Dance HUB: Barcelona is a one-week dance intensive program that offers a transformative and culturally-immersive experience for dancers seeking a holistic and mindful approach to creative research.

At Dance HUB: Barcelona, creative research is at the heart of the program. Dancers are given the freedom to explore their ideas, experiment with movement, and collaborate with peers to create innovative choreographic scores. Participants are encouraged to delve into self-reflection, mindfulness exercises, and somatic practices to deepen their awareness of their bodies, emotions, and intentions as they dance. Our holistic approach not only enhances performance skills but also promotes overall well-being and personal growth. 

ABOUT BIDE
BIDE (Barcelona International Dance Exchange) is an organization based in Barcelona, that provides programs for creative exchange and networking between performing arts professionals worldwide, through a unique tool called B>Lab. The B>Lab's laboratories’ goal is to let creative ideas sprout and circulate in a basin of diversity and inclusion, through a process of non hierarchical cross-exploration. The B>Lab's laboratories trigger connections through which participants engage themselves in the research and share their discoveries in order to feed the collective creation. Each B>LAB has facilitators whose mission is to introduce the biannual theme, open questions and propose a dynamic structure for the working session, and provide a fertile field for participants to decide how to proceed.

Lorena Nogal trained as a dancer at the Institut del Teatre in Barcelona, where she graduated in 2005, and at the IT Dansa company, where she worked repertoire of internationally renowned choreographers: Ohad Naharin, Alexander Ekman , Jirí Kilyán, Stijn Celis or Nacho Duato. Since 2008 she has been part of the artistic team of LA VERONAL working as a choreographer and dancer. With Marcos Morau she also created for: The Royal Danish Ballet , Beijing dance teather, Göteborgsoperans danskompani, National dance company Wales, Compañía Nacional de Danza, Scapino Ballet, Carte Blanche, Norrdans, Skanes Dansteater, Ballet Zürich, Ballet Nacional de España or Nederlands Dans Theater. In 2024 she has been awarded as best female performer with the PREMIO TALÍA by the Academy of Performing Arts of Spain. In 2016 she was distinguished as the best dancer at the critics’ prizes of Catalonia. In 2018, with several dancers launched the project called HOTEL col.lecitu escènic. This is a Catalan dance company that is born with the wish to build crossroads which will allows us to inhabit other creators’ worlds and imaginaries.  Company with which he has worked with choreographers such as Marie Gyselbrecht (Peeping Tom), Quim Bigas or Lisi Estaras (Les Ballets C de la B). She also makes her own creations. Her lasts works has been  El elogio de la fisura, a solo that was premiered in 2022,  ALEGORÍAS (El límite y sus mapas) a collaboration premiered in The Théâtre National de Chaillot in Paris with the flamenco dancer Paula Comitre and AQUÍ , site-specific creation for HOTEL col.lectiu escènic. Pieces that are still on tour today. She also teaches courses related to KOVA method. A language of movement that she has developed together with LA VERONAL in the recent years.