The body is the mass where our soul lives, through it we can experience this life.
The ego tries to separate us from the body, creating duality.
Be with your body, feel the beating, the presence, its energy flowing. And you'll feel here and now.
Some story
I was born and raised in rural Catalonia. At the age of 20 I spent two intense and formative years studying dance and choreography at the renowned performing arts school P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels. In 2000, I moved to Montreal where I worked as a performance artist, creative director and choreographer for a number of distinguished artists and companies including Danièle Desnoyers and O Vertigo. I also created my own multidisciplinary performance company called VISIO.
Through my work with live video, I was motivated to explore the digital movement that was becoming increasingly relevant at the time. In 2005, I graduated from INIS (Montreal) in Interactive Media and joined Sid Lee as an information architect working with clients including; Cirque du Soleil, Tourisme Montréal, Adidas Originals and many more.
In 2008, yearning for home, I returned to Barcelona to work with the Swedish digital agency Great Works. In 2009, I returned to Sid Lee but this time as a social media consultant for the Amsterdam office. While there I was involved in the strategic phases of projects for Adidas Originals, Red Bull, and Heineken among others.
In parallel to this work I started a social media agency in Barcelona called DIVE. The agency focused the social media management and content creation for local clients mainly in the cultural sector including ASUS, the Barcelona City Council, the Barcelona Design Museum, and many more.
In 2010, I co-founded the production company Ex-centris, where we created the Piknic Electronik Barcelona, Brunch Electronik and Electrosnow, three electronic music festivals that combined music with the outdoors and that shared the mission to bring electronic music culture to a wider audience. These festivals were extremely successful and are now mainstays of the Barcelona music scene.
In 2016, in search of new challenges and inspired by the desire to promote healthy living, I founded the Organic Festival. The primary focus of the event was to promote wellness and a healthy lifestyle in an engaging and fun way. In a similar quest, In 2017 I discovered surf and in 2018 I founded the Barcelona Surf Festival which we had the first edition in 2019 with great success bringing the entire Catalan community together to celebrate Mediterranean surfing.
In 2020, I decided to go back to my home town and settle in my family’s cabin with my older son Kai. There we have been living until recently a rural life while being involved in some locals projects like the Green Way Crew and Lokals. It’s been an amazing experience to live at a slower paste, hard and frustrating at times, but at the end a life changing experience that has taught the importance of living slowly, in nature and in health.
Currently I’m in Lanzarote surfing and contemplating my life, looking to how I got here and where I want to move from here. I feel everything is going very fast and we don’t take the time to enjoy our present moment. Whatever the future has in store for me, I feel it has to be more mindful, it has to facilitate being in the moment and in community. We are so connected digitally all the time, yet real human interaction becomes so rare, we isolate each other more and more, even though we are right next to each other.
I'm working on a personal methodology I've been developing for the past 2 months to help me stay healthy, flexible, strong and prensent. It's combination of a life time as dancer and the different body and mind disciplines and practices that I've learned over the years, all combined together to my preferences.
I feel that the near future for me is going to be the exploration of how to live mindfull and in peace in such agitated times. I want to share my findings through different classes and activities I'll be organizing in the near future.
Saludos,
Jordi
Curriculum Vitae
Education
2006 - 2007 INIS (Institut National de l’Image et du Son) Interactive Media
1998 – 2000 PARTS - Performing Arts Research Training Studies (Brussels, Belgium) 1995 – 1997 Institut del Teatre de Barcelona (Spain)
Awards
2006 Bourse d’excellence UBISOFT
Work Experience
Other projects
2020 - 2022 I founded the Green Way Crew, a space for the creative community of my home town Tortosa too meet, have a nice meal and enjoy different cultural events. This project was hand in hand with Lokals, a community of young creatives that organized concerts, festivals, parties and taught young up and coming artist to produce and create their own art. We created a small local community that had a huge impact on the territory.
Festivals
2012 founder and director of D-IVE Fest, about influencers and mobile photography.
2012 - 2016 Co-founder and marketing director at Piknic Electronik Barcelona.
2013 - 2014 Co-founder and marketing director at Electrosnow Festival in Andorra.
2013 - 2016 Co-founder and marketing director at Brunch Electronik Barcelona.
2014 Pumpkin Eletronik at Sala Apolo, Barcelona
2015 In-edit festival, advisor for the Montreal implementation of the festival
2016 Offf fest, advisor for the Montreal implementation of the festival
2016 - today, Founder and director of Festival Orgànic in Barcelona.
2019 - today, Owner and director of Barcelona Surf Festival.
Marketing, communication and social media
2009 - 2019 CEO at Dive Barcelona
Clients Design Museum, City of Barcelona, Barcelona Cultural Council, Asus, Nike SB, H&M, La Mercè festivity, Barcelona black novel festival, Barcelona Poetry festival, Montjuic de Nit festivity, and many more campaigns for these clients.
2009-2010 social media consultant for Sid Lee in Amsterdam. Clients: adidas Originals, Red Bull, Heineken, Fat Boy, ...
2009 - Co-Founder Five is Blue (client: Bershka).
2008 Creative Producer at Great Works Barcelona. Clients; H&M, Ajuntament de Barcelona, Bacardi, Electrolux, Symio.
2006 – 2007 Experience designer and social media strategist at Sid Lee Montreal.
Clients; adidas Originals, Cirque du Soleil, Red Bull, Tourisme Montreal, Aeroplan, MGM Grand.
Other digital projects
2005-2008 Blog on creativity called ex-dancer.com.
Guerrilla project
2005-2007 Collective Street Intercept; Guerrilla events in cities such as Montreal.
Performance art
2000 – 2005 Artistic Director. Projet Recherche What What I What. Created and directed performances; “GVG.2”, “Visio”, “Strange Places” and “Consequence”.
Video Art
2000 - 2005 Video work/Installations including; Priming, After Hours, me/me, GVG.2, Visio, Strange Places, Why did you become a dancer?, 445, White Room.
Productions in performance art
2002 – 2004. Multimedia Festival “Vestim Felip” (Spain), Multimedia event “After Hours” (Montreal and Spain)
Guest Artist as performer
2000 - 2005 O Vertigo, Le Carre des Lombes, Frederic Messier, Montreal Danse, Anne Teresa de Keers- maeker, Teatre National de Catalunya, and many more...
Film
2005 “Missing Victor Pellerin”.
Languages Spoken and written
Catalan, English, Spanish and a little French.
Link of interest
https://barcelonasurffestival.com
https://barcelona.brunch-in.com/park/
https://www.festivalorganic.com
Videos
Barcelona Surf Festival 2019
Dive Barcelona Reel
Piknic Electronik
Electrosnow
Festival Orgànic