CRA’P resident June 2017
LIKES
Since 2015 Núria Guiu studies a degree on Anthropology and Human Evolution and a Iyengar Yoga TTC in Copenhagen.
LIKES is the first version of a dance project which is based on the anthropological research method. The material of work and research is based on two physical practices which accumulate millions of likes and followers through the internet: the Cover Dance phenomenon and the yoga practice and its varietés or “yoga hybrids”, which have emerged and spread massively through social networks during the last years.
The likes are new symbols of social prestige as well as a barometer of success for many companies, organizations, celebrities and individuals. Who, how and according to what operates this barometer? LIKES questions the way we read, understand, approve or disapprove the “other.”
Photo: Núria Guiu (selfie)
Artistic cast:
Direction, choreography and dance: Núria Guiu
Artistic assistance: Esther Freixa and Sónia Gómez
Costume: Nestor Reina
Project in residence at: Cra’p (Mollet del Vallès), Konvent.0 (Berga), Espai Bokashi (Ciutadella de Menorca), La Blanca and Sala Hiroshima de Barcelona.
Coproduction: A ball of straw across the desert
Núria Guiu graduated at the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona in classical dance. She danced with IT Dansa and and later with diferent companies such as Carte Blanche Dance Company, Gisele Vienne, Batsheva Dance Company (Kamuyot), Jasmin Vardimon, La Veronal, Kobalt Works, among others. Since 2012 she has been interested in choreography and has created pieces such as La Muda, which was premiered at the Oslo Opera and PORTAL, premiered at the Oktoberdans Festival in Bergen and later at Sala Hiroshima in Barcelona.
TRAILER LIKES: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRZC-OyckMs