A Corona Works presents Impossible Love choreographed by Kristian Cellini and Just Joy choreographed by Guido Tuveri

Impossible Love / Just Joy
A Corona Works
Thu February 16 – Sat February 18, 2016 -  8:00 pm

Gibney Dance

Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center

280 Broadway (Entrance at 53 A Chambers Street) New York

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                                                                                                    Alessandra Corona (©Giorgio Russo)

A Corona Works will be presenting "IMPOSSIBLE LOVE" choreographed by Kristian Cellini and “JUST JOY” choreographed by Guido Tuveri,  the preview of the two original works starting at Gibney Dance Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center in New York prior to opening next June at the Baruck Theatre in New York

Alessandra Corona started A Corona Works in New York City to create and develop new multi-disciplinary projects. Corona’s goal is to make artistic works that integrate dance, music, theater, video and film arts, for presentation in the United States and around the world. Her passion is to create art collaborating with high-level professional artists from different performing art disciplines. 

Impossible Love is a new dance-theater production choreographed by the innovative Italian choreographer Kristian Cellini. The inspiration and atmosphere comes from the romance ‘ The Lady of the Camellias’, revised in a contemporary version.

Cellini’s work highlight the sentimental and passionate aspects of the eternal love between the main characters, with the help of a narrator and the original music by Thomas Lentakis. The expressive peak in the choreography will be emphasized by the music of Frederic Chopin.

Just Joy, choreographed by Guido Tuveri, is a collaboration with the artists celebrating the stages of life. It aims to show how even in times of difficulties and sorrow, dance will always bring passion and joy. The original music is by the American composer Thomas Lentakis.

Please join us at Gibney Center. 

A Corona Works presents

Impossible Love by Kristian Cellini / Just Joy by Guido Tuveri

Performers:

Alessandra Corona, James Johnson, Maria Vittoria Villa, Dannon O'Brien,

Nicholas Montero, Cassandra Orefice

Narrator: Fulvio Della Volta

Original Music: Thomas Lentakis

Production manager: Valeria Orani

Download the full cast bio

Download the press-kit (full cast bio + pictures)

“ITALIAN DANCE CONNECTION” SECOND ANNUAL NYC FESTIVAL WEEK MAY 23-28 2016 →

New York and Italian Artists To Connect in Week-Long - Contemporary Dance Performance and Art Event

ITALIAN DANCE CONNECTION (“IDACO nyc”), 2016 Festival Week, May 23-28, is the organization’s second annual contemporary dance and art event in NYC. A wide variety of artistic styles await audiences with over 20 dance companies, artists and filmmakers to participate. Dance workshops, creative residencies, thematic roundtables, site specifics, dance performances and an opening event at the Italian Cultural Institute are included in the event week.  Events will be held in various locations; all dance performances are to be held at the Sheen Center, 18 Bleecker Street, NYC.  

“IDACO nyc,” founded by Vanessa Tamburi and Enzo Celli, is curated and produced by FLUSSO dance project in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute New York and in partnership with Vivo Ballet – Anabella Lenzu/ DanceDrama – Umanism - INSCENA Festival - Mare Nostrum Elements/ECS  - Valentina Celada.

The “IDACO nyc EXPERIENCE” May 25, 26, 27, 28 at 7:30pm at the Sheen Center, will present work dedicated to the innovative projects of Italian/international choreographers and artists. The “IDACO nyc EXPERIMENT,” at 5:30pm on May 28 at the Sheen Center, will feature experimental projects focusing on young, emerging Italian/international choreographers and artists. The “Experience & Experiment” evenings will also include film screenings and intermission dance performances in theater-specific spaces.

ITALIAN DANCE CONNECTION, “IDACO nyc,” is a platform for Italian artists visiting and living in New York, and for New York artists who want to take part in a dialogue with Italian culture, exploring and sharing their unique paths through movement, choreography and the visual arts. “IDACO nyc” seeks to encourage networking and artistic research between multiple creative resources, cross cultural boundaries and offer an artistic platform while cultivating a sense of shared identity. The organization hopes to create space for new collaborations and offer a supportive, inspiring and creative environment for dancers, movers, performance artists, video artists, musicians, and all creative people interested in the "art of movement."

“IDACO nyc” 2016 has the theme ID-ENTITIES, focusing on the disorienting and stimulating nature of cultural, gender, racial, ethnic and class differences. “IDACO nyc” wishes to contribute to a better understanding of cultural diversity.

THE “IDACO nyc” PROGRAM:

OPENING EVENT – ITALIAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE Tuesday, May 24 at 6pm will include a reception, program presentation, video screening and site specific performance. Italian Cultural Institute, 686 Park Avenue. Free and open to the public.

IDACO Nyc ‘EXPERIENCE – SHEEN CENTER May 25, 26, 27, 28 at 7:30pm Caterina Rago Dance Company NY, DaCru Dance Company IT, Fabrizio Favale /Le SuppliciIT, FLUSSO dance project NY, KoDance IT, Laccioland CompanyIT , Anabella Lenzu /DanceDrama NY, Silvia Gribaudi IT, Jennifer Muller / The Works NY, Giovanni Leonarduzzi /Bellanda IT, VIVO Ballet IT/US.

AT INTERMISSION: Amaris DanceNY, Evol – Gessica Cipriano NY - Parcon Project NY

IDACO nyc ‘EXPERIMENT’” – SHEEN CENTER May 28 at 5:30pm Noemi Di Gregorio and artists NY, Forza Malizia Dance Company NY, Khensani Mathebula & Dancers   NY, KoDance IT, Lone King [Projects by Marissa Brown] US, [VESSELS] US

AT INTERMISSION: Evol – Gessica Cipriano NY

DOCUMENTARIES AND FILMMAKERS PRESENTING AT IDACO nyc   “EXPERIENCE” and “EXPERIMENT” EVENINGS:

Luca Ciriello IT, AlphaZTL Company of Dinamic Art/ Vito Alfarano IT, Robero Casarotto / Operaestate Festival Veneto IT, Virginia Experimental Film US/ Coorpi IT.

TICKETS:  http://sheencenter.org/shows/idaco-nyc-italian-dance-connection/   

General Admission: $25

Students $15

Packages: 2 shows: $45  - 3 shows: $70 - 4 shows: $90

“IDACO nyc” Experience/Experiment

The Sheen Center

18 Bleecker Street, New York, NY10012

(212) 925-2812

ABOUT IDACO nyc “The project IDACO nyc was born with the intent to create a festival to promote Italian contemporary and modern dance in the USA, a concept that hasn’t been thoroughly explored. In 2015, the first edition of this festival had a strong significance on the audience, stimulating their curiosity by presenting a unique collaboration between American and Italian artists in NYC, working independently or within organizations, coming from different disciplines and using a wide array of media. The curators boldly aimed for connecting artists, cultures, and communities, while presenting exciting work to their audience, bringing inter-cultural dialogue to the forefront, and encouraging a global vision of ART. In recent years, several Italian artists found a fertile creative ground in NYC, as the considerable stimulation of creative input the city offers represents an opportunity for many to question themselves and to grow. With this intention, IDACO nyc wants to give Italian contemporary dancers and choreographers the opportunity to bring their ideas abroad, connect with local artistic communities in NYC, and have their work seen and acknowledged in the USA.” – Vanessa Tamburi, Co-Founder and Artistic Director, IDACO nyc

“Dance is the hidden language of the soul.” – Martha Graham

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PROGRAM DETAILS

IDACO “EXPERIENCE” at the Sheen Center, NYC

May 25 through May 28 , 2016

- Wednesday May 25th, 7:30pm

pre-show Evol – Gessica Cipriano NY

Caterina Rago Dance Company NY

AlphaZTL Company of Dinamic Art/ Vito Alfarano IT (Film)

Intermission Amaris DanceNY

Silvia Gribaudi IT

Jennifer Muller / The Works NY

- Thursday, May 26th, 7:30pm

pre-show Evol – Gessica Cipriano NY

KoDance IT

FLUSSO dance project NY

Intermission PARCON project

Virginia Experimental FIlm/ Coorpi (Film) US/IT

Fabrizio Favale/ Le SuppliciIT

- Friday, May 27th, 7.30pm

pre-show Evol – Gessica Cipriano NY

Giovanni Leonarduzzi /Bellanda IT

Vivo BalletIT/NY

Intermission PARCON project

Luca Ciriello IT (Film)

DaCru Dance Company IT

- Saturday, May 28th, 7.30pm

Anabella Lenzu / DanceDramaNY

Giovanni Leonarduzzi / Bellanda IT

Intermission Operaestate Festival Veneto /Casarotto IT

KoDance IT

Laccioland CompanyIT

IDACO “EXPERIMENT” at the Sheen Center, NYC,

- Saturday, May 28 at 5:30pm:

 pre-show Evol – Gessica Cipriano NY

Khensani Mathebula & Dancers NY

Forza Malizia Dance CompanyNY

Noemi Di Gregorio and artists NY

Lone King [Projects by Marissa Brown] NY

[VESSELS] NY

Complessità at Creative Tech Week NY on May 7th

The human figure and body movements are explored through a transposition from virtual to biological. Singularity and collectivity operate across both biological and computational contexts creating a visible manipulation of corporeal relation human-technology.

Complessità is a performance, conceived by Italian designer and digital artist Enrica Beccalli, that is a journey into the beauty of complexity and our role within it. 
The performer is at the mercy of complexity thanks to a wearable device that affects his movements by modifying his equilibrioception (sense of balance) according to the movements of an algorithm that visually simulates a flock of birds.
Complessità is an innovative Interactive Dance Performance that invert the traditional human-machine relation: the human loses ownership of its movements and we enter a new dimension where the machine computes the moving human body. The interaction between human and machine loses its unilaterality and becomes (finally) mutual. 
The human figure and body movements are explored through a transposition from virtual to biological. Singularity and collectivity operate across both biological and computational contexts creating a visible manipulation of corporeal relation human-technology.
This algorithm simulates the behavior of a flock of birds. Flocking behavior is exhibited when a group of birds, called a flock, are foraging or in flight. 

In studying flocking behavior, it becomes clear there is no central control; each bird behaves autonomously, each bird has to decide for itself which flocks to consider as its environment and looks to the behavior of its fellow birds to determine its own. 
Humans are animals, too – collective animals at that. We flock. We look at the behaviors of others before acting ourselves and rely on the group when we don’t know what to do. 

The performer is being connected to the flocking algorithm through a Galvanic Vestibular Stimulator (GVS). The flock direction is transposed to the performer through two electrodes positioned on the back of each ear. The electrostimulation of the inner ear causes an involuntary and immediate modification of the body direction by stimulating a specific nerve that maintains balance. This technology has been investigated for both military and commercial purposes. Here Enrica Beccalli wants to explore its effect on performing arts as a new typology and most of all to stimulate a discussion on human-computer interaction. The result of this electrostimulation of the inner ear is painless but dramatic.

Complexity is what govern us and our behavior, but its intangible characteristics make it very hard for us to understand and perceive that we are part of a whole and that there is a complex continuity of human nature with the natural world. 

Enrica Beccalli said: “With this installation I want to raise awareness of the possible role of technology in modifying, altering and conditioning our behavior on a physical level”
This project aims to show the beauty of complexity by letting the spectator explore the relation between singularity and collectivity, individuality and community, the part and the whole. 

Complessità, in collaboration with Roula Gholmieh, was the closing act of the 2016 TFI Playground exhibit at the Tribeca Film Festival, April 16.

Complessità – a Human at the Mercy of Complexity →

Valeria Orani and Umanism are proud to present “Complessità” a performance conceived by Italian designer and digital artist Enrica Beccalli.
Complessità is a journey into the beauty of complexity and our role within it. In collaboration with Roula Gholmieh it will be the closing act of the 2016 TFI Playground exhibit at the Tribeca Film Festival, April 16.

TFI Playground exhibit at the Tribeca Film Festival, April 16

Complessità is an innovative Interactive Dance Performance that invert the traditional human-machine relation: the human loses ownership of its movements and we enter a new dimension where the machine computes the moving human body. 

The interaction between human and machine loses its unilaterality and becomes (finally) mutual. (watch the video). With this installation I want to raise awareness of the possible role of technology in modifying, altering and conditioning our behavior on a physical level.

This project aims to show the beauty of complexity by letting the spectator explore the relation between singularity and collectivity, individuality and community, the part and the whole. The human figure and body movements are explored through a transposition from virtual to biological. Singularity and collectivity operate across both biological and computational contexts creating a visible manipulation of corporeal relation human-technology.

Why a flock of birds? This algorithm simulates the behavior of a flock of birds. Flocking behavior is exhibited when a group of birds, called a flock, are foraging or in flight. This pattern parallels the shoaling behavior of fish, the swarming behavior of insects, and herd behavior of land animals. In studying flocking behavior, it becomes clear there is no central control; each bird behaves autonomously. 

In other words, each bird has to decide for itself which flocks to consider as its environment and looks to the behavior of its fellow birds to determine its own. Humans are animals, too – collective animals at that. We flock. We look at the behaviors of others before acting ourselves and rely on the group when we don’t know what to do. However, due to the expansive scale of humanity, this result is not at the forefront of our consciousness. 

As a result, we as human beings are incapable of perceiving society as the sum of all behaviors as opposed to the actions of us as individuals. As Aristoteles said, “the whole is bigger than the sum of its parts” an idea that encapsulates how humans are limited and extremely self-destructive. In this concept you can find the heat of this project – making complexity readable and understandable. Understanding complexity means understanding life as a whole and our role within it. 

The performer is being connected to the flocking algorithm through a Galvanic Vestibular Stimulator (GVS). The flock direction is transposed to the performer through two electrodes positioned on the back of each ear. The electrostimulation of the inner ear causes an involuntary and immediate modification of the body direction by stimulating a specific nerve that maintains balance. 

This technology has been investigated for both military and commercial purposes but I want to explore its effect on performing arts as a new typology and most of all to stimulate a discussion on human-computer interaction. The result of this electrostimulation of the inner ear is painless but dramatic.

Complexity is what governs us and our behavior, but its intangible characteristics make it very hard for us to understand and perceive that we are part of a whole and that there is a complex continuity of human nature with the natural world. We tend to live and see life through a micro-scale without considering the impact of our behavior on a bigger scale, which is what influences our lives. In this performance the relation between individual and collectivity, the part and the whole, gains a legible scale: we are nothingness at the mercy of complexity.

Italian Dance Connection (IDACO NYC) announces its Programming for May 19-23, 2015

  Project curated and produced by

FLUSSO dance project in collaboration with

the Italian Cultural Institute in New York 

New York, NY– IDaCo (Vanessa Tamburi, Founder & Artistic Director; Enzo Celli, Founder) announced its 2015 platform of programming. The events–ranging from performances to panels to workshops–will showcase extraordinary Italian choreographers and dance companies over five days, May 19th through 23rd, at the Italian Cultural Institute in New York (686 Park Avenue), DANY Studios (305 West 38th Street) and the Sheen Center (18 Bleecker Street).

IDaCo is a platform and a container for the works of Italian artists or with an Italian component that succeed in creating unique and original scenic paths through body awareness, movement and contemporary visual arts. The project is curated and produced by FLUSSO dance project in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in New York and with the partnership of New York Italians, Umanism and In Scena! Italian Theater Festival.

IDaCo will open the series of events on Tuesday, May 19th at 11:00 am with a discussion of the role of Italian contemporary dance in Italy and the United States moderated by Valeria Orani on behalf of NID (New Italian Dance) Platform. The opening night festivities will feature a video screening of Italian contemporary dance in New York and abroad as well as site specific performances, beginning at 6:00 pm. The schedule of the day will be hosted by the Italian Cultural Institute in New York (686 Park Avenue, between 68th and 69th).

Enzo Celli (Artistic Director, VIVO ballet) will host a workshop and audition for VIVO art centre (Rome, Italy) at DANY Studios from 10:00 am to noon on Monday, May 18th.

A wide range of performances will be held at the Sheen Center Blackbox Theater (18 Bleecker Street, at Elizabeth Street) May 20th through 23rd. Participating companies include Alessia Della Casa, Amaris Dance, Dash Ensemble, Compagnia Excursus - Benedetta Capanna, Formazione Danza, Vanessa Tamburi/FLUSSO dance, Alessandra Giambelli + dancers, Gloom dance project, Caterina Rago Dance Company, Sara Galas Band, Breton Tyner - Bryan / Catherine Correa, Uselessness project, and VIVO Ballet - Enzo Celli. Tickets are $20 in advance or $30 at the door. For advance tickets, visit https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/946040. For student passes, and packages, visit https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/store/34409/packages.

 IDaCo’s mission is to connect the Italian choreographers and artists with the NYC contemporary arts scene, encouraging network, research and contamination with the multiple creative resources of the NYC performing arts field. For more information, visit  http://www.idaconyc.com/.