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Welcome to OuDance Festival 11. -15.9.2024!
Valvesali
11.9. Wednesday
19:00
Audience discussion
On a joint evening with To be possessed. The total duration of the evening is about 2 hours. Includes intermission.
A Solo in the Spotlights is a dive into the theatrical setting that follows a performer questioning his place on stage. Travelling through dance, spoken word texts and video projections, the soloist will explore some of the aspects of a dancer’s life, and the revolutions a body can know when put in the spotlight.
Threading scenes that narrate the act of manufacturing an image together with more theatrical and abstract scenes drawn from personal experiences, A Solo in the Spotlights travels through acts of compliance, disobedience, and rebellion with, towards and against the theatrical setting and the act of creating dance in non-sustainable ways.
The performance portrays the act of manufacturing an image on the performer, to then show the fractures this process may activate in the individual. Referencing Richard Dyer’s studies on the reproduction of icons and Allen Ginsberg’s texts about inhabiting institutions and hierarchical structures, this piece wants to suggest new ways of facing the challenges of creating dance works.
Set in a stripped down and lo-fi atmosphere, this work is thought to subvert the theatrical setting: why is the performer moving? Who tells him what to do? What are the secret agreements the public is acting under?
The answers we seek might be under rays of artificial light, hiding in plain sight.
Creation, choreography & performance: Vittorio Pagani | Support: Hannes Langolf, Martin Hargreaves | Original texts: Vittorio Pagani | Video: Vittorio Pagani | Light design: Mark Webber | Production: The Place London | Co-production: LARVÆ | Executive Production: EQUILIBRIO DINAMICO COMPANY | Production of the visit: JoJo – Oulu Dance Centre | Duration: 40 min
25 € / 20 €
From Kulttuuritalo Valve ticket office and Ticketmaster.
Vittorio Pagani is a Dancer and Choreographer from Milan, Italy. In 2018 he joined Ballet Junior de Genève, where he danced works by internationally acclaimed choreographers including Hofesh Shechter, Roy Assaf, Marcos Morau and Jan Martens.
In 2021 he created Around 5:65 that was later selected for RIDCC2022. In 2022 he graduated with a Masters in Expanded Dance Practice (LCDS – University of the Arts London).
From 2023 he’s been part of the LARVÆ Collective, a multidisciplinary project that focuses on performance and education supported by Equilibrio Dinamico Dance Company. A freelance dancer and creator, his choreographic works focus on themes of performativity and subversion, developing a movement research where precision and physicality build a dance articulated in metaphors and symbols.
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JoJo members receive various benefits, such as substantial price benefits for performance tickets and courses organized by JoJo.