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.
Third appointment: Friday 27 September h 20.30 at Fonderia
Il corpo piccolo (The little body)
A dialogue with Nicolas Ballario and Lara Guidetti
Choreographies by Lara Guidetti
Focus on Alberto Burri, Maurizio Cattelan, Diane Arbus, Jake e Dinos Chapman, Keith Haring, Nathalie Djurberg
After Il corpo in pericolo and Il corpo nudo, the third event will explore Il corpo piccolo with Lara Guidetti. The public space has undergone a transformation between its physical and virtual dimensions, leading to new identities, functions, and connotations, rapidly rewriting the network of encounters and relationships that inhabit it, cutting across professional and personal, intimate, and collective domains. In the era of images and digital technology, the real dimension of the body, understood in its original proportion in space, is continually modified: contracted within phone screens, expanded in architectural and advertising projections, multiplied, stretched, portioned, and filtered in search of perfect adherence to what one desires the body to communicate. Lara Guidetti will play with these dilations and contractions.
Before and after the meeting, the audience will have the opportunity to experience virtual reality with Kepler by Diego Tortelli: three micro-dancers moving under a display case, inhabitants of a small world that the viewer approaches with a magnifying glass.
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Performance art: Banana duct taped to fridge as a reminder to eat less meat, inspired by Maurizio Cattelan. From Wikimedia Commons