Featuring Cristina Caprioli.
Price: Completely free of charge thanks to the support of Malmö stad, Region Skåne and Kulturrådet
Age restriction workshop: Adults (from 16 yo)
Age restriction performance: Recommended from age 10 and up
Language workshop & talks: English
Language performances: none
Info: come for the whole day and evening, or at the beginning of each programme point
Note: the performance includes loud music
PROGRAMME
18.00 – 19.00 · Closing of season buffet
Mingle and enjoy our buffet in the foyer.
19.00 – 20.00 · Handled and Gone (performance by Cristina Caprioli)
aware of her narrow future, every move carefully accounted, she swindles an arc and renders a reverb
standing at the point of divergence of a circle in a square, trapped in delayed escalation, dancing falls into the pit of a hand
where she lingers the unmentionable and speculates a fine-print orbit
by and with cc
sound Richard Chartier, On Leaving
danced in ordinary rooms, for a small crowd of visitors, stripped of all staging, at arm’s length from the audience
handled and gone abandons herself to the faintest timbre of dancing, in a clear stillness with no expectations. In lack of a predetermined prospect, relieved from the promise of improvement, dancing remains in place and moves with no restraint.
Quiet in the spot, moving at raging speed, she shifts tonality, measures and upbeat, lingers a driveway, becomes a modulation in low-intensive pulse. Dancing ceases to perform herself as primary matter, to instead act as connective tissue between substance and perception. A third condition emerges. We see. And in step with the frugal dancing, we sense* all the thread-thin shifts that make this solo so incredibly sparse and at the same time so saturated. We step over a sensory threshold**.
In contrast to the current hysterical oh-so-static pursuit of increased growth with rapidly consumed utility value, this solo proclaims a radical tress-pass. For the dance, through the dancing. In the singular common.
handled and gone has been around several years as a line of thought in several previous choreographies
and in a short order of words named gone
gone
when falling, you stretch out your hand and catch the falling onto the bottom of the fall
in the groundless abyss the helpless is falling into there is no flatness to counter the falling by
yet the startled perplexed finds immediate mitigation to the crash in the hand itself
in the pit the hand bends itself into as to comprehend that which otherwise would rush out of sight
the perplexed that is falling into the pit of her hand is a quiet image, not the least inappropriate, rather a resourceful one
one that is ready, ready to catch the sight of the groundlessness as it falls into the pitfall of her hand
this onehanded dance claims to be falling into the smallest nook of language where the speechless turns into many
bold and invincible, caught by and cared for in the narrow pit of your hand
cc 2020
*A sensation is the reaction of a sense organ to a stimulus. Sensation is the conversion of the nerve impulses formed at the end of signal transduction (a cascade of chemical reactions in a sense cell that begins with the activation of a receptor) into neural signals that can be interpreted by the brain. This interpretation is called perception, and in psychology sensation is therefore not the same thing as perception, even if the concepts are often used synonymously in common language. It is very difficult (if even possible) to experience a pure sensation, the brain is quick to interpret the direction and then the sensation becomes perception.
**The sensation diminishes with repeated or long-term exposure to the same stimulus (so-called habituation or adaptation). When attention to the sensation is low or absent, that is, when impressions are registered in the unconscious, the impression is called subliminal perception. The level at which stimuli are too weak to be perceived is called sensory thresholds.
Handled and Gone will be preceded by short dance intervention by Frédéric Gies, as a tribute to Cristina Caprioli’s dance.
20.15 - 21.00 · Artist talk
Conversation with Cristina Caprioli and Frédéric Gies.
Photos : Haroldo Saboia
About Cristina Caprioli
Cristina Caprioli (Brescia, 1953) works with dance and choreography of today, spanning over performances, installations, films, publications, seminars, festivals, social interactions and long-term intra-disciplinary research projects. All work performs a critical urgency of thought and action, through precision of sign and complexity of structure, in rigor with increased sensibility, unstable in conviction. All work reaches out to all and one only, by singular encounters in the common. For the thrill of a shared aesthetic experience. For the dancing that stirs the world up and touches our senses.
After decades of dancing in Europe and the US, Caprioli settled in Stockholm where in the 90’s she founded the independent organization ccap, which since is the site of all her work. Through the years she has toured her productions nationally and internationally, taught extensively and choreographed for institutions such as the 59North Dance Company and GöteborgOperans balettkompani. From 2008 to 2013 she was Professor of Choreography at the Stockholm University of the Arts. Since then, involved in post-graduate studies and acting as supervisor for PhD students. In 2022 ONCE OVER TIME – a retrospective performed at Tanz im August in Berlin, and Caprioli served as Mercator guest professor at Freie Universität in Berlin.
Caprioli has received several awards, such as the Cullberg price (2008), the prestigious Gannevik stipendium (2013), and the royal medal Illis quorum meruere labores (2021) “for her extensive and significant work as a dancer and choreographer as well as outstanding contributions in both the Swedish and the international dance field.” 2024 she was honored with the Carina Ari Medal, and La Biennale di Venezia’s Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in Dance.
In contrast to the current hysterical oh-so-static pursuit of increased growth with rapidly consumed utility value, this solo proclaims a radical tress-pass. For the dance, through the dancing. In the singular common.
About Dance is Ancient
Photo : Thomas Zamolo
Dance is ancient is an initiative for artistic creation and for the development of public encounters in the field of dance and choreography under the direction of Frédéric Gies. It is an artist-led organization , a production and touring structure for Frédéric Gies work , an audience-focused context and curating organ for presenting own and guest performances and a platform for the transmission and production of both practical and theoretical knowledge in the field of dance through workshops, discussions, mentorship and research.