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.
Performance art: Banana duct taped to fridge as a reminder to eat less meat, inspired by Maurizio Cattelan. From Wikimedia Commons
Originally from Emilia-Romagna, Lara Guidetti graduated as a dancer and choreographer in 2006 from the Atelier of Theater-Dance at the Paolo Grassi School in Milan, studying with renowned national and international masters. She continued her training in the world of dance and performing arts, exploring various pedagogical methods and training through workshops and productions. In 2008, she founded the Sanpapié company, where she serves as artistic director, choreographer, director, and performer, presenting works across Italy, Europe, China, and Saudi Arabia. In 2017, her show LEI won the Premio Bonacina. She collaborates with the JGM company in Lisbon, works with La Scala in Milan as a dancer and acrobat, and creates choreographies for opera productions. She has taught at the Paolo Grassi and Dancehaus schools in Milan and at the Teatro Stabile school in Turin. Since 2022, she has been an associated artist of the MilanOltre festival and a collaborator of the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza as a choreographer and curator of site-specific projects.
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.
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