CECILIA COLACRAI

Dancer, independent maker and teacher of contemporary dance, improvisation and composition, living in Barcelona since 2002.

Since 1995 she has been interested in deepening her knowledge of different areas of contemporary dance and other disciplines related to movement and performance.

Since 2012 she has been independently working with artists Anna Rubirola and Mireia de Querol within the Big Bouncers Collective. They received the “Applause to the emergent creation” prize at the Sebastià Gasch Awards, FAD 2015. In 2018 their piece OVNI was nominated as the best dance performance at the Awards of the critics of performing arts (Catalunya) in 2018. In 2019, the Mercat de les Flors theatre (Barcelona) invited the Big Bouncers to present several own pieces and pieces by artists connected to the collective within the framework of Constellations part of their programme.

She is a member of Group La Bolsa (Iris Heitzinger, Natalia Jimenez, Mireia de Querol, Xavier Moreno, Anna Rubirola and Federica Porello) with which they premiered the “Measure of Disorder” performance directed by Thomas Hauert at the Grec Festival 2015. At the moment, there are creating their new piece, “Wondering portraits”.

Currently and since 2018 she has been collaborating with Joan Català inside of the 5.102 m/s that will premiere in Barcelona in season 2019 – 2020.

As an independent maker she collaborated with artists such as Joao Lima and Anna Rubirola in the “Morder la lengua” performance and with Jorge Albuerne in dance-circus pieces “Gira” and “Último, el baile”.

She crated two solo performances: “Sola?” (2005) and “La incorruptible belleza de la distancia” (2011) that were presented at several festivals in Spain, France, Italy, Mexico, Cuba and Argentina.

She collaborated with different choreographers and projects, such as: Alexis Eupierre, Montse Colomé, Toni Mira and Cia. Nats Nus, Cia. Emmanuel Grivet, Sebastián García Ferro, Cia. Tumàka’t, Grup República Cênica, Cia. Gabriela Solini, space Tragant-Dansa, space for creation La Caldera, among others. She took part in different video-dance project that were developed by the Finmatun Cultural Association at the Brians Penitantiaty Center. She has been part of the Sudansa project since 2009 (dance in schools) and took part in the Tot Dansa project from 2017 to 2018, among others.

She has been teaching contemporary dance classes, improvisation and composition since 1997 in Argentina and since 2002 in Barcelona and other cities of Europe and Latin America. She is currently a member of the teaching staff of the Institut del Teatre, Barcelona.

She was a member of the board of directors of APDC (Association of dance professionals of Catalonia) between 2011 and 2017, and has been an associated member of spaces for creation La Visiva and La Caldera.

www.ceciliacolacrai.com