Biennale Danza 2019

Alessandro Sciarroni, the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, an artist with a “mixed” career in art, theatre and choreography comes to Venice with Your Girl, a show-revelation, and Augusto, in which the only physical and vocal practice that the performers are allowed to express themselves with is hearty laughter. Steven Michel – who studied mime, dance, percussion – and Théo Mercier – trained in the visual arts and directing – the Silver Lions, meet at the intersection between art and choreography, the result of similar construction processes but using different instruments: on the one hand the body and on the other objects. As in Affordable Solution for Better Living, a solo that uses humour to dissect the standardization of our lifestyles, which finds a perfect model in Ikea furniture.

 

Encounters at the Giardino Marceglia (Arsenale) and conversations after the performances with extraordinary women and extraordinary men of theatre: a mosaic of images, visions, stories and expertise to foster a relationship open to knowledge and debate, with a discerning audience open to research into the various languages of expression.

 

Some of the guest artists ­ – Simona Bertozzi, Nicolàs Poggi and Luciano Rosso, Luke George and Daniel Kok, Katia-Marie Germain, Bára Sigfúsdóttir, Nicola Gunn, and the dancers and choreographers of the Biennale College will bring dance directly into the flow of daily life, establishing a dialogue with the outside world in their creations, short choreographic pieces, to be performed in Via Garibaldi on a stage built for the occasion.