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DANCE AND RITUAL, AN EXHIBITION at CN D - MANIA On the occasion of the symposium-event, the CN D has invited the curator Guillaume Désanges to imagine an exhibition inspired by the questions and analyses that emerge from studying the links between dance and ritual. Rather than simply echo or illustrate the many ideas exchanged during this momen...

PERMANENT COLLECTION by Manuel Pelmuş - MANIA Permanent Collection is an ongoing live action, constructed around the notion of a permanent collection. At Kunsthalle Wien Romanian artist Manuel Pelmuş explores the possibility of a collection based on performative and collectively elaborated gestures and actions. The work is enacted by a group ...

I WAS SITTING ON MY PATIO... by Robert Wilson & Lucinda Childs - MANIA Forty-three years after the first performance of I was sitting on my patio this guy appeared I thought I was hallucinating, Robert Wilson and Lucinda Childs hand over their role to two new performers in this doubled-up solo.

NANCY'S LEGACY: a morphological derivation blossoming in gesture - MANIA Gestation, meant as the advent of the gesture, the body happening as a corporeal being here and now in this world, has always been a key element, if not pivotal, of Nancy's entire work, outlining the path and the evolution of his philosophy. Jean-Luc Nancy passed away about a month ago and it seems....

CASCADE by Meg Stuart - MANIA In CASCADE, Meg Stuart and seven dancers look for ways to resist the arrow of time. Meeting in structures of rhythmic complexity, they propel their bodies and imaginations into a new temporal space, envisioning a new earth and rebalancing inevitable outcomes. They go in search of a secret passage, a...

International Symposium Dances and Rituals Can dance be perceived as a ritual? How are ritualised actions created in dance practices? What are their qualities, or singularities? Wh

UNTITLED 2021 - MANIA A solo performed by the artist and choreographer Maria Hassabi creates a dialogue with the Jimmy Robert's exhibition Mirror Language on view until 29th August 2021 at Museion, Bolzano.

ISADORA DUNCAN by Jerome Bell - MANIA Isadora Duncan is pioneer and trailblazer of the “free” dance, the “dance of the future”. With this piece devised for Elizabeth Schwartz, Jérôme Bel is continuing his series of portraits of dancers, which he embarked upon in 2004, focusing on the figure of one of her specialities, Isadora ...

ROMANCES INCIERTOS, UN AUTRE ORLANDO by François Chaignaud & Nino Laisné - MANIA Romances inciertos, un autre Orlando is the perfect reflection of the multifaceted talent of François Chaignaud: choreographer, dancer, but also writer, historian and singer, authentic master of crossdressing, over the years Chaignaud has been able to give life to a unique character and mix expertl...