NÚRIA GUIU. SPIRITUAL BOYFRIENDS
DANCE
DATE
December 16, Thursday
TIME
7:00pm
SPACE
Lantegia 1
PRICE
12€ / 10€ with Az card / Use your Bilbao Cultura Voucher to purchase your tickets at AZ info / If you have any special requests, we would like to thank you for contacting the Center in advance through the email info@azkunazentroa.eus or by phone 944 014 014.
LINK
Artist's website
The eszenAZ season continues in December with Spiritual Boyfriends by the Barcelona choreographer Núria Guiu, a solo act revolving around the body-power relationship. The performance tackles it through physical, theatrical and visual language, blurring the frontiers among languages, not to mention the terms autobiography/reality and fiction.
After her stage piece Likes, presented at Azkuna Zentroa in 2019 regarding social networks and value of the popular ‘like’ as a reflection on the digital era we’re living in, she returns to the Centre with her new creation Spiritual Boyfriends.
In this work, Núria Guiu examines the discipline of yoga turning it into the focus of a documentary and iconographic research on the historical creation of yoga postures; and how power imposes roles, regulations and structures on bodies to create a culture of self-discipline, health and beauty. Despite being a spiritual discipline, yoga today is unable to avoid the capitalisation of our bodies via concepts like: beauty, health and the industry of fetish objects that revolve around self- therapy.
According to the artist, “digitality is questioned as a space of desire but also one of control, like a drug and a collective psychotropic, where the soul (understood in internet as an informative volatile virtual body) is released from the materiality of the body to observe, touch and manipulate invisibly omnipresent.” Núria Guiu wonders what the role of internet in relation to immateriality, love, power, neoliberal politics not to mention its techniques of control and social surveillance is.
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NÚRIA GUIU an artist settled in Barcelona, graduated in classic dance at the Barcelona Theatre Institute. She’s a certified instructor of Yoga Iyengar and is studying a Degree in Anthropology and Human Evolution at the UOC. As a dancer, she has worked with companies like: Cullberg Ballet, Gisele Vienne, Carte Blanche Dance Company and Batsheva Dance Company, among others. As a choreographer, she’s created Portal (2012) and Likes (2018), presented at Azkuna Zentroa in 2019. The piece chosen for the European platform Aerowaves 2018, received a special mention in the ‘BCN City Awards 2018’, and the best performance award at the ‘BCN Critics Awards 2019’.
On December 16, Thursday, at 11:00 am, Nuria Guiu will perform the play “Spiritual Boyfriend” for schools in the Auditorium. After the show there will be a meeting between the artist and the school public.