Minute, mobile and light (second study) - Performance of dance and live visuals

Minute, mobile and light (second study) - Performance of dance and live visuals from Gabriella Cerritelli on Vimeo.
Conceived and directed by Gabriella Cerritelli
Gabriella Cerritelli: coreography and dance
Live visuals: Nadia Zanellato
Lights and stage technician: Roberto Tarasco
Costumes: Roberta Vacchetta
Music: Francesco Tristano, Burial, Jeff Mills, James Blake
Music consultant: Gabriele Bramante
Length: 30 mins

“Minute, mobile, and light” is a work that draws inspiration from the literary images evoked by Italo Calvino in “Lightness” and from the artistic experience of Philippe Petit, “funambulist and poet of life”.

It investigates the opposition lightness/weight starting out from an interior dimension and from a way of feeling. Its research is oriented towards the expressive language of a body without weight, free in thought and action.

Within this perspective, Gabriella Cerritelli experiments with a dance guided by a movement both light and precise, which adapts with sensitivity to a context in continuous transformation.
The figure of the funambulist is adopted as an emblematic image: tenacious, determined, and driven by a great interior force, the funambulist moves without leaving a trace suspended in the void. Funambulism is a subtle art, ephemeral and ineffable, like the art of living.

“Lightness for me is associated with precision and determination, not with vagueness or leaving to chance. Paul Valéry said: “One must be light like a bird, not like a feather”. Italo Calvino.

The first study presented July 19, 2011 in Turin for “La Piattaforma” at the Festival “Teatro a Corte” was centered on the opposition lightness/weight and has the collaboration of the trapeze artist Justine Bernachon.

The second study is the outcome of an experimental research in collaboration with IED (Istituto Europeo di Design) in Turin, where Gabriella Cerritelli performs through the space focusing on the visual perception and interplays with VJ Nadia Zanellato's live visuals.

The initial reference image is that of Perseo (“The only hero able to cut off Medusa’s head is Perseus, who flies with winged sandals; Perseus, who does not turn his gaze upon the face of the Gorgon but only upon her image reflected in his bronze shield.”) with such a gentle and strong soul that allows to explore a territory made of “impalpable entities that move between sensitive soul and intellective soul, between heart and mind, between eyes and voice.”