Today, Laura Colomban from the DanceOutsideDance team has the pleasure to introduce Daniela Perazzo, Senior Lecturer in Dance at Kingston University, who will lead the conversation with Alessandro Sciarroni. This episode is part of a three-part series, enDurANCE, co-curated with Daniela, kindly supported by an Ivor Guest Research Grant awarded by the Society of Dance Research and also by the Race/Gender Matter research group of Kingston School of Art.

Alessandro Sciarroni is an Italian dance and performance artist whose work goes beyond traditional definitions of genre. His creations are presented in the context of contemporary dance and theatre festivals, museums and art galleries, as well as in unconventional spaces. They are created through the involvement of collaborators from a range of disciplines. Among his numerous awards, in 2019 Sciarroni was awarded the Venice Biennale Golden Lion for his dance career. Through the repetition of practice to the limit of the performers’ physical endurance, his works aim to expose the obsessions, fears and fragility of the act of performance. His pieces have been presented all over Europe, North and South America, the Middle East and Asia.

Some of the topics we have covered
Endurance
Repetition
Time
Audience expectations
Audience participation
Lost dances
Polka chinata

Italy
Permission
Contemporary performance art
Fom theatre to dance
Performative space
Circulartime

References we have talked about:

Save the last dance for me
https://www.alessandrosciarroni.it/work/save-the-last-dance-for-me/?lang=en

Dream
https://www.alessandrosciarroni.it/work/dream/?lang=en

Folk-s will you still love me tomorrow?
https://www.alessandrosciarroni.it/work/folk-s/?lang=en

Chroma_don't be frightened of turning the page
https://www.alessandrosciarroni.it/work/chroma/?lang=en

Bio guest curator:

Daniela Perazzo is a dance and performance scholar with a specialist interest in the intersections of the aesthetic and the political in interdisciplinary movement practices and experimental dramaturgical processes. She joined Kingston University London in 2014, having previously taught at the University of Surrey. She is a Senior Lecturer in Dance and Postgraduate Research Coordinator for the Department of Performing Arts and the School of Arts. Her first monograph, Jonathan Burrows: Towards a Minor Dance, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2019.