Body and movement laboratory 2026

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 group, made up of six 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 initiative of Santa Mònica itself, with the aim of developing a shared creative process centered on learning and continuous training, while also exploring creative expression both individually and collectively.

In addition to bodily exploration, new paths for artistic creation are investigated through self-management, collectivity, and horizontality, seeking a balance—often complex and unstable—between the individual and the collective. The goal is also to establish a dialogue between the research process and the center’s exhibition proposals, opening up new avenues for experimentation and connecting the arts of the body with the other artistic languages that coexist at Santa Mònica.

In 2025 the group collaborated on a first original performance entitled “Al final tot té sentit (si no li trobes sentit, és que no és el final)”, held in January 2025 במסגרת the Wednesdays of sound and body at Sala Bar, and a second intervention in May 2025, “Saber caure també és un esport”, directed by Juan Gómez Alemán of La Juan Gallery as part of the exhibition CITISSIMUM ALTISSIMUM FORTISSIMUM.

In 2026, two activities are scheduled within the Wednesdays of sound and body program and two interventions linked to the planned exhibitions.

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.

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.

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.