The final event of Visions of the Body: understanding contemporary art through signature dance.
A “dancing encyclopedia” that speaks about the world through dance, placing the body at the center of the human experience. A series of six cultural dissemination events that connect the arts, movement, and current issues, addressing themes such as psychological well-being, the relationship with the city, the future, and ecology, through an experimental cultural medium.
Nicolas Ballario, journalist, curator, and educator, introduces the theme of the debate, which, moving between dance and contemporary arts, reflects on the body from a different perspective each time. Each event is divided into six segments, dedicated to the works of six artists chosen to explore the central theme: well-known faces of the contemporary art world, familiar to the general public. Each event will be interpreted by a choreographer from the contemporary scene, who will translate the inspirations of the featured works into dance through an original performance, created specifically for the project.
Sixth appointment: Friday 29 November h 20.30 at Fonderia
Il corpo grande (The big body)
Talk with Nicolas Ballario and Roberta Ferrara
Choreographies by Roberta Ferrara
Focus on Fausto Delle Chiaie, Damien Hirst, JR, Ron Mueck, Niki de Saint Phalle, Claes Oldenburg
On November 29th, the series of events concludes with The Big Body: Roberta Ferrara brings to Fonderia details and impactful disproportions, from glamour to urban art, from Fausto Delle Chiaie to Damien Hirst.
The audience will have the opportunity to experience Fernando Melo’s Never Odd or Even through Oculus headsets: a work where proportion is pushed to the extreme, entirely based on the real size of the two dancers, who always tower over the viewer.