bio
Núria Guiu Sagarra is a choreographer and dancer from Barcelona. She graduated in classical dance from the "Professional Conservatory of Dance of the Institut del Teatre". She was part of the young company "IT Dansa" and later worked as a dancer in national and international companies such as Gisele Vienne (Fr), Carte Blanche Dance Company (No), Cullberg Balletten (Se), Batsheva Dance Company/Rikseatern (Se/Il ), Ingri Fiksdal (No), Jasmin Vardimon (Uk), La Veronal (Sp), Kobalt Works (Be) among others.
She is a certified Iyengar Yoga teacher and a student of the Degree in Anthropology and Human Evolution at the UOC university. She has worked as an artistic assistant to Gisele Vienne and also as a performer of some of her creations such as Crowd or This Is How You Will Disappear.
Since 2012, she has been interested in choreography and investigates the relationship between body-image-power. Her perfromance Likes(2017), was selected for the European platform Aerowaves 2018, won a special mention for best dance performance at "Premis ciutat de Barcelona 2018" as well as an award for best performance within the solo-dance category at the "Critic Awards 2018" and "DansaCat 2020 Award". Her works includse solo works as well as group pieces and have toured different theaters and festivals. Her latest works are Spiritual Boyfriends, premiered at the Grec Festival of Barcelona 2020, Futuralgia, a group piece commissioned by Unusual Symptoms from Dance Theater Bremen premiered in October 2020, Cyberexorcism, a performance created with 5 Tiktokers, MEDIUM and Supermedium, both in collaboration with the Norwegian choreographer Ingri Fiksdal.
Núria Guiu has been an emerging artist in the creation space "La Caldera les Corts" (Barcelona) 2020-21, an associate artist at the "Center for Creation and Living Arts Graner de Barcelona" during the period 2021-22 and an artist in residence at the "Mercat de les Flors de Barcelona" 2022-23.
In 2022 he receives the National Culture Award (the most recognized cultural distinction in Catalonia), for his artistic language and research on the body, dance and the digital environment with a socio-anthropological perspective.
As a dancer:
- 2005-2007 IT Dansa Young Company (Sp)
- 2007-2008 Batsheva Dance Company (Il-Se) Kamuyot
- 2008 - 2010 Carte Blanche Dance Company (No)
- 2010 Arouni Dance (No) - Inside Inland
- 2011 La Veronal (Sp)- Russia
- 2011 Kobalt Works (Be) - Dust
- 2011 Vibeke Flesland (No) - The End - Gentle Reminder
- 2012 Jasmin Vardimon (Uk) - Yesterday
- 2012 Anderssons Dance (SE) - Name of the Next Song
- 2012 Arouni Dance (No) - Goodby Penelope
- 2013-2022 Gisele Vienne (Fr) - This Is How You Will Diasappear
- 2016 Ingri Fiksdal (No) - State
- 2016 Manuel Rodriguez (Sp)- R.E.M.
- 2016 Kobalt Works (Be) - _BLUEPRINT
- 2017 Cullberg Balletten - Protagonsit (by Jefta Van Dinther)
- 2017 - 2022 Gisele Vienne (Fr) - CROWD
- 2019 Ingri Fiksdal (No) - Diorama
- 2019 Agrupación Señor Serrano - Garden Center Europe (Sp)
- 2021 Sonia Gómez - The black body, the blue mind and the fluorescent guts (Sp)
As a choreographer:
- 2012 La Muda - Commission for Carte Blanche Dance Company (No). Premier Oslo Opera.
- 2014 - Portal. Premier at the Oktoberdans Festival Bergen and Sala Hiroshima Barcelona.
- 2014 - Login. Extract/adaptation from La Muda. Premiere Salmon Festival Barcelona
- 2016 - Spam. Short piece finalist at the "Institut del Teatre de Barcelona Awards".
- 2017 - Likes. Premiere Slaa Hiroshima Barcelona. Aerowaves Platform 2018. Special mention at the Barcelona City Awards and the Crític Awards 2018 within the category of best solo.
- 2020 - Spiritual Boyfriends. Premiere Festival Grec de Barcelona
- 2020 - Futuralgia. Comisson for Dance Theater Bremen, currently in process. Premiere October.
- 2022- Cyberexorcism. Premiered at Mercat de els Flors de Barcelona.
- 2022- MEDIUM. Premiered at Black Box Theater Oslo.
- 2022- Catalan National Cultural Prize.
- 2024 - SUPERMEDIUM / Cèl·lula 4. Premiered at Mercat de les Flors, Barcelona.
Collaborations as a dancer/choreographer
- 2016 - Short film ATMA, by Carla Subirana. Premiered at the D'A Festival in Barcelona and at the _Fiver International Dance Film.
- 2019 - Participation at FEM Festival! (Feminist creators of today) at the CCCB in Barcelona with [Sónia Gómez][3].
- 2019 - Performance with Sónia Gómez at the "Saló de Sant Jordi del Palau de la Generalitat de Catalunya" within the context of the _Celebration of the 30th anniversary of the creation of the Catalan Women's Institute.
- 2021 - Collaboration as a dancer with the singer Maria del Mar Bonet and Borja Penalba at the Festival Dansàneu, Catalan Pyrenees (Sp)
- 2022 - Performance with Sònia Gómez for the INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE ELIMINATION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN at the Parliament of Catalonia.
- 2023- L'Última F** king Nit - Artistic/choreographic collaboration with Marc Artigau for a production at the Teatre Lliure in Barcelona.
As an artistic assistant, and teacher:
- 2011-2016 Arco Renz (Kobalt Works) artistic assistant for projects developed and presented in Asian countries such as Cambodia (Crack,2011), Philippines (Coke, 2014), Vietnam (Hanoi-Stardust,2014), Singapore and Korea (East, 2015).
- 2017-2019 Assistance to the creation of "Crowd" by Gisele Vienne. Workshops at Matadero de Madrid, Venice Biennale, Holland Festival, Dansens Hus Stockholm among others.
- 2020 Program for scenic creators at "In Residence" institutes. Moisés Broggi Institute of Barcelona, together with Pau Milla ( Periferia collective).
- 2022-23 Accompaniment to artistic projects by Tania González (ArtEz, University of Arts, Holland), Andrea Elameri (Graner de Barcelona)