Danse Macabre!

Shows

Danse Macabre! is an austere invitation to dance into the unknown, thus creating and consolidating relationships with today’s world, in a pursuit based on a visionary combination of dancing bodies, films, texts, electronic music and light. The figures mirror and double themselves, penetrate their own image and become the embodiment of movement on stage. The dance of the dead is one of the most explored iconographic themes in Western art history; it encourages a more complex thought on reality by also dwelling on the more general concept whereby every supernatural and otherworldly movement is a dance: the stars dance, and so do the gods, the spirits, nature. Through the Danse Macabre! experience, spectators undergo a perception shift – also thanks to Roberto Fassone’s artistic contribution – who explores the dark matter of imagination, and includes a film as third element of the scene set-up. Imagining means creating internal images, without fixed rules, and connecting them so as to generate fantasies or stories that exist within us and not in the real world. Dance manifests itself in changing forms, seeking to rid itself of the violence of representation, fluctuating between different extremes and pairing ideas, making the invisible visible, in a hyperconscious tension between life and death.

Jacopo Jenna is a choreographer, performer and filmmaker. His work explores the perception of the body in relation with movement: his research involves dance, choreography and film, exploring multiple languages and generating various performance contexts. After graduating in Sociology, he studied dance at Codarts (Rotterdam Dance Academy). He is a trainer and creates educational paths for various age groups by developing new strategies to work with performance art. His work is produced and supported by spazioK/Kinkaleri, he has presented his projects at international festivals and institutions.