MACA LIVE. Lorena Nogal

Winner of the Talía Award 2024 for best female performer. A passage where to embrace mutations and the process of change. An intermediate place in search of a new version of oneself.This piece is a manifesto about what is built from darkness, from doubt, in the crack that does not show but suggests.A work that rests in the place of transit.In search of the beauty that emerges from the acceptance of the imperfect, of asymmetry, of the irregular, and of the noise and traffic that is deposited in a loose, vulnerable and unstructured body.The artistBorn in Barcelona in 1984. Lorena Noguera trained as a dancer at the Instituto del Teatro in Barcelona, where she graduated in 2005, and in the IT Dansa company, where she worked on the repertoire of internationally renowned choreographers such as Ohad Naharin, Jirí Kilyán, Stijn Celis and Nacho Duato among others.For more than 10 years she has been an active part of the artistic team of La Veronal, working alongside Marcos Morau as an assistant in choreography and as a dancer, working both in the company's own choreographies and in external creations: The Royal Danish Ballet, Beijing Dance Theater, Göteborgsoperans danskompani, National Dance Company Wales, Compañía Nacional de Danza, Scapino Ballet, Carte Blanche, Norrdans, Skanes Dansteater ...She has also worked with other renowned companies such as Gelabert-Azzopardi, Lanònima imperial and Plan B Dance Company. Furthermore, as a choreographer she has created her own works with which she has won awards in national choreographic competitions. Among the various recognitions she has received, she was awarded best female performer at the Catalonia Critics Awards 2016.In 2018, together with several colleagues from her promotion at the Instituto del Teatro, she launched a project called HOTEL scenic collective. It is a new dance company that was born with the aim of building crossings that allow inhabiting the imagination and the world of other artists. To do this, they invite artists from different scenic disciplines to create and direct them. The company made its debut in June 2018 with two short pieces in the Hiroshima Room.