Work/Teaching/People
Work
The body is not always a dancing body in the work of Giulia Mureddu, but sometimes also just an everyday body: a reservoir of recognizable emotions, fears and desires. Departure point in Giulia's work is always the performer and his body.
Instinctive traits are never far away. Sometimes they are expressed through the voice, and sometimes they manifest through an object. On stage, one sees and experiences a human body which dances and sings, wrestles, triumphs and makes love.
Giulia's movement signature founds its source to move not on form or codes and space related actions, but on more deep sensations. Its aim is to disorientate the asserted knowledge, to de-construct it without loosing its reference, working on ways to construct scores, where set structure coupled by improvisation give space to the performer to re-experience his body.
As a choreographer Giulia investigates the point of intersection between abstract movement material and more theatrical expressions. Giulia approaches choreography as a game between a set structure and the freedom to improvise. Her stake with making a choreography is not the visual ordening of the body and the bodies in space, but the performer and the way he relates to his body, the interaction of mental and bodily activities.
"By melting theatrical scenes and choreography Mureddu forces the spectator to crawl under the skin of the performer. In this way her piece gets the space to speak and to move."
Groene Amsterdammer, friday 30 of November 2007, Klaas Backx on Beige
Teaching
As the result of the experience og the last years Giulia Mureddu builded up methodologies around the subject Lingual Body reviewing and disorientating both the dancing body itself and the perception of it.
During the workshops we will work on dance material, which originates from the physical transformation of a movement impulse. We will focus on a methodology of how to break patterns of movements by stimulating the analytical and sensorial ability to manipulate and fragment the movement material. This will result in a conscious and unconscious detailed use of limbs, weight, space, and often forgotten details like facial expressions, gestures and utterings of the voice.
The exercises used will involve a specific application of improvisation. We will work on developing skills and methods how to combine structure and improvisation, freedom of imagination and codified language. We will explore the possibilities of layering the different tasks of the performer, creating a score of impulses, actions and situations that could consist on a scene, where the body as independent medium becomes the main player.
People
Organisation: Giulia Mureddu, Robin Tunca, Roland Van Ulden, Erin Harty, Danswerkplaats Amsterdam
Performers: Katerina Dietzova, Hilde Elbers, Mat Pogo, Keyna Nara, Kay Patru, Efrem Stein, Eline Tan, Goran Turnsek, Amaranta Velarde Gonzales
Colaborators: Michele Bagaglio, Seamus Cater, Gaia Gonnelli, Mat Pogo, JD Zazie, Ulrike Quade, Dieuweke van Reij, Konrad Szymansky, Eline Tan
Association/Stichting Broccoli: Jette Schneider, Klaus Jurgens, Pieter van der Meche
