Visioni del Corpo
Visioni del corpo is a series of events that from May 27th to November 29th, 2024 will feature a blend of contemporary art and dance, in a journey where the common denominator will be the body. Six encounters on contemporary art led by Nicolas Ballario, where alongside words there will be dance, through some performative interventions in connection with the presented works. Each encounter will be divided into six moments where Ballario will introduce six works by six different artists, well-known figures in the contemporary scene also to non-enthusiast audiences. Each encounter will be entrusted to a choreographer, who will translate into dance the suggestions evoked by the discussed works. Each encounter will enrich a small “dancing encyclopedia” of contemporary art, investigating how illustrious artists have dealt with the theme of the body. Before and after the events at Fonderia, the bar service will be available, offering an aperitif to stimulate dialogue among different audiences and different forms of art.
There has always been a prejudice – often justified by the elitist attitude of insiders – towards contemporary art: that it was distant from people. In recent years, something has been changing, and thus the audience for contemporary art is expanding: the project Visioni del Corpo moves in this direction, it aims to introduce in a simple (but never simplistic) way the lexicon of some of the greatest contemporary artists.
We won’t provide explanations, because art cannot be explained, but we will tell the context to suggest an approach: dance will punctuate this narrative, and precisely for this reason, the theme is the body, the common denominator of these two disciplines. Disciplines that find themselves asking a question: can art snatch from the banality of mass communication the representation of the human being? We will try to answer with six themes, six artists, and six works that address the major themes of contemporary society.
Nicolas Ballario
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Putting the body at the center of the human experience, connections will be activated between the arts, movement, and the major themes of today: psychological well-being, the relationship with the city, the future, ecology… universal issues to be addressed through experimental cultural means. A multidisciplinary container of perspectives born to intersect audiences and aesthetics from different cultural backgrounds.
Visioni del corpo is the bridge thrown between the Centro Coreografico Nazionale and major themes even distant from dance, and at the same time, it’s an opportunity to open a more intimate window on the body and movement even for those not trained in performing arts. Six works of art linked each evening to a dance commission for an Italian choreographer: Roberto Tedesco, Lara Guidetti, Roberta Ferrara, Riccardo Buscarini, Pablo Girolami, and Carlo Diego Massari will engage in dialogue with Nicolas Ballario, bringing body and words to the audience, involving spectators and fostering encounters with other cultural communities.
The themes of the six meetings will be:
– Il corpo in pericolo (The body in danger)
– Il corpo nudo (The body naked)
– Il corpo piccolo (The small body)
– Il corpo muove (The moving body)
– Il corpo e altro (The body and the other)
– Il corpo grande (The big body)
The first appointment: “the body in danger”
Monday, May 27th | 9:00 PM | Fonderia
Discussing are Nicolas Ballario, Roberto Escobar, and Roberto Tedesco
Choreographies by Roberto Tedesco
Focus on Marina Abramovich, Jean Michel Basquiat, Joseph Beuys, Yves Kleins, Tracey Emin, Bill Viola
The first appointment is born in collaboration with the festivalfilosofia of Modena, Carpi, and Sassuolo, a historic event that connects a key word at each edition, which refers to fundamental issues in philosophical discussion and crucial experiences of contemporary condition, like the upcoming September with psyche. A reflection on the mind will also open the theme interpreted by Roberto Tedesco: on May 27th at Fonderia, we will investigate The Body in Danger, a macro-topic starting from the anthropology of risk and that can extend to climate emergency, addressing in general all physical and psychosomatic emergencies that the contemporary body faces. Engaging in dialogue with the choreographer and Nicolas Ballario will be the film critic and university professor Roberto Escobar.
The audience can also experience a VR experience with Francesca Lattuada’s MicroDanza, It’s Dangerous Not to Lean Out, with the Oculus available one hour before and one hour after the meeting.
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