screendance festival
italian version
Cinedanza is the first international call and festival in Emilia-Romagna dedicated entirely to screendance.
Main section
Discover here all the selected films
OCD – Ordinary Catastrophic Day
For having been able to transform the nightmare of bureaucracy and power of contemporary superstructures in a vortex of anarchic passion and empathetic and for having created from his own knowledge in dance a gesture of continuous destabilization of the gaze.
Light Rising
For the constancy and commitment with which the artist uses her body
as a tool of emancipation towards the existing, be it artificial like a video camera, natural like a forest or personal like one’s most intimate sensitivity.
Circular
For having been able to talk about the delicate topic of integration and fragility through a medium as atypical for screendance as science fiction, wisely avoiding any rhetorical device and focusing on movement of the body as a constant discovery of what we don’t know of others and of ourselves.
I go Indeepe/andence
For the surprising dramaturgical evolution that mixes words, body and rhythm in an expressive and expressionist crescendo. A movie inable to make us reflect on the thin border that lies between the affirmation of one’s individuality and the ability to coexist with others, through a use of staging that interprets dance as a political act, transforming it into a subversive gesture.
Luce
For having been able to integrate dance within the naturalistic fabric
in which the film is set, through the dramaturgical power expressed by the relationship between images, live sounds and music, which make it a work capable of evoking the universal concept of the other through its most convincing instrument: poetry.
“Screendance Dwelling”
Discover here all the selected films
Ecos
For the radical nature of the assembly thanks to which the movement -image becomes an immediate memory of itself.
In-contro
For knowing how to destabilize the image through editing and for having transformed the dance into a plot of relationships that manage to communicate poetry also through alienation.
Program 2023
Friday 27th
FMAV Higher Education School, via Giardini 160, Modena (no live streaming)
- 9 pm > Presentation of the Tell me a story project, in collaboration with ERT and Balletto Civile, meeting with Giulia Spattini and Emanuela Serra
- Screening of competing films from the Screendance Dwelling section
Saturday 28th
Drama Teatro, viale Buon Pastore 57, Modena (live streaming from 9pm)
- 7 pm > Sound’s Sight a meeting with Corrado Nuccini, musician and art director
- 8 pm > dinner break
- 9 pm > Screening of competing films in the main section
Sunday 29th
Drama Teatro, viale Buon Pastore 57, Modena (live streaming from 9pm)
- 6 pm > Elena Cervellati introduction
- 6.15 pm > Documentary film screening Dance for an Ideal City
- 6.45 pm > Elena Cervellati talks with Gigi Cristoforetti, general and artistic director of CCN Aterballetto, Nicolas Ballario, author of the docu-film, Daniele Costa, director of the docu-film
- 7.45 pm > dinner break
- 9 pm > Screening of competing films in the main section
Guests
Friday 27th, from 9 pm
Discover the project Tell me a story
Emanuela Serra was born in Turin in 1980. Always interested in theater as well as dance, her training was consolidated in research in the field of physical theatre. Since 2003 he has been part of the staff of the physical theater company Balletto Civile with which he works regularly and of which he follows both the artistic part, as an interpreter and assistant to the choreography/director, and the training part as a teacher. He has taught in institutional academies such as the Scuola del Teatro Stabile of Turin, the Accademia Nico Pepe of Udine, the Accademia Roma Danza and has held training workshops for actors and dancers in Italy and abroad (Neukölln Oper/Berlin, Teatro National Cluj-Napoca/Romania) in which he built shows and performances for professionals. He met different realities and worked in training projects for teenagers, adults and adolescents with physical and mental disabilities (in 2012 Balletto Civile won the Mydream award with General), non-professionals interested in theater and dance. In 2016 he began a training/research path in second reception centres/SPRAR project (protection system for asylum seekers and refugees), thanks to this experience he founded the artistic collective DAB (dance across the border). Parallel to the work on the body, he investigates the work on the word, recitation/singing and slam poetry through the use of texts he writes for the stage.
Giulia Spattini, born in 1989, approached the work of Civil Ballet at the age of twenty through her meeting with the dancer Emanuele Braga. In 2010 she joined the Corpo a Corpo project at the Teatro Due Foundation in Parma, a seven-month training course for dance and theater, directed by Michela Lucenti and Balletto Civile. Here she encounters the work of Antonio Latella, Massimiliano Farau and the playwright Alessandro Berti. In 2011 she graduated from the University of Bologna, Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, Department of Dams, Theater specialization, with an experimental thesis on the Balletto Civile company. In the same year she made his debut at the Teatro Due with the show Il Sacro della Primavera (Winning Show of the 2011 Roma Danza Award) directed by Michela Lucenti. Starting from this year she will become part of the company’s permanent staff. In 2015 she encountered the work of Francesco Origo, for many years a teacher at the Scuola del Teatro Stabile in Genoa, actor and collaborator of Carlo Cecchi, also director of the Teatri di Mare company. It is staged in the show Blu e Squarciò, directed by F. Origo in Sardinia and Norway. In 2016 she encountered the work of Natalia Vallebona, a Genoese choreographer and dancer, resident in France and Belgium for many years, and began a training course focused on floorwork and contemporary performing arts. In the same year she worked as a dancer in the commercial short film The Killer in Red directed by Paolo Sorrentino. In 2019 she won a special mention at the Pindoles Festival in Barcelona with the show Longing For of which she is the author and performer. In the same year he won the Direction Under 30 Critics Award and the PNP Mobile Spectators Award with the show HER-ON, written together with A. Pallecchi.
Saturday 28th, from 7 pm
Sound’s sight A talk that explores the historical link between music and images. Through carefully selected keywords, we will delve into the complex relationship between these languages. We will discover how music is able to transform images, converting the most penetrating noise and absolute silence into a compelling language.
Corrado Nuccini is a musician, art director, founder of the Giardini di Mirò group and has been involved for years in educational and musical dissemination projects such as Soundtracks – film music. Since 2020 he has been artistic director of the Ferrara Sotto le Stelle festival.
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Sunday 29th, from 6 pm
Screening of Dance for an Ideal City
Elena Cervellati teaches History of Dance and Theories and Poetics of Dance at the University of Bologna, where she also takes care of the European headquarters of the Kazuo Ohno Archive. He directs, with Elena Randi, the study magazine “Danza e Ricerca. Laboratory of studies, writings, visions”. From 1997 to 2002 she was the organizer of the Compagnia Abbondanza/Bertoni and since 2008 she has planned the entertainment initiatives dedicated to dance at the La Soffitta Center in Bologna.
Gigi Cristoforetti has been the General and Artistic Director of the National Dance Foundation / Aterballetto since September 2017.
He has extensive experience in directing important festivals and events, such as the Torinodanza Festival, the Echi del Mediterraneo Festival and Gardadanza – International Festival of Contemporary Dance. He has also been an artistic consultant for cultural projects and live performances, collaborating with institutions such as the French Embassy in Italy and the Teatro Stabile di Brescia. He has published two volumes on contemporary circus and has received numerous awards for his artistic planning. In 2011 he was awarded the rank of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.
Nicolas Ballario, born in 1984, deals with contemporary art applied to the media. His professional birthplace is in Oliviero Toscani’s factory ‘La Sterpaia’, of which he will become cultural manager. He has collaborated with the most important artistic institutions and numerous newspapers (L’Espresso, Corriere della Sera). He is currently the author and presenter of the contemporary art programs of Sky Arte and Radio Uno Rai and is curator of the art sector of Rolling Stone magazine. Curates exhibitions and catalogues. With a cycle of broadcasts created on Radio Radicale in 2016 he won the Bassani Prize, the most important Italian journalistic recognition for environmental and cultural issues. In the last period he has developed various cultural communication projects with the creative research center Fabrica, for which he was the author and host of shows on photography for LA7 and Radio Capital. The Artribune magazine included him in the ‘Best of’ of the excellences of the art world of 2019.
Daniele Costa, born in 1992 in Castelfranco Veneto, began his artistic practice in 2014, dedicating himself mainly to video. His research focuses on the knowledge of the human body in two directions of personal introspection. On the one hand the internal functioning of the human body, based on medical-scientific insights, on the other the human singularity, the knowledge of the individual in relation to his history, his world and his person. His projects have been presented in institutions and festivals such as PAC Padiglione Arte Contemporanea Milano, Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi Venezia, MAXXI Roma, Galleria D’arte Moderna Roma, Fondazione Spinola Banna and GAM Torino, National Gallery of Art Tirana (AL), House of King Peter I Belgrade (RS), Museum of Contemporary Art of Thessaloniki (SKG), Artevisione Careof and Sky Arte (Milan), Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa (Venice), Cinema Floating Venice, Lago film Fest (Treviso).
Saturday 28th, from 9 pm
Sunday 29th, from 9pm
Expert Jury
Mario Blaconà is a film director and critic. He collaborates with the San Fedele Cultural Center in Milan and is editor of the online magazines Lo Specchio Scuro and Filmidee. He is currently head of programming of the Bellaria Film Festival, is a member of the pre-selection committee of the Sole Luna Doc, collaborates with the Laterale Film Festival and with the Locarno Film Festival within the Locarno Filmmakers Academy.
Dorin Mihai photographer. He is trained in information technology. Photojournalist since 2011, in 2014 the meeting with the choreographer Claudio Gasparotto brings him closer to dance and stage photography, with an assiduous and permanent collaboration.
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Teri J. Weikel choreographer and dancer, co-founder of Artisti Drama, she works extensively between New York (Donald Byrd Dance Foundation) and Los Angeles (California Institute of the Arts) also collaborating with musicians of international importance. In Italy you collaborate with Leo De Berardinis, Elena Bucci and Marco Sgrosso. In 2004 she graduated in the Feldenkrais Method which she teaches and applies to dance. Since 2014 he has been a lecturer at the Academy of Dance in Rome.
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