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“Cloud” – Show conceived and created by the Italian choreographer and performer, Giovanfrancesco Giannini

Along a path made up of digital flows, images and videos, the performer accompanies the audience on a journey through their data archive, in their individual memory. The scenic space opens up to reality, connecting to remote geographies in an authentic media fresco that incorporates and attempts to return all the information: the body becomes the witness and medium of the contents that the database shares following flows of movement that crystallize into images, giving life to a personal choreographic archive.

CLOUD it is a reflection on the politics of images, on the media representation of bodies and the violence against them, and on memory as an archive of data, real and virtual, in motion.

Thursday, May 26 2022, 6:00pm
Free Admission – RSVP
Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Montréal
1200 Av. du Dr Penfield

The work is inspired by the manifesto of queer communism and the reflections of Georgy Mamedov and Oksana Shatalova, radical activists from Kyrgyzstan.

Giovanfrancesco Giannini was born in Naples, class of 90. He currently collaborates with Francesca Foscarini, Alessandro Sciarroni, Cia Aiep Ariella Vidach (Milan), Cie Eco Emilio Calcagno (Paris), Fabbrica Europa (Florence), Cia Korper (Naples). Her works have been presented in festivals: Nao Performing Festival, FOG Triennale performing festival, Fabbrica Europa, Romaeuropa, CCDC festival Hong Kong, Korperformer, Secret Florence. His work CLOUD has been selected for Tanzmesse 2022-open studios, NID platform 2021-open studios, DNAppunti choreografici 2019. The Memories project in collaboration with the artists Fabio Novembrini and Valentina Zappa is among the winners of the Crossing The Sea 2019 call. 2020 is among the Italian artists selected for CRISOL, a project for the internationalization of creative processes funded under the Boarding Pass Plus 2019 program promoted by MiBACT. You have danced for numerous artists including: Sang Jijia, Dimitris Papaioannou, Stefano Poda, Luca Veggetti, Mathilde Rosier, Dominique Dupuy, Ismael Ivo.

Company Körper
“Company founded in 2003, with regional recognition since 2004 and ministerial since 2014, the Körper company is characterized by the work of production and support for the emergence of young choreographers and young artists from Italy and the Campania Region; above all a work of enhancement of young choreographers residing in the area or who have left the area on a personal journey that has led them beyond the borders of our country. Many young artists who want to express themselves through choreography turn to the company, which directs them and accompanies them to their productions and in the promotion and distribution of shows. A company that works with many different choreographers with the intention of promoting young choreographers and accompanying them towards work and professionalism. Luna Cenere, Nicolas Grimaldi Capitello, Sara Lupoli, Francesco Marilungo, Giovanfrancesco Giannini are some of the young choreographers supported by Körper. The activity of the center, especially of the choreographer Gennaro Cimmino, has a special focus on the culture of the Campania region. He started a trilogy on the meaning of “Neapolitan” which in 2017 made its debut at the Napoli Teatro Festival with the show “Tammurriata” giving life to research on the oldest folk dance in our region. In 2019 he made his debut at the Bellini Theater in Naples with “Vivianesque” a tribute to Raffaele Viviani. The trilogy on Neapolitanism will close with a work on the world of the writer and director Giuseppe Patroni Griffi which will debut in 2023.

“CLOUD is a co-production Körper, Aiep Ariella Vidach.

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  • Organized by: IIC Montréal
  • In collaboration with: Körper
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