Liquid Manifestations of Repertory in the Field of Contemporary Dance-making
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21687349 |
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| Authors | Ariadne Mikou (0000-0002-8984-3535, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 42-50 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Performance Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1352-8165 • E-ISSN: 1469-9990 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13528165.2024.2408111 |
| OpenAlex | W4405578623 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
This text is based on the testimonies of four contemporary choreographers – Lara Barsacq, the founder of CollettivO CineticO, Francesca Pennini, Luna Cenere and Andrea Costanzo Martini – who presented their works in the frame of B.Motion Danza, an international dance festival in northern Italy that in 2023 focused on the theme of repertory.Exploring feminism, Lara Barsacq with her Fruit Tree revisited Les Noces, a seminal work from the era of the Ballet Russes that was originally choreographed by Bronislava Nijinska. In one of her earlier works, Sylphidarium, Francesca Pennini re-imagined Filippo Taglioni’s La Sylphide and Michel Fokine’s Les Sylphides, but in the frame of the festival she presented Manifesto Cannibale and Urutau. Sylphidarium explores contemporary dance making in relation to the romantic ballet repertoire, while Manifesto Cannibale and Urutau propose a symbolic death of the choreographer culminating in immobility that creates a rupture with the past and the traditional forms of representation. Luna Cenere, founder of the Genealogia transmission project, and Andrea Costanzo Martini, who approaches his past works as part of his choreographic repertoire, were invited to re-visit Zoé and Mood Shifters, respectively. These two works were presented against a frame that, at least in Italy and especially after the pandemic, promotes an endless race towards the ‘original’ and the ‘innovative’, turning the new out of date too hastily and often uncritically and preventing contemporary works from becoming part of a future repertory.Based on a four-day public conversation with the artists during B.Motion Danza 2023, the text explores two large questions: how contemporary artists build a constructive dialogue with the past and how contemporary works become part of the dance repertory. It also aims to remove the burden of any museal associations from understanding repertory and to place it as a vibrant and innovative contemporary dance practice that may renovate dance from within
Aesthetics · Art · Dance · Visual arts · Diversity and Impact of Dance · History · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society
| Highly cited | No |
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