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Performance for the Millennial Celebration of San Miniato al Monte (2018)

May 28, 2018 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

san-miniato-1000-terzine-dante“In occasione del Millenario di San Miniato, sabato 26 maggio, dalle h. 19.00 (partenza via dell’Erta Canina ang. via Monte alle Croci) centinaia di cantori saliranno dal quartiere di San Niccolò fino all’abbazia, recitando e interpretando le terzine dantesche dedicate al tema del cammino e della salita.

“‘A salire a le stelle /Legato con amore in un volume ciò che per l’universo si squaderna’ è una performance corale i cui protagonisti sono 306 cantori, il pubblico e le strade di Firenze, che tornano ad essere luogo di incontro per i cittadini, grazie a una esperienza culturale comune. I 306 cantori sono infatti di varia estrazione: ragazzi, professionisti, detenuti, personalità della vita pubblica, studenti, educatori, persone in stato di disagio psichico e/o economico, migranti, persone con la sindrome di Down, ragazzi che praticano il Parkour, i musicanti della Filarmonica di Marcialla, persone comuni e fuori dalla norma.” — Gonews.it

The performance was organized by the association Culter as part of their Piume | Dante 2021 program.

Contributed by Irene Zanini-Cordi (Florida State University)

Categories: Performing Arts
Tagged with: 2018, Florence, Italy, Performance Art

Piume Dante 2021 Performance (June 24 and 25, 2016)

May 28, 2018 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

“Prosegue in vista delle celebrazioni del 2021 l’esplorazione dell’universo dantesco che Culter da anni propone attraverso azioni sceniche e corali a cui partecipano come protagonisti centinaia di donne, uomini, bambini fra cui detenuti, migranti, persone affette dalla sindrome di Down, persone con disagio economico, fisico e psichico e a rischio di esclusione sociale.

“PIUME | DANTE2021 Legato con amore in un volume, ciò che per l’universo si sqauderna è stata un’azione performativa verticale, dedicata al tema del volo nella Divina Commedia. Salendo all’interno del Campanile il pubblico ha attraversato spazi diversi incontrando prima un popolo di uccelli, simbolo del desiderio alla dimensione oltremondana che assume le forme metriche e meccaniche delle ali, per poi arrivare infine nell’ultimo piano, vicino al cielo, allo slancio di Ulisse, colui che non ha bisogno di piume per provare a volare.” — Culter.it

The performance was staged at the Campanile di Giotto at Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, at dawn and at sunset on June 24 and 25, 2016.

See an article covering the event here (with photos, in Italian).

See a video describing the performance here (in Italian).

FIRENZE – prove spettacolo teatrale
foto Opera del Duomo Firenze/ Claudio Giovannini

 

 

 

Categories: Performing Arts
Tagged with: 2016, Florence, Italy, Performance Art

The Art of Being Bombarded by Watermelons

September 14, 2017 By Professor Arielle Saiber

From an article on the artist Kawita Vatanajyankur:


“[…] Other videos, like ‘The Carrying Pole,’ above, suggest torments worthy of Dante or ancient mythology. And some audiences have asked whether she had a political aim, or if she meant to criticize abusive interrogation tactics like waterboarding in these endurance works. […]”    —Daniel McDermon, The New York Times, September 13, 2017

Categories: Performing Arts
Tagged with: 2017, Bangkok, Performance Art, Thailand, Torture

420PEOPLE, “Inferno – Variations on Dante” (2014)

October 16, 2014 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

Inferno - Variations on DanteCzech dance company 420PEOPLE has created a piece entitled “Inferno – Variations on Dante“, which premiered on September 30th, 2014. The performance is described on the 420PEOPLE website as

“A tragicomic parable on a human fight with sorrow, boredom and laziness that sneak into our lives with middle age. Inferno is not a place, it is a state of soul.”

 

Contributed by Michele Torresani

Categories: Performing Arts
Tagged with: 2014, Czech Republic, Dance, Inferno, Performance Art, Theatre

SAWTOOTH Dancers’ Ombra

July 22, 2014 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

Dance company SAWTOOTH performs a Dante-inspired piece, Ombra, at Dixon Place in Chelsea, NY, on July 24, 2014.

SAWTOOTH Dancers“Inspired by Dante’s Paradiso and Plato’s Cave, Ombra is a multimedia dance performance embedded within a dance party. Drawing in part from a hypnotic, Butoh-inspired physicality, the dance performance emerges as episodic dreamscapes within a clubbing experience and a live cabaret. Sound artist Michael Feld orchestrates an eclectic sound score that moves between live percussion, electronic sound art, and 90s dance hits.

“Ombra asserts that liberation is created, not revealed. With humor, Ombra (Italian for ‘shadow’) is a piece that hopes to offer a re-evaluation of the dark, and it seeks to relocate the site of true human ascendance within the shadows and the shadows we make.”    —Dixon Place

To read about SAWTOOTH, click here.

To read about Dixon Place, click here.

Categories: Performing Arts
Tagged with: 2014, Dance, Multimedia, New York City, Paradiso, Performance Art

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