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EXERCISES OF APOPHENIA

CONCEPT AND DIRECTION: Camilla Giani
PERFORMERS: Sabrina Mazzuoli, Laura Cossignani
ORIGINAL MUSIC: Marco Mazzi
WITH THE SUPPORT OF: Compagnia degli Istanti
Residency programs: Company Blu, Fabbrica Europa/P.A.R.C.

 

APOFENIA has been defined by K.Conrad as the “unmotivated seeing of connections accompanied by a specific feeling of abnormal meaningfulness”.

 

EXERCISES OF APOPHENIA is a durational performance installation that engages performers and audience in a meditative process through sound, movement and image.

 

“Casual combinations, originating from the performers’ ability to let themselves go to an exercise of compositional imagination, offer the audience the possibility to enhance a creative vision and at the same time stimulate the perception of the real connections between us, revealing themselves through unique combinations.

 

The installation consists of connecting two dancers, their own images and the observing audience. The dancers, who have no eye contact, improvise in silence imagining each other. This distant relationship is represented through video juxtaposition, creating the possibility of seizing moments of synchronicity. The audience, equipped with headphones, can observe the resulting random composition, choosing the sound to be influenced by.

Exercises of Apofenia is part of Apophenia: a wide research project that includes different format, as workshop or Show- conferences, that can complement the experience and trigger a reflection on the ability to rely on the imagination as a concrete tool and stimulus to creativity.

 

APOFENIA – Show Conference:

In the Conference/show some reference texts of the project will be used to deepen the ancestral value of dance as a ritual and the imagination from a neurological and emotional point of view. The practice used by the dancers will then be shown. Dancers will be guided in an improvisation session with their eyes closed, through indications and tasks that the public will be able to listen to.

APOFENIA WORKSHOP:

The Workshop will be aimed at dancers, performers and musicians. It will focus on the idea of using distance as a raw material for instantaneous composition, in order to stimulate our abilities to perceive invisible connections. Through an improvisation practice with closed eyes, we will experience the use of imagination, directed through exercises that stimulate the visual cortex, as a source of action. We will arrive at the creation of synchronic improvisations, moving in an imagined space in which we will meet the other.