Dance-on-film programme at the Teatro Piccolo Arsenale

Our dance-on-film programme has enjoyed a committed audience from its inception, and we are delighted to continue this important strand of work at Biennale Danza 2023. Our exciting programme features films by Festival artists, work curated by them and major releases from established makers, as well as raw, experimental visions. See how dialogue between the continuously developing languages of dance and film innovates immersive and boundary- breaking new visual worlds. (Wayne McGregor)

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Programme:
11:30 am - 6.58: MANIFESTO (2021, 74’) - company Andrea Peña & Artists (AP&A)
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1:00 pm - GENEALOGIA_TIME SPECIFIC (2020 - 40’) - choreography Luna Cenere
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2:00 pm - INSIDE THE BLIND IRIS (2023, 11’) - directed by Douglas Bernardt and choreographed by Botis Seva
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2:30 pm - NAVY BLUE FACES (2022, 8’) - direction Oona Doherty, Luca Truffarelli
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3:00 pm - I’M IN A FOREST (2023, 17’ - world premiere) - direction Lucy Guerin, Angus Kemp
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3:30 pm - WRITTEN ON WATER (2020, 80’) - screenplay, direction and choreography Pontus Lidberg
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5:00 pm - PAY ATTENTION TO MORE HUMAN BODIES (2023, 35’) - production Tao Ye, Duan Ni
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6:00 pm - TRANSPARENT (2022, 35’) - by Siobhan Davies
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7:00 pm - THE DANCE (2022, 78’) - direction Pat Collins
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8:30 pm - IF IT WERE LOVE (2020, 82’) - direction Patric Chiha
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6.58: MANIFESTO (2021, 74’) - company Andrea Peña & Artists (AP&A)
6.58: MANIFESTO takes a stance in the form of a choreographic triptych where six dancers interact with a machine, an opera singer and a DJ, to explore the concepts of artifice and artificiality as implicit constructions of our contemporary society. In our post-industrial reality, artificiality is intertwined with our bodies and minds, and artifice taints our interactions and experiences.

GENEALOGIA_TIME SPECIFIC (2020 - 40’) - choreography Luna Cenere
Genealogia_Time Specific was presented in September 2020 in Rovereto as part of the Oriente Occidente festival. It is the result of research and sharing of practices entitled Genealogy Research Project; an installation-based project, as is evident in all of Luna Cenere’s works, to which is added the relational character of a community, a group that becomes an expression, a place, a landscape in transformation and migration.

INSIDE THE BLIND IRIS (2023, 11’) - directed by Douglas Bernardt and choreographed by Botis Seva
INSIDE THE BLIND IRIS is an experimental cinematic dance film exploring oppression and the absence of belonging. Set in the main character’s confused state of mind, dancers appear as haunting spirits and memories, as he journeys in search of his own self.

A Sadler’s Wells commission. With the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels. Supported by Garfield Weston.

NAVY BLUE FACES (2022, 8’) - direction Oona Doherty, Luca Truffarelli
A series of people’s feeling. In a deep dark blue night. Navy Blue Faces is a cinematic form of Oona Doherty’s show Navy Blue (2022), made by the film-maker Luca Truffarelli in collaboration with Oona Doherty and the dancers.

I’M IN A FOREST (2023, 17’ - world premiere) - direction Lucy Guerin, Angus Kemp
In March 2023, Lucy Guerin choreographed NEWRETRO, a three-hour dance installation comprising fragments from 21 of her past shows, re-assembled to create a new work. I’m in a Forest responds to this piece – danced in an empty gallery, without audience, the film shifts between the inner motivations of the dancer and the residual imprint and presence that they leave behind.

WRITTEN ON WATER (2020, 80’) - screenplay, direction and choreography Pontus Lidberg
A choreographer must face an unresolved romantic encounter from her past as she creates a new dance work. Written on Water is a sensual and philosophical interrogation of the permeable boundaries between fiction and reality, muse and siren and the changeable roles we play – Odysseus, sailor, siren – in our lifelong quests for connection, love and inspiration.

PAY ATTENTION TO MORE HUMAN BODIES (2023, 35’) - production Tao Ye, Duan Ni
In 2021, TAO Dance Theater established TAO Studio – running a series of courses for amateurs who had no dance training or background. Allowing each participant to feel, experience and explore the infinite possibilities of the body like a kaleidoscope, these sessions were recorded by artist Fan Xi, whose footage was compiled to make this documentary.

TRANSPARENT (2022, 35’) - by Siobhan Davies
Transparent reveals the reflections of dancer and choreographer Siobhan Davies as she unravels the complex processes that underpin a life’s work in dance. At the same time, the film touches upon the histories of movement embedded in each of us, allowing the watcher to enter a descriptive world and feel the weight of their own body – walking or turning or falling.

THE DANCE (2022, 78’) - direction Pat Collins
The Dance is an observational feature documentary that follows the staging of MÁM from the first day of rehearsal to the opening night performance at the Dublin Theatre Festival in 2019. Michael Keegan-Dolan’s show is the result of eight weeks of intensive work and improvisation, a unique confluence between soloist and ensemble, classical and traditional, the local and the universal.

IF IT WERE LOVE (2020, 82’) - direction Patric Chiha
Fifteen young dancers of different origins and horizons are on tour with Crowd, Gisèle Vienne’s epic dance piece exploring the rave scene of the 1990s. From theatre to theatre the work mutates into strange, intimate relationships. Is the stage contaminating real life – or the opposite? A disturbing journey exploring our nights, our parties, our loves.