Contemporary dance – Julia Nicolau

The Skin Trumbles
Contemporary dance workshop

The Skin Trumbles is a methodical and immersive workshop for emerging dancers and dance makers, blending choreographic sequences with personal expression. Through a series of technical combinations and improvisation, participants will explore how their individual movements—shaped by social, political, and cultural forces—can tell unique personal stories. We will begin with structured technical exercises, focusing on precision and movement patterns, before integrating improvisation to express moments of tension, resistance, and identity. By exploring the intersection of technique and personal narrative, participants will learn to create a collective movement language that challenges dominant cultural norms and opens space for new meanings. This workshop emphasizes the body as both a site of individual experience and collective expression, offering tools for self-discovery, creative expression, and social transformation.

Ages: 18 – 100 years old
Level: For emerging dancers and dance makers

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Julia Nicolau

This year, Julia Nicolau is nominated for Best Dancer at the IVC Awards. She is currently touring in Turkey, Mexico, Costa Rica, Iceland, Italy, and Spain with her latest creation Y TodavíaSomos, which was featured at the 40th Festival de Otoño in Madrid. Recently, she worked on a new production for the InstitutValencià de Cultura. Previously, she collaborated with the Antonio Ruz Dance Company and Miguel del Arco on Las Noches de Tefía, with Arthur Bernard Bazin on Rota at Centro Coreográfico Canal, and with Cuarta Pared Teatro on Antes-Después. In London, she worked with Sadler’s Wells on Rodin Reflections and with Third Arrangement Physical Theatre Company (Andrzej and Teresa Welminski) on international tours of Pages from the Book of… and Kometa. She has also collaborated with Cía Co-Lapso, Cía Mey-ling Bisogno, and Poliana Lima. She holds an MA in Contemporary Dance from CWRU (USA), where she performed with ODC Dance Company, and a BFA in Physical Theatre from RESAD. She has trained at Rose Bruford College and received the L. Eva Pancoast Award for the Kuala Lumpur Contact Improv Festival. Her contemporary dance piece To Disappear in Three Acts won a Comunidad de Madrid grant and a National Performing Arts Award. Y TodavíaSomos is also nominated for a MAX Award as Best Revelation.