For Cyberexorcism the Catalan dancer and choreographer Núria Guiu worked with five performers and TikTokers. Millennials and Generation Z tend to be described as individualists without much interest in one another – but perhaps it’s just their place that has changed, and swiping, sharing and liking make it possible. On the internet and particular on TikTok there are videos of young people with friends, their grandmothers and relatives. The private sphere is turning into a public stage. And into a place from which you can communicate with the world and respond to others, far away from everything but close to it at the same time. TikTok is becoming a performative phenomenon as the language of a new digital folk dance in international DIY style – and this is how Núria Guiu explores the virtual community and brings it out of the net and onto the stage.

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Director: Núria Guiu
Choreography: Núria Guiu together with the dancers Mauro Cyan, Berta Pascual, Francesco Palmitesta, Berta Martínez, Carlos G. Corchia
Choreographic assistance: Salva Sanchis, Glòria Ros
Set, costumes: Lola Belles, Víctor Colmenero
Lighting design, technical coordination: Jou Serra, Toni Morales
Music, sound design: Daniel Moreno Roldán, Adrià Juan, Alebert Tarrats
Production: Haizea Arrizabalaga & Aixa Gonález (2021), Ariadna Miquel (2022)

In co-production with the Hessisches Staatsballett for the Tanzplattform Rhein-Main, Mercat de les Flors, Centre de Cració i Arts Vives Graner de Barcelona, La Briqueterie – CDCN du Val-de-Marne, ICI – CCN Montpellier. The guest performances are supported by the General Director of Books and Reading Promotion (Spanish Ministry for Culture and Sports) and in part by a grant from Acción Cultural Española (AC/E), a state agency, in the frame of SPAIN – Spilling Creativity. Guest of Honour Frankfurter Buchmesse 2022.