Visioni del corpo: understanding contemporary art through auteur dance.
A “dancing encyclopedia” that speaks about the world through dance, placing the body at the center of humanity. A series of six cultural dissemination events that began in May 2024, resuming after the summer break with the new season at Fonderia. Connecting arts, movement, and current affairs, the meetings address themes of psychological well-being, the relationship with the city, the future, and ecology, through an experimental cultural medium.
Nicolas Ballario, journalist, curator, and cultural disseminator, introduces the theme of the debate, which, moving between dance and contemporary arts, reflects on the body from a different point of view each time. Each meeting is divided into six moments, dedicated to the works of six artists chosen to explore the main theme: renowned faces of contemporary art, well known to the general public. Each meeting will be interpreted by a choreographer from the contemporary scene, who will translate the suggestions of the discussed works into dance with an original performance, specifically designed for the project.
Fourth appointment: Friday 18 October h 20.30 at Fonderia
Il corpo muove (The body moves)
Talk withNicolas Ballario and Riccardo Buscarini
Choreographies by Riccardo Buscarini
Focus on Jackson Pollock, Nan Goldin, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Cindy Sherman, Studio Azzurro, Yōko Ono
Nicolas Ballario will present works related to “moving” art, that is, art that makes the artists move during creation or the audience when experiencing it (from Jackson Pollock to Nan Goldin, from Michelangelo Pistoletto to Yoko Ono). The evening will feature Riccardo Buscarini bringing some excerpts from Form O, a very recent work that is based on visual symmetries and asymmetries, and the effect that what we see creates in our body.
Addressing the theme of the body moved by passions, in a whirlwind of seductions and intrigues, Johan Inger’s Don Juan in VR will be presented, where the audience will fall into a dynamic flow that is difficult to resist.
‘War Is Over! (if you want it) Yoko Ono’ exhibition – Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. From Wikimedia Commons
concept / choreography Riccardo Buscarini
dance Annalisa Perricone, Giulia Quacqueri
original music by Alessandro Baldessari assisted by Luca Felici, “Nostalgia for Nothing” (A. Baldessari) and Piano Sonata No. 3, Op. 2 No. 3, in C major (L. Van Beethoven)
costumes Mara Leonora Pieri
lights Alessandro Gelmini
production De Arte Saltandi
Winner of the Theodor Rawyler Prize 2023 / Festival TenDance, Latina. Supported by Citofonare PimOff 2024, Milan, Centro Coreografico Nazionale/Aterballetto, and ResExtensa Porta d’Oriente – Centro Nazionale di Produzione della Danza and AREA Mediterranea – AnT Artisti nei Territori.
Special thanks to Eleonora Marzani, Giada Mazzocco, Roberta Ferrara and Vincenzo Losito, MM Dance Company, Marta Castelletta, Viola Rango, Bagart Company Novara, and all the People who have contributed to and will encounter this project.
Ecco la traduzione in inglese del testo:
**Riccardo Buscarini**, an award-winning choreographer in Italy and abroad, is active in the fields of contemporary dance, opera, and visual arts. He graduated from the London Contemporary Dance School in 2009. Buscarini won the Prospettiva Danza Prize in 2011, Fondo Fare Anticorpi in 2012, and The Place Prize in 2013 with “Athletes”. He has participated in international projects such as danceWEB (Impulstanz, Vienna), ArtsCross London 2013 (UK, Taiwan, and China), Performing Gender (Italy, Croatia, Spain, the Netherlands), MAM-Maroc Artist Meeting in Marrakech, and NID Platform in 2014 and 2022.
In the visual arts field, he has collaborated with Summerhall (Edinburgh), London Festival of Architecture (2016 and 2019), Nahmad Projects (London and Milan), and UNA Galleria at Spazio Leonardo (Milan). His creation “Silk” for the Chelyabinsk Contemporary Dance Theater (Russia) was nominated for two Golden Mask Awards in 2018 at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow and was later restaged for ŻfinMalta, the National Dance Company of Malta. In 2019, he created two works, “Suite Escape” for Equilibrio Dinamico Dance Company and “Nocturne” for Chelyabinsk Contemporary Dance Theater. In 2020, he choreographed “Charade” for EDGE (The Place, London) and was invited to perform at the 45th Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte in Montepulciano. In 2022, he created “Requiem for Juliet,” based on W. Shakespeare for ŻfinMalta.
In 2023, he directed his first opera, “Madama Butterfly” by Giacomo Puccini at Teatru Aurora in Gozo, Malta, and founded De Arte Saltandi, a cultural association dedicated to Domenichino da Piacenza, through which he curates dAS FESTIVAL.
Nicolas Ballario, born in 1984, is involved in contemporary art applied to media. He began his professional career at Oliviero Toscani‘s factory La Sterpaia, where he later became the cultural manager. He has collaborated with major artistic institutions and numerous publications.
In 2016, he became the youngest ever recipient of the Premio Bassani, one of the most prestigious awards for journalists distinguished in cultural and environmental fields. Currently, he hosts and produces contemporary art programs on Rai Radio Uno and contributes to magazines such as Rolling Stone, Living from Corriere della Sera, and Il Giornale dell’Arte. In 2019, he hosted the photography format Camera Oscura on LA7, while from 2020 to 2022, he led programs on Sky Arte including Io ti vedo, tu mi senti?, The Square, and Italia Contemporanea.
He is the CEO of the newly established exhibition production company Piuma and oversees exhibitions and catalogs. Artribune magazine recognized him in their Best of for two consecutive years: in 2019 for radio and in 2020 for television projects.
WINE TASTING AT FONDERIA
From 7:30 PM to 8:30 PM, enjoy an exquisite wine tasting thanks to the collaboration with Venturini Baldini.
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