Gisela Creus // estiu_21

GISELA CREUS

AT RESONANCE...

The workshop that I will guide is the starting point of the festival, it will be our first meeting.

I will offer a space that will allow us to connect with the body and the breath, seeking its globality, openness, expansion and availability.

I will propose dynamics of movement and breathing to awaken self-awareness, center and presence in space. We will enter into explorations of movement and play that will allow us to open ourselves to others and to space to begin to know each other and prepare ourselves for all the perspectives, experiences and opportunities for growth that these days will offer us.

BIO

Gisela Creus is a dancer, educator and choreographer with an international and interdisciplinary interest. Since 2007 she has combined his artistic career with the direction and management of nunArt and nunArt Creacions. She started dancing at age 9, exploring different styles. At the age of 18 she began her studies in Business Administration at the UAB together with a two-year professional dance training course in Barcelona, where she obtained her diploma. She was later accepted and awarded a scholarship to the Laban Conservatory (Trinity Laban) in London, where she studied for three years and received her honors degree in Dance Theater. She specialized in contemporary dance, improvisation, creative dance, classical dance technique and yoga. Since then she has continued to train with internationally renowned artists mainly in Barcelona, London and the United States.

As a performer and creator she has worked in various dance companies, choreographers, collectives and stage projects and has presented more than ten professional pieces as a choreographer, individually and in collaboration with other artists. In 2019 he has created two choreographic works for dance companies at Roger Williams University and Providence College. She was recently awarded the RISCA (Rhode Island State Council on the Arts) Fellowship Award in Choreography, with the solo The Quiet A, created, directed and performed by herself in 2018. Recently and in collaboration with Daniel Davidson, they founded the artistic collective HDC Dance Ensemble, and presented their work at the DanceNOW Boston, The Provincetown Dance Festival, Modern Movements Festival, Providence Dance Festival, among others. At a pedagogical level she teaches contemporary dance, ballet, improvisation and creative dance; from beginners to professionals at different specialized dance centers. She has been living and working for three years in the United States where she has been a professor of contemporary and classical dance at Salve Regina University and where she has also directed the rehearsals of the Extensions Dance Company of the same University. Internationally, she gives intensive workshops at centers such as nunArt and AREA (Barcelona), Marshall and Franklin University (Philadelphia), Barnard University (New York), CICER Residency (Cape Verde) and Play Practice Apprenticeship Residency (India) among others. 

She currently resides in Barcelona where she continues to co-direct nunArt Creacions, and is a tutor and teacher in the AREA Dance Training Program. At the same time, she is starting a creative project until the end of May with a residency at NunArt. It continues in July with Residence in the Sala Albert Camús in Menorca and will continue in September 2021 with the aim of being able to premiere in the spring of 2022.

Original picture by Triny Reinoso