Animal Science
by Sayoko Onishi
Site-specific Butoh performance by worldwide known choreographer and performer Sayoko Onishi, music by Tony Lloyd.
Mesh
The work of Matteo Levaggi combines the double influence of Balanchine and Cunningham and adds an astute topical touch to this solid theoretical/esthetic base. Like his contemporaries Benjamin Millepied, Christopher Wheeldon, Wayne MacGregor, and before them Angelin Preljocaj, he bears the legacy of these masters in his genes. Mesh, a show specially created for the Centro Pecci of Prato, captures both movement, film projections, sound effects, and scenic elements. The choreography creates a link between the dancing body and nature, which is represented here by objects/junk, creating an atmospheric, visionary landscape. With these emotionally-charged elements, we meet again on stage the “artistic couple” Matteo Levaggi and Elisabetta Guttuso, who made their debut at the 21st Milan Triennale at the Pirelli Hangar Bicocca in the piece Yvonne, with the Ensemble Sentieri Selvaggi.
role. head of programming - theatre and dance
sector. performing arts workshop and performance
date. 2017
venue. Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Art, Prato (Italy)
Movement Notation
From Computer Dance to Nota-Anna: theory and practice
A theoretical-practical workshop held by artist Analívia Cordeiro dedicated to the theme of theoretical formalization of a universal language for the transcription of dance and, more generally, of movement. Dance is an ephemeral art by its nature, which today can be documented and transmitted through video shooting, but which in the past was not possible to "preserve" over time. Thanks to musical notation (transposition of the music into scores) it has been possible to pass down the scores through history: the pieces of the past can be reread and interpreted with precision and fidelity to the original work. On the contrary, many historical choreographies have been lost as the movement is extemporaneous, it gets lost, it evaporates in the air. This ambiguous and complex reality of dance shows the need for a notation of movement, whose main objective is to faithfully reconstruct the choreographies without the need for a video shoot.









