MONUMENTUM DA

Credits

Choreography: Cristina Kristal Rizzo
Performance: Diana Anselmo, Cristina Kristal Rizzo
Text by: Cristina Kristal Rizzo, Diana Anselmo e Laura
Pante on writings of Yvonne Rainer, John Cage, Simone Weil, Ilya Kaminsky e CKR
Theoretical support: Laura Pante, Sergio Lo Gatto
Production: Fuorimargine Centro di Produzione di danza e Arti Performative della Sardegna e TIR Danza
With the support of: MilanOltre Festival e Oriente Occidente Residenze artistiche, PARC – Performing Arts Research Centre, Kilowatt, Armunia

Biographical Note

Diana Anselmo is a deaf performer, activist, and improvised human being. While pursuing her master’s degree in Theatre and Performing Arts at IUAV University of Venice, she debuted her first performance “Autoritratto in 3 atti” (2021), which continues to be presented at various Italian and international festivals (DIS_Festival – Serbia, ORME Festival – Switzerland).

She is a founding member of Al.Di.Qua. Artists, the first association in Europe created by and for disabled artists, through which she has spoken at numerous European festivals (IntegrART – Switzerland, DansFunk – Sweden, Holland Dance Festival – Netherlands). She is the youngest member of the British Council’s Cultural Advisory Board and is bilingual in LIS and Italian.

Cristina Kristal Rizzo is a dance maker who has been active in the Live Arts scene since the early 1990s. Based in Florence, she trained in New York at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance and worked in the studios of Merce Cunningham and Trisha Brown. She is one of the founders of Kinkaleri, a company with which she played an active role in shaping the international contemporary choreographic scene, receiving numerous awards including the Ubu Prize.

Since 2008, she has pursued an independent choreographic practice, focusing her research on theoretical reflection combined with a strong dynamic impact, aimed at regenerating the very act of creation and opening new perspectives on the present. She co-created the special project La Piattaforma della Danza Balinese (The Balinese Dance Platform) for Santarcangelo Festival 14 and 15, as well as the 21st edition of Live Arts Week with Xing.

Since 2019, she has been actively engaged in the Sup de Sub project, working with very young non-professionals from the banlieues of Marseille and Paris.