Juliette Mapp writes „Dancers have the advantage of being able to detach themselves from meanings conveyed by normal language usage. A dancer can live in a world of passing images, sensations, landscapes, relationships, and constructs without necessarily attaching herself to the specifity that language often creates. The not naming that defines much of the dancer‘s… Continue reading Crack
Writing as a messy practice
[This is an excerpt transcribed from the interview to Elisa Sbaragli and Sara Sguotti: you can find the video interview here] Giovanni: Somehow writing is a kind of confusing technological prosthesis of what I am in terms of my practice. And actually, for me what’s a bit embarrassing about my writing is that it is… Continue reading Writing as a messy practice
Queering the feet
Queering your feet, sexual and geographical re-orientation: where and with whom are we walking? I want to invite you to a small embodied practice. ( I proposed this meditation during the workshop that followed the “Fabulation for Future” Symposium. 13-23 September 2021. Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf.) I am calling it „queering your feet, sexual and geographical… Continue reading Queering the feet
Writing as a determination
[This is an excerpt transcribed from the interview to Elisa Sbaragli and Sara Sguotti: you can find the video interview here] Giovanni: So, would you say that writing is a form of determination? Sara: Yes, absolutely. For example, this week when I was alone, I forced myself to write for other people, to find a… Continue reading Writing as a determination
Mirror
Dancing City. Where does movement take place? In the body? In the space around the body? In the spaces between bodies? In the objects that surround us? This experience is inspired by a specific Choreographic Object by William Forsythe, “City of Abstract”, created in 2001. Clicking on this link you will be able to experience what Forsythe describes as “specific… Continue reading Mirror
Writing – Sharing fragilities
[This is an excerpt transcribed from the interview to Elisa Sbaragli and Sara Sguotti: you can find the video interview here] Giovanni: Yet, you are very active on DanceMe. Elisa: For me, DanceMe is a tool for pure and hard research, and I can’t do the same with Instagram, for example. DanceMe is a sacred… Continue reading Writing – Sharing fragilities
Writing for reaching out
[This is an excerpt transcribed from the interview to Elisa Sbaragli and Sara Sguotti: you can find the video interview here] Giovanni: One last question regarding the topic of digital writing and specifically in terms of communication tools: what do you decide to communicate to the outside world? Why? Which tools do you use? Sara:… Continue reading Writing for reaching out
Writing through video
[This is an excerpt transcribed from the interview to Elisa Sbaragli and Sara Sguotti: you can find the video interview here] Sara: another interesting point for me is that in the practice of writing, understood in a very broader sense, the use of video is really relevant. It seems to me that the memory of… Continue reading Writing through video
Writing as a digital practice
[This is an excerpt transcribed from the interview to Elisa Sbaragli and Sara Sguotti: you can find the video interview here] Giovanni: You have both mentioned the use of tools related to digital media. You thought about the possibilities that these tools provide, their affordances, that is, what they allow you to do, for example,… Continue reading Writing as a digital practice
Writing – Places
[This is an excerpt transcribed from the interview to Elisa Sbaragli and Sara Sguotti: you can find the video interview here] Giovanni: Where do you write? in the rehearsal room, in the bedroom, in the kitchen? In what kind of practical spatial situations? Sara: There are so many elements connected to the practice of dance… Continue reading Writing – Places