We are delighted to announce the four finalist projects of the 12th edition of DNAppunti coreografici:
EXMIMI by Alessandro Paschitto
STeReO by gruppocorp3
Performing Nostalgia by Giulia Cannas
girare le viti by Noemi Piva
EXMIMI is a hybrid dramaturgy that creates a short circuit between words, action and new media, choreography, dramatic text and video interference, in search of a mnemonic device.
Is it possible to revive an unrealised dream? Can the body guide us in recovering a desire from the past in order to overcome a crisis in the present? Can it become a muscular archive, allowing us to retrieve what we ourselves experienced long ago? When we were very young. And, without asking questions, we had all the answers.
STeReO stages a body in exploration: a body that fights and fights against itself, torn between judgement, inherited patterns and a visceral desire to discover and reveal itself. A body that becomes other bodies: a screen, a reflective surface in which to examine the discomfort of living inside an uncomfortable container, a covering of skin and bones permeable to the harmful weight of imposed words and thoughts. The stage action thus becomes a device for struggle, a space for reclaiming, discovering and reasserting oneself.
Dancing to preserve memories that may never have existed, except in the drawings of the mind, in images altered by time and reinvented by memory. A nostalgic practice that blends different temporalities, crosses language, identity and belonging, and attempts to hold on to something through an action that, by its very nature, is itself destined to disappear: a dance. Performing Nostalgia is a constellation of images, sounds arriving from afar and fragments of memory, diary pages taking shape in the present. The project is part of a broader research into the artist’s Albanian origins and continues the recent choreographic work Alba.
girare le viti stems from a reflection on geography as a language of power, capable of shaping our perception of reality. Cartography, by organising space and representing it according to specific criteria, becomes a system through which the world is not merely described, but defined, reconstructed and regulated.
The project develops across two interconnected levels: on the one hand, an analysis of the “Outside”, shaped by imposed geographies and power structures that organise urban, rural and industrial spaces; on the other, an individual and subjective experience of geography, considering how each person inhabits, perceives and navigates these places, creating emotional and personal maps that interact with official ones. It is within the fractures generated by these opposing perspectives that the project takes shape. The result is a performance combining movement, sound, installation and poetic text.
DNAppunti coreografici is a support project for young Italian choreography Under 35, promoted and supported in collaboration with Centro Nazionale di produzione della danza Virgilio Sieni, Operaestate Festival/CSC – Centro per la scena contemporanea del Comune di Bassano del Grappa, L’arboreto – Teatro Dimora di Mondaino, Fondazione Romaeuropa, Gender Bender Festival, and Triennale Milano Teatro.
