“AN IDEAL CITY”: PUBLIC ART AND DANCE: THE DIALECTICAL PROCESS BETWEEN MICRO AND MACRO

AN INVESTIGATION OF THE IDEAL PRACTICES TO CONNECT DANCE TO URBAN SPACES.

Friday 18 December 2020
From h 10.30 am to 1.00 pm
Online round table

“An Ideal City” starts on 18 December: an international project coordinated by the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto – Reggio Emilia in partnership with Les Halles de Schaerbeek – Brussels and the Greek National Opera Ballet – Athens, co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.

“An Ideal City” aims to explore, in a 22-month process, the value of dance as a form of inhabiting, in connection with contemporary artistic practices. A step-by-step program that will take place in Athens, Reggio Emilia and Brussels linking short choreographic creations – the MicroDances, signed by some of the most relevant contemporary choreographers – to different places in the cities: museums, industrial areas, urban spaces, defining unusual stages but linked to a direct and immediate relationship with the public and the inhabitants.

The online round table will cover the following topics:

  • the Micro/Macro relationship introduced by the MicroDances in the dialogue between exhibition and urban spaces;
  • ‘inhabit’ a place which dance experiences in relation to different spaces and audiences  different kind of spaces and audiences;
  • the relationship between the conceptual space of the choreography and the experienced space;
  • the Self/Other dialectic related to the reenactment process of the repertoire to a group of non-professional young dancers to be performed in urban areas of the three cities.

Moderator:
Giovanna Costanza Meli, art historian and curator

Speakers:
Pauline de La Boulaye, producer and public art critic
Nadja Argyropoulou, critic and curator
Emmanuel Wallon, sociologist
Cecilia Canziani, art historian and curator
Francesco Giomi, composer
Jacopo Miliani, artist

With the participation of:
Gigi Cristoforetti, Managing Director Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto
Christophe Galent, Director Les Halles de Schaerbeek
Konstantinos Rigos, Director Greek National Opera Ballet

Showcasing of some MicroDances, including:

  • NEAR LIFE EXPERIENCE (excerpt from a 2003 creation)
    Choreographer ANGELIN PRELJOCAJ
    Dancers IVANA MASTROVITI, HÉLIAS TUR-DORVAULT
  • THE BELL JAR
    Choreographer FERNANDO MELO
    Dancer INA LESNAKOWSKI
  • IL TRIONFO DELLA GRAZIA
    Choreographer DAMIANO ARTALE
    Dancer ESTELLE BOVAY
  • PENSIERI DI CARTA
    Choreographer HÉLIAS TUR-DORVAULT
    Dancer MARTINA FORIOSO

The round table is on ZOOM platform: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_onemZNMlR1KDD1WHNJALQA

The meeting is translated in English<>Italian.

The webinar is available until Sunday 20 December h 23.59:

Topic: AN IDEAL CITY. Public Art and Dance: the dialectical process between Micro and Macro
Start: 18 dic 2020 09:49 AM

Meeting recording:
https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/sllkwFi7jeOS9oSUOQIYR56Fe1udF1IVFjY0BEVx06CnvdjS6OIzB1KQLHDicQ2f.2TCCR7eayBIrmPgx

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