Contemporary dance with Gisela Creus

Monday, from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m., from September 4 to June 28.

Attention! Activity starts punctually at 19.30, and at 19.45 we close doors. There is no bell at nunArt, you may not be able to enter if you are late.

Beginner-medium.

With ticket or single class.

10-class ticket: 85 €

Single class: 10 €

I live the dance space as a space in which to meet again. A space that seeks the reconnection of a global body, open, expansive, expressive, complete and available for constant change. A space where we can enter and risk discovering new limits and new dimensions. A space in which we can understand the immense and new possibilities.

It begins with a sequence of continuous stretching and articulated movements of the spine and extremities that will allow us to connect with ourselves, our body and its center. We will focus on breathing to help us warm up, energize and tone muscles and joints, as well as to open the awareness of the balanced body and its presence in space. Next, we are going to explore a sequence of movements and some space travel exercises to challenge the body to be available and efficient in relation to others.

We will learn a dynamic and energetic phrase that includes floorwork, technical sequencing and acrobatic body vocabulary. My methodology uses improvisations, explorations and phrases so that the body can develop and listen to its own changing voice. Always with the aim of growing the individual voice through movement and sharing it with others.

Gisela Creus

Dancer, educator and choreographer with international and interdisciplinary interest. Since 2007, she combines her artistic career with the direction and management of nunArt Creations. She started dancing at the age of 9, exploring different styles. At the age of 18, she began her studies in Business Administration and Management at the UAB together with a two-year professional dance training course in Barcelona, where he obtained his 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 the degree with honors as a Bachelor of Theater Dance.

She specializes in contemporary dance, improvisation, creative dance, classical dance technique and yoga. Since then she continues 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 created two choreographic works for the dance companies of Roger Williams University and Providence College University.

She has recently been 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. In collaboration with Daniel Davidson, they founded HDC Dance Ensemble, and present their work at DanceNOW Boston, The Provincetown Dance Festival, Modern Movements Festival, Providence Dance Festival, among others.

At the pedagogical level, she teaches contemporary dance, ballet, improvisation and creative dance; from beginners to professionals at different specialized dance centers such as nunArt Creacions, IAB Institute of the Arts Barcelona (Sitges) and AREA DANSA (Barcelona). 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 offers workshops and intensives at centers such as Brown University, Rhode Island College and Providence College (Providence), Roger Williams University (Bristol), Salve Regina University (Newport), Marshall and Franklin University (Philadelphia), Barnard University (New York ), CICER Residency (Cape Verde) and Play Practice Apprenticeship Residency (India) among others. She currently lives in Barcelona where she continues to be the co-director of nunArt Creations, and coordinates the Program to accompany the collective creation PROJECTem and the Synchronized Schools Project. At the same time, she continues her process of choreographic creation and presents 'Cosmos' and 'Travessia Cósimica' (collaboration with Marha Echavarria) at the L'Estruch theater in Sabadell on April 30, 2022. And as a premiere performer in Barcelona the piece 'En una nit d'estiu...' directed by Triny Reinoso.