MIXED EMOTIONS project,general oost/orkest de ereprijs/artez Dansacademie,Arnhem
28-29 MAY
MIXED EMOTIONS performance, Dansacademie,Arnhem
12 JUNE
MIXED EMOTIONS performance, Schouwburg, Arnhem
4 JULY
underground/kunikuli: "I like to watch too",julidans, Paradiso, Amsterdam
mid/end JULY
dance workshop in IALS, Rome, Italy
Television
REVIEWS:
“…But the standing ovation was for ZOO and the five performers of the Italian, Dutch based choreographer Gabriella Maiorino; four legs and naked, back and forward, they created a cinematographic, wild language and built a mounting rhythm, underlined by the beautiful lights, low and swinging” Claudia Allasia, “LA REPUBBLICA”, 13-5-06 (TORINODANZA)
“Zoo shifted from circus to abattoir, via hospital, club and bedroom on the way, exploring the mucky relationship between man and beast. The performers moved through a menagerie of forms blending animal and human behaviour with disturbing accuracy. Watching was a voyeur in a clinical apron and cat mask, doctoring techno thump music from his laptop. Gabriella Maiorino’s equine-bird hybrid attempted to break free from her cage with almost choking grace, while the nightmare chaos was accessorised with masochistic plastic and horsehair, sensual feathers and petals. With vivid satire elevating the more commonplace shock value of its nudity and dark sexuality, Zoo merits a wider audience”. Lucy Ribchester , January 07, (Aerowaves, the Place Theatre, London)
“….The only piece with its own strong personality is ZOO from gabriella Maiorino (….)
An intriguing work that makes me want to see the next production from the choreographer.”
Ingrid van Frankenhuyzen / NRC Handelblad 16 april 2007 (Voorjaarsontwaken,korzo)
"...Gabriella Maiorino è stata splendido animale, nel senso più alto dell’anima e più carnale del corpo: con la sua danza è riuscita a fondere primitivo e presente, forza naturale e religiosità laica...."
Renato Iannì, Eco in platea ,Biella per TRIPODI di STALKERTEATRO
"The masterpiece of the evening is however the longest piece 'Anarchistas' of Gabriella Maiorino…A long, exciting and very promising dance piece."
JACOB HAAGSMA, Dansclick tour, Leeuwarder courier, November 06, Holland
“….In this choreography it is very refined the use of spotlights, decor and music/sounded…The grown still (litteral) and intimate moments in this choreography and the relation with the violent and expressive movements of the dancers individually and as a group, make this piece stunning from beginning to end.”
Cultuurpodium, October 06, dansclick tour, Holland
“Gabriella Maiorino (Italy) opens strongly with a skilfully made ballet: Anarchistas, for four dancers and a dj. At a compelling beat, which never get boring, the dancers freeze in a pose one after the other…. What is fascinating in ANARCHISTAS is the right balance between speed and rests, seriousness and playfulness. Maiorino marked up the most “dansant” and finally also the most fascinating choreography.”
de SPITS, juli 05, Fresh dance, Julidans festival, Amsterdam
“..It is clever how the dilemma of opposite needs gradually also becomes tangible within this almost mathematical concept.”
Volkskrant, juli 07, fresh dance, julidans festival, amsterdam
About me:
Graduated in the School for New dance Development of Amsterdam in 2002, she works as dancer, performer and choreographer.
Her works is produced and supported by Dutch institutions for dance, and co-produced by Italian dance venues.
Her last productions are ANARCHISTAS (05) and ZOO (06-07).
ANARCHISTAS (2005) won the competition “satelliti” held by sosta palmizi network and the European network junge hunde project. The work received excellent critics in the main newspapers of Amsterdam and in the whole Holland.
ANARCHISTAS has be chosen with other 4 pieces, inside the showcase of DANSCLICK in den Hague, for a tour of 23 big theatres of Holland starting from October 2006.
It has also chosen by a Spanish dance commission to perform in a tour through the main dance city theatres (Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, Sevillia). ANARCHISTAS has been performed already more than 40 times and it is still.
ZOO (2006-2007) is produced by DWA, co-produced by Interplay festival (TORINO DANZA) and supported from the AFK. The work has been chosen out of more than 300 pieces in the European competition AEROWAVES and performed in The Place Theatre in London. Performed also in Amsterdam dwa , in Torino danza, in Melkweg theatre (amsterdam), in Korzo theatre and more. ZOO will tour in Holland and north of Italy starting from november 2007.
These and other projects have been invited to different venues, festivals, theaters as Torinodanza, Torinocontemporanea, Biella, Rotterdam (dansateliers, dance event 2005, Theater Lantaren), Amsterdam dwa, Amsterdam theaterschool, Amsterdam overtoom 301, Amsterdam julidans festival/fresh dance, Amsterdam openlucht festival,Amsterdam melkweg theater,Amsterdam bellevue theater, Den Haag, Venlo, Palermo, Biella, Cagliari, Ravenna, Bergamo, Ferrara, Perugia, Zandaam, Bolzano, Puglia, Germany, Paris, Chinon, Milano, Polland,Tilburg,Enschede, Horn, Gouda, Leiden, Leeuwarden, Trento, Alfonsine, Orvieto, Roma, Almere, Amersfoort, Alkmaar, Bologna, Firenze (fabbrica europa), London, Amsterdam theater Frascati, Helmond, Breda, Capelle a..d Ijselle, Purmerend, Fenestrelle, Ijmuiden, Arnhem, Dordrecht, Zutphen, Amstelveen, Drachten, Amsterdam muiderpoort theater, Delft, Tiel, Winterswijk, Cortona.
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performers: Iwona Olszowska, Eva Szubstarska, Domenico Stranieri, Alessandro Perini e Stefano Fumagalli (Gruppo Labun)
Magnifici lavori! Ah, fossi anch'io in grado di fare simili cose... troppo diverse dal mio modo di sentire le cose però purtroppo sarebbero. E forse dalla preparazione che ho ricevuto negli anni!
ale, nude leads. The red petals on white skin, the writhing human shapes pointing out our culture of cages. The lock-step precision of accompaniment and harmony made ironic because it is seen through chain link fences. It is at once a very sorrowful situation where in raw and wild joy, joy of life and joy at life, yields a most sober yet vertiginous eroticism. The animal flaring its nostrils to partake of pure sensory existence as freedom.
and modify, design or otherwise "plan" space. The poetics of the ZOO remain controversial. Is an animal ever "wild" in a world being constantly surveilled via sophisticated satellite technology, for instance? And does this human machine functioning as an unsleeping "eye" fulfil the ancient human prophecies of watchful deities ever aware of the comings and goings of the mortals interacting below? The human animal in the ZOO of temporality, the intelligent and personable individual performing acts or reacting instinctively in a time and space allotted before shuffling off its mortal coil is celebrated, called into stone-cold question and made emotionally factual in gabriella maiorino's timely and relevant work. Unutterably fascinating. The audience is made to wonder regarding both the meaning and presence of "improvisation". The movements are so graceful and human, yet strained and reactionary (as if on the receiving end of some cattle prod of pure energy), the effect blurring the spectrum between accident and design, as to represent or present in an initiatory gesture, indiginous movement. The tribe of mankind's rite of passage into its very next developmental stage of growth, the soul slouching its way into the Bethlehem of the very next instant. The very notion of the instant and or seemingly arbitrary division of time into our very functional minutes hours and days, whose origin development and efficacy has been demonstrated so thoroughly and scientifically by Isaac Asimov (who explained in absorbing detail why the mathematics of twelve remained the most useful way to divide the geometric experiment of the sundial, for instance), among others. Yet the ZOO is the dance not the place where the dance takes place. And this subtle and hypermodern distinction is made explicit when the male is introduced to the ZOO, seemingly out of place. Not entirely animalized until brought into rhythmic sympathy with the fem
The Emotional immediacy of ZOO hits like a ton of bricks. From a stage shrouded in darkness where the dancers' bodies seem as much a textural artistic aspect as much as gestural. Movements of the caucasian dancers' bodies among feathers, burgundies, lavish and intense smile or grimace. The staccato jumpy flip flops blend almost sullenly into graceful hand and body slides curves and arcs, then back again, so that rhythm stands in high-relief. Rhythm is "out-standed" in what would normally be mere repetition of human physical activity, a fall, a spin, an upper torso's buck, become artistic refrain. The implied "chorus" of the ZOO's spectators informing us that what should indeed be anomaly is actually the regimented form given the day. Like Borges' actual-sized map of the kingdom frayed and tattered at the province's outskirts, ZOO has the audacity and power to naturalize nudity, tormented or extreme facial masque, primitive human gestural figurations, such as an outreached hand, in other words what would normally appear abnormal, irregular, freaky, or perhaps wierd... naturalize movements of strange seamlessly into the context of spectacle. Image. The pathos of the animal itself is neither showcased, nor collected. In a zoo, an area of contested moral terrain. A museum of living animal instinct. The dividing line, not entirely spatial nor temporal separating freedom from captivity. A very human and societal attempt to appropriate via everyday use (and use-value) life itself. Life with a capital "L". The living, seething, ever-changing, paradoxical, contradictory, infinitely-now, sing of being. With our museums, television screens, correctional facilities, schools, banks, apartments, habitations, shelters, shopping malls, automobile interiors, recital halls, ampitheatres, playing fields, playing courts, courts of law... with our human obsessive need to demarcate, to define
So awesome! Thank you for your invitation. If the only thing you were ever responsible for in my entire life was to introduce me to the experience of saying the words "emotional facts", my gratitude would still relentlessly seek your audience!
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