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ZOE BALASCH PORTFOLIO (selected works)
Index:
01: EMOTIONAL GEOGRAPHIES TOUR
02: FOREST GAME
03: BACWARDS
04: THE METAL AFFAIR
05: QUIET RIOT TOUR
06: WALKED BODYSITES BERLIN
07: LANDSCAPE'S EXPERIENCES
08: COLECTIVE BODY
09: NAU NOW
10: VIDEO DANCE WORKS
11: WE LEAVE
12: CHOREA LASCIVA
13: PARINAMA PROJECT
ZOE BALASCH ARUMÍ
http://zoebalasch.com/
EMOTIONAL GEOGRAPHIES TOUR
Performative walk in the Rec neighborhood of Igualada city, one of the most important industrial neighborhoods and cultural heritage in Catalonia,Spain.2019 Festivals:
Sound Walk Sunday Festival https://www.museumofwalking.org.uk/our-events/sound-walk-sunday/ Bategs Dance Festival http://batecs.bages.cat/
The audience and participants explore the embodiment, the specificity of the place and the performativity through walking. Instant creations at specific sites. Sound recording to create sound
landscape
FOREST GAME
Site specific dance / performance. Zoe Balasch , dance in collaboration with Bego Ricart (poetry) and Mònica Ubach ( live music).
Escletxa Festival : Art and Nature, Can Serrat , International Art Resdiency, November 2018. El Bruc, Catalonia.Spain
Performance with dance, live music, and participatory actions for the audience Forest Game is about the connection with up-sky, and down-land. We are all connected through land and we are all under the same sky.
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BACKWARDS
Dance-performance. March 2108. Premiered at Mid Term Exhibition, Faculty of Fine Art Gallery Chiang Mai University, Thailand. Created and performed: Zoe Balasch Sound edition: Zoe Balasch Video edition: Montse T.Martí
Space and time ( together ) backwards to the starting point
VIDEO: https://vimeo.com/275681807
THE METAL AFFAIR
Site-specific performance with dance-theatre and video-projections.
Premiered at Sites Embodied Cyprus Ecology and Arts Festival 2017, Akamas National Park, Cyprus.
Granted by Ramón Llull Catalan Culture Institute and Eco-Art Incubator Cyprus in collaboration with British Columbia University and Dance Gate Lefkosia.
Co-created and performed by: BIONICA! (Zoe Balasch and Isabel Andrés)
The Metal Affair it’s about the ecological impact of the quarries in the Akamas National Park VIDEO: https://vimeo.com/250013433
QUIET RIOT TOUR
Remote experiential and performative walk.Participative actions with the audience in the public space from Nicosia.
Premiered at Urban Emptiness Nicosia 2017 – public art and performance festival – Nicosia Pop Up Festival 2017.Cyprus.
Co-created and performed by: BIONICA! Art collective ( Zoe Balasch and Isabel Andrés)
Performative actions, dance, meditation, storytelling techniques, video projections and sound effects are key elements of the tour.
WALKED BODYSITES BERLIN
Site-specific project related to the art of walking and instant creation. Exploration of Wedding and Friederichschein neighborhood from the city of Berlin, 2015.
Walkshops, performances and video creation. This project is currently on-going (waiting for funding)
Body actions in the public space open to participatory audience.
Proposals to create awareness of the body and its sensitivities.Improvisation and instant creation in the site.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=sWN8wvyl1Kc&feature=emb_title
LANDSCAPE’S EXPERIENCES
2011-2013
Landscape can be danced? This question is an introduction to different actions related to body, dance and land: Theoretical research, talks, workshops, performances and video productions.
VIDEO - Interview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbZoodcWdO8
VIDEO - Workshop “Choreography and Landscape” with Architecture’s Students of High School of Arquitecture - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W76rbw8_pdM
LANDSCAPE EXPERIENCES
Zoe Balasch, Jordi Mas: Dance and Choreography. Sasha Agranov: Live Music. IV Congrés d’Art, Paisatge Vitivinícola i Enoturisme. Catalonia, Spain.
2013
VIDEO : https://vimeo.com/71170089
LANDSCAPE EXPERIENCES
Zoe Balasch, Jordi Mas: Dance and Choreography. Sasha Agranov: Live
Music. WINETURISM, Priorat. Catalonia, Spain. 2013
COLECTIVE BODY
Zoe Balasch: Dance and Choreography & Valentí Vall: Live Music SIMBIÒTIC Festival, Catalonia, Spain. 2011
How identities can be constructed by a certain land ? Collective body is about “we” instead of “I” Produced by Portal Nou and CRA’P in collaboration with CeRCCa.
NAU NOW
Zoe Balasch: Dance and Choreography, Antoine Berthiaume: Music & Experimental Sound. CerCCa, Center of Research and Creativity, and CRA’P, Practices of Artisitc Research and Creation Center, Co-Production and Collaboration, Catalonia, Spain. 2011
https://cercca.cat/ http://www.cra-p.org/
Exploration about how we construct patterns of music, movement, repetitions, stops, and what happens when are broken.
VIDEO: https://vimeo.com/163817927
VIDEODANCE WORKS
EMOTIONAL GEOGRAPHIES.
Dance and Choreography: Zoe Balasch. Video: Claire Le Clezio
A.I.R. Program, CerCCa, Catalonia, Spain. 2012
Presentations: *NU DANCE FEST November 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia. *Exhibition CeRCCa 2009-14 Anniversary , June 2015. Catalonia, Spain. *Jam of poetry and dance, July 2014 Rimaires Catalonia, Spain. *IV Art and Landscape Congress, June 2013, Catalonia,Spain. *Ecological and Environmental Fair, September 2013 Catalonia, Spain
MICRO-CLIMATE
Dance and Choreography: Zoe Balasch. Video: Jordi Gibert
Catalonia, Spain. 2012
VIDEO: https://vimeo.com/80663913
VIDEO: https://vimeo.com/110133559
WE LEAVE
GORA COMPANY Dance & Poetry.
Zoe Balasch: Dance and Choreography. Bego Ricart: Poetry
VIDET Festival. Catalonia, Spain. 2009
We leave explores how to languages, poetry and body’s language can dance and have a dialogue
together.
CHOREA LASCIVA
Inuter Company.
Zoe Balasch and Sara Pons: Dance and Choreography. Neus Isaac: Visuals
Dansa També! Festival and IN-Formals Festival, Barcelona, Spain. 2009
Research about hysteria illness and its embodiment. Dance and choreography based on aesthetic models and patterns from this research to create new languages of the body.
PARINAMA PROJECT
2009 - 2011
Parināma is a sanscrit word about the the concept of impermanence or constant changes. Many philosophies of India as Samkhya, Yoga, Tantra, Veda, talk about the origins of sound and
language. “Akasha”, eter, is considered the element that produces space and sound. We explore the relationship between movement, dance, sound and music with space. The results are Parina-
ma, Padma, and Inhale-Exhale productions.
PARINAMA
Zoe Balasch: Dance and Choreography. Olga Solà: Experimental Sound
VIDEO: https://vimeo.com/80552026
A.I.R. Program , Granted by OSIC ( Catalan Arts Council), CACIS, Center of Contemporary Art and Sustainability. Catalonia, Spain. 2010
Inspired by the book Veda’s Anthology from Raimon Panikkar. Dance, voice, experimental sound and sculpture made with organic materials. PARINAMA is an invitation to open reflections on
human existence.
PADMA
Zoe Balasch: Dance and Choreography. Olga Solà: Experimental Sound
VIDEO: https://vimeo.com/80551865
A.I.R Program, NAU COCLEA ART CENTER, Granted by OSIC ( Catalan Arts Council), Catalonia, Spain. 2011
Padma it’s a Sanskrit word that means “Lotus”.
Sound research with a sound table, dance and research with light and shadow.We are inspired
by sounds and qualities of water.
PADMA
Zoe Balasch: Dance and Choreography. Olga Solà: Experimental Sound
VIDEO: https://vimeo.com/80551865
PRANA-APANA/INHALE-EXHALE, Moviment.0 Festival. Catalonia, Spain. 2011 Experimental sound, music, visuals and dance.
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The 5th edition of the festival Moviment.0 was about 1984 by George Orwell's book. PADMA : PRANA-APANA/INHALE-EXHALE it is a critical about mass system and consumption