Take a journey through time and around the world in Jacopo Jenna's production of Some Choreographies. In it, the performer Ramona conducts an incessant dialogue with a quick sequence of videos that are a parade of all possible ways of human movement. The dancer mirrors what is happening on the screen and with her expression breathes life, a third dimension and new values and meanings into the existing 2D material. In the final connection with artist Robert Fassone's original video images of landscapes and living organisms, she searches for the connection of man with the infinite universe.

 

 

Olga Dukhovnaya, in collaboration with the composer Anton Svetlichny, performed her own version of Swan Lake with the aim of creating a modern performance from this classical ballet. The intention to create a performance on a large scale was planted after two years of quarantine on the last morning of the war conflict. Olga Dukhovnaya turned down a commission from a Moscow museum to create a choreography for more than 30 dancers with a live orchestra and singers. The Ukrainian choreographer reworked the original concept and concentrated the entire ballet ensemble into a single artist: herself. Against the background of the mentioned events, the essential and dynamic dance performance Swan Lake Solo was born, which is permeated with tones of joyful and unrestrained freedom.

 

The performance will be followed by an after talk with the creators.

 

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Jacopo Jenna is an Italian choreographer, performer and filmmaker who focuses on scenic creation, videos and installations. He studied sociology and later also a dance at Codarts University in Rotterdam. He participates in educational programs for different age groups and looks for new ways to look at performance art. He collaborated with various European ensembles and artists and presented his works at numerous festivals and stages not only in Italy. His team includes Ramona Caia, co-founder of the CANI choreographic research group, and Roberto Fassone, with a background in various arts. His original work Some Choreographies was selected for Aerowaves Twenty22.

 

Olga Dukhovnaya is a dancer and choreographer born in Ukraine in 1984 and currently lives in Rennes (France). Graduated from the Faculty of Choreography of Kiev in 2003 and P.A.R.T.S. Brussels in 2006. She moved to France to start a master's program in dance at CNDC Angers (in partnership with Paris 8 University). She’s got her master’s degree in choreography in 2013. Her piece KOROWOD, created in 2013 received the third prize in the  “Danse élargie” contest Organized by Musée de la Danse and the Théâtre de la Ville-Paris (2013). In 2018 she made a piece Sœur in collaboration with Robert Steijn. In 2022 she created a Swan Lake Solo where the challenge is to embody with a single performer all the roles of the ballet. As a dancer she has collaborated with the choreographers Boris Charmatz, Maud le Pladec, Ashley Chen and took part in a video installations of Aernout Mik.

 

 

Swan Lake Solo_teaser from C.A.M.P on Vimeo.