NID Platform is a project born from the collaboration of the dance distribution organisations belonging to ADEP (Association for the Performance and Promotion of Dance) FEDERVIVO-AGIS and joined in a RTO (Temporary Network of Operators), with the Ministry of Culture’s Directorate General for Performing Arts and the relevant regional authorities, to promote and support the best of Italian choreography.
The NID platform connects Italian companies and Italian and international operators in the performing arts, creating a dialogue between production and distribution and showcasing the artistic quality of the Italian performing art world, reflecting its many artistic languages and forms. NID Platform issues a public Call to select the most representative shows from among established companies as well as from emerging choreographers on the Italian scene. The selected shows are included in a four-day programme of performances accompanied by meetings and side events. The NID Platform offers the opportunity to build professional collaborations between national and international production and distribution, which can broaden and innovate the Italian dance scene and help to promote the best of Italian choreography among international operators.

NID Platform 2023 will be held from 30th of August till 2nd of September 2023 in the city of Cagliari with the support of the Autonomous Region of Sardinia and the Directorate General for Performing Arts of the Ministry of Culture.

shoes on is an archive of gestures and movements that evolves from the most ancestral forms to typical postures of athletics and dance. Only two pairs of shoes dress the performers’ bodies, becoming a further subject of the scene. An architectural investigation of the body that, in the passage of various attitudes, shows the potential and creative sensitivity of nudity, in accordance with the object that is acted and at the same time acts on the scene and generates the urgency of a rooting, and the need not to take all too seriously.

choreography and concept Luna Cenere
performed by Michele Scappa, Davide Tagliavini
music Renato Grieco, New Order
light design Loris Giancola
technical direction Nicola Mancini

production Körper National Center of Dance Production
with the support of AMAT Marche, Centro di Residenza della Toscana (Armunia, CapoTrave/Kilowatt), Anghiari Dance Hub e Lis Lab / Cross Festival.