pere faura
performance artist


Born in Barcelona in 1980, he studied music in the music school Diaula and in the Conservatory of Barcelona for more than 10 years, focused on flute and singing. He studied 2 years as a Theatre Maker in the Institut del Teatre of Barcelona combining it with ballet and contemporary dance training in Area, espai de dansa i creació. In 2002 he moved to Amsterdam to study choreography at the School for New Dance Development, where he graduated in 2006.

As a dancer he has been involved in several projects with choreographers like Jerôme Bel (“The Show Must Go On”), Ivana Muller (“While We Were Holding It Together”) or Carolien Hermans (“Do you want to dance with me?”, “the sceptic”, “Body In Bits And Pieces"). In 2006, he was selected to participate in the DanceWeb European Scholarship Program for Contemporary Dance within the Impulstanz Festival in Vienna.

As a choreographer, he started presenting his own work “panoramas, video and dance” (2004), “I belong to your image, sequence of panoramas” (2005) and “solo” (2005), mainly focused on the relationship between dance and video, in different theatres and festivals in Holland and in Spain. His production “this is a picture of a person I don’t know” (2006) won the ITS Festival Choreography Award and was selected for the Dansclick Holland Tour, and it has been presented in many different international venues around Europe.

In 2007 he became resident choreographer at the Gasthuis Theater in Amsterdam, where he created the solos “Discopolis” and “Striptease”, premiered at Something Raw Festival later on in 2008. In spring 2007 he was in Barcelona presenting the committed piece “Striptease programat” inside the program “Viatges a la felicitat” at the National Theater of Catalunya.

During 2008 he is developing his last group project called “do you have a cigarette? and other ways of approaching” which is a collaboration between Gasthuis Theater (Amsterdam), La Caldera (Barcelona), Operaestate Festival (Bassano del Grappa) and Springdance Festival (Utrecht).

archieve
as a CHOREOGRAPHER

--- This is a picture of a person I don’t know
2006.April – (premiere) Voorjaarsontwaken Festival, Den Haag (NL)
2006.June - Its Festival, Premiat a la Millor Coreografia, Amsterdam (NL)
2006.July - Freshdance/Julidans, Amsterdam (NL)
2006.September - Dansclick Showcase, Den Haag (NL)
2006.October - Nederlandse Dans Dagen, Maastricht (NL)
2006.October - Platform of Young Choreographers, Zagreb (CR)
2007.January - Something Raw Festival, Amsterdam (NL)
2007.January - Verkaderfabirek Theater, Den Bosch, Holland (NL)
2007.February - Aerowaves, The place, London (UK)
2007.August - B-motion, Teatro Remondini, Bassano del Grappa, (IT)
2007.October - La porta, La caldera, Barcelona (CAT)

2007.September/October/November - Dansclick Holland Tour (NL)
2007.September.22 - Theater de Veste. Delft
2007.September.25 - Podium Twente. Enschede
2007.September.26 - Schouwburg Arnhem. Arnhem
2007.September.28 - Theater Castellum. Alphen a/d Rijn
2007.October.3 - Schouwburg De Lawei. Drachten
2007.October.5 - Theater De Vest. Alkmaar
2007.October.6 - Leidse Schouwburg. Leiden
2007.October.9 - Schouwburg De Harmonie. Leeuwarden
2007.October.10 - Goudse Schouwburg. Gouda
2007.October.12 - Zaantheater. Zaandam
2007.October.13 - De Hanzehof. Zutphen
2007.October.14 - Schouwburg De Storm. Winterswijk
2007.October.18 - Witte Theater. IJmuiden
2007.October.19 - Theater 't Voorhuys. Emmeloord
2007.October.20 - Schouwburg Amstelveen. Amstelveen
2007.October.23 - Theaters Tilburg. Tilburg
2007.October.24 - Schouwburg Almere. Almere
2007.October.25 - Schouwburg Agnietenhof. Tiel
2007.October.27 - Theater De Lampegiet. Veenendaal
2007.October.30 - Theater de Maaspoort. Venlo
2007.October.31 - De Verkadefabriek. Den Bosch
2007.November.1 - Isala Theater B.V. Capelle a/d Ijssel
2007.November.2 - Chasse Theater N.V. Breda
2007.November.3 - Schouwburg Kunstmin. Dordrecht
2007.November.7 - Theater 't Speelhuis. Helmond
2007.November.8 - Schouwburg Het Park. Hoorn
2007.November.10 - De Verbeelding. Purmerend
                                                                     
2008.March 13 - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona (CAT)
2008.July 25, 27 - kalamata dance festival, Greece

--- Striptease
2007.june (try out): ITS Festival, Amsterdam (NL)
2007.september (try out) Nagib Festival, Maribor (SL)
2008.February.5,6 (premiere) Something Raw Festival, Amsterdam (NL)
2008.March.14,15 Centro Huarte, Pamplona (ES)
2008.May.16 - Fabrica de Movimentos, Porto (P)
2008.July.26 - Kalamata dance festival, Kalamata, Greece
2008.August.3,8 - Implustanz Festival, Vienna, Austria

--- Striptease programat (“Viages a la felicitat”)
2007.April-May (16 performances) – Sala tallers, Teatre Nacional de Catalunya (S)

archieve
as a PERFORMER

--- While We Were Holding It Together
Ivana Müller
2006.October.19 - (premiere) Sophiensaele, Berlin (D)
2006.Octobrer.20 - Sophiensaele, Berlin (D)
2006.October.25,26 - Rotterdamse Schouwburg, Rotterdam (NL)
2006.November.14,15,16,17 - STUK, Leuven (B)
2006.November.28,29 - Theater Kikker Utrecht (NL)
2006.December.09,10 - [Frascati] 1, Amsterdam (NL)
2007.February.13 - Vooruit, Gent (B)
2007.April.21,22 - Springdance Festival, Utecht (NL)
2007.July.3,4 - Belluard Bollwerk International Festival, Fribourg (CH)
2007.August.1,4 - Impuls Tanz/ 8 tensions/ Vienna (A)
2007.September.18 - Kaaitheaterstudio, Brussels (B)
2007.September.29,30 - Gessnerallee, Zürich (CH)
2007.October.07 - Nederlandse Dansdagen (NL)
2007.October.29,30 - Moving in November Festival, Helsinki (Finland)
2007.November.24,25 - JUTA, Düsseldorf, Impulse Festival (D)
2007.November.26 - Studiobühne, Cologne, Impulse Festival (D)
2007.November.28 - Prinz Regent Theater, Bochum, Impulse Festival (D)
2007.November.29 - Ringlokschuppen, Mülheim an der Ruhr Impulse Festival (D)
2007.December.6,7,8 - [Frascati] 1, Amsterdam (NL)
2007.December.15 - Theater Chassé, Breda (NL)
2007.December.17,18 - 100 Dessus Dessous, La Villette, Paris (F)
2008.January.17, 18 - Rotterdamse Schouwburg, Rotterdam (NL)
2008.January.19 - Plaza Futura, Eindhoven (NL)
2008.February.22,23,24 – National Museum of Singapore (SIN)
2008.March.6,7 – MU Theater, Budapest (HU)
2008.May.9 – Vienna (AT)
2008.May.11 – Berlin (DE)
2008.May.17 – Porto (P)
2008.May.25 – Prague (CZ)
2008.July.5 – Tallin (ES)

--- The show must go on
Jerome Bel
2006.July.29 – Impulstanz, Vienna (A)
2006.September.22 - Theaterhaus Gessnerallee, Zurich (CH)
2007.March.29 – Artdanthe, Vanves (FR)
2008.February.9 -  Sadler's Wells, Londres (UK)
2008.May.23 - Esplanade of La Defense, Paris (FR)

--- Body in bits and pieces (www.bibap.nl)
Carolien Hermans
2007.June – NPS, Amsterdam (NL)

--- El bosc (“Viages a la felicitat”)
Germana Civera
2007.April-May – Sala tallers, Teatre Nacional de Catalunya (S)

--- El último vuelo (“Viatges a la felicitat”)
Montse Sánchez
2007.April-May - Sala tallers, Teatre Nacional de Catalunya (S)

--- The sceptic
Carolien Hermans
2006.March – Gasthuis Theater, Amsterdam (NL)