julia nicolau

Graduated in acting from RESAD and completed her training in London at Rose Bruford College, where she worked with the immersive theatre company Secrec Cinema, the Contemporary Dance Company Sadler’s Wells and co-founded Third Arrangement with Andrzej and Teresa Welmisnki touring internationally with "Pages from the book of..." and with “Kometa”. She continues her training in screen acting at La Central De Cine de Madrid and work at the popular TV show Cuéntame Como Pasó. She has collaborated in audiovisual projects in Mexico and France with the Telar collective. Award-winning of a Comunidad de Madrid’s grant and a National Perfoming Arts Award to develop her Physical Theatre solo “To Disappear in Three Acts”. Holds a Master’s degree in Contemporary Dance from CWRU (USA). In San Francisco, California, performed with the ODC Dance Company. She received the L.Eva Pancoast award to participate in the Kuala Lumpur Contact Improv Festival, Malaysia. Previously she studied transverse flute and voice at the Professional Conservatory of Music of Madrid.

Professional Experience    

Theatre/ Company works

2020    Quirófano – Work in Progress. Directed by Almudena Ramírez- Pantanella.

2019-17    Komet- Third Arrangement Theatre Company. Directed by Andrzej  Welminski y Teresa Welminska.

        Cricoteka (Poland), Morgana Festival (Italy) Print Room’s Festival, season at Coronet Theatre (London)

Teatro Franco Parenti (Milano) and Teatro India (Teatro di Roma)

2018     Quizá haya malgastado mis años de juventud– Teatro Casa de Vacas and Teatros Luchana. Madrid

2017    Achaques – Teatro del Bosque de Móstoles (Spain). Alarma Teatro. Movement Director Julia Nicolau

2017    Hotel La Rue – Madrid Theatre Network (Spain). Cía Totonco Teatro. Directed by Sergio López.

2016-11     Pages from the book of...  European Tour. Third Arrangement Theatre Company. Directed by Andrzej  Welminski and Teresa Welminska. Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Scotland), Instropolitana Project Festival (Bratislava), Stanslavski Continues Festival (Moscow), The Wandering Theatres Festival of Gardzeniece and Teatru Solwey of Krakow (Poland), BITEI Theatre Festival (Moldova), Beca Desperta (Barcelona), International Sibiu Festival and Babel Festival (Romania).    

2013    The Shawshank Redemption – Secret Cinema. London (UK). Inmersive Theatre. 

2013    Etta er Brad heimur – Gaflaraleikhúsi, Reykjavik (Iceland). Directed by Nanna Gunnas.

2012    Leviatan – Matadero de Madrid. Living Structures (Spain). Directed by Klaus Kruse.

Film and TV

2019     Ensayo Audiovisual. Laura Carrascosa y Ana Amado, Madrid (Spain)

2015     Gainauta – Telar art collective. Tepozlan, (Mexico)

2014    La raza cósmica – Telar art collective. Paris, (France)

2011    Cuéntame Como pasó –. Sagrillas. Exterior Noche. S12 C 16

2011    Petite Sonate. Flautist. Dirigido por Manuel Mendoza

Dance/ Company Works

2020    Las cosas en la Distancia – Directed by Poliana Lima. Centro Conde Duque (Spain)

2020    Diálogos de ensayo – Directed by E. Alonso and J.Nicolau. Festival DZM Cáceres (Spain)

2019     Bekristen – La Pharmaco, Teatros del Canal, Madrid (Spain). Directed by Luz Arcas

2018     Abiertos en Canal – Cia. Co-Lapso, Teatros del Canal, Madrid and Contendor Cultural, Málaga (Spain)

2018/17     Peep Box– Mey-ling Bisogno Dance Company, Matadero de Madrid (Spain). Directed by M. Bisogno.

2015     Shore – ODC Dance Company, San Francisco (USA). Directed by Emily Johnson.

2014    Intáctil – Fringe Madrid 2014 (Spain). Directed by Amanda Marinas.

2012     Rodin Reflections – Sadler’s Wells, London (UK). Directed by Tim Cassons.

Dance/Solo Works

2021-16    To Dissapear in Three Acts – Mediterranea19 of Rep. San Marino, 21º International Solo Tanz Theater Festival Stuttgart (Germany), Solodos en Danza de Ourense, Festival 150gr de Vitoria, La Gomera Choreographic Center Artistic Residency, Me, myself and I – platform for emergency choreography, 30º Certamen Coreográfico de Madird (Spain). Created and performed by Julia Nicolau.

2015    Gallo Rojo – Mather Dance Center. Cleveland, OH (EEUU). Created and performed by Julia Nicolau.

Physical Theatre / Solo works

2014    Leonor Must Die – Zona Dynamic. Berlin (Germany). Directed by Lola Fernández de Sevilla.

2013    Bloqueo – Festival Itself. Warsaw (Poland). Created and performed by Julia Nicolau. 

Video Dance

2015     Gainauta – Telar Art Collective. Tepozlan (Mexico).

2014    La raza cósmica – Telar Art Collective. Paris (France).

Music

2009    Solo Flute. Beatriz Galindo Auditorium (Spain) with the Cello’s quartet directed by Luis Álvarez.

INSTRUMENTS: Traveser flute, castanets, flamenco box drum and ukulele

LANGUAGES: Spanish and Valenciano (mother tongue), English (fluent), french (B2)

Training

El actor ante la cámara. Central de Cine, Madrid (España)

MA in Contemporary Dance. Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)

BFA in Physical Theatre. Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático de Madrid (Spain)

BA European Theatre Arts. Rose Bruford College, London (UK)

Professional Studies of Transverse Flute. Professional Conservatory of Music in Madrid (Spain)

Vocational Classical Dance Studies.  London Royal Academy of Dance method in Madrid (Spain)

Contact Improvisation. Kuala Lumpur Contact Improvisation Festival (Malaysia)

Tango. Montreal Tango Festival and Toronto Festival (Canada) Chicago Tango Festival,(USA)

Flying Low and acrobatic dance. Nuhacet Guerra, Max Sanford. Descalzinha Danza Scholarship (Spain)