genealogia research project

GENEA from ‘γένος (“ghenos”), translatable as “gender”, “kinship”, “lineage” and LOGIA from ‘λόγος (logos’) which is equivalent to discourse , narrative but also study, reasoning.
Genealogia means value of the origin and, at the same time, origin of values. It is opposed as much to absolute character of values as to their relative or practical character. It therefore means origin and birth, but also difference or distance of the origin.

Genealogia – project of choreographic research is a shared practice and a choreographic research that can be applied in to different form and formats of use, born with the desire to carry out an artistic, choreographic and human experiment.
In this sense, a group of professionals leaded by Luna Cenere researches and creates a movement vocabulary and a structure of composition. The project then as the aim to involve citizens of different places to share the research and open it to create each time a new structure that involves them and that can be shared on stage.

The body and the genesis of the different ‘-logies’ related to it are the main object of investigation in this artistic research.
By ‘-logies’ we mean the different ways of thinking and imagining the body or the bodies today, taking into consideration the path made during the time related to historical and cultural circumstances. Over the years, Luna Cenere as undertaken theoretical and empirical studies to deal with such a complex and vast theme. A research that she articulated on various levels and integrates her studies on Sociology, Anthropology, Performing Arts and her passion for Philosophy and Photography. For the author the thought that traverses these artistic reflections is the movement of the soul and from that should appear the contemporary dance gesture. Without assuming the pretense of creating an innovative language, Luna researches for a personal artistic signature as a result of the crisis and the reformulation of conceptual and physical materials at her disposals.

The nudity is also a compositional necessity, legitimized by the specific choreographic-writing practice that the author conducts. Luna emphasizes the single parts of the bodies, elaborates the architecture putting it in dialogue with the surrounding space, turns the postures upside down and orchestrates the spatial disposition. On the stage landscapes of bodies are generated but it is also the sigle body to be a landscape itself. There is a constant metamorphosis happening that puts the viewer into an active position of observation and interpretation of what he is witnessing.
The intent of the artist is to elaborate through the creation of images that are appearing within a structure of improvisations a living landscape always new and open to stimulate different levels of interpretation.

It is a real process of deconstruction and reconstruction of thoughts that happens within a workshop cycle with the citizens that chose to partecipate through an open call. During these meeting Luna shares her research of images, paintings, quotes and personal reflection creating a common ground of discussion that is reported day by day in a document created for the participants. Each one can give his contribute and departing from these observation Luna leads a body practice based on sensorial experiences related to the material of discussion. The different steps of the project already happened allowed the creation of a community that shares and exchanges informations and different kind of materials via a private web platform the Luna created under the name GENEALOGIA COMMUNITY PROJECT. They are constantly informed about the evolution of the project and the new appointments, and they are free to take the initiative to join each group and meet a new community in another country.

credits

Production Compagnia Körper | Festival Oriente Occidente
in collaboration with AMAT and Civitanova Danza for “Civitanova Casa della Danza”
with the support of L’Arboreto – Teatro Dimora di Mondaino e Teatro Petrella di Longiano, National Center of Production Virgilio Sieni e Les Brigittines –
Playhouse for Movement, Associazione Armunia/Festival Inequilibrio,
selected for the residency project ResiDance XL 2018 – luoghi e progetti residenza per creazioni coreografiche, azione della Rete Anticorpi XL –
Network Giovane Danza D’autore, coordinata da L’Arboreto – Teatro Dimora di Mondaino
Choreography Luna Cenere
assistant and interpreters: Lucas Delfino, Daria Menichetti, Ilaria Quaglia, Davide Tagliavini
Music: Renato Grieco
Management & Distribuzione: Domenico Garofalo

reviews

workshops and public shares

March 2019 – The roots of the body – Petrella Theater, Longiano (IT)
April 2019 – Origins – CID International dance center, Rovereto (IT)
October 2019 – Roots – Annabel Caro Theater, Civitanova (IT)
August/September 2020 – Genealogia_Time specific , CID International dance center and Campana dei Caduti, Rovereto (IT)
July 2021 – Genealogia_ generation21 , Agropoli Dance Festival, Castello Angioino Aragonese, Agropoli (IT)
September 2021 – Genalogia_ Bucaletto , Città delle 100 scale Festival, Rione Bucaletto, Potenza (IT)
June 2022 – Genealogia Tuscania – Supercinema, Anfiteatro del Parco Torre di Lavello, Tuscania (IT)
June 2022 – Genealogia Corato – Festival le danzatrici en plein air, biblioteca del libro, Ruvo di Puglia (IT)
July 2022 – Genealogia Scansano – Teatro Unicorno, Ripacci (IT)
December 2022 – Genealogia Lima – Festival Indisciplinados, Lima (Perù)