The OPEN STUDIOS performances selected for NID Platform 2019, for which Paolo Brancalion and Mara Serina have also joined the Commission.

Reggio Emilia, “Dance Capital”: 10-13 October 2019

The international Commission featuring Lanfranco Cis Christophe Galent, Li Ming, Daniele Sepe, Steriani Tsintziloni and Gerarda Ventura has selected the 15 performances from 15 artists to go on stage at the 5th edition of NID Platform from October 10 – 13, 2019 out of the 133 proposals submitted. See who will be performing what:   […]

  Bolero is a classic of ballet. How was it to face up with this work and what interpretation does your work give? It is not the first time that I tackle a classic, it is always fun and stimulating to re-read classics and repropose them in a contemporary interpretation. With Bolero I wanted to […]

  How did your performance A room for all our tomorrows come to life and what is it about? A Room For All Our Tomorrow is the result of a troubled creative process. The starting point is far from the point we arrived to. At first the show was called Spot The Difference, and it […]

  How did the performance R. OSA come about? R. OSA is performance which arises from the passion for rounded bodies, for the curvy shapes of the body, from the curiosity to explore their dynamics. I started the work in 2009 creating A corpo libero (which was awarded the Prize for young auteur dance of […]

  Your work, Kudoku, brings together dance and live music. How did the collaboration with the composer Dan Kinzelman come about?   I met Dan Kinzelman thanks to Enrico Bettinello and to an initiative of Novara Jazz. Enrico proposed to me and Dan to work together, and get know each other through an exchange of […]

  Your work, Trigger, is part of the wider project Pratiche di abitazione temporanea (Practices of temporary residence). What is it about? In 2015 Virgilio Sieni invited me to the Biennale College: on that occasion, he devised an action inside the squero di San Trovaso (in Venice, a “squero” is a boatyard where traditional boats […]

  The title of your work, In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni , is very peculiar: it is a latin palindrome which means “We go wandering at night and are consumed by fire”; and, despite being enigmatic, it actually tells a lot about the show. How did this work come about? Everything started from […]

  Sylphidarium. Maria Taglioni on the ground recalls La Sylphide by Maria Taglioni, a work which was at the origins of romantic dance. Why, among the many classics of ballet, did you choose this one? Sylphidarium continues the research on writing and archeology of dance which started out with 10 miniballets, when I brought to […]

  How did the show Home alone come about? Home alone was commissioned by the artisitc director of the Balletto di Roma, Roberto Casarotto: when I was offered to become an associate artist of the company, he asked me to create a show for children.   This show has two distinctive features: the use of […]

  Your work, We_pop, is the result of a research process which started with the project I would like to be pop. Does the evolution of this show lay, perhaps, in this switch from “me” to “us” from the intent to the actual creation? The show has certainly undergone an evolution, or at least some […]

  Your performance is an interpretation of the well-known fairy tale Puss in boots. Why this choice? The tale is about the ability to see, in things and situations of supposedly little worth, a chance of transformation and fulfilment; it is a tale of trust and friendship. In the original story, the Cat is smart, […]

  Le quattro stagioni (The four seasons) – From summer to autumn is a co-created performance by you and Roberto Cocconi. How was it to work in couple and how did you carry out your creative work?   It just came out natural. Roberto and I have worked side to side for many years, and […]

Conversation with Francesco Colaleo   The description of your performance, Re-Garde, opens up with a quotation from Giovanni Pascoli’s Fanciullino. Was this the inspiration of your work?   Rather than being the inspiration of my work, Giovanni Pascoli’s Franciullino was the “emotional guideline” I searched for and followed. I believe that the quotation summarises exhaustively […]

  Mysterious Engine is a creation which reflects on the condition of non-freedom of the human being. What was the starting point for the development of this work?   The starting point, as it is the case for many of my works, was the “appearences” that more often than not characterise human relationships. I talk […]

  Interview by Lisa Cadamuro – NID Platform staff    Pulcinella is a classic of XX century dance. It was staged for the first time in 1920 by Ballets Russes with choreography by Leonide Massine, music by Igor Stravinskij, scenes and costumes by Pablo Picasso. Why did you choose this work, and how did it […]

Interview by Lisa Cadamuro – NID Platform staff  You have defined your performance Everything is ok as “an experiment on the tiredness of watching”. You did not use the word “experiment” by chance, because the inspiration is, in fact, science-based. Can you tell us something more about this? The creation of Everything is ok has […]

Almost all my works have a tendency to “danced abstraction” – in other words, I like to say that they “aim to the stars”, to the far distances that leave behind the things of this world.

The fourth edition of NID Platform and the selected companies were presented in Rome at the Ministry of Culture

118 proposals and 79 companies: these are the first data on the call for NID Platform 2017. The online portal is now active

Build your own network and connect/be aware to/of what’s outside your own country.

I think it would be useful to envisage sort of a “traverl boursary” in order to support the trips of younger companies. Enhances the enterpreneurial skills of the artists, encouranging them to find ways of self-promotion

Be curious and do not be afraid of the unknown, of investigating with your body through the most culturally distant techniques, nothing is useless.

Be yourself. Be independent. Take a risk. Do not imitate what others are doing only because they are successful in festival circuits.

In-progress contents, online calls for artists, independent pages dedicated to proposals and available at any time to operators: the first online platform for Italian dance.

The edition in Gorizia is going to be a big dance festival, where the whole city will talke part. We are working precisely on involving everyone at every level.