Born in Naples, Italy, in 1987, Luna Cenere has been working in her hometown until 2011, when she left Italy to further her education at the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance. Cenere then moved to Belgium in 2014. In 2016, she joined the Virgilio Sieni Company to work on such projects as La Mer and Il Cantico dei Cantici.
This year, Luna Cenere won the second edition of the Dance Biennale Choreography competition with her Vanishing Place, a place where the evanescence of time generates and dissipates like the feelings of the presents and memory. We will be looking at a moving landscape made of blurred, undefinable bodies, gestures, images, where each visible action bears the essence of its opposite and its absence: a surreal space where time is subtracted from itself. Cenere drew inspiration from The Invisible Actor by Yoshi Oida and Lorna Marshall since her first creation, a solo piece named Kokoro. In her words: “I wanted the body to become something else – not only an anthropomorphic shape, but a collective memory, a suggestion for the audience, a landscape element that everybody can interpret differently. The naked body can sublimate: if you cross out faces and genders, that’s where the person shines out.”