Photography: Nicole Guarino
Taken during the creation of "Is this ART?" with dancers Luke Divall and Rachele Rapisardi
Taken during the creation of "Is this ART?" with dancers Luke Divall and Rachele Rapisardi
As a choreographer I am curious about the human being: how we live, love, cope, struggle to communicate, inflict, resent, entangle and experience ourselves and others. My creations are often a quest to understand the complex feelings that inhabit us, providing a poetic and vivid experience for the audience.
With a sense of playfulness, enjoying the absurd and the beauty in the distortion, my pieces are layered with sociological, philosophical and psychological questions.
An intense and evocative physicality is used as a tool for expression for that which goes beyond words. It is at times risk taking and limit-defying, while others goes back to basics.
About
Neus has choreographed from very early on in her professional dance career, first supported by the different companies she was dancing in, and from 2009 as an independent choreographer. In 2015 Neus created the company NUA Dance to support her choreographic work.
In 2009, she was selected for One Night's Dance, a platform for young choreographers hosted by Dansateliers Rotterdam.
Since then, Neus' creations have been presented in Holland, U.K., USA (N.Y. and L.A.) and Spain, in festivals such as Wales Dance Platform 2011 and 2015, World Stage Design 2013, Stage One 2014, Feedback Festival Madrid 2015, Ignition Dance Festival 2015, Emerge Festival 2015, Resolution! 2016, Intercontinental Drifts I 2016, Dance Springs 2016 and Ellas Crean 2017
Neus' work has been supported by Dansateliers Rotterdam, Dance Works Rotterdam, National Dance Company Wales, Arts Council of Wales, La Zona Kubik, Dance West, Kingston Council, Arts Council of England, C12 Dance Theatre, The Space, The Place, Trip Space, University of Hertfordshire, Liga Mujeres Profesionales del Teatro en España and Dance East.
Neus was selected for a three weeks residency in August 2015 at OMI Arts Center, in NY, alongside ten other choreographers from various dance disciplines. In 2017 she got invited to come back as a mentor for the 2017 residents.
Recognised for the choreographic strength and performance of Here Body at Resolution 2016, Neus was selected to participate in a 2-day choreographic intensive led by renowned choreographer Joe Moran.
Neus partnered up with choreographers Salah El Brogy and Anna Watkins to create the triple bill Organic Entity which has had a successful summer tour in London, Oxford and Norwich and a conference in Cambridge. Click here for more information.
Neus holds a BA in Art History at the Spanish University UNED. Her studies have had a great influence in her artistic views.
In 2009, she was selected for One Night's Dance, a platform for young choreographers hosted by Dansateliers Rotterdam.
Since then, Neus' creations have been presented in Holland, U.K., USA (N.Y. and L.A.) and Spain, in festivals such as Wales Dance Platform 2011 and 2015, World Stage Design 2013, Stage One 2014, Feedback Festival Madrid 2015, Ignition Dance Festival 2015, Emerge Festival 2015, Resolution! 2016, Intercontinental Drifts I 2016, Dance Springs 2016 and Ellas Crean 2017
Neus' work has been supported by Dansateliers Rotterdam, Dance Works Rotterdam, National Dance Company Wales, Arts Council of Wales, La Zona Kubik, Dance West, Kingston Council, Arts Council of England, C12 Dance Theatre, The Space, The Place, Trip Space, University of Hertfordshire, Liga Mujeres Profesionales del Teatro en España and Dance East.
Neus was selected for a three weeks residency in August 2015 at OMI Arts Center, in NY, alongside ten other choreographers from various dance disciplines. In 2017 she got invited to come back as a mentor for the 2017 residents.
Recognised for the choreographic strength and performance of Here Body at Resolution 2016, Neus was selected to participate in a 2-day choreographic intensive led by renowned choreographer Joe Moran.
Neus partnered up with choreographers Salah El Brogy and Anna Watkins to create the triple bill Organic Entity which has had a successful summer tour in London, Oxford and Norwich and a conference in Cambridge. Click here for more information.
Neus holds a BA in Art History at the Spanish University UNED. Her studies have had a great influence in her artistic views.
Meet the artist
Neus Gil Cortés explains her creative process for THE RED LINE, a place to spark dramaturgical thinking created by Lou Cope as part of South East Dance’s Dramaturg in Residence.
Neus talks about following intuitive ideas, vivid sensations, obsessions, fantasies and transferring her explorations in to the studio.
Watch it here
Neus talks about following intuitive ideas, vivid sensations, obsessions, fantasies and transferring her explorations in to the studio.
Watch it here
Current and past works:
Quimera
2018
Photography: Lidia Crisafulli
Performers: Tori McGrory and Daniel Phung
Performers: Tori McGrory and Daniel Phung
Left
2015/2017
Photography: Danilo Moroni
Dancer:Léa Tirabasso
Dancer:Léa Tirabasso
Artichoke's Heart
2017
Image: Patricio Forrester
Dancer: Chiara Corbetta
Dancer: Chiara Corbetta
Snow Falling Soon
(We have to find the way back home)
2016
Collage and picture by Nieves Mingueza
Dancer: Neus Gil Cortés
Dancer: Neus Gil Cortés
Is this ART?/
Esto es ARTE?
2013/ 2015
Photography: Gigi Giannella
Dancers: Rachele Rapisardi, Luke Divall, Colas Lucot
Dancers: Rachele Rapisardi, Luke Divall, Colas Lucot
Here Body
2015
Photography: Patricio Forrester
Beyond,
what lies beyond
2014
Photography: Patricio Forrester
Dancer: Sarah Cerneaux
Dancer: Sarah Cerneaux
Like ink
2014
Photography: Patricio Forester
Dancer: Neus Gil Cortés
Dancer: Neus Gil Cortés
DAWN/S
2013
Photography: Valeria Pac, World Stage Design 2013
MADE OF CLAY
2011
Photography Roy Cambell-Moore
Dancers: Ygal Tsur and Neus Gil Cortés
Dancers: Ygal Tsur and Neus Gil Cortés
INVISIBLE PLACES
2009
Image and poster design: Paul Sixta
Earlier choreographies
“Striping down silence“ created by invitation of Dansateliers Rotterdam, for their programme One Night's Dance, a platform for young choreographers. Rotterdam, September 2009
"Il Piccolo Grande Uomo" and "Invisible Places", collaborations with the choreographer Francesco Curci and the visual artist Paul Sixta. Rotterdam, June 2008 and May 2009
"Untitled N.2 (silence)", "A blink does not last" for the Dancer's Creations Scheme at Dance Works Rotterdam, June 2007
"Stripes" Rotterdam Dance Academy, January 2006
"Aria" Castellón's Annual Dance Competition. Valencia, 2004
