CRA’P resident July and August 2024
POV
POV is a solo that continues a working line that I’ve been developing in previous years, which links body, image, power and digitality. The project is in the research/creation process, which is currently looking for ways to be developed and a date for the premiere. The research started as a proposal from the “Bòlit Contemporary Art Centre” in Girona, directed by Ingrid Guardiola, where in 2023 I was invited to present a capsule within the conceptual axis: “domination, monstrosity, the possibility of rewriting history or becoming another”.
POV is the acronym for "Point Of View". The acronyms have been used through literature and contemporary visual language such as cinema, photography or video games, and currently by users of social networks. In POV, the gaze on the body in relation to its image and the stories that can be told, become a game of possession and dispossession, of empowerment and disempowerment, of submission and resistance, of alienation and strangeness, or on the contrary of normality and familiarity. This tension is built up through an interplay between word, image and affect.
Núria Guiu Sagarra is a dancer and choreographer based in Barcelona. As a dancer, she has collaborated with companies such as Cullberg Ballet, Gisele Vienne, Carte Blanche Dance Company, Ingri Fiksdal, La Veronal, among others. She is a certified professor of Yoga Iyengar and a student of the Degree in Anthropology and Human Evolution at the UOC University. She has worked as an artistic assistant for Gisele Vienne besides performing in some of her creations such as Crowd or This Is How You Will Disappear.
As a choreographer she has focused on the relation between body-image-power-digitality. Likes, is a solo which was selected by the European platform Aerowaves 2018 and won several national awards. Spiritual Boyfriends, Futuralgia, Cyberexorcism, Medium and Supermedium (co-creation with norwegian choreographer Ingri Fiksdal) are her last creations.
Núria has been touring nationally and internationally with her work in venues and festivals such as Hau Hebbel Berlin (Ge), Biennale Lyon (Fr) Oktoberdans (No), Saal Biennale (Ee), Les Plateaux (Fr), Taiwan dance platform, Batard Festival (Be), Tanzfestival Rhein Main (De), El Grec Festival (Sp) among others. Núria Guiu gets the cultural national prize in Catalonia in 2022 as a choreographer focusing on the relationship between dance and the digital environment, always with a socio-anthropological perspective.