DANCE FOR AN IDEAL CITY: THE DOCUFILM THAT TELLS THE MICRODANZE
First Screening: Cinedanza Festival / Drama Teatro, Modena – 6:00 PM
Dance for An Ideal City is the docufilm that stems from the MicroDances project, aiming to explore the possibility of narrating the contemporary city through dance. Conceived by Gigi Cristoforetti and brought to life by director Daniele Costa and art critic Nicolas Ballario, it will be screened for the first time on Sunday, October 29th at 6:00 PM, at Drama Teatro in Modena, as part of the international festival Cinedanza.
Cinedanza, now in its fifth edition in 2023, stands as the first international competition and festival in Emilia Romagna entirely dedicated to videodance. The festival takes place in Modena, spanning between the FMAV School of Advanced Training and Drama Teatro, featuring a program that alternates screenings, meetings, and dialogues.
In recent years, the MicroDances have traversed Europe, connecting the city of Reggio Emilia to European capitals. Born with the idea of exploring urban spaces through contemporary dance, these choreographies, with a maximum duration of ten minutes, are performed in urban spaces and institutional locations, seeking close contact with the audience.
From the museums of Athens to the city parks of Brussels, from Castel Sant’Angelo in Rome to the outskirts of Reggio Emilia, Dance for An Ideal City is a video narrative that traces the stages of this journey that began in 2021 with An Ideal City, the urban art project co-financed by the Creative Europe program of the European Union, in partnership with Les Halles de Schaerbeek in Brussels and the Greek National Opera Ballet in Athens.
Premiering the docufilm showcases different ways of experiencing dance within public spaces and through different languages, through interviews with artists and curators including choreographer Angelin Preljocaj, art historian Angela Vettese, visual artist Gianmaria Tosatti, art curators Nadja Argyropolou and Costanza Meli, and FND/Aterballetto director Gigi Cristoforetti.
It’s a work that explores the possibility of reinterpreting urban spaces through these small danced fragments, interpreted by both Aterballetto and Greek National Opera Ballet dancers as well as amateur dancers, revealing a landscape of infinite variables and the design of movement that takes place in a conceptual environment and can therefore be used in a non-traditional way.
