Dancing Plague

Landscaping

Reorienting The Fall

Bare Time

The performative role of Jewelry

Body DROP - Event

Macro architectures and abstract objects

ARTISTIC RESIDENCIES, CAMPUS

JUN 15, 2023

Macro architectures and abstract objects

Elisa Zuppini

Macro Architectures

Massive virtual structures emerge in space, transforming and vanishing, surrounding the body. Architectures-of-feeling, generated by sensual suspensions, are organized by possibly unthinkable geometries through force fields. Nearly unrepeatable, they rise and envelop themselves in space, as if independent forces superimposed on the actual site. They produce synthetic realities that each body differently reengineers by itself. The actual space and the one of the mind merge into an indissoluble whole, yet almost provisional. In this sense, these subjective spaces appear to be extensions of individuals’ sense-perceptions, granting the subject the possibility of reorganizing their sense of “self” or “selves”. Technologies with which the body is endowed, but that are simultaneously autonomous from this, as if they were mere instruments, albeit the resulting sensations by these generated.

A rose, enwrapped by a transparent membrane that is also time. The background is that of a common office-like-milkwhite-shelf and a desk. The focus is on the rose. Time (the transparent membrane), ripples and crinkles like plastic on fire as if disappearing into nothing.

The expanse of the mind, once partly reengineered, motions forward through abstract thinking. Lately, I have been reflecting on architecture as the ultimate structural manifestation of reality, and in the relation between spatiality and cognition. The mind being the producer of images - but also responsible for how these become animated, in what seems to be a non-human sense of time and extension - subjectively shapes the ways of meeting “oneself” through internal or external forms.

Remains interesting the relationship between projecting and designing. Particularly, how design can be a “technology of the self”[1] or “selves,” with which, the subjects can reconfigure themselves and their environment. Consider a free fall or being immersed in a water pool. Now, look at the furthest point from you; punto di fuga. Visualize the vectors surrounding your body running to that point and beyond it, to a space you weren’t able to see and a time you were not able, at least not yet, to know; viaggia nel tempo. It’s through this virtual, but gravitational space, that one can start to envision.

Mass and Abstract Objects

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Not only through multilayered outlines, but also through their distributed intentions, architectures themselves become tangibles vectors of construction that model a mass-object producer of other mass-objects, while involving the body in an ambiguous, and perpetual entangled relationship between being a creator and being nothing. These architectures disintegrate, collapse upon themselves, through their own meaning gap. Undisclosed forces are the ones that shape abstract objects. I understand these to be objects of thought, objects of the mind.

An object is an entity that one can seemingly possess, but it is also a document, a file, that one can revisit when it has been recorded. A concept, like a sensation that crystallizes, once recognized for us as such, tends to become an object that defines itself by the act of definition, just as a form that settles on a flow of continuous movement, one that seemingly fixed, expands. Motion and stillness in thiscoexist, albeit the object belongs to the quality of immobility, while everything else keeps moving nearly all the time. The object, as a conceptual construct, establishes our cognitive sphere.

Structures made and unmade, majestically, dizzyingly, appear recursively. New constructions and new heights, a painting on the ceiling of an old church, repeated into sameness, in a series, portraying Christ, or at any rate a Christian figure, resembles a surface floating with religious content. Emerging lineaments from the force field color the world of introspection. Micro scissoring sensus, between what we visualize, and how we move, but also between what we build and how we hold our breath.

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Exteriorized Introspection: extended previously, internal structures of feelings. Miniatures and Self Disciplines (postures of the subject)

You may wonder how macro architectures refract through the sensing subject into miniatures. That I can’t tell. But I know that the macrostructures are inhabited by minor architectures and incomplete objects. These are produced from within. Their mechanics are quantum-like and therefore act as if seemingly incomprehensible. Occasionally, these fragment into small yet extended superimposed landscapes that are alternated by boundless voids. The futural aesthetics by these evoked deliver a sense of unity, even if provisional. The actual space and the one of the mind merge once again, into an almost indissoluble whole, yet, again this collapses and refracts into infinitely self-shaping, quasi-like sculptures, mere stuff, and tiny things.

Pouring in abundance, the reiterated minute thoughts divided and looped remain in the background. Occasionally, these behave as ornaments, details, that sit next to a unified sense of being. Other times, these act like decentered protagonists or an anarchic mass of bacteria, while feelings themselves, locked behind such thoughts, leak through as rarefactive golden liquid.

Vision: Post-Architecture and Aesthetic Core

Architectures and tangled furniture collapsing upon themselves, coiling up into ones that arise anew, but now more as archetypical symbols than objects. These are symbol-objects that extend into space. Their external anatomy is internalized. These become observable at their most aesthetic core, and even when these are rendered explicit and behave as if remaining inaccessible, they are not devoid of an aesthetic interiority.

Complete or partial darkness, absolute abstraction, crashing thoughts, floating mental objects. For fractions of seconds, we seem to experience the most condensed entropy. The bodies’internal space expands externally like an ocean wave that starts retracting swallowing back, that what belongs to an outside. Each item becomes part of the internal chaos, implosion, or even death, but also, nonsense, even if for just an instant of its prolonged lucidity. Yet, through such mayhem, almost reassuringly, a clear dense, plutonic, cold, and metallic mass, one that we are well familiar with, occurs within us.

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1. Foucault, M. (1988). Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault. University of Massachusetts Press. This book is a collection of lectures delivered by Foucault at the University of Vermont in 1982. It provides a comprehensive exploration of the concept of technologies of the self.

Written by Elisa Zuppini © Author editing by Bruno Listopad
Monday, May 22, 2023

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Relational Field

Relational Field_concept proposal

Written by Elisa Zuppini (2018)

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Vertigo is an intensified relational field ruled by sensations, where the usual distribution of senses is displaced and wired. Its components, actual and virtual (human and non-human), are hypersensitive matter that enter in significant affective relations, generating unpredictable, fragmented and obliques mis/alignments through the sensory chaos.

Everything is matter. Everything senses everything, therefore everything is potentially in relation.

However the elements enjoy independent ownership and features and they distribute their relationships through selective sensory attention. Nevertheless, in turn, each element is considered as a porous mass of independent entities (open by thresholds in its precarious boundaries) that can agglomerate and reshape, functioning as a system where the will is entangled and complicated.They can get involved in relations in its totality as well partially, triggering infinite possibilities of relational movement. So doing, as well their features/materiality can potentially mix or even dissolve in the swirl.

The elements mutually function as performers, events, agents and attractors for each other, even for themselves (being self-related systems). Enjoying specific characteristics of its being a system (system of being a plastic cube, human matter, a virtual force, audience etc.) they have different and limited range of possibility and features of: materiality, movement and aesthetic. When entering in a relation with each other this range augment and stretches, transforming the way they behave and of how, themselves and we, perceive them.The re-orientation of each component, in the actual and abstract spatial dimension, is therefore destabilized. They are pushed to experience the vertiginous and to constantly re-align and recompose in unpredictable modality in order to filter the chaos and to resist to the verge of collapse. (Is important to already point out that this extend to the audience as an element in itself).

The idea is obviously not literal, the creation activates through imaging, sensing and visualizing as main practices. However we can say that those operations are material too.When speaking of the human body this course is more easily detectable and me, as the maker, can analyze the process in relation to my own body.But how this apply to non-human elements and even to the abstract ones? How do matter feels and move? How can we feel matter feeling?

In my work I try to create conditions and space for this unknown (to us) to manifest. In the role of maker I put myself as well in an hypersensitive state towards the elements. By observing their features and selecting the involved material, I allow a sort of collaborative creation. Also, by crafting and scoring certain part, juxtaposing and cutting away others, I leave wide but defined space/time where those relations can just exist, transform each other and transform the experience of the audience.

Not all the relations actualize, would be impossible. Moreover this is fundamental in order to make the space thick of potential, awaking a sense of desire. At the same time the relations will always overlap (in different intensity through the piece). The audience will be challenged to design its own experience, as well to operate a selection through their sensitive attention.

The final aim is not to show how the relation works. On the contrary I am interested in how all this manifest in an event, affecting the audience, making it feel part of it. Leading it in a vortex where sensations triumph, possibly, beyond language.

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De.sy.re.

(Decentralized systems of relation)

A movement system developed by Elisa Zuppini

Written by Elisa Zuppini through 2018-2020

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De.sy.re. (decentralized systems of relation) is a relational technology designed for performative bodies that operates between actual and virtual, human and non-human elements. The technology is based on the principle of decentralization, focusing on redistributing attention between zones. It functions through logics of sensation and features the body as a vibrant and transformative material interface, a decentralized system of embodying forces. It is a hypersensitive and multi-sensory tool for the direct experience of its environment, which is itself active and ever-moving.

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De.sy.re. operates through an idea of space as relational fields, where all elements mutually function as performers, events, agents, and attractors for each other, including themselves (as self-related systems). By allowing micro and macro elements to enter into a relational movement, a system of systems is initiated, generating unpredictable, fragmented, and oblique (mis)alignments through sensory chaos. The practice builds on layered systems of relations, the outcome of which is only partially controllable. To facilitate motion, the system constantly requires bending, shifting hierarchies in the prioritization of relations, reconfiguring in form and function, and featuring every relation as unique.

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The technology brings together a multiplicity of movement systems that are not necessarily consistent with each other. In this sense, the technology is in constant movement as well. It is not based on dogmatism but, by its very nature, on the constant transformation and re-understanding of its principles. The only principle that does not change is that of relation, even if it means non-relation. There is always more than one, even if the object in question is the body itself. At the same time, it does not reject unity.

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By moving attention we create potential space, we allow movement to flow and its discontinuity.

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De.sy.re. is a practice that questions movement and the body through material and virtual lenses. Through the technology, I attempt to rethink dance from a non-anthropocentric vision: movement, activation, and orientation as products of re-configurable systems of forces, where the entanglement with diverse types of elements becomes fundamental. It can be seen as a dance-performative (or even choreographic) practice but also as a tool for everyday life: for orienting and relating, and for opening our perceptual understanding to our environment. It enables filtering, blocking, or absorbing information, creatively engaging with our material body, and subverting micro power structures.

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Bio

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‍Elisa Zuppini (IT/NL) is a dancer and choreographer. She graduated in 2018 from the Amsterdam based academy in choreography SNDO - School for New Dance Development. Her dance background includes the study of classical, modern, and contemporary dance that she attained in Italy, Portugal, and the Netherlands. Driven by the philosophical and artistic generation of dance, she became interested in performance and choreography as expanded ways of understanding movement. She currently operates at the intersection of dance and visual arts, using choreographic devices as if they were temporal sculptures.

She is the recipient of the Young Talent Choreography Award at OpenFLR 2016 and a scholarship to participate in Danceweb Longlife Burning in Vienna, 2018. She completed residencies at CAMPUS choreographic center, Veem House for Performance, FLAM Festival, CC-Heidelberg, ICK Dans Amsterdam, and won the research grant Bodyscapes, among others.

She has presented her work at Theatre Rotterdam, Tanzbiennale Heidelberg, GAMeC Gallery for Contemporary Art, Veem House for Performance, the Van Gogh Museum, W139 gallery, BASE Milano among others; she created commissioned work for Expanded Contemporary Dance academy, for the exhibition Dancing Plague curated by Panos Giannikopolis, as well as for the Amsterdam-based platform WhyNot.

Her recent experiences working within the field of music and fashion, choreographing for Caterina Barbieri, Magliano and Avoidstreet, has influenced her latest works, where she explores the subversion of traditional exhibition norms in the fashion industry when integrated into the realm of dance.

As an educator, mentor and artistic advisor, she has worked at SNDO - School for New Dance Development, Rietveld Academy, ECD Expanded Contemporary Dance, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Artez Aki, OHT Nomadic School in The Alps, Campus choreographic center in Porto, FAICC - professional course in interpretation and choreography, DT Danseteater Copenaghen and the University of Pennsylvania.

Since 2019 she is part of Jacuzzi, a convergence of Amsterdam-based choreographers, and since 2018, she has been collaborating regularly with the artist and dramaturg Bruno Listopad.

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Elisa Zuppini - Dance, Choreography & Performance

1990 Ascoli Piceno (IT)

Lives and works in Amsterdam (NL)

Current member of Jacuzzi, Amsterdam

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Education

> SNDO Bachelor in Choreography

Theaterschool, Amsterdam (NL) 2014 - 2018

> EMC Electronic Music Course

Sae, Amsterdam (NL) 2019

> FAICC Professional Formation in Choreography and Performance

Teatro Campo Alegre, Porto (PT) 2014

> Professional Formation in Contemporary Dance, Ballet and Performance

Italy, Austria, France, Belgium, Turkey 1997 - 2013

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Own works

> Disambiguiation, with 17 dancers from the program Expanded Contemporary Dance, Amsterdam (NL) 2024

> Himalaya, solo work for one dancer, creation 2019 - 2023, premiere Theater Rotterdam, Feeling Curious? festival, Rotterdam 2023

> Miniatures, a duet work developed during FLAM residencies, and presented at Arti et Amicitiae in Amsterdam (NL) 2023

> Performing Landscapes, with 16 dancers from the program Expanded Contemporary Dance, Amsterdam (NL) 2022

> Dancing Plague commissioned by GAMeC Gallery for Modern and Contemporary Art in Bergamo, in an exhibition cureted by Pano Giannikopolis, 2022

> Synthetic Disjunctions, performed by Elisa Zuppini, premiered at Pleintheater, Amsterdam (NL) 2021

> Transmaterial 0X2 premiered at Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (NL) 2019

> STRAXXE site specific performance, at Picnic Pavillon in Venice (IT), May 2019

> TRANSMATERIAL premiere at Frascati Theater - 2018, Amsterdam (NL)

> LIIL premiere at Frascati Theater -2018, Amsterdam (NL)

> Fontana dei movimenti premiere at Veem House -2017, Amsterdam (NL)

> Room Xelle premiere at Theaterschool -2016, Amsterdam (NL)

> Singularities on the edges of nowhere, for 9 dancers, premiere at Villa Srozzi -2016, Florence (IT) - winner of the Young Talent development Open FLR

> Might be dancing / manifested perception premiere premiere at Theaterschool -2016, Amsterdam (NL)

> Over the East, near the West premiere at Theaterschool -2015, Amsterdam (NL)

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‍Collaborations

> 'Landscaping' research project by WhyNot, Elisa creates a duet performance with Nica Roses, premiere Amsterdam BosTheater (NL) 2021

> Bare Time dance performance, Elisa choreographs a performance in collaboration with Dramaturg Koen Bartjin, premiered at W139 Amsterdam (NL) 2019

> Reorienting The Fall video work, in collaboration with Visual Artist Chrystopher Tym, premiered at Cinedans, Amsterdam (NL) 2021

> The Performative Role of Jewellery, in collaboration with Jewellery Maker Lavinia Rossetti, research project at Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp (BE) 2018-2021

> Solid Dance dance performance, in collaboration with Choreographer Sigrid Stigsdatter, premiere at One Night Stand Dansatelier, Rotterdam (NL) 2019

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Fashion and video direction

> Movement director for Avoidstreet Fashion show 'Void,' Amsterdam (NL) 2023

> Movement director for Caterina Barbieri's music video Broken Melody, Milano (IT) 2022

> Movement Coordinator for Magliano's Fashion show SS23 Milano (IT) 2022

> Movement director for Avoidstreet Fashion show 'Piazzale Lotto,' Amsterdam (NL) 2022

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Curation

> Body DROP event- The Material and Political Gesture of Djing and Dancing; curated in collaboration with Choreographer Noha Ramadan for ADE Amsterdam Dance Event, Amsterdam 2019

> It's waiting to be created improvisation evening, with Lester Arias and Nikki Niklas Bloomberg at Oorsprong, Amsterdam 2015

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Awards/Scholarships

> DansWeb Long Life Burning, Elisa is selected to participate in a summer residency of 5 weeks at Impulstanz Festival Vienna (AT) 2018

> Awarded Young Talent in choreography 2016 by Open FLR, where Elisa is invited to make a work for 9 young professional dancers

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Artistic Residencies awarded

> Residency at Conny Janssen Danst, Rotterdam, new creation for dancer and choreographer Dario Tortorelli

> Residency at Vallegaudia, supported by RAM – Residenze Artistiche Marchigiane (promoted by MiC and Regione Marche), Fall 2023, Pesaro, (IT)

> Residency at Armunia Teatri, supported by research grant Bodyscape for Danza Urbana, Summer 2023, Tuscany (IT)

> Residency at FLAM under_construction, FLAM Festival, Summer 2023, Amsterdam (NL)

> Residency (collective)"Atelier per lo spazio pubblico" at Lavanderia a Vapore, Spring 2023, Collegno (IT)

> Residency at Campus Choreographic Center, Spring 2023, Porto (PT)

> Residency at Veem House for Performance, supported by Green House, Winter 2023, Amsterdam (NL)

> Residency at Crevalcore, supported by research grant Bodyscape for Danza Urbana, Summer 2022, Bologna (IT)

> Residency at Lavanderia a Vapore, under the program Ricerca X, Fall 2022, Collegno (IT)

> Residency at Dock 11, in collaboration with composer M.E.S.H. James Whipple, February 2021, Berlin (DE)

> Residency at Dansmakers New Adventures, March 2020, Amsterdam (NL)

> Residency at ICK Amsterdam Dance Company, July/Sept 2019, Amsterdam (NL)

> Residency at Choreographic Center Heidelberg, May 2019, Heidelberg (DE)

> Residency at Teatro Campo Alegre, Sept/Oct 2017, Port (PT)

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Teaching and sharing her artistic practice De.sy.re.

> Expanded Contemporary Dance Academy, Amsterdam 2022/2024 (NL)

> OHT Nomadic School in the Alps, Trento 2023 (IT)

> Campus Choreographic Center, April 2023, Porto (PT)

> University of Pennsylvania with Dahlia Lì, October 2022, Philadelphia (NY)

> SNDO School for New Dance development, Amsterdam 2020/2021 (NL)

> Artez AKI, October 2021, Enschede (NL)

> Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, October 2020, in the frame of Body and Material Reinvented researchers; Antwerp (BL)

> Rietveld Academy of Fine Arts, February 2020, Amsterdam (NL)

> FAICC professional course in choreography and performance, Porto (PT) 2020/2021

> Jacuzzi Amsterdam, 2018/2019

> ICK, workshop with ICK Dance Company, Amsterdam 2019

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Works as performer for others (selected works)

> Museo De Agua by Rodrigo Sobarzo at ADE Amsterdam

2018, Amsterdam (NL)

> In many Hands by Kate Macintosh at Frascati Theater

2018, Amsterdam (NL)

> Renaissance by Marten Spangberg at Stedeljik Museum

2016, Amsterdam (NL)

> Magic Magazine by Ida Katinka at Frascati Theater- graduation work

2016, Amsterdam (NL)

> Maria Hassabi for Sndo at Doc zal

2015, Amsterdam (NL)

> Maktub Noir Dance Company

2012 - 2014, Florence (IT)

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She presented her work at: BASE Milano (2023); Theatre Rotterdam (2023); Danza Urbana Bologna (2023); Synergy festival, Amsterdam (2023); Veem House for Performance, Amsterdam (2023); GAMeC Gallery for Modern and Contemporary Art Bergamo (2022); ECD Expanded Contemporary Dance Academy Amsterdam (2022); Amsterdam Bostheater August (2021); Tanzbiennale Heidelberg Germany (2021), Julidans, Amsterdam (2021); Punt WG gallery, Amsterdam (2021); Critical Costume, Oslo (2020); Het Heem, Amsterdam (2020); NDSM, Amsterdam (2020); Kunstelicht art space, Amsterdam (2020); Dansmakers New adventures, Amsterdam (2020); ICK Fest, Amsterdam October (2019); Antidote Festival, Amsterdam (2019/2020); Groningen Friday Night, (2020); W139 Gallery, Amsterdam (2019); Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam (2019); De Apple art space, Amsterdam (2019); Club OT301, Amsterdam (2019); Arti et Amicitiae art space, Amsterdam (2019); Corrosia Dance Festival, Almere (2019); Spider Festival Ljubljana (2018); Uferstudio, Berlin (2018); Frascati Theater Amsterdam (2018); Dansmakers Amsterdam (2018); VRJIDA Groeningen (2019); Gelderland fabriek Culemborg, (2017); Villa Strozzi (Florence, IT); Theaterschool (Amsterdam, NL); Baudhuis Theater Amsterdam (2016); Teatro Campo Alegre Porto (2015); Magma Events, Florence (2013).

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2025

(more dates coming soon)

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Show: 20th and 21st of May 2025, Disambiguation official premiere at Frascati Theater, Zaal 1. Amsterdam. More info

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Show: Disambiguation at Festival Trespassing 2025, dates to be confirmed. Amsterdam

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Show: April 13th, Rehearsal at Jacuzzi, for the Red Light District Festival, De Wallen. Amsterdam

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Auditions: 2nd April 2025, Elisa will work on a one day group creation with the participants of the auditions at Expanded Contemporary Dance, Academy for Theater and Dance in Amsterdam

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Show: 21st March, The Knot at Dansehallerne, for the program 'New Sh*t' curated by Sigrid Stigsdatter Mathiassen. Copenhagen. More info

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Workshop: 19th of March 2025, Elisa will share her research at Akademiet for Musik, Dans og Teater in Copenhagen

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Residency: During February and March 2025 Elisa is in residency at Jacuzzi and ArtEZ Arnhem, for a research creation with the dancer and choreographer Dario Tortorelli

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Sharing research: 14th March 2025, Elisa share her research with the students of Expanded Contemporary Dance department at the Academy of Theater and Dance. Amsterdam (NL)

‍2024

Teaching: 9th of December 2024, Elisa will teach her dance practice to the participants of the Intensive Course at SNDO - School for New Dance Development, in Amsterdam (NL)

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Show: 15th/16th/17th of November 2024, Plein Theater, Elisa presents her final research on Pauline de Groot's archive on invitation of Fransien van der Putt, Amsterdam (NL) More info

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Show: 2nd of November 2024, Disambiguation (extract) at FLAM festival in Amsterdam (NL) More info

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Show: 1st of November 2024, The Knot at FLAM festival in Amsterdam. More info

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Residency: 7th to 18th of October, Elisa is in residency at the studio Jacuzzi, to research on her new solo work The Knot, Amsterdam

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Presentation: 5th of October 2024, within the context of the conference Performing The Archive at Netherlandse Dansdagen, Elisa presents part of her research on Pauline de Groot's archive, on invitation of Fransien van der Putt, Maastricht (NL) More info

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Show: 27th of September 2024, The Knot (research) at SCOOP festival with Jacuzzi, Copenaghen (DK)

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Show: 20th of June 2024, Himalaya at Spider Festival in Lubljiana (SL) More info

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Show: 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd of June 2024, Disambiguation group work created for the Expanded Contemporary Dance, Academy for Theatre and Dance, in Amsterdam More info

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Teaching and creation: 8th of May to 22nd of May 2024, Elisa will teach her dance practice, and create a new group work for Expanded Contemporary Dance at the Academy of Theatre and Dance in Amsterdam

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Residency: 15th to 19th of April 2024, research residency at Conny Jansen Danst on new solo creation for choreographer and dancer Dario Tortorelli More info

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Auditions: 03 of April 2024, Elisa will work on a one day group creation with the participants of the auditions at Expanded Contemporary Dance, Academy for Theater and Dance in Amsterdam

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Residency: 10th to 23rd of March 2024, Elisa works on a new creation for the choreographer and dancer Dario Tortorelli, research residency at Jacuzzi, Amsterdam

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Dance Dialogues: 07 of March 2024, Elisa is invited to give a talk about her artistic career and research at Expanded Contemporary Dance, Academy for Theater and Dance in Amsterdam

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Advising/Dramaturgy: Nov 2023 - Feb 2024, Elisa will work as a dramaturgical advisor for Balder Hansen's solo Optical Neuritis, try out show at Theatre Pand P, Eindhoven. More info

2023

Residency: 27th - 2nd November 2023, Elisa will be in residency at Vallegaudia, Pesaro; in collaboration with RAM – Residenze Artistiche Marchigiane (promoted by MiC and Regione Marche)

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Show: 20th of November 2023, Synthetic Disjunctions will be shown at Warm Bad Amsterdam, the Digital Edition

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Teaching and facilitating: 20th and 21st November 2023, together with Michael Scerbo, Elisa will facilitate two days workshop for the new Cinedans interdisciplinary project "Moving Media Lab"

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Show: 6th October 2023, Himalaya will be shown during Festival FAROUT, BASE Milano. More info

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Show: 3rd October 2023, Himalaya will be shown during Festival Feeling Curious?, Theatre Rotterdam. More info

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Residency: 18th-28th September 2023, Elisa will be in residency at Armunia, Toscana, for the second part of the research grant Bodyscape, erogated to her by Danza Urbana, Italy. More info.

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Fashion Show: 17th September 2023, VOID design by Eduardo Leon and movement direction by Elisa Zuppini, Sint Annentstraat 30, Amsterdam. More info

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Show: 9th September 2023, Himalaya will be shown during the festival Danza Urbana, Bologna, Fienile Fluò. More info

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Show: 31st August 2023, Synthetic Disjunctions will be shown at LOOM #3 Subbacultcha, Posthoornkerk, Amsterdam. More info

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Residency/Presentation: 10th-14th July 2023, Elisa is in residency at FLAM, Arti et Amicitiae Amsterdam, where the artist will work on a new creation. Presentation on Friday 14th

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Mentoring: 15th-27th June 2023, Elisa is one of the mentors at Nomadic School Little Fun Palace in the Alps, Trentino, Italy. More info

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Advising: May/June 2023, Elisa is advising the creation process of Asya Deynekina for her graduation work at SNDO School for New Dance Development. Premiere: 1st - 3rd of June Temple, Amsterdam

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Residency: 8th-14th May 2023, Elisa is one of the residents of the program 'Atelier per lo spazio pubblico' at Lavanderia a Vapore, Collegno (IT)

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Show: 23rd-24th June 2023, Himalaya will be shown during Synergy Festival. Amsterdam (NL). More info

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Residency: 27th March - 17th 2023, of April Elisa is in residency at CAMPUS choreographic center in Porto (PT) to develop her new creation. More info

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Teaching: 9th - 14th April 2023, Elisa will be sharing her practice and research De.sy.re. at CAMPUS choreographic center in Porto (PT)

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Teaching: 9th March 2023, Elisa will encounter the students of Expanded Contemporary Dance in Amsterdam to talk about her research and share her vision and experience as a choreographer

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Residency/Presentation: 6th - 17th March 2023, Elisa is in residency at Veem House for performance for the residency program GARDENING, made possible by Green House. Presentation on the 16th and 17th of March. Amsterdam. More info

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Teaching: 15th February 2023, Elisa is teaching her practice De.sy.re. at SNDO, class SNDO1. Amsterdam

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Advising: February - March 2023, Elisa is advising the graduation work 'Liquid hour' by Asya Deynekina at SNDO. Premiere at Frascati 9th, 10th, 11th of March. Amsterdam. More info

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Residency: 2022/2023, Elisa is recipient of the research grant Dancescapes, erogated by Danza Urbana. The grant will provide 2 residencies in Italy, between 2022 and 2023 in support of Elisa's research and creation. The first residency is taking place at Sementerie Artistiche in December 2022 Bologna (IT). The second residency will happen at Armunia Teatri in September 2023, in Tuscany (IT). More info

2022

Residency: October - November 2022, Elisa is part of the residency project 'Ricerca X' at Lavanderia a Vapore in Turin, (IT). More info

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Fashion show: 8th October 2022, fashion show Piazzale Lotto, a collection made by Eduardo Leon for which Elisa is movement director. At Jacuzzi, Amsterdam. More info

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Teaching: 17th and 18th October Elisa will teach a workshop together with scholar Dahlia Lì, at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia (US). More info

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Residency: June 2022 - April 2023, Elisa is part of the program 'Nuove Traiettorie' which constitutes of residency programs, festival visits and network programs. Ravenna, Arboreto, Tuscania, Castiglioncello (IT). More info

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Advising: September 2022, Elisa will advise Alexander Porter for the project Emotijng developed at DAS Master for choreography, Amsterdam (NL)

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Fashion show: 19th June 2022, Elisa will be movement coordinator for Magliano Fashion House, collection SS23 - under the movement direction of Michele Rizzo. Milano (IT)

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Show: 4th June 2022, Elisa will perform at the music festival Lentekabinet in collaboration with producer and visual artist Agnes Mormirski. Amsterdam (NL)

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Advising: June 2022, Elisa will advise Lucas Lagomarsino for his work 'hey, rococò' at SNDO1, Amsterdam (NL)

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Show: 29th May 2022, the performance 'Intoxication, acidity, compression' that Elisa made in collaboration with Michael Scerbo, will be presented in occasion of the finissage of the exhibition 'Dancing Plague' curated by Panos Giannikopolous at GAMeC gallery for Modern and Contemporary Art, Bergamo, Italy. More info

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Workshop: May 2022, Elisa will lead a workshop with her practice at FAICC Professional Formation in Interpretation and Choreography, at Teatro Campo Alegre in Porto (PT)

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Advising: May 2022, Elisa will advise Alexander Porter for the project Emotijng developed at DAS Master for choreography, Amsterdam (NL)

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Show: 29th April 2022, Elisa creates Performing Landscapes - a performance with 16 dancers for ECD Expanded Contemporary Dance at Academy for Theater and Dance in collaboration with Whynot. Amsterdam, NL. More info

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Show: March/April 2022, Elisa's work is part of the exhibition 'Dancing Plague' at GAMeC Museum in Bergamo, curated by Panos Giannikopolous; Bergamo (IT). More info

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Testimonial: 24th March 2022, Elisa is leading a testimonial on her work and research at FAICC - Teatro Campo Alegre (Porto,PT)

2021

Show: 18th November 2021, Synthetic Disjunctions will be shown at Pleintheater, Amsterdam. More info

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Show: 23rd October 2021, Landscaping with Nica x Whynot Festival will be presented in Vliegenbos, Amsterdam

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Teaching De.sy.re: 8th October 2021 at Artez AKI Academy For visual Arts, Enschede (NL)

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Show: 1st to 4th September 2021, Landscaping with Nica x Whynot Festival, will be shown at Amsterdam Bostheater. More info

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Show: 3rd&4th July 2021, Himalaya will be shown during Julidance Off Venue atJacuzzi, Amsterdam. More info

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Show: 18th July 2021, Himalaya will be shown during Tanzbiennale Heidelberg, Germany. More info

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Show: 6th May 2021, Bare Time at Punt GW Gallery, Amsterdam_A collaboration with Koen Bartjin. More info

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Advisory: April 2021, to Alexander Blum Bertelsen's work 'Endlings' at SNDO School for New Dance Development

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Teaching De.sy.re: March 2021 Guest teacher at SNDO School for New Dance Development 2nd year, Amsterdam

2020

Show: 7th October 2020 Synthetic Disjunctions at Antidote 1on1 Festival, Kunstelicht Amsterdam Noord

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Show: 28th September 2020_Synthetic Disjunctions research presentation at Dansmakers Amsterdam

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Show: 17th June 2020_Synthetic Disjunctions site specific at Antidote Festival 1on1, at NDSM, Amsterdam

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Teaching De.sy.re: 10th-15th February 2020 at FAICC professional formation in choreography, at Teatro Campo Alegre, Porto (PT)

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Teaching De.sy.re: February 2020 Guest teacher at Rietveld Academy, VAV department, Amsterdam

2019

Show: 18th and 19th December 2019, Bare time at W139, Amsterdam

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Show: 4th November, Transmaterial 0X2 at Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam

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Show: 27th October 2019, Himalaya at ICK Fest, Amsterdam. More info

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Show: 17th October 2019, Himalaya try-out at Body DROP event, ICK x ADE, Amsterdam

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Event: 17th October 2019, Body DROP - the material and political gesture of Djing and dancing, Amsterdam. More info

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Residency: July/August 2019, Elisa is in residency at ICK Dans Amsterdam to develop her new piece

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Show: 19th of May 2019, STRAXXE, a site-specific piece that Elisa created for Pic-nic Pavillion, with Federica Dalla Pozza

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Residency: 1st to the 15th of May, Elisa is in residency at Heidelberg Choreographic Center to develop her new work with the performer Federica Dalla Pozza. In residency also with fashion designer Eduardo Leon and dramaturg and artist Bruno Listopad. Germany

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Teaching: 10th to the 17th of February 2019, Elisa will lead a workshop to the ICK company in Amsterdam

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Show: 13th March 2019, LIIL at Almere festival, Corrosia Theater(NL)

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Show: 18th September 2019, LIIL at Spider Festival in Lubljiana (SL). More info

The Knot (2024)

Disambiguation (2024)

AN ARCHIVE (2024)

Himalaya (2023)

Miniatures (2023)

Performing Landscapes (2022)

Synthetic Disjunctions (2020)

Synthetic Disjunction (Site Specific)

Transmaterial 0X2

STRAXXE

Concept and choreography | Elisa Zuppini

Performance | Federica Dalla Pozza

Outfit | Eduardo Leon

Photo credits | Marco Bizzotto

TRANSMATERIAL

LIIL

Fontana dei Movimenti

Singularities on the edges of nowhere

Might be dancing / manifested perceptions

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Might be dancing / manifested perception - by Bruno Listopad

Dancing Plague_ Intoxication, Acidity, Compression

Landscaping

Reorienting The Fall

Bare Time

The performative role of Jewelry

Body DROP -

The material and political gesture of DJing and dancing

A curation in collaboration with Noha Ramadan for ICK&ADE (Amsterdam Dance Event)

Macro architectures and abstract objects

Relational Field_concept proposal

De.sy.re.

(Decentralized systems of relation)

A movement system developed by Elisa Zuppini

By moving attention we create potential space, we allow movement to flow and its discontinuity.

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