Choreography as “a critical discourse in continuous motion”— this is Cristina Caprioli’s dogma. Caprioli is an icon of contemporary dance whom the Biennale honoured with the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.
A dancer, choreographer, experimenter, scholar, and curator, the awardee “has quietly and substantially influenced multiple generations of choreographers during her three decades of provocative physical research”. A veteran of the Venice Dance Biennale (she participated in 2010), Caprioli will present three of her latest pieces and a world premiere.
At Teatro alle Tese, from July 18 to August 3, her DEADLOCK is an “essay on series repetition”. Performer Louise Dahl moves freely as her body multiplies on screen, and travels through her two dimensions as if depth, weight, and borders didn’t exist.
From July 24 to August 3, at Sala d’Armi, flat haze is a show-installation that invites the audience to rediscover Caprioli’s creative process in her ideal space. At Forte Marghera, every weekend, Silver is an extraordinary performance-installation that appropriates the environment and build a kind of bodiless body dance.
