Juliette Mapp writes „Dancers have the advantage of being able to detach themselves from meanings conveyed by normal language usage. A dancer can live in a world of passing images, sensations, landscapes, relationships, and constructs without necessarily attaching herself to the specifity that language often creates. The not naming that defines much of the dancer‘s… Continue reading Crack
Category: Feeling
Queering the feet
Queering your feet, sexual and geographical re-orientation: where and with whom are we walking? I want to invite you to a small embodied practice. ( I proposed this meditation during the workshop that followed the “Fabulation for Future” Symposium. 13-23 September 2021. Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf.) I am calling it „queering your feet, sexual and geographical… Continue reading Queering the feet
Mirror
Dancing City. Where does movement take place? In the body? In the space around the body? In the spaces between bodies? In the objects that surround us? This experience is inspired by a specific Choreographic Object by William Forsythe, “City of Abstract”, created in 2001. Clicking on this link you will be able to experience what Forsythe describes as “specific… Continue reading Mirror
Writing – Associations
[This is an excerpt transcribed from the interview to Elisa Sbaragli and Sara Sguotti: you can find the video interview here] Giovanni: When I say the word ‘writing’, which associations come to mind? Elisa: The associations which come to my mind are: notes, drawings, signs, trajectories and archives. Writing is dominant during the flow of… Continue reading Writing – Associations
The practice of writing
I always used to write a lot. I was born in 1976, so my generation grew up writing with pen and paper, no screens, no digital stuff whatsoever. I grew up partly with my grandmother, 600 km from my hometown, so I used to miss her a lot when I wasn’t at hers, and I… Continue reading The practice of writing
Iceberg
There’s so much going on right now under the surface. What is being done is so little, what is passively happening, on the contrary, is a lot.
Before the pandemic
It has been a long time since I last posted something. September was a pretty full month: the conference Fabulation for Future (my very first conference as a speaker!), a 5-days-workshop about the programming language P5, the Festival Venere in Teatro in Venice and Wam! in Faenza, which I co-curated, and on the top of… Continue reading Before the pandemic
Fire
Das Ding dingt
Recently I have been busy with things. What are “things”? Where do they come from? A bottle? A piece of paper? A pen? A shoe? A stone? A tree? Dead leaves? Ideas? Screens? Words tipped on a smartphone? Movements? Directions? Is time a thing? Are algorithms things? Some do think things “thing”. That is: to… Continue reading Das Ding dingt
Exposed
Transcription As I was trying to figure out the form this digital toolkit could take, I focused on the scope of this research: the analysis of how dramaturgy emerges from the digitally mediated sharing of artistic processes in dance. I eventually realized that one of the main characteristics of sharing one’s own artistic process was… Continue reading Exposed