutat de Barcelona 2018” as well as an award for best performance within the solo-dance category at the “Critic Awards 2018” and “DansaCat 2020 Award”. Her works includse solo works as well as group pieces and have toured different theaters and festivals. Her latest works are Spiritual Boyfriends, premiered at the Grec Festival of Barcelona 2020, Futuralgia, a group piece commissioned by Unusual Symptoms from Dance Theater Bremen premiered in October 2020, Cyberexorcism, a performance created with 5 Tiktokers, MEDIUM and Supermedium, both in collaboration with the Norwegian choreographer Ingri Fiksdal.
Núria Guiu has been an emerging artist in the creation space “La Caldera les Corts” (Barcelona) 2020-21, an associate artist at the “Center for Creation and Living Arts Graner de Barcelona” during the period 2021-22 and an artist in residence at the “Mercat de les Flors de Barcelona” 2022-23. In 2022 he receives the National Culture Award (the most recognized cultural distinction in Catalonia), for his artistic language and research on the body, dance and the digital environment with a socio-anthropological perspective.
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