First International Festival of Contemporary Dance: Body-City: La Biennale di Venezia
ITALY
VENICE • Teatro Piccolo Arsenale, Teatro Fondamenta Nuove, Teatro alle Tese • Ongoing
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Articulated as an "urban itinerary" which from Charleroi leads to Kyoto, from Paris to New York, and Johannesburg, the Festival is concentrated in six week-ends, beginning on 12 June with Silent Collisions, the new work created by Frederic Flamand for Venice with his company Charleroi / Danses - Plan K. Inspired by Calvino's Invisible Cities, and created with the complicity of California architect Thom Mayne (Morphis), choreography, architecture and video are bleded into a work about the tension between traces of memory and the virtuality of a post-urban era which has yet to be discovered.
Flamand's urban architecture will be followed, the same week-end by the hyper-technological Japanese group Dumb Type. From Holland, represented by the Hague and Amsterdam, the relationship with urban space takes on social implications to reveal the human condition: Andre Gingras confronts the theme of genetic manipulation in CYP17 (20 -21 June).
Philippe Jamet for his Portraits Danse (25- 29 June), departs from Paris and the French provinces to visit cities and countries from one part of the world to the other, collecting gestures, eyewitness accounts, sensations, and portraits of people.
Cyber choreographer Wayne McGregor and his Random Dance Company from Britain, uses technology as the extension of choice for his futuristic Nemesis (27 - 29 June) which speculates on futuristic worlds and android creatures accompanied by the sound sculptures of Scanner with electronic animations by Jim Henson.
French-Albanian Angelin Prelojcaj presents his latest creation, Near Life Experience on 12 July with the electro-pop group Air.
The last weekend of the Festival goes to Venice, New York and Johannesburg. Stephen Petronio presents City of Twist (16 July), a series of protraits inspired by the vision of life in New York after September 11, with an orignianl sound track by Laurie Anderson. John Japserse from the United States offers the Giant Empty (17 - 18 July).
From South Africa, Robyn Orlin reveals and stigmatizes the social conflicts in her country through her performances, of We must eat our suckers with the wrappers on (16 - 18 July) about AIDS.
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