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Futuralgia is a comission work for Unusual Symptoms, Theater Bremen. The 16th of May 2020 was supposed to be the premiere day. Due to the COVID-19 pandemia, after the first week of creation we were forced to stop. After two weeks of confinement we decided to go on with the creation through an online process. The concept of the piece was already dealing with ideas such as nostalgia of the body, digitality and ways of speculating about the future. Through the online process we decided to adapt to the circumstances and use the time of confinemet to do a digital research about social networks and apps in relation to body and dance. After 2 postponed premieres (16th may, 10th of october due to Covid) the piece premiered the 23rd of October at Theater Bremen.The performance is aesthetically, physically and dramaturgically crossed by the pandemic context, which created choreographic paramaters such as concrete distances between dancers or the impossibility of touch.

Premiered 23rd October 2020. Theater Bremen

In 2023 we made a MOVIE about the whole proces together with movie director CANTUFAN Klose

FUTURALGIA MOVIE TRAILER

Futuralgia TEAM

by Núria Guiu Sagarra/Unusual Symptoms By and with: Aaron Samuel Davis, Gabrio Gabrielli, Alexandra Llorens, Nora Ronge, Andor Rusu, Young-Won Song, Antonio Stella (Original Cast: Nóra Horváth) Choreography: Núria Guiu Sagarra. Set, Costume & Light Design: Anna-Lena Grote. Music: Nil Ciuró. Dramaturgy: Gregor Runge. Artistic advisor: Esther Freixa. Choreography collaboration: Andy Zondag. Internship: Jerneja Fekonja. Production management: Alexandra Morales. Produced by: Theater Bremen

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https://www.kreiszeitung.de/kultur/optimierte-gestalten-90081169.html?fbclid=IwAR2Q_WCcdmOFtijXQ74foZrJ-j7G3ws6nkC7ZQ0iKhUDuhGwegCLUBqUgpo

"Futuralgia is about nothing other than the body in the digital age. Or rather, it is about the question of how our perception and body awareness change when we see our counterpart and his movements only on the screen. Of course, this has not only been an issue since Corona, but has now taken on a whole new importance.”

“There is a strange tension between distance and common ground in which we live, especially these days. A situation that not only touches Sagarra's choreography, but meticulously dissects it. Above all, however, "Futuralgia" is an extremely worthwhile examination of the way we see our bodies and, yes, also stage them.”

“To booming technobeat (music: Nil Ciuró) the bodies sway or change into ballet steps. Sometimes in pairs, sometimes as a group they use the space - and yet they are alone. Even the shared moment is not much more than a fleeting illusion, in the real as well as in the virtual world. Whether millions of followers on Instagram or five colleagues in a zoom conference: Those who interact with others via screens are part of a group, but are actually only lone fighters. There are reactions, but only delayed. This is what the ensemble experienced during rehearsals and the choreographer at the premiere: Sagarra receives the applause via a laptop held in front of the grandstands.”

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https://frauenseiten.bremen.de/blog/futuralgia-koerper-im-digitalen-zeitalter/?fbclid=IwAR3opF7Z2SazI9EAeNEkbPixIhqxtl3owGIfThH96ZbqSh8j1s0E4-Exr7o

"with Futuralgia, choreographer Núria Guiu Sagarra and the "Bremen dance company Unusual Symptoms present an extraordinarily current work. They bring bodies from their digital representation back onto the stage."

"Neon colors, glaring light and futuristic music accompany the dancing interplay of synchronicity and chaos, togetherness and anonymity, proximity and distance. Recurring motives are competition and imitation."

"We viewers look at the dancers from all directions as if through the screen. Because we sit around the stage - no hiding, no detail escapes the movement. On the one hand we raise the distance and on the other hand we are close to it - like in the internet. This ambiguity of closeness and distance can be experienced in Futuralgia in an unembellished and more conscious way than usual. In this way, the staging reflects daily experiences. And sharpens our senses for the effect of digital body images."