Body and movement laboratory

As a result of the precious group work directed and coordinated by Zoe Balasch as part of the laboratory Corpografies inclassificables, carried out at the Centre d'Arts Santa Mònica between September 2023 and May 2024 and culminating in the long-term performance 1518/840 Transitar l’invisible, a research and exploration collective emerged from the body, dance, movement, performance and voice.

This heterodox ensemble made up of eight members from different disciplines, most of whom do not work professionally in dance or performance, was created in September 2024 as a resident group at the proposal of Santa Mònica itself, with the aim of developing a common creative process, where learning and continuous training, and at the same time investigating both personal and group creative expression.

In addition to bodily exploration, new ways of artistic creation are explored through self-management, group work and horizontality, seeking a balance, often complex and unstable, between the individual and the collective.

With a first performance entitled “Al final tot té sentit (si no li trobes sentit, és que no és el final)”, carried out in January 2025 within the framework of the Wednesdays of sound and body in the Sala Bar, the group opens up to collaborate with the same centre and to elaborate their own proposals.

Ivan Bercedo i Sales (Barcelona, 1969)
He came to community dance without any previous training and after the age of forty. Since then he has participated in different projects such as Barris en dansa, BesòsCreació and Atotaixodansa, among others. He currently works professionally in architecture at the Mizien studio and in the past has worked as an editor, curator and exhibition designer

Julieta Ferraro (Rosario, Argentina, 1982)   
Dancer, actress and performer. National teacher of contemporary dance, graduated from the Profesorado de Danzas, Argentina. In Argentina she studied acting at the Escuela Nacional de Teatro, and music at the Universidad Nacional (singing and violin). She works as a dancer in the Provincial Dance Company of Rosario, and as an actress in the stable company of the Ministry of Culture. She specializes in experimental dance and physical theatre at the Kim Physicl Theatre School in Berlin, where she trained in the Body Weather technique. In 2013 she began her training at the National University of the Arts in film studies. Since then she has been working as a performer in various film productions, specialising in experimental film and video dance. She also trained in kalaripayattu, a martial art, at the Hindustan Kalari Sangham school in Calicut (India). Since 2018 she has been training at the Siobhan Davies dance studios in London.  

Helena Minguet Sánchez (Cornellà de Llobregat, 1986)    
Graduate in Sociology and Teaching. She has been working in a museum for ten years and combines it with her artistic passions. She has trained with many professionals in the performing arts, dance, body and voice. She has also completed various training courses related to self-knowledge and therapy. She manages and programmes activities at Espai Llavor in Cornellà, where she also gives free voice workshops and develops one of her other creative sources: cooking. She is a regular practitioner of kalaripayattu, a martial art, having also received intensive training in India. 

Marika Nava (Milà, Itàlia, 1979)
With a degree in Art History, she has worked as a museum educator, cultural heritage guide and Italian language teacher for foreigners. She (re)discovered the pleasure of dance and movement as an adult and, as a hobby, she has taken courses in different dance styles, contemporary dance and dance-theatre. As a dancer and performer she has participated in community dance projects (Barris en Dansa, Cossos d'Aigua) and in performances at festivals such as Perpetracions, La Mercè and Dansa Metropolitana. As a member of the performative theatre company Escenas Salvajes, she has participated in the co-creation and performance of the company's original works. She is a member of the Dance Commission of the Barceloneta Civic Centre, which is dedicated to breaking down barriers between creators and spectators and opening up artistic processes to non-professional audiences.

Júlia Pérez Gonell (Barcelona, 1998)
Trained in Fine Arts and Humanities, she explores dance in a borderline way with other practices. Starting with an approach to experimental cinema as a programmer, she began her training in classical ballet and contemporary dance, while at the same time introducing herself to performative practice with Collectivo 31, Genova-Carrara.

Guillem Rodri (Sant Andreu, 1977)  
He studied drawing and illustration at the Massana School, audiovisual with Manel Muntaner, music with a master's degree in free improvisation at the ESMUC, among other training. He was introduced to movement with Aikido and Tai Chi, which opened his interest in dance, where he has practiced contemporary dance, Body Weather, dance improvisation and contact improvisation. His training in body movement has borne fruit mainly with the participation and creation of the association As d'Arts and the organisation of the Eix Festival Internacional de Dansa Improvisació, now in its thirteenth year. He is the organiser and performer of the Cicle Indeterminat of free improvisation of music and dance with more than thirty-five sessions held.

Toxifics Laperallimonera (Lleida, 1962)
From a very young age, Marta Trepat felt attracted to art, first to the plastic arts due to her family environment and later on to dance. She studied both disciplines through which she focuses her way of life. She has participated in different events and exhibitions. Her works are characterised by eclecticism. Basically she follows gesture, concentration on silence and contemporary dance with tendencies within performance and pictorial action. 

Pamdenàs (Barcelona, 1966)   
Jordi Vizcaíno Guillén, a philosophy graduate and expert in enigmatic poets, is a trainer of the Seitai Culture, speaker, rhapsodist and cultural activist. Always related to body movement, voice and theatre, he considers it a field of personal growth and not only an aesthetic fact.