LUISA CORTESI-CREATIONS 2010

9th - 10th APRIL 2010 Teatro Magnolfi Nuovo, Prato–

Fingercakeswith and by Luisa Cortesi

cello, concertina, voice: Naomi Berrilcomics: Shila Barzagli

The composition is origined by the bridging of dance, graphics and music.Three women, three single inner realities enterytwine in the attempt to coexist, individually but together.Spontaneous anxiety caused by meeting and cohabiting.Emerging divergences between the peculiarities of three main characters become the main ingredients for succulent, fragrant Fingercakes.

15 APRILE 2010 - Galleria L'Attico, Roma

ANIMATO D'anima e azione.Rithm to time, clic after clic, slipping from prestissimo to grave .“ ” “ ”

According breath and aim and coordination to time, to ride on it on regular loops. In loops. One moment for each time, one soul for all times.While flowing the body moves; no thinking it reacts, it knows.Setting in motion the original instinct as if not able to walk.Soul and body intrinsecally connected generate a new animal, untouched by experience of evolution.Restarting each time, from velocity to slowness, from birth to death.

6 MAY 2010 Festival Fabbrica Europa per le arti contemporanee, Firenze –

 Action Figurewith and by Luisa Cortesi

in collaboration with Massimo Barzagli

While time is flowing, a sculpture is to be shaped.The sculpture is made and reveals itself to the eyes of the audience.It's a choreographic and sculptoric act, in which the performing body is the active model for a work of art.A spectacularization of the procedure of building will be staged: by action and motion, strenght and resistance, the body becomes in contact with sculptorial matter.The choreographic action does not relate to the static form of sculptorial pose but only focuses on the dynamic contact and the interaction chances with the matter.

Action Figure is realized into the project Focus on Art and Science in the Performing Arts supported by“ ” “ ” the Culture Program of European Commission .www.focus-art-science.eu

28-29-30-31 MAY 2010 - Alveare-Contemporanea Festival, Prato

Eskaton o il telos della visionedi e con Luisa Cortesi

in collaborazione con Massimo Barzagli

“Approaching epistemologically means to separate thought from reality.”

In a close up knowledge, reality loses somehow its solidity, its constancy, its substance;“ ” and shape and thought end up in the same nothingness.When we are as close as possible, only seeing through touch remains possible.Eskaton focuses on the concepts of nearness and distance, analysing them first in sculpture and in painting, than in relation with performance and with the ability of seeing, the ability of staying in contact with the details of the whole vision.The dancer's body becomes body of the opus: relations between anatomy and painting and then between anatomy and dance are here enphasised.Painting draws what has been already marked by anatomy, dance underlines the anatomy of the body in its unceasing effort to move and close in with the eyes of the beholders.A way to experiment changes of perception on the feeling of distance and nearness.

Eskaton o il telos della visione s realized into the project Focus on Art and Science in the“ ” “

Performing Arts supported by the Culture Programme of European Commission ”

www.focus-art-science.eu