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CREATING DANCE UNDERWATER

On human creativity and resilience

This is an Allegorical Project about creativity and resilience; dance is used to represent the steps to take, both to start the creative process and achieve and develop our creativity and resilience. It stresses, above all, emotional management as a basis for achieving mental balance, and as a release from the automation and mental ramblings that make us ill, and constrain our creativity and health. It deals with of the pathway leading to full consciousness, as a transformative experience, the cultivation and expression of the most positive human qualities is plausible.

http://beatrizglezsa.com/creating-dance-underwater-the-project-wr

Beatriz Glez Sa is an interdisciplinary artist. She graduated in Fine Arts (B.A+MFA) from Barcelona University (UB). MA(Ed) Secondary Education (UPC) and MFA Graphic Design. She was awarded a scholarship to study Photography at Nottingham Trent University (UK). She obtained the European “Leonardo Da Vinci” grant for professional training in the UK.

She has been working using art with Alzheimer's patients. The importance of art in health, the development of art and creativity in education, science, ecology, identity, cultural representations and other social matters are often reviewed in her work.

Her work has been published internationally in magazines and books and it also has been awarded by;

IPA (International Photo Awards); Honorable Mention 2018, I.C.A.-11th Annual International Color Awards (USA) 2018. IPOTY - International Photographer of the year- (UK) Honorable Mention 2017. 11Th and 12Th Edition of The Julia Margaret Cameron Award (UK), Honorable Mention 2018, 10Th Edition of The Julia Margaret Cameron Award (UK) Finalist 2017. Neutral Density Photography Awards,(USA); Honorable Mention 2018, Two Honorable Mentions 2017, Honorable Mention 2016, First Place and Gold Star award 2015. IPA (International Photo Awards); Two Honorable Mentions 2017, Fine Arts Photography