MARINA GIOVANNINI Independent dancer and performer, interested in the body’s expressive potential and interaction with the various languages of art, she collaborates with dancers, choreographers and artists and concentrates on her personal research towards a language favouring the naturalness of gesture. With a classical training, she studied with Cristina Bozzolini, Lilia Bertelli and Barbara Baer, and specialized in 1988 with a scholarship at the Teatro Romolo Valli of Reggio Emilia/ATER. From 1989 to 1992 she was solo dancer in the Balletto di Toscana company where she interpreted European neoclassic and contemporary dance works (Bigonzetti, Monteverde, North, Preljocaji, Sieni, Van Manen, Wubbe). She then became interested in the new languages of Italian contemporary dance, starting her long experience in the Compagnia Virgilio Sieni, where she was assistant choreographer, main interpreter of all the productions and artistic collaborator from 1993 to 2006. In 2003 she was soloist dancer and co-author of Empty Space-Requiem (Ubu award 2004, best theatre dance show). In the same year she started collaborating with Letizia Renzini, descovering more new multimedia languages, realizing the video performance Esercizi di vita and Balletti (Tusciaelecta). In 2008, with Samuele Cardini, she won the Equilibrio Award by Fondazione Musica per Roma with Studi per luogo Comune. She created and interpreted the choreographies of the shows La bambola di carne (Biennale Danza of Venice, The Place-Londra, Dansens Hus-Stoccolma, Fabbrica Europa Festival, Florence), Pausa Paradiso (Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome), Parco-diario di un duetto (Contemporanea Festival, Prato), Motorshow, Misura (Teatro studio of Scandicci), A Drum is a Woman (EX3 Centro per l’arte contemporanea), Meditation on Beauty (Fabbrica Europa Festival, Romaeuropa). Her work extends through very different artistic contexts, using her long experience in shows and performances in important theatres, festivals, museums, art galleries, cinema sets and urban spaces.
TECHNICAL RIDER This performance is created for non-theatrical spaces, like museums, art galleries, public halls and industrial areas with big windows or natural light. The technical requests are meant to be just a starting point for a site-specific setting that can highlight and give prominence to the features of the hosting space. SCENE
SOUND
LIGHTS The performance is meant to take place during daytime, in order to take best advantage of natural light. Depending on the particular features of hosting space and show time, lights or tents covering windows will be added. DURATION 50 minutes A technical responsible of the hosting space is requested to be present for set-up, rehearsal and performances. Technical reference: Marco Santambrogio marcosantambrogio@katamail.com |
PROJECT
What is the sense of the existence of beauty? How can the idea of grace be made visible? In a place without a frame, the dancers of Meditation on beauty move in a space of parallelepipeds and translate into gesture the need for beauty, which is our vital condition. Every passage of this work responds to the aesthetics of a choreographic act that doesn’t want to make a show of the movements, but instead to become a sign of existence, an action to regain space for the body. Meditation on beauty is composed of 3 complementary fragments of one single reflection. The piece is born from a fascination for geometric shapes, used both as measure of the space and as basic essence of difficult balance exercises, tense movements and poses that require total confidence in the body and in the stability of the other. The feminine, traced in graceful gestures, is the fulcrum of the whole work: the referential figures are women, including artists of such different arts as Nina Simone and Maya Deren. Space and time are the Cartesian axes of dance, the body marking the rhythm, considered from a feminine viewpoint of constant all-round change, fragility and strength, of positions taken and immediatly faded away. Meditation on beauty is a metaphor of the world’s continuously research of a precarious yet stable balance, a necessary ongoing change accompanied by constant questioning of one’s own position. This continuous change becomes the place of investigation and meditation on the existence, on the woman identity, as a ballerina and as a human being, on the idea of the feminine itself, fragile and powerful, on the relation with what is beautiful, on the need for gracefulness, on the search for equilibrium. Photography © Ilaria Costanzo
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