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LA SOSPESA

Solo dance & visual performance, 2019

 © Dario Prinari

La Sospesa is the portrait of a woman submerged by her thoughts who tries to escape the rational by reconnecting herself to her origins, her roots, the earth. Hair conveys a duality that oscillates between control and abandonment, between the rational and the unconscious, between the masculine and the feminine, as well as, with a more metaphysical look, between spirit and matter. This space of tension that is being created is the symbolic reflection of an increasingly superficial and rapid society where spaces overlap, where new identities appear where time becomes schizophrenic and bodies are exhausted. From this observation, the necessity is to find a deep connection with one's own body, by contacting one's own instinct as well as one's own animality. 

 

Between performative installation, theatre and dance, with a touch of madness, La Sospesa exposes the modest nudity of a woman. 

 

 

 

NOTES

La Sospesa is an "evolving" project that adapts itself to performance spaces, such as: theatres, galleries, museums, alternative and non-conventional spaces. The Sospesa can be played in two formats: 40' long form (2 performers); 20' short form (1 performer).  

 

As intimate work, La Sospesa requires interactive proximity with audiences, immersing them into a contemplative space that induces an emotional and perceptual experience. 

Concept, choreography & danse Francesca Saraullo  

Performative action Carolina Van Eps, Francesca Saraullo 

Sound design & Live Electronics Federico Dal Pozzo

Light design & Technical direction Eleanor Bryce

Installation & Manufacture Estelle Bibbo, Francesca Saraullo

Advisor Carolina Van Eps

Set design Eleanor Bryce, Estelle Bibbo

Video Nasrine Kheltent 

Technical collaboration Alexis Pfrimmer 

Outside eye Marc Vanrunxt, Tijen Lawton                                            

Thanks to Gisela Rosa Fantacuzzi, Nora Virgili Garcia

 

Time 40’ (long form) - 20' (short form)

 

PARTNERS

Charleroi-danse; Kunstencentrum BUDA; WSB (workspacebrussels); WOLUBILIS; BRASS – CC Forest; De School van Gaasbeek; La Bellone (Performing Arts House of Brussels); Iles asbl-Artist Project Suitecase; Summer Studios Brussels; ISAC (Higher Institute of Arts and Choreographies) & AEsP (Art in Public Space) in collaboration with the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels | BE

 

ACS Abruzzo Circuito Spettacolo in collaboration with Network Anticorpi XL | IT

 

 

teaser, La Sospesa, in black box, December 2017

BUDA arts center, Kortrijk, Belgium

teaser, La Sospesa, in white box, November 2018

MAGFEST ITALIA, Spazio Matta, Pescara, Italy

 

teaser, La Sospesa, in gallery, May 2018

Espace Beaurepaire Gallery, Paris, France

 

teaser, La Sospesa, alternative space, May 2018

Temp studio, collective residency, Lisbon, Portugal 

teaser, La Sospesa, Contemporanea017Liquida, May 2017

Auditorium Diocleziano, Lanciano, Italy

VIDEO AROUND LA SOSPESA

Art video documentary

Francesca Saraullo speaks about her work “La Sospesa”

Art video, La Sospesa in Schèmes Urbains, 2017

Dance film realised by Nasrine Kheltent, Liege, Belgium

“In a time, in a space ... indefinite interrupted, suspended. A jellyfish floats forward like a tightrope walker balancing on a wire. A woman is manipulated by what lies outside her, or she does it to herself. She engages in a play where roles are reversible, where she gradually frees herself from real and imaginary threads. A series of intimate landscapes interweave to evoke a personal and archaic memory made by images, sensations and emotional states.”   

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

BLACK BOX

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@ Luc Depreitere, BUDA arts center, Kortrijk, Belgium

 

WHITE BOX | GALLERIES |  UNCONVENTIONAL THEATER SPACES 

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@ Luciano Onza, Auditorium Diocleziano, Lanciano, Italy  

@ Jean-Yves Bernardin, Espace Beaurepaire gallery, Paris, France

@ Dario Prinari, La Raffinerie Charleroi danse, Brussels Belgium  

 

RESEARCH STEPS 

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@ Philippe Graton, Komplot, Brussels, Belgium 

@ Christian Di Egidio, Electra Creative Arts, Teramo, Italy

@ Dario Prinari, La Raffinerie Charleroi danse, Brussels Belgium  

 

DATES

 

 

Past

 

2018 

December 7-9

Verbi: mill-bieb ’il ġewwa, art exhibition

Valletta Contemporary gallery, Valletta, Malta

 

November 25 

MagFest ITALIA

Spazio Matta, Pescara, Italy

 

July 26-27

PLACES - SURFACES FESTIVAL

Palazzo Cà Zanardi, Venice, Italy

 

May 18

Collective exhibition

gallery “Espace Beaurepaire”, Paris, France

May 22

OpenDay Tempstudio art exhibition

Temp studio, Lisbon, Portugal

 

 

WORKING STAGES 

2017

December 15 

Showing of the final residency

BUDA arts center, Kortrijk, Belgium

 

2016 

April 27

Residential showing 

Les Brigittines as part of WSB’s residencies, Brussels, Belgium

 

2015 

June 13

Researching showing

Platforms 2015 DCJ DansCentrumJette, Brussels, Belgium

June 5-6

Researching showing

Théâtre de La Balsamine in collaboration with ISAC, Royal Academy of Fine arts of Brussels, Belgium

 

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