NÚRIA GUIU

Cyberexorcism is a continuation of two previous works; Likes and Spiritual Boyfriends. The relationship between body-image-power-digitality has been one of the most present axes in these latest works. This time, it is a group piece in collaboration with five performers/Tik Tokers, which takes the Tik Tok app as its research base and aims to displace and/or exorcise the mechanisms and choreographic tools from the Internet to the stage. It is not about seeing the Internet as a diabolical phenomenon, as the word “exorcism” would suggest, but about exorcising – that is, expressing and squeezing – the images, mechanisms, corporalities and dances that we observe and experience through the Internet. The question is how to transpose them from this individual, flattened medium or body of the screen, placing them in the shared theatrical space. The object of exorcism is the soul, in this case the soul of the medium or body that is our mobile.

The piece provides a documentary vision (Tik Tok dance archive) as well as a biographical/artistic one, around the personal experience of each of the performers with the App. It opens a mirror between the creation and presentation tools that occur in a scenic format similar to and different from those that occur in a digital format: physical language, compositional strategies, relationship with the public, possibilities of diffusion and co-production.

Direction Núria Guiu / Choreography Núria Guiu in collaboration with the dancers Mauro Cyan, Berta Pascual, Francesco Palmitesta, Berta Martínez, Carlos G. Corchia / Choreographic assistance Salva Sanchis and Glòria Ros / Space and costume design Lola Belles and Víctor Colmenero / Light design and technical coordination Jou Serra and Toni Morales / Music and sound design Daniel Moreno Roldán, Adrià Juan and Alebert Tarrats / Production 2021 Haizea Arrizabalaga and Aixa González / Production 2022 Ariadna Miquel / Acknowledgements: Conchita Pons, Anna Serrano, Laura Moran, La Cadera les Corts, Sergio Roca
Coproduction Mercat de les Flors, centre de cració i arts vives Graner de Barcelona, La Briqueterie – CDCN du Val-de-Marne, ICI – CCN Montpelliere. The Hessisches Staatsballett in the context of the Tanzplattform Rhein-Main / With the support international residency/mentoring program of the Institut Ramon Llull and Festival Dansa València.

Mercat de les Flors artist-in-residence supported by:

Introductory session to the show ‘ONE HOUR BEFORE’: May 7. Salva Sanchis (choreographer, dancer and dance teacher). Moderated by Clàudia Brufau (cultural journalist). Registrations here.

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