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Collettivo Cinetico. Photo by Angelo Pedroni
event
Saturday 9 May 2015 11.00 AM - 1.00 PM

The histories of contemporary dance: multidisciplinary and performativePerformance in alternative spaces. With Fabio Acca

Free admittance; please make reservations by writing to base@fondazionemaxxi.it

Four itinerant encounters in the MAXXI spaces
helping us understand and experience the relationship linking
dance, art and performance

curated by Anna Lea Antolini

Dance and performance, an inescapable pairing: an informal itinerary through the MAXXI spaces helping us understand and experience the multidisciplinary relationship linking dance, art and performance from the birth of the latter to the present.
By the 1970s, performance was a recognised form of artistic expression but it had actually first appeared within the artistic sphere much earlier. Its long history intertwined with that of the artistic avant-gardes of the early 20th Century as it established itself as a pre-avant-garde: from Futurism to Conceptualism, artists turned to performance to break down the categories and indicate new horizons. Performance as the staging of ideas, as a means for providing answers, as a cultural stimulant in a vast spatial range.

Performance in alternative spaces

From their first appearance as a genre, the performative arts have conferred a determinant role in the creative dynamics on the spectator. The gaze of those present at an event has been in a sense “liberated” in an auteur function, in parallel with the equally important experimentation with non-conventional presentation spaces.
After an initial itinerant part focussing on the sharing of brief exercises in choreography in MAXXI’s external areas, there will be a number of examples of how in their works artists have applied new criteria of use and perception of alternative spaces and locations.

LAST EVENT:
Saturday 6 June, 11.00
What performance are you? | with Francesca Pennini

In collaboration with Cro.me. – Cronaca e Memoria dello Spettacolo di Milano and Fondazione Romaeuropa.

other events of the Le storie della danza contemporanea 2015 cycle