LUCÍA

LUCÍA is a short dance film that immerses itself in the mythology of the martyr and reinterprets her figure through dance and shibari. Under the artistic and choreographic direction of Verònica Hernández Royo, choreographer and director of Cia La Dama, together with the artistic direction in shibari of Alberto Moral and with the photography and production direction of Christopher Picón, LUCÍA embodies the process of sanctification experienced by the martyr in her passage from woman to saint. The dancers of La Dama star in a whole ritual that starts from purity and evolves to eroticism, rejection, torture, passes through revelation, fear, acceptance and culminates in the glorification of the woman's body.

  • Verònica Hernández Royo
    Director
    director and choreographer
  • Alberto Moral Pérez
    Director
    shibari art director
  • Christopher Picón Carles
    Director
    photography direction
  • Verònica Hernández Royo
    Writer
  • Ámbaar Murgia Walter
    Key Cast
  • Sheila Guerrero Zúcar
    Key Cast
  • Nhoa Alfonso Urrestilla
    Key Cast
  • Valeria Aghenie Ursu
    Key Cast
  • Nerva Sánchez Cepero
    Key Cast
  • Verònica Hernández Royo
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Dance, Shibari, Videodance, short
  • Runtime:
    10 minutes 12 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    June 12, 2021
  • Production Budget:
    3,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Spain
  • Country of Filming:
    Spain
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Lens Dans Fest
    Brussels
    Belgium
    June 12, 2021
    Absolute Premiere
    Lens Dans Fest
  • Galería Mutuo
    Barcelona
    Spain
    July 16, 2021
    Spain Premiere
    Spain Premiere at Galeria Mutuo in Barcelona
  • IMARP
    Sao Paulo
    Brazil
    December 13, 2021
    South America Premiere
    Official Selection IMARP
  • Women Cinema and Arts and International Film Festival
    Mumbai
    India
    March 8, 2022
    India Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Clapperboard Golden Festival
    Sao Paulo
    Brazil
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Verònica Hernández Royo, Alberto Moral Pérez, Christopher Picón Carles

La dama dance company, directed and choreographed by Verónica Hernández Royo, began training in 2018, after the choreographer's trip to Israel, where she had the opportunity to learn the language of the gaga movement, created and developed by the choreographer and artistic director from Batsheva Dance Company, Ohad Naharin, the Suzanne Dellal Center, in Tel-Aviv. Trained in ballroom dancing, classical dance, urban dance and contemporary dance, she began the company living in Paris, where she developed her theoretical choreographic project. Currently based in Barcelona, doctoral student in Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature, she is preparing a thesis in the Department of Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature at the University of Barcelona, ​​where she studies the relationships of the body, movement, dance and theory of literature.

La Dama was born from the implementation of these theoretical questions and these years of work that have led this group of dancers to develop a whole praxis arising from theoretical research. Their pieces have been awarded both nationally and internationally and have had the opportunity to dance at events such as:

Final of the Sobanova Dance Awards 2019 in Paris
- Semifinals of the 19th Burgos NY Competition 2020 Urban Dance and Dancing with Stones categories
- They have represented Spain at the Pool 20 Internationales Tanzfilmfestival in Berlin
- They have presented their first large-format piece "Bestiary" at the Hop Autumn 2020 edition, organized by the Hop Festival at the Sant Martí de Provençals Auditorium ans at Tortosa, Capital of Catalan Culture 2021
- International Day of the Girl 2020, organized by Womenz at Casa Seat
- Metropolitan Fortnight with Choreoscope on the Filmin platform.
- Celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Surtdecasa cultural agenda
- They have premiered their new short film LUCÍA at the first edition of Lens Dans Fest (dance film festival in Brussels)
- Winners of the Hop Sant Andreu 2021 with LUCÍA
- Selected at IMARP Mostra internatconal de dança imagens em movimento (Sao Paulo, Brasil)
- LUCÍA selected at Women’s Cinema & Arts International Film Festival WCAIFF (Mumbai, India)
-LUCÍA selected at Clapperboard Golden Festival (Brazil)

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