Workshop
Contemporary

Núria Guiu is a dancer and choreographer from Barcelona. She graduated in classical dance, is a certified Yoga Iyengar teacher and student of Anthropology and Human Evolution at the UOC university (Bcn). As a dancer she has worked with companies such as Cullberg Ballet, Batsheva Dance Company, Ingri Fiksdal, Jasmin Vardimon, La Veronal, Kobalt Works among others. She has worked as artistic assistant of Gisele’s Vienne as well as a performer in some of her creations like Crowd or This Is How You Will Disappear. As a choreographer she has created a piece for Carte Blanche Dance Company in 2012, a solo called Portal (2014) in collaboration with the Norwegian musician Gisle Martens Meyer, a solo work called Likes, which was selected by the European platform Aerowaves 2018. Her last solo work is Spiritual Boyfriends, premiered at Grec Festival 2020 and Futuralgia, a commission work for six dancers with the Dance Theater Bremen. 

Tik Tok Exorcism is a workshop proposal by Núria Guiu connected to the new research/production which will premiere in May 2022 atMercat de les Flors (Barcelona). The workshop will share some of the interests and tools from her last 2 solo works (Likes and SpiritualBoyfriends). In this workshop the participants will be invited to a guided meditation through which the body will be possessed by imagesfrom the Internet; images that do not seek to be represented or illustrated but to be experienced, incorporated into a physical / collective / ritual space, through affection, sensitivity and the pleasure of moving together. It is about thinking about visual culture not againstimages but from them in order to invent forms of deautomatization, collective dispossession of stereotypes (Andrea Soto Calderón, Theperformativity of images, 2020). How big is data visualized through our bodies? Rituals have always allowed a performativity of identity,generating affection, social cohesion and empowerment. In her new production, Núria opens a research of the app Tik Tok app as aform of ritual, where on the one hand, resistance and re-inventions of the most normative canons and aesthetics are generated at thesame time that they are reaffirmed. This practice is an invitation to make a reflection from the body and from the images to establish newviews on them.