Natalia Barua is a dance artist and choreographer working predominantly in videodance, interdisciplinary performance and participation. (Read more on her work in participation here)

Natalia’s work experiments with theatricality and form, with dance and movement at the centre of her practice and a deep connection and interest in interdisciplinary collaboration, sites and working with non-human elements/objects/materials. As much of her practice is about processes with people, oftentimes groups, Natalia leans towards solitude and more intimate collaborations for her productions (but not always), which manifest as live performances, single and multi-screen films and installations. 

During 2010-2012 Natalia created performances for GAP Gallery, niu espai artistic and UntitledBCN (Barcelona) – this work in non theatre-based dance and interest in site-specific responses led her to videodance practice. In 2016 she was a Lisa Ullmann Travelling Scholarship recipient which supported her training, development and networks in the screen/videodance field.

Since, Natalia’s videodance productions have been screened at multiple screendance and experimental film festivals worldwide and awarded at renowned festivals like LightMoves, Agite y Sirva and most recently at Rollout Macao for her triptych ISLA (2019), which has screened throughout South America, Canada, Southeast Asia and Europe. Her multi-screen work has been presented at venues such as Threshold Arts Space, Bath Spa University MediaWall and her first expanded cinema performance was presented at Hidden Door Festival, Edinburgh in 2018.

Natalia regularly collaborates with moving image artist Owa Barua and their practice-based research project ‘Expansive Screendance’ received Creative Scotland Open Project Funding 2019, influencing her commissioned work Slumbering Deep (2020) a video-performance-installation created with children and young people at Lyra. Natalia and Owa are interested in exploring a true synthesis of dance and video language, but they now mainly spend their time raising their son. 

Natalia’s productions with young people have been performed and presented at venues such as LOST Theatre, Siobhan Davies Dance Studios, Southbank Centre (Unlimited Festival), Big Dance Bus and Artspace. 

To see what she is currently up to, visit her Blog here.