Y Todavía Somos – Julia Nicolau
Spain
The performance will be followed by an open discussion with the audience.
Y Todavía Somos is the result of an exploratory process whose main premise was to shape and understand what we understand as aging, through the body and dance. This piece aspires to be a living testimony of the intersection between senescence and the cultural roots of my hometown Jijona (Alicante) through choreography, musical composition and words.
Y Todavía Somos combines tradition and contemporary by reinterpreting through contemporary composition techniques, a piece of music from my region. A Levantine pasodoble very representative of the Valencian Culture with the use of a Loop Station, flute and castanets. A sound space created live that is the trigger for this choreographic work.
Movement, articulation and pause are the three elements that support the choreology of this piece and that bring me closer to this de-subjectivation, this silence and this encounter with old age. Movement understood as a desire to rebel and not to perish, not to grow old. Articulation as something that rends and wobbles when old age enters through our pores and expels youth at every crack. The pause as a wait that leads us to tedium, to what stagnates and redounds.
Credits
Choreographer and dancer: Julia Nicolau
Assistant: Francisco Gaitán
Light Design: Miguel Ruz Velasco and Nuria Henriquez Navarro
Music: Jhana Beat and Julia Nicolau
Duration: 26 min.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/cCYTTQydBDo
The piece has been presented at:
12/11/2022: 40º Festival de Otoño, Madrid
13/11/2022: 40º Festival de Otoño, Madrid
19/11/2022: Museo Municipal de Cartago, Costa Rica
20/11/2022: Teatro UNA, Heredia, Costa Rica
22/11/2022: Teatro UNA, Heredia, Costa Rica
23/11/2022: La Tigra San Carlos, Costa Rica
25/11/2022: Salón Corporeos, Quepos, Costa Rica
27/11/2022: Universidad TEC San Carlos, Costa Rica
28/06/2023: Cine de Dalt, Xixona, Alicante
01/07/2023: Centro Coreográfico de la Gomera, Canary Islands
25/06/2023: Tjarnabíó Theatre, RVK Fringe Festival, Iceland
27/07/2023: Tjarnabíó Theatre, RVK Fringe Festival, Iceland
30/04/2023: Tjarnabíó Theatre, RVK Fringe Festival, Iceland
17/09/2023: Festival Vecindario, León
26/02/2024: 600 Beats Festival, Florence, Italy
09/03/2024: Centro Cultural de España en México, Mexico City, México
13/03/2024: Festival Bordes Escénicos, Mazunte, México
18/04/2024: Festival Danzattack, Tenerife, Canary Islands
01/08/2024: Solo Contemporary Dance Festival of Ankara, Turkey
26/11/2022: Salón Corporeos, Quepos, Costa Rica
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.