Programs

 
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International Artist
Residency Program

 

DI’s residency program focuses on choreographic and artistic research, offering choreographers time and space to further develop their work. The program is made possible by a collaboration with ALDES/SPAM! rete per le arti contemporanee in Porcari (LU), within their Residency Program. 

 

History

 

2019

 

OH-2:
Christine Bonansea

OH-2 is the second part of the series OH Project that inquiries human conditioned reality. This choreographic project, inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche’s aphoristic volume Human, All Too Human, is elaborated in collaboration with the light designer, Solomon Weisbard, the visual designer Yoann Trellu and the music composer Nicole Carroll. OH Project was initiated with the solo OnlyHuman, co-produced by DOCK11 in Berlin (2017 and 2018) and toured internationally, premiering at Danspace Project in New York City (2018). OH-2, is a group piece, a one hour full evening length choreographic work that will be performed in an open space or box theater by 10 dancers in 2019 in Berlin. OnlyHuman explored one body as multiple, OH-2 explores multiple bodies that become one, using the mass and density of a large cast of artists and the audience. The body mass will play with various physical quantities and dynamics; revealing its evolutive movement and transformation in space.

OH-2 performances engage local community as well as an international audience.

Dan Root

Dan Root

Pros-(H)er-Pere:
Sara Galas Band

Pros-(H)er-Pere is a collaborative project in development by Sara Galassini and Yukio Tsuji. The interdisciplinary piece is inspired by the symbolism and themes of the Myth of Persephone and Demeter to explore the emergence of the feminine and the masculine in one being through the creation of a physical, visual and sonic vocabulary that juxtaposes the forms of Noh and Kyogen Theater with contemporary dance, ritual, ethnic instruments, synthesizer and guitar sounds, as well as song and chant created with deconstructed and made up text, as well as English and Italian language.

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A, My Name Is... :
Stefanie Nelson

The title, A, MY NAME IS…, refers to a children’s alphabet rhyming game designed to coordinate physical and verbal skills. New York-based Nelson tells a story of memory and forgetting in a dance featuring three female performers in different stages of life – and a male figure personifying life’s unpredictable circumstances. This multidisciplinary piece is a playful exploration into the absurdity of memory loss, inspired by the choreographer’s personal encounter with a family member’s dementia. Increasingly organized phrases peak and subsequently dissolve into disorientation – a visual metaphor for memory loss. Nelson makes ample use of apple imagery to evoke the loss of beauty and innocence, the passage of time, the inexorability of gravity, and the inevitability of decay.

Creative development residencies in Italy: Dance Italia (Lucca), Exorto Danza (Agropoli), SPAM! rete per l'arte contemperanee (Capannori), & Teatro della Pietra (Bergolo)

Preview performances: Castello Angioino Aragonese (Agropoli, Italy) and Piazza San Frediano (Lucca, Italy) July 2016

Premiere: Theaterlab (New York City)  December 2017

Restaged: Aaron Davis Hall (New York City) January 2019

 
 

2018

Maya Orchin
Annika Pannitto

 
 

My Own Nostalgia:
Maya Orchin

'We will create something highly physical and dynamic and enter a realm that has not been discovered quite yet. We will research and play with warping the notion of nostalgia and taking some fragments of Italian culture, making it our own, and creating a new space that will be a combination between a cherished world of movement and intersecting it with the bizarre and wild. A mixture of improvisational tasks as well as set choreography- we will work workshop together as a team to create an electric and undiscovered territory.'

Piazza/Group structure:
Annika Pannitto

Based on her latest project Piazza, which rotates around the theme of the production of space, the notion of the common, and the possibility to develop a practice of hospitality in a performing environment. 'We will generate a space for researching, observing and sharing personal thoughts and movements towards the creation of common articulations. Starting with a dialogue between knowing and not- knowing, to explore several physical principles to let the dance emerge and generate different environments. This process will help us reflect on how we make choices to nurture, reconfigure, and also question the space we share.” (photo Itay Marom)