Brigitte Huezo
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Brig Huezo ( Pronouns they/them*) is Post-Digital Choreographer, Dancer and Performer. They hold a BA in Dance from the University of Music and Dance Cologne (2021), supported by DAAD and private scholarships. Huezo is the award winner for the NRW State Prize for Young Artists 2024 in Performing arts. Their latest piece THE DEATH AT CODE! has been nominated for the 35. dance theatre award 2024 by the SK foundation of culture in the city of Cologne Germany. Brig Huezo’s work focuses on deconstructing the body within a tech-driven, virtual world. Working at the intersection of motion tracking technology, gaming, 3D design, and film. Their work explores the realms of physical and digital realities, through a phygital dance practice, they blend real-time movement with immersive digital environments, creating hybrid experimental spaces where identity and the body exist in constant flux. Their work portrays bodies as glitches and ephemeral entities, continually shifting, reorganizing, and transforming. In 2023, created the first commissioned work for an interactive dance game installation “POST DIGITAL BODIES” for Tanzhaus NRW’s 25th anniversary. From this work concept developed a motion capture workshop as part of the exhibition WE ARE IN HELL WHEN WE HURT EACH OTHER by Jacolby Satterwhite, invited by Kampnagel and Deichtorhallen, Hamburg and currently facilitator for Digital Arts & Performance in NEW TALENTS RUHR. Latest work “THE DEAD CODE MUST BE ALIVE!, a hybrid dance solo work an extensive set of real and glitch references, e.g. in the field of cyberfeminism guided by mythology, phygital dance, as well video game imagery. The initiation of this project has been supported by Dachverband Tanz within the framework of Tanz.digital programm 2022. The last works were presented at TEMPS D`IMAGES Festival, Tanzhaus NRW, 2024/2025, Tanzfaktur Cologne2024, Beyond Gravity Festival, Theater im Depot, 2023, Moovy Festival, A MAZE Berlin 2024 and Gamescom 2024. Huezo has actively contributed as Guest lectures artist at Tanzdigital Salon Dachverband Tanz, Digitalen Next Society Kulturpolitische Gesellschaft, TanzNRW Festival, Transcorperealities at PACT Zollverein, Creative Technologies Meetup, Fab Lab St.Pauli, Hamburg and among others. Their first piece as choreographer was PORTRAITS and have been shown in different festivals: Atelier n° 64 PACT Zollverein, 2020, Transeuropa X Festival, 2021, Tanz.tausch Festival, 2022. As a researchers in Post Internet Dances Research Lab with Tanzhaus NRW and “Digital Agora”, Freiraum, As a dancer and performer, they have worked in diverse performative settings e.g.Nick Mauss, Treatise on the Veil, Museum Ludwig, Köln, Young Boy Dancing Group, Kunsthalle Osnabrück. As well contributing within performing co- creation projects such: “R.I.P.”, Anan Fries,"GOLA",Reut Schemesh, "Ultramarine Sway", Tacho Tinta , LYCS Collective, Museum Ulm, UMANIMAL, (Film awarded in different international film festivals) and among others.