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.

He studied one year of Media and Communication in Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and he took the one year Master Study in Culture of Peace and Conflict Resolution in that same university.

In 2002 he moved to Amsterdam to study choreography at the School for New Dance Development, where he graduated in 2006.

In 2009 he started the Amsterdam Master of Choreography at the Amsterdam School of the Arts (AHK).

- 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”) Carolien Hermans (“Do you want to dance with me?”, “The sceptic”, “Body In Bits And Pieces") or Kyrstine Andersen (“WEGO”). 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 theaters and festivals in Holland and in Spain. His graduation piece “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 all over Europe.

In 2007 he became resident choreographer at the Frascati Theater in Amsterdam, where he created the short movie “Watching you” and the solo “Discopolis”, which he developed further in Barcelona under the final title “Striptease programat”, presented inside the program “Viatges a la felicitat” at the National Theater of Catalunya. At the end of that year he started working on his third solo “Striptease”, commissioned by the ITS Festival as part of the Choreography Award 2007.

In 2008 he premiered “Striptease” in Something Raw Festival, and presented it in many other international venues trough out the year. During the summer, Kalamata Dance Festival in Greece commissioned him a version for three women of “Striptease”, which was called “StripteaSeS”. In December he premieres in Amsterdam his first group piece for 5 women called “Do you have a cigarette? and other ways of approaching”, a coproduction between Frascati Theater (Amsterdam), La Caldera (Barcelona), Operaestate Festival (Bassano del Grappa) and Springdance Festival (Utrecht), which was premiered in Frascati WG in December 2008.

In 2009 he created the short movie “miratge cromàtic”, produced by Nu2’s (Barcelona) and he started the process of “Coser y cantar”, a research on singing and dancing, developed within the project “Pasantías” by Malqueridas (Barcelona), and which will be later premiered in Springdance Festival in Utrecht.
In July, the association Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds (NL) gave him the Charlotte Köhler award, as recognition to his carrier as a young choreographer.

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
2008.October.2,3,4 - STUK, Leuven, Belgium
2009.January.9,10 - tanzhaus wrn, Dusseldorf
2009.August.5-16 - Dance base - Fringe Festival, Edimburgh
2009.October.17 - eXplore dance festival, Bucharest, Romania

--- 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.August.3,8 - Implustanz Festival, Vienna, Austria
2008.September.4 - Operaestate Festival, Bassano del Grappa
2009.January.14,15 - Musonturm, Frankfurt
2009.February.20,21,22 - Festival Escena Contemporanea, Madrid
2009.May.28,29,30,31 - Contemporanea Festival, Prato, Italy
2009.September.26 - Es.terni international festival. Terni, Italy
2009.November.12 - The basement. Brighton - UK
2009.November.14 - Homotopia Festival - Blue coat. Liverpool - UK
2010.January.16 - Centre Cívic Barceloneta, Barcelona
2010.March.25,26,27,28 - Festival Internacional de Teatro de La Paz, FITAZ. La Paz, Bolívia
2010.April.29,30 - Danae Festival, LachesiLab, Milan

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

--- do you have a cigarette? and other ways of approaching
2008.April.11 - (Try Out) La Caldera , Barcelona
2008.April.24 - (Try Out) Spring Dance, Utrecht
2008.September.6 - (Try Out) Operaestate Festival, Bassano Del Grappa
2008.December.4,5,6,10,11,12,13 - (Premiere) Gasthuis Theater, Amsterdam
2009.October.9,10 - Nederlandse Dans Dagen, Theater Aan Het Vrijthof. Maastricht
2010.February.5 - Something Raw Festival. Frascati Theater, Amsterdam
2010.Agosto.17-22 - Dutch Culture Centre. Expo 2010. Shanghai, China

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)
2008.March.6,7 - LOW Festival, Budapest (H)
2008.April.9 - deSingel, Antwerpen (B)
2008.May.9 - Wiener Festwochen, Vienna (A)
2008.May.11 - Theatertreffen, Berlin (D)
2008.May.17 - Fabrica de Movimentos, Porto (P)
2008.June.3 - Dance Week Fesival, Zagreb (Croatia)
2008.June.23 - Stary Browar Art Center Poznan, Poland
2008.July.4 - Baltoscandal, Rakvere, Estonia
2008.September.24,25,26 - Dance Theater Workshop, New York
2009.February.6,7 - Salder's Wells Theater, London
2009.February.14 - National Review of Live Art , Glasgow
2009.March.14,15 - LP'09 - Festival Dasna... o no. Mercat de les Flors. Barcelona
2009.May.17,18 - Istanbul
2009.August.28 - Mladi Levi Festival, Ljubljana
2009.October.18 - eXplore dance festival, Bucharest, Romania

--- 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)
2008.September.7 - Museion - TransArt Bolzano, Italy
2008.November.5 - Moving in November - helsinki, Finland
2008.November.14,15 - Hebbel Theater (HAU 1) Berlin
2009.March.23 - Carre des Jalles, Saint-Médard-en-Jalles, France
2009.June.26 - Civitanova Danza Festival. Civitanova Marche, Italy

--- 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)