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Paper Couple
Created in Guangzhou, China, as a collaboration with ZEN Experimental Theatre, directed by Chinese choreographer Xiao Zhiren, "Paper Couple" intends to represent the sensitivity and subtle estrangement in a relationship. The whole piece swings from memories to imaginations. From an old couple to the infants, it questions the border between being and non-being, between craziness and sanity.Premiere at GMDC Small Theater (Guangdong Modern Dance Company, Guangzhou, China) on April 26-27-28th, 2019.
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DISCO-TECA
1979. After leaving behind the decade of chaos and idolatry of the Cultural Revolution, China opens its doors to the world. A hurricane of synthesizers, lascivious moves, bright lipsticks and wild hairdos storms the Popular Republic. After decades of uniformity and rule of the collective self, the germs of difference and individualism reappear in the ballrooms. “who am I?”, “what am I doing here?”, “what am I looking for?”.
Concept: Er Gao & Fabrizio Massini
Choreography: Er Gao
Commissioned by: IBSEN INTERNATIONAL
Produced by: Ergao Dance Production Group
Julia performed DISCO-TECA at the ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair (2017).
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Study of D NO BODY
Julia collaborated with Dario Tortorelli (DIVEinD) in his research of D NO BODY, a series of installations / performances with the objective to create the ideal self through the influence of another. Society often pushes us to conform to conventions without knowing or questioning our real identity. In this research, Dario and Julia explored new ways of representing an image by abstracting the body. Can we omit the body in a physical performance? Performed at Time Window Festival, Rotterdam (October 2016) and at Winter Nights Festival (December 2016) Watch video here -
Moonflower
Julia collaborated with Alexandre May in his choreography Moonflower, commisioned by AKOM Ensemble.“« Every definitions of freedom will rule in favor of determinism. » Henry Bergson Moonflower is the result of research in social psychology. How an individual relate to a group? Conformism, obedience, desire of breaking through. Moonflower asks two questions : How much am I daring ? Is my will [only] mine ?”
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Eternal me
‘Eternal me’ is a unique collaboration between sculpturing, contemporary music and dance. During the performance the dancers make their bodies eternal in a sculpture they create within the choreography. By live casting on stage 'Eternal me' researches the meaning of duplicating oneself.Concept and direction: Josine Slemmer
Composer & gitarist: Aart Strootman
Choreographer: Marijke de Vos | Teddy Shouldn't smoke
Dancers: Marijke de Vos and Julia Gómez Avilés
Singers: Vera Hiltbrunner and Kiki Luitwieler
Technique: Ruud de Boer
Thanks to: Otto Ligt, Joran Koster, Landgoed Cool tot Terhave, De Machinist, Studio de Bakkerij, Coup Ravage
...you need to be flexible like a “gum” in both, body and mind.
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