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Sintomatologie Estive. Procreazioni Di Performing Dance

Massimo Schiavoni
L'estate porta con sé una 'fornitura invadente' ed un' elevata concentrazione di spettacoli dal vivo quasi imbarazzante, tanto che bisognerebbe avere quasi il dono dell'ubiquitˆ per non sentirsi incompleti ed impotenti, per non perdere il treno della contemporaneitˆ, e per avvertire ad ogni festival - da Santarcangelo a Drodesera, passando per il Festival d'Avignon ed ImPulsTanz, fino a Transito Firenze, Inteatro e Contemporanea di Prato - quella meravigliosa sintomatologia patologica inevitabile per un buongustaio ed amante della scena performativa all'avanguardia.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 57, September 2010

Humanity Of 3d. Billy Cowie’s Research

Silvia Scaravaggi
The fourth edition of Teatro a Corte International Festival, which toke place in Turin and in eight Savoy residences in Piedmont from July 8 until the 25th, presented a wide selection of contemporary and experimental productions in the fields of theatre, dance, nouveau cirque, video-dance and performance, hosting 31 groups from eight different nations. The event schedule comprehended 38 shows, 5 site specific projects and two creations commissioned for the Festival.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 57, September 2010

Teatro a corte 2010

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The best of European panorama, with performances of theatre, dance, nouveau cirque, acrobatics, street theatre, equestrian theatre, objects, videos and installations, is the protagonist of unique events, staged in the marvellous settings of 8 House of Savoy's palaces and in the city of Turin, for the new edition of Teatro a Corte International Festival, from 8th to 25th July 2010.... READ MORE...
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The Explosion Of The Arts. Sineglossa Live Performances

Massimo Schiavoni
Sineglossa is an artistic collective residing in the Marche region in Italy, comprising personalities from different disciplines but with the same intent and the same sensitivity. Created in 2006 by director Federico Bomba, the painter Luca Poncetta and performer Barbara Hall, the theatrical debut happened in 2007 with Camera Verde, to which followed in 2008 Pleura e Pneuma. In 2009 are among the companies winning the contract ETI New creativity, working on Undo and Remember me.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 56, July / August 2010
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My Secret Heart

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My Secret Heart is a new commission by Streetwise Opera of a music and film installation written by electronic composer and Warp artist Mira Calix, video artists Flat-e and sound designer Dave Sheppard. They worked with around 100 Streetwise performers from across the UK to create a unique work that is being shown around the world.... READ MORE...
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When Archive Becomes Art. Megaloop: Thirty Years Of Tam

Annamaria Monteverdi
The Tam Teatromusica, the well-known theatrical and video-theatre Italian company, has reached thirty years of artistic activity and celebrates this achievement with a truly memorable retrospective exhibition in Padua. It was 1980 when Michael Sambin, Pierangela Allegro and Laurent Dupont combined their expertise in the field of performing arts, music and experimental video art and gave life to the company, based in Padova.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 55, June 2010

Art on Wires

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Art.on.Wires is an open laboratory for live and interactive art where researchers, engineers and practitioneers from various fields collaborate to explore and create a new generation of media technology for artistic performances and mixed-reality spaces.... READ MORE...
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If Not You Not Me. Annie Abrahams And Life In Networks

Maria Chatzichristodoulou
Annie Abrahams's show If Not You Not Me at the HTTP Gallery in London (12 February till 20 March 2010) was inspiring in its subtle, low-tech sensitivity of inter-connectedness. This was Abrahams's, a French-based pioneer in the field of networked performance, first solo show in the UK. Abrahams created three new works for the show. Documentation of several of her previous projects, including some of her most well known pieces such as One the Puppet of Other (2007) and The Big Kiss (2008), was also effectively displayed.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 54, May 2010

Spectra. Movement According To Cindy Van Acker

Enrico Pitozzi
Cindy Van Acker - a choreographer who is among the most interesting international figures in this field - for years has been involved in radical research on movement, with which she associates an investigation into the mise-en-scene as a device, but in an auditory key, accompanied by leading figures of the contemporary electronic field, such as Mika Vainio from Pan Sonic: she has been collaborating with him since 2007, when they worked on Kernel.... READ MORE...
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Suspended Projections. The Changing Equilibria Of Wanda Moretti

Massimo Schiavoni
Luisa Valeriani in his latest essay Performers - figures of change in widespread aesthetics', looks at the artist and the consumer as a sole figure. Both represent social and anthropological practices of creative spectacularisation which nowadays emerges from below; these performers favour their point of view and their own style by staging an innovative artistic creativity that goes beyond fashion, but which is also related to both the political field as well as sociology.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 53, April 2010

Hypersurface And Mediafacade. Urban Screen And Nu Former

Annamaria Monteverdi
Lev Manovich once said that the deep change which is affecting culture in the era of computerized media revolution also concerns space and its representation and organization systems. Space becomes a media itself: Just like all other media - audio, video, images and text - nowadays space can be transmitted, stored and recovered in a snapshot. Space can be squeezed, re-formatted, changed into a flow, filtered, computerized, programmed and interactively managed (L. Manovich, Il linguaggio dei nuovi media)... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 52, March 2010

Digital Incarnate

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Whether through motion capture, live processing, animation or other means of data visualization, the body is the referent and inspiration for many digital media artists working with interactive technologies. Digital Incarnate: The Body, Identity, and Interactive Media, is an investigation into this confluence, gazing through multiple lenses to explore the body and identity as they are transformed and represented through technological evolution.... READ MORE...
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The Sense Of A Clever Body. An Interview With Paola Bianchi

Massimo Schiavoni
Paola Bianchi's dancing body is everything, sometimes nothing, sometimes everything to discover, expect and fully understand. The human figure and anatomy, it's mind and introspection that implode strength and elegance, dynamism in the emotion she puts on stage since the early eighties. She has traveled, fought and stopped, she knew without looking back and she continued.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 51, February 2010

Francesca Proia: The Breath Of The Subtle Body

Massimo Schiavoni
My job is to find a suitable energy in order to create a precise composition . The philosophy of yoga comes across my project of creation as a philosophy that deals with the creation of time. These are Francesca Proia's paths, a young choreographer and dancer in Ravenna that has made the yoga a philosophy of life, making its mark in the theatrical solos danced in detail, where the subtle body imprisons and ponders a unique balance of energy and empathy contemporary dance.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 50, December 2009 / January 2010

Playground Live Art Festival

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For the third edition of Playground, STUK again focuses on artists exploring the boundaries between various art disciplines. This international live art festival presents performances, installations and live actions. The program consists of two closely linked parts: a series of performances and an exhibition.... READ MORE...
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