Danzare il paesaggio: pratiche ecologiche tra coreografia e territorio

The article investigates how dance and landscape relate by adopting an interdisciplinary perspective that integrates landscape disciplines, and sustainability sciences, with performance studies and dance disciplines. Applying this lens, it intends to include some significant phenomena and processes...

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Main Author: Emanuele Regi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Accademia University Press 2023-11-01
Series:Mimesis Journal
Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/mimesis/2840
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description The article investigates how dance and landscape relate by adopting an interdisciplinary perspective that integrates landscape disciplines, and sustainability sciences, with performance studies and dance disciplines. Applying this lens, it intends to include some significant phenomena and processes that dance has undertaken in the last century concerning natural environments. From the ‘pioneers’ of modern dance Isadora Duncan and Rudolf Laban to Anna Halprin’s research in the second half of the 20th century, the movement of the body has confronted natural spaces in various ways, acting together with the landscape and not simply occupying it. In the 1990s, the development of ecological research within the performing arts further confirmed this investigation through ecoperformance (Maura Baiocchi) and ecodance, highlighting how artistic work could be constituted by integrating natural elements while denying the centrality of the body. A dynamic that will have a considerable influence on subsequent generations. We will focus on the ‘third dance landscape’ in Italy, as Acca defines it, where some artists investigate the possibilities of inhabiting natural and public space through dance such as DOM- and Fabrizio Favale. In order to better define the latter, we will focus on the processuality of two works created within the project Bodyscape di Danza Urbana (2022): Sull’irrequietezza del divenire by Elisa Sbaragli, Edoardo Sansonne and Fabio Brusadin and La möa. Danza per corpo e torrente by Lorenzo Morandini. Both these projects are realised in public spaces and integrate a strong relationship with the landscape understood as a cultural and natural element.
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spelling doaj.art-970d263ab8fd4f19ac8b00ed093878b72024-02-13T10:54:30ZengAccademia University PressMimesis Journal2279-72032023-11-0112217519010.4000/mimesis.2840Danzare il paesaggio: pratiche ecologiche tra coreografia e territorioEmanuele RegiThe article investigates how dance and landscape relate by adopting an interdisciplinary perspective that integrates landscape disciplines, and sustainability sciences, with performance studies and dance disciplines. Applying this lens, it intends to include some significant phenomena and processes that dance has undertaken in the last century concerning natural environments. From the ‘pioneers’ of modern dance Isadora Duncan and Rudolf Laban to Anna Halprin’s research in the second half of the 20th century, the movement of the body has confronted natural spaces in various ways, acting together with the landscape and not simply occupying it. In the 1990s, the development of ecological research within the performing arts further confirmed this investigation through ecoperformance (Maura Baiocchi) and ecodance, highlighting how artistic work could be constituted by integrating natural elements while denying the centrality of the body. A dynamic that will have a considerable influence on subsequent generations. We will focus on the ‘third dance landscape’ in Italy, as Acca defines it, where some artists investigate the possibilities of inhabiting natural and public space through dance such as DOM- and Fabrizio Favale. In order to better define the latter, we will focus on the processuality of two works created within the project Bodyscape di Danza Urbana (2022): Sull’irrequietezza del divenire by Elisa Sbaragli, Edoardo Sansonne and Fabio Brusadin and La möa. Danza per corpo e torrente by Lorenzo Morandini. Both these projects are realised in public spaces and integrate a strong relationship with the landscape understood as a cultural and natural element.https://journals.openedition.org/mimesis/2840
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Danzare il paesaggio: pratiche ecologiche tra coreografia e territorio
Mimesis Journal
title Danzare il paesaggio: pratiche ecologiche tra coreografia e territorio
title_full Danzare il paesaggio: pratiche ecologiche tra coreografia e territorio
title_fullStr Danzare il paesaggio: pratiche ecologiche tra coreografia e territorio
title_full_unstemmed Danzare il paesaggio: pratiche ecologiche tra coreografia e territorio
title_short Danzare il paesaggio: pratiche ecologiche tra coreografia e territorio
title_sort danzare il paesaggio pratiche ecologiche tra coreografia e territorio
url https://journals.openedition.org/mimesis/2840
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