Corpi Elettrici

You can watch the video dances that were created as part of Corpi Elettrici on  YouTube  and on the Gender Bender Festival’s social networks (IGTV Instagram and Facebook Playlists).

Giulio Sonno’s feedback and review

DANZAdiSTANZA , Musica e danza nella camera virtuale di Corpi Elettrici  (Music and dance in the virtual room of Corpi Elettrici) is the title of the article by Giulio Sonno, playwright and editor-in-chief of Paper Street, who followed the research process and the collaboration between the artists and the students with a critical and thorough glimpse. He tells us what he has seen:

“…The strange art of contagion has gradually developed as part of Corpi Elettrici, an art that, without even trying, was born from and talks about the uncertainty of the pandemic: should we expose ourselves in front of others or stay in our own comfort zone?[…] The lockdown has diminished our dreams and fantasies, exalting the material side of life. However, in order to understand the final results of Corpi Elettrici, we will have to do the opposite: we will have to admire the works from a new perspective, look for the depth they conceal, what cannot be seen but is still there. In this way, the voices coming from household effects, news broadcasts, birds, atmospheric agents and distant planets are transformed into a fog made up of impulses that remind us of the distant echoes of desires, thoughts, ideas and memories. These are fragments of bodies and existences that struggle to show themselves completely. There is something that holds them back, hinders them, delays them and hides them; yet this does not mean that totality does not exist; it has simply been transformed. We cannot look for it here and now, but in a wider time frame, a moment when we are not anxiously looking for certainties, confirmations or truths: a moment of rediscovery[…] The virtual room has not replaced nor can it replace the importance of direct, live experiences, but it has shown us a possibility that until yesterday, whether out of haste or because of money, had never been considered enough: the possibility of allowing ourselves the time of not having the answers and, therefore, the time to listen. The possibility of not hiding behind a mask, a public image or the expectation of results; the possibility of discovering that, after all, the greatest limitation is the one that, consciously or not, we impose on ourselves and those around us. In fact, this determines the true impact of our actions.”

Thanks to the prolific collaboration between Gender Bender and the G.B. Martini Conservatory, whose purpose was to create the micro-choreographies, the project went beyond the creation of these short videos and became a live performance. This is how it entered the official programming of the 18th edition of the Gender Bender Festival. On stage, the performers of Collettivo MINE will feature choreographies that were created especially for them by the students of the courses of Electronic Music and Applied Music at the Conservatory: they will reinterpret these works with new and original creations. A mix of performances with a chorus structure that perfectly represents the company’s motto: working together in search of a common poetics, while valorizing each personality. 

CREDITS

A project by:

Daniele Del Pozzo and Mauro Meneghelli, Gender Bender’s artistic directors

Daniela Cattivelli and Damiano Meacci, teachers of the School of Electronic Music of Conservatorio G. B. Martini

Outside eye: Giulio Sonno

Editing: Fabio Fiandrini

Press Office: Anahí Dworniczak

Digital strategy: Marco Obino and Valentina Pederiva

Music tracks and composition:

Ladan Abedini, Gioele Billi, Dario Boschi, Biagio Cavallo, Lorenza Ceregini, Alessandro Cherubini, Simone Domizi, Vicky Koushiappa, Marco Melilli, Marco Menditto, Cristian Albani, Maele Allorio, Pier Francesco Amadei, Mitjia Bichon, Salvatore Bovalina, Yuri Casali, Matteo Davoli, Olmo Frabetti, Alireza Farajan Hamed and William Succi.

Coreographies and performances

Collettivo MINE: Francesco Saverio Cavaliere, Siro Guglielmi, Fabio Novembrini, Roberta Racis e Silvia Sisto.

Project Partners

Corpi Elettrici is part of Così Sarà! La città che vogliamo, sponsored by the Municipality of Bologna, created by the Emilia Romagna Teatro Foundation, funded by the European Social Fund of the European Union , as part of the National operational programme “Metropolitan cities” 2014-2020.