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.

Neus has choreographed internationally from very early on in her professional 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.

​RECENT WORKs

​NOISE 2021-2022
Commissioned by BBC Arts, One Dance UK, The Place and Dance East.
An interactive film for Deaf and hearing audiences using sound reactive VFX and Augmented Reality.
Created by Nua Dance and funded by Arts Council England. 
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NOISE and SILENCE 2020
Commissioned by National Centre for Circus Arts.
A film with circus artists filmed during lockdown and rehearsed remotely. Funded by Arts Council England. 
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QUIMERA 2018-2019
An intergenerational dance and circus piece that toured nationally with sell out shows in Bristol and London.
Created by Nua Dance and funded by Arts Council England.
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REVERIE 2017
Commissioned by London Youth Circus
A circus piece for young performers across the country with sell out shows in London. Funded by Arts Council England. 
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PREVIOUS achievements

2017- Mentor of 11 international choreographers at  OMI Arts Center, NY
​2017- Triple bill Organic Entity with choreographers Salah El Brogy and Anna Watkins
​2016- Selected for a choreographic intensive led by Joe Moran due to the choreographic strength of Here Body at Resolution festival, The Place
2016- Selected for Dance Springs with SNOW FALLING SOON, a collaboration with visual artist Nieves Mingueza
2015- Selected for a three weeks residency at OMI Arts Center, alongside ten other choreographers from various dance disciplines
​2015- Selected for Emerge Festival with LEFT
​2015- Selected for Ignition Dance Festival with IS THIS ART?
2013- ​Selected for World Stage Design with DAWN/S, a collaboration with set designer Francesc Serra Vila. Funded by Arts Council Wales
2011 & 2015- Selected for Wales Dance Platform festival with MADE OF CLAY and HERE BODY
2009- Selected for One Night's Dance, a platform for young choreographers hosted by Dansateliers Rotterdam. 

Meet the artist

Neus Gil Cortes 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 into the studio.
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