Three days of dance and choreography. From 28 to 30 June Venice will host the Dance Biennale: 26 choreographies distributed in 6 chapters (Prima Danza, Vita Nova, Atleta Donna, Visitazioni, Agorà, Inventions) of a single great story entitled Inhabiting the world.
The 6 "episodes" will unfold along two areas of the city of Venice, each day with a different "story": the 28nd June the whole area will be affectedArsenal and surroundings, the 29 and 30 June shows and performances will take place in the area of Saint Mark.
Three days of presentations and first responses after almost two months of meetings, reflections, training and creation. The whole project consists of seven practices and it involved more than a hundred people: sixty-nine dancers and fifty non-professionals.
First Dance. The six young choreographers, selected on the basis of a work project, are Lorena Dozio, Stefania Rossetti, Caterina Basso, Sara Dal Corso, Elisa Romagnani and Tiziana Passoni. They confronted questions such as the musicality of the work space, the possible origins of a creation in dance, the musical rhythms of inhabiting the world. In this training course, the experience of meeting and discussion was central: they conceived a conclusive event capable of demonstrating the original strength of an ongoing process.
Inventions. In this practice, choreographers Michele Di Stefano (I) Alessandro Sciarroni (I) and Arkadi Zaides (IL) worked with young dancers for three new choreographic inventions conceived only for Venice. The intent was to give life to a constant dialogue between creation, the anthropology of the place and the openings with other artistic fields. Each final event open to the public also includes the hospitality of members of each choreographer's company, in an articulated performance open to various stages of interpretation.
Agora. Also in this practice, the choreographers Thomas Lebrun (F), Frank Micheletti (F) and Virgilio Sieni (I) have worked with young dancers to develop a series of experiences on the sense of tactility, transmission and relationship with places inside open. L'Agorà di Lebrun includes vocal music with the presence of baritone Benjamin Alunni; that of Micheletti designs a mobility between field and courtyards with a work also on the surrounding sound, while instead the double Agorà by Sieni develops on the one hand a complex composition on three generations of performers: children, dancers and the elderly, with live music by Daniele Roccato; on the other, a path aimed at mothers and children, with live music by Naomi Berrill.
Transmission. Seven young choreographers and performers, Simone Basani, Helen Cerina, Gaia Germanà, Ariadne Mikou, Elisa Mucchi, Lara Russo and Francesca Beatrice Vista, worked with Virgilio Sieni (I) in his two Agorà, in a compositional and choreographic path of study and of research on the meaning with which gestures are handed down between generations, or on the way in which a relationship is converted into transmission.
Vita Nova. Two choreographers, Itamar Serussi (NL) and Virgilio Sieni (I), worked with very young dancers aged between ten and fifteen, in a pilot project which this year involved the Italian regions of Veneto, Tuscany and Puglia. The goal is to compose an unprecedented contemporary dance repertoire for teenagers throughout the country. The Puglia event also includes live music by Peter Krause.
Visitations. In two creative paths in as many Mediterranean cities, Taranto and Venice, the choreographers Ambra Senatore (I) and Virgilio Sieni (I) respectively met groups of women to tell, with the face and the form of the adagio, what is the beauty. In Venice, Senatore worked with a quintet of Venetian lace makers, while, in Taranto, Sieni worked with a quartet of women who live in the Ilva district.
Female athlete. Five dancers, Iris Erez (IL), Nora Chipaumire (ZW), Simona Bertozzi (I), Eleanor Bauer (US), and Cristina Rizzo (I), demonstrate resistance, dancing and pausing for hours inside glass cases , following the fragility of the decline of time. In the display of so much transparency, the surfaces that envelop the bodies, like those that envelop the objects of the world, open up in a reciprocal exposure: a landscape of the body that indicates the measure of time. The dancers documented their approach to performance by responding in written form, replies printed here, to three dramaturgical problems involving time, skin and sound.
Il 28nd June the shows will take place atArsenal, 29 and 30 June a Saint Mark, all starting at 11.00 and ending with the last show at 22.00
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