Pandemic Dances

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Like the Hellenic dances or the Renaissance dances it is possible that in the history books there will remain traces of the pandemic dances – of the dances created in this historical period that we are still experiencing.
Dances that have made necessity – social distancing – a starting point, soliciting different approaches to choreography and creation.
Like all historical dances, even those created for my Company are short dances that intersect with each other to create a single evening, in which irony and reflective thinking meet, without ever touching each other.
The dancers I bring on stage are Movimento Danza company’s dancers, those who have made its history, today over fifty, with all their experience, energy, vitality and expressive capacity. Their presence is interwined with that of a younger generation that accompanies us in short intervals in which one scene evolves naturally into another.

Gabriella Stazio

“Pandemic Dances” is available as a full night program with three choreographies: Dust – Tiny incoherent particles, Lulù’s Paradox and Pandemik Mambo. These are also available separately.

Dust – Tiny incoherent particles

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Incoherence – the lack of cohesion of a body or substance’s particles – can have its positive sides: it creeps everywhere, flies for a while and settles down, goes somewhere else or back to the same place and, at least at the beginning, is almost invisible. Maybe, you think you’ve got rid of it (incoherence), but you have not. It will come back.
A coherent body can neer perform in the same way because the particles aggregate, consolidate, become matter and you are screwed. Also incoherence of thought is a nice quality.
Everyone has a tiny moment of dust of incoherence in their lives. Everyone should keep an incoherent thought as a lifeline.

Choreography by Gabriella Stazio

Dance: Sonia Di Gennaro

Sound Design: Francesco Giangrande

Music: by Yann Tiersen, Morgan, F. Buscaglione, Jimmy Fontana, Massimo Ranieri, Patty Pravo, Rino Gaetano

Lights: Alessandro Messina

Producers: Movimento Danza – National Promotion Body, Ministry of Culture, Region of Campania

Duration: 28 minutes

For informations: promozione@movimentodanza.org

Lulù’s Paradox

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Lulù Paradox is the story of a body, a body as a place of paradox, as states Jacques Le Goff as a place of contradictions between everyday and extraordinary experiences. A body that reveals a different personality as a “room full with people” – from the book by Daniel Keyes, autobiography by Bill Milligan, first multiple personality of history – in which you encounter yourself. If, on the one hand the history of a body is made of oblivion, renouncement, of political use of the bodily metaphor by the western culture, on the other hand, as Marc Bloch states “it is necessary to give back a body to story. And to give a story to a body.”

Choreography by Gabriella Stazio

Performance: Emanuela Tagliavia

Original Musica and Sound Design: Francesco Giangrande

Lights: Alessandro Messina

Producers: Movimento Danza – National Promotion Body, Ministry of Culture, Region of Campania

Duration: 20 minutes

For informations: promozione@movimentodanza.org

Pandemik Mambo

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The idea behind Pandemik Mambo was born in Berlin when, visiting the Hamburger Bahnhof, a former train station transformed in museum, I met a girl and a boy who, in order to keep the social distancing during the visit, were wearing each a colorful lifebuoy. When stopped by the Museum security, they replied that this was the way they had chosen to keep the social distancing. A game.

Gabriella Stazio

Choreography by Gabriella Stazio

Dance: Sonia Di Gennaro e Michele Simonetti

Original Music and Sound Design: Francesco Giangrande

Music: Dj Shadow, Damn Yankees

Lights: Alessandro Messina

Producers: Movimento Danza – National Promotion Body, Ministry of Culture, Region of Campania

Duration: 15 minutes

For informations: promozione@movimentodanza.org

Theory of Swarm Intelligence

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“Creativity begins where order and disorder meet”.
This is the core of the Theory of Swarm Intelligence – a theory referring to animal biology. The name of this theory is also the title of the latest choreography by Gabriella Stazio, created for the Movimento Danza Company with live original music by Matteo Castaldo.
The basic compositional concepts of the choreography are Swarm Intelligence-inspired. It means they are based on biological insights into the incredible ability to solve complex problems through ‘organization without organization’ that social insects, flocks of birds, shoals of fishes have. These colonies – counting a few animals or millions of individuals – show behaviors featuring a mix of efficiency, flexibility and robustness – although in the total absence of any leader.
An only insect is not able to find any efficient solution to a problem concerning the colony it belongs to; instead, the colony ‘as a whole’ is able to find the solution.
Behind this ‘organization without any organizer’ there are some hidden mechanisms which let us cope with situations of uncertainty and find solutions to very complex problems.
Therefore, in biology, collective behavior is a model of behavior by which a system of individuals reacts as a single organism to an external stimulus. This collective response is on the line between order and disorder.
Starting from this biological theory, the choreography shows and deepens the main concepts of Swarm Intelligence giving life to a ‘swarm choreography’.
It is obtained not only through the use of the body but also with the voice and the use of images created and projected live.
To reproduce the incredible abilities of flocks and colonies, the choreographer has opted for working simultaneously on multiple channels: lights, sound, movement and video.
Obviously, everything is live.
Avant-garde, innovation, research are the terms which guided Mrs. Stazio during the creation of her latest choreography.
Many choreographic indications are read randomly and directly on the stage without it being possible to foresee them either by the dancers, or by the choreographer. Indications propagate from dancer to dancer as in a ‘Chinese whispers’ game.

Can a group of artists be like a shoal of fishes or like a colony of insects in which interactions between subjects guarantee the propagation of information through a robust and flexible system?

The choreography is created under the gaze of the spectatoranswers Gabriella Stazio. Indeed, the dancers ‘translate’ right on the stage in front of the public the choreographic indications to be performed on the moment, according to collective behavior models based on the swarm intelligence theory, with hundreds of possible combinations.
A very neat swarm is not functional to one’s survival, just like a very messy one.
And the same is on the stage.
The pursuit of a dynamic balance between these two poles is an integral part of the search for the collective behavior of the dancers: the collective behavior of a swarm has its greatest chance of success in the face of a danger just when order and disorder meet.
Dancers create – like swarms do in nature – a stable network of connections in which no one is a leader and which is not created according to spatial proximity. Instead, the network is created thanks to the constant exchange of information through different channels such as the use of the body, movement, rhythm. This is essential for dancers as well as for swarms or shoals of fishes.
Each dancer elaborates the primary habitats of the choreography giving her own creative contribution which will be integrated into the collective rules of choreographic behavior identified in the research work.
The sounds produced by the choreography complement the soundtracks – ranging from Ligeti to Cage or Reich, to live original sound by Matteo Castaldo, to the sounds of swarms in nature.
Dark, light and dim light reveal the action in its entirety or in the partiality of the bodies, thanks to a game of perspectives made possible by the use of live cameras.

Choreography by Gabriella Stazio

Choreography by John Cage, György Ligeti, Iannis Xenakis, Oake, Orphx, Blush Response, Diego Stocco, Wrs

Live original music: Matteo Castaldo

Performers: Ana Cotorè, Valeria D’Antonio, Sonia Di Gennaro, Simona Perrella, Luana Rossetti

Producers: Movimento Danza – National Promotion Body, Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism, Region of Campania

Duration: approximately 50 minutes

For informations: promozione@movimentodanza.org