Exploring the body as a living architecture: weight, axis, points of support, joints, directions, tensions and imbalances. A laboratory to expand body awareness and discover how the structure of the body generates movement, emotion, voice and presence. Composing with the body to create images, relationships and narratives in space.
→ Full cycle of physical theatre laboratories
A space for practice and experimentation to expand the physical and performance language.
We propose a journey through four laboratories in which we will explore physical theatre from different perspectives, placing the body, movement, voice and emotion at the centre of the practice.
Each laboratory starts from an essential aspect of the performer’s work and opens up a space for research and experimentation. The sessions can be experienced independently, but it is through the shared journey that the different practices connect, transform and gain greater depth.
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Gisela Creus
Dancer, educator and choreographer with an international and interdisciplinary career
Since 2007, she has combined her artistic career with the direction and management of Associació nunart and nunart Creacions.
She began dancing at the age of nine, exploring different styles. At 18, she started a degree in Business Administration and Management at the UAB, alongside a two-year professional dance training programme in Barcelona, where she obtained her diploma. She was subsequently accepted and awarded a scholarship to study at Laban (Trinity Laban) in London, where she trained for three years and graduated with First-Class Honours in Dance Theatre. She specialises in contemporary dance, improvisation, creative dance, classical dance technique and yoga. Since then, she has continued her training with internationally renowned artists, mainly in Barcelona, London and the United States.
As a performer and creator, she has worked with various companies, choreographers, collectives and performing arts projects, and has presented more than ten professional works as a choreographer, both independently and in collaboration with other artists. In 2019, she created two choreographic works for the dance companies of Roger Williams University and Providence College, and received the RISCA Fellowship Award in Choreography for the solo The Quiet A, which she created, directed and performed herself in 2018. Together with Daniel Davidson, she founded the artistic collective HDC Dance Ensemble, with which she has presented her work at various festivals across the United States.
In recent years, she has created the works Cosmos, Travessia Còsmica and Magenta, presented at nunart Creacions, Teatre de l’Estruch and Festival 15m2, among other venues, as well as several pieces for student groups at AREA and IAB, Institute of the Arts Barcelona.
As an educator, she has more than 15 years of experience teaching contemporary dance, improvisation and creative dance, from beginner to professional levels. She lived and worked in the United States for three years, where she taught contemporary and classical dance at Salve Regina University and directed rehearsals for its company, Extensions Dance Company.
She has taught workshops and intensive courses at centres and universities including nunart, AREA, Marshall and Franklin University, MIT, Brown University, CICER Residency, Play Practice Apprenticeship Residency and IAB Institute of the Arts Barcelona, among others.
She currently lives in Barcelona, where she continues to co-direct nunart Creacions, the collective creation support programme Projectem and the Sincronies Escoles Project. She also teaches regular classes in contemporary dance, improvisation and composition at nunart Creacions, l’Estruch, Associació de Dansa Contemporània de Sabadell and IAB Institute of the Arts Barcelona.
Oscar Valsecchi
Actor, Director and Teacher Specialised in Physical and Text-Based Theatre
A professional with an extensive international career in the performing arts and education. He has taken part in a wide range of interdisciplinary theatre projects, collaborating with artists from disciplines such as dance, circus, music, and classical and contemporary theatre.
He has extensive experience as an acting coach, working in both theatre and film with renowned performers and directors such as Eduard Fernández, Gonzalo de Castro, Sílvia Pérez Cruz, Pau Miró, Oriol Paulo, Joan Carreras, Pablo Derqui, Xavier Albertí, Miguel Rellán, Kike Maíllo, Loreto Mauleón and Carles Torrens.
He is co-founder of the company Totum Teatre and a member of the circus company Capicua.
With more than 30 years of teaching experience, he has taught across Europe, Central America and South America. Since moving to Barcelona, he has worked as a teacher at institutions including the Institute of the Arts Barcelona (IAB), the Centre de Teatre Físic Moveo, Plató de Cinema, the M-Use programme, Escola Universitària ERAM, the Centre de les Arts del Circ Rogelio Rivel, Escola Superior d’Art Dramàtic Eòlia and Sala Beckett.
For more than 14 years, he has collaborated with Lluís Homar on theatre, film and educational productions, in a constant pursuit of artistic excellence.
He has developed his own acting training method based on his personal training and experience.
