Biennale Danza 2024
La Biennale di Venezia honoured Cristina Caprioli with the 2024 Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in Dance.
On the 18th Biennale Danza (19 July - 3 August 2024), Cristina Caprioli presented some of her latest choreographies in Venice: DEADLOCK, flat haze, respectively at the Teatro alle Tese and Sale d'Armi at the Arsenale, SILVER at Forte Marghera, and The Bench - a new production created by Caprioli for and with the dancers and choreographers selected for the Biennale College.
The Golden Lion award ceremony took place on Cá Giustinian on 21 July 2024.
Read the full motivation and more about the Golden Lion at Biennial Danzas web.
DEADLOCK
Safe in the passage, lost in a fantasy, the dancer gives up her self and blends with her ghost. Plural in her core, lonely layer of several, flat surface with depth, reflection of a projection; human, no longer only human, she travels the narrow route lingering between what is perceived as real and what we presume imaginary.
DEADLOCK is an essay on trans-morphic dancing, and a flight into the unruly. A reckless, utterly precise piece of choreography, serially ordered, performatively embodied.
dance live and on film Louise Dahl
sound 'Variable Dimensions' by Richard Chartier (2020) published by Touch Music/Fairwood Music UK Ltd
lights Thomas Zamolo
flat haze
if you want to think, or dance for that matter, you better find the proper place for thinking, and for dancing
too much light might be disturbing, wide open views distracting
flat haze is a place of contemplation; foreign to the most, gentle as a distant embrace. It promotes the thin threading of choreography and suggests that partial sight and unmarked stillness are the best conditions of dancing, and plain togetherness.
performers Louise Dahl, Samuel Draper, Hana Lee Erdman, Iréne Hultman, Annika Hyvärinen, Oskar Landström, Elliott Marmouset, Adam Schütt, Kristiina Viiala
SILVER
what if silver is the colour of dancing?
what if dancing is nothing but a missing child,
silver coated and unlawfully reproduced?
SILVER is a series of images, courted and confirmed. Simple in both form and strategy, it is nothing but a frame for unexpected outfalls, an open window to serendipity. A playground in awe of the complexity of its own game.
performers Samuel Draper, Hana Lee Erdman, Iréne Hultman, Annika Hyvärinen, Oskar Landström, Adam Schütt, Kristiina Viiala
The Bench
Some dudes take a walk in the park.
Then linger a bench and ponder over a destiny.
In summer 2020, Cristina wrote a text on the features of dancing, and the power games that condition the feminine. The text, entitled The Bench and the Parts, eventually turned into the script for a dancing piece, named The Bench.
performers Biennial College participants
ccap is funded by the City of Stockholm, Region Stockholm and Swedish Arts Council. The work presented at Biennale Danza 2024 is also supported by Dansens Hus Stockholm, Embassy of Sweden Rome and the International Dance Programme at the Swedish Arts Grants Committee.