
Joan Ferré Gómez was born in Barcelona on the 24th of May of 1993. He grew up in Spain, where since a very early age discovered his passion for moving.
After graduating in Highschool, he studied contemporary dance at “Àrea, espai de dansa i creació” in Barcelona and consecutively moved to Rotterdam to study at Codarts University. He did an internship at Luzerner theater (Switzerland). He graduated from Codarts in 2016 and got his first job at the National Theater Mannheim (Germany) under the direction of Stephan Thoss. Two years after he moved to work in Görlitz Gerhart Hauptmann Theater (Germany) under the direction of Marko E. Weigert and Dan Pelleg. During those years he got to work with choreographers such as Marina Mascarell, Idan Sharabi, Felix Lander, Marco Goecke, Jan Martens…
In July of 2019 he started his career as a freelancer.
Worked in Amsterdam with Ivgi&Greben on “The Voorlopers” and in Brussels with cie Thor on the production called «Toumaï».
In September of 2020 he got the support from Choreographic Centre Heidelberg to research and produce his own work. He created a duet called «Go ask the River» that has been developing and reinforcing thanks to the support of the centers NauCoclea and RocaUmbert in Spain.
The premiere of «Go Ask the River» took place on the 31st of July as part of the Tanzbiennale’21 in Heidelberg, Germany.
After 9 years abroad, in 2021 he came back to Spain, to work on «Hâmaïkà», the newest production from cia. Cielo Raso, which premiered on the 11th of September in San Sebastián. The piece is still being performed, follow their website for more information.
In November he won the award as ‘the best performer’ at «Premis de Dansa de l’institut del Teatre 2021» performing the piece «Todo esto era campo» choreographed by cia. Unaiuna.
While living in Barcelona, he kept on developing himself as a creator/performer with the help of cc Albareda where he had an artistic residency to keep researching his identity as a performer and creator. He developed a short duet called «DESCAPARSE».
In 2022 he moved to Madrid to work with Antonio Ruz at his newest work called ‘Pharsalia’. The piece won the award to best choreography at ‘Premios Thalia’.
‘Pharsalia’ is still being performed, follow their website for more information.
He continued his experience in Madrid working with Sharon Fridman and Luis Luque in the piece called ‘Europa’ which premiered on the 24th of May in ‘Naves del Español en el Matadero’.
In 2024 he premiered 2 productions at Mercat de les Flors (Barcelona) ‘ALBA’ created by Aimar Pérez Galí and ‘La Quijá’ by Paloma Muñoz cia.Siberia.
He also premiered ‘SCROLL’, an extended version of ‘Todo esto era campo’ by cia.Unaiuna in Teatre Principal, Mallorca.
He started a collaboration project with Amalia Elotza Izaguirre where both created and directed a piece called ‘Aquí está todo‘, a multidisciplinar performance about the concept of being grateful.
At the moment he works with a guest contract at the Theater und Orchester Heidelberg in Germany, under the direction of Iván Perez.
