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