BERTA  BALIU

BERTA BALIU FRANQUESA

 

 

I'm a professional dancer and visual artist.

 

Contemporary dance:

- Postgraduate Program in Movement and Education from  Institut del Teatre de Barcelona.

- Postgraduate Program in Contemporary Dance from Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD), Austria.

- Graduate degree in Contemporary Dance from the Dance Conservatory of Barcelona, Institut del Teatre  (EESA-CPD).

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Aerial/vertical dance:

- AEREA 1º escuela mundial de danza aerea – Brenda Angiel (Argentina)

- Onair Barcelona Aerial Dance School (Barcelona)

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Relevant education:

- Masters degree in Secondary School Teaching, Vocational     Training and Language Teaching Training from Universitat de Barcelona (UB).

- Graduate in Fine Arts from Universitat de Barcelona (UB).

 

 

Professional Experience as a dance teacher: Ausías March Primary School (Bcn), Dell'Arte Dance School (Igualada), Sinera Dance School (Arenys de Mar), Las Carolinas – Retazos Company (La Habana, Cuba), Escola Municipal de Celrà (Celrà, Girona), English School (Barcelona), Maria Mora Dance School (Canarias)

 

Professional Experience as a dancer, (pieces) by: Natàlia Vinñas in SAT (Sant Andreu Theatre), Claudi Bombardó (perform in Fundació Antoni Tàpias, Bcn),Therese Lorenzo (Repertory of Gustavo Ramirez "Coma"), Keith Morino, Emilio Gutierrez (Construint en Blanc), in Ovidi Montllor Theatre, Festival New Faces New Dances (SEAD-Salzburg), Willi Dorner Company (“Bodies In Urban Spaces”- La Mercè 2013 Barcelona), Cia. Cielo Raso (“Carnaval”- Fira de Tàrrega’13), “Niemand” (Joan Puig), Cia. Los 3 nombres de un gato (“Du bist dran”), Mayumana Cuatro TV (Madrid), Agitart Company and Habemus Corpus (“PANDORA” and ”La fi d’un principi”), Onair School – Barcelona (“Despierta”- SAT!), Cia. Insectotròpics (“Compra’m”- Fira Tàrrega’15), Cia. Múcab Dans ("Paper Bubbles"), Cia. Carretera 45 ("Algo de mi, algo de ti" - Fira Tàrrega’16), Cia. Sacude ("Hipnosis" 2016-18), Cia. Anna Macau ("Silver Drops" 2017-18).

 

Personal projects (dance): Kocham Cie, Connection, Warietats (Bcn and Centelles 2011, Figueres and Igualada 2012) Trangenicus (Bcn, Figueres, Igualada 2012, Salzburg 2013), Jardí de fils (Tous, 2013), La cosidora – Sta Àgata (Prats de Lluçanès, 2015), Llum interna – Cau de Bruixes (Centelles 2015), Roco (C.C. Boca Nord, Barcelona 2015), Alçaki (Prats de Lluçanès, 2016), Smell Memory (Igualada, 2016), Filles d'Eva (Bcn, 2018-19)

 

 

 

FORMATION

 

Classical Teachers: Vicky Saiz, Livio Panieri, Jose Cruz, Montse Llopis, Blanca Ferrer, Carmen Rozestratten, Luc Louis de Lairesse, Cristian Tercea, Janyce Michellod, Anthony Rizzi, Libby Farr, Carlos Matos, Giada Ferrone.

 

Contemporany teachers: Natalia Viñas, Anna Roblas, Susana Rodriguez, Therese Lorenzo, Keith Morino, Claudi Bombardó, Miquel Garcia, Maximme Iannarelli, Emilio Gutierrez, Sònia Rodríguez, Peter Mika, Olga Cobos, Janyce Michellod, Martin Kilvady, Athanasia Kanellopoulou, Stella Zannou Matej Kejzar, Lali Ayguadé,  Jozef Frucek & Linda Kapetanea, Analia Slonimsky, Lucas Pablo Condró, Eugenia Estevez, Isabel Bustos,

Body percussion and percussion: Kike Cuandros (Igualada), Federico Lautaro Lucia (Argentina), Batinkat (batucada group), Homero Cortés (Aainjaa, batucada band, Bogotà), Batubaroa (batucada group, Barcelona)

 

Aerial Dance: Ludovica Zoe (Onair School , bcn), Brenda Angiel, Vivina Finkelstein, Lucas Coria, Victor Campillay, Carolina Tironi (Brenda Angiel Company, Argentina, Buenos Aires),Sara Bernabeu -aerial hoop- i Sheila Ferrer (Onair School , bcn)

 

 

2011-12 Acrobatics and jumps in Los Athenas, Barcelona: Victor Barrera and Delia

 

Workshops about dance-theater with Cia.Roberto G.Alonso (Barcelona), Cia. Marta Carrasco (Granollers). 

 

Workshops about contemporary dance:

 

Mathilde van de Meerendonk (MINUS 16 , Ohad Naharin) and Hofesh Shechter Company (London)

 

Summer In New York City – Dance – New York University, Tisch School of Arts (modern/contemporary dance, May 28 – July 5, 2013) with: David Dorfman Dance, Ellis Wood Dance, Brian Brooks Dance, Gina Gibney Dance, Kate Weare Company, Ronald K. Brown/Evidence.

 

Workuba 2014, La Habana, Cuba: Marta Bercy, Laura Estrems, Armando Yuvero, Maître Julia Fernández.

 

Apropa Cultura- Mercat de les Flors, Formació Educa amb l'Art 15/16. Sessió dansa contemporània amb Ana Stegnar i  sessió circ amb Roberto Magro

 

II Fòrum de les arts aplicades: Comunitat i Salut. Institut del Tetare de Barcelona 2015

 

Lali Ayguadé & Los Innato, Dansart Barcelona 2015

 

 

I participated in several projects of video dance and performances.

 

I have a professional experience and a high level of contemporary dance technique, ballet and vertical dance.