Placebo Dances is a broad investigation on and towards Pleasure.
It is a tendency, an inclination toward a condition of openness, connection, rest, bliss and enchantment that might favour pleasure toward oneself and others so to question the situatedness of our bodies and their positioning in the world.
In Placebo Dances we look for postures that are shaken by desire, that gently disrupt the bodies and make them waver, to find a closeness that makes erotic our being in the world.
Pleasure as salvation in times of catastrophe.
Placebo Dances, by questioning the positioning of bodies in the world, lends itself to become an open relational device to be developed in different forms: workshops and moments of sharing with the communities (professionals and non-prof and people interested in the topic) through both a body based approach and a theoretical level; performative moments and rituals to generate a connection between observed and observer, between moving and static bodies, seeking for closeness and intimacy.
Idea
Flavia Zaganelli
developed in collaboration with Maria Durbà, Lucrezia Rosellini and artist and communities that takes part at workshops and research phases.
The project won Boarding Pass Plus Dance 2023 a mobility grant in collaboration with Santarcangelo Festival (Italy), Moving in November Festival (Finland) and IIC Helsinki.
Supported in residency by Graner (Barelcola) in collaoration with IIC Barcelona and Santarcagelo Festival; Furoriprogramma Festival (Rome); Liisa Pentii + Co Studio (Helsinki); Altes Finanzamt-Berlin (Queer kollektiv art space)
Next residency are planned in 2025 at: Alchemilla (Bologna, March 2025); Lavanderia a Vapore (Collegno, April 2025)
Production: Associazione L'Altra
workshops hosted by GADA Playhouse (Florence, Italy); Paleotto11 (Bologna, IT)
a 1st performative event in the public space was hosted by Danza Urbana Festival (Bologna, IT) in September 2023
PRESS RELEASE
The performance was presented in the form of open rehearsal on June 2024 at Fuoriprogramma Festival, Teatro Biblioteca Quarticciolo, Rome.
TEATRO E CRITICA LAB_Workshop di crititca teatrale, giugno 2024
Un delicato vortice di energia di Sofia Zecchinelli
“...I blink and my gaze is completely captured by the bodies of the three dancers (in addition to Zaganelli Lucrezia Rosellini and Maria Durbà ), who, resting softly on the floor, had already hovered the circular, hypnotic and elegant movement of their kisses, which would never leave me again, not even at the end of the performance. The young women seemed alone in our midst as they danced around the hearth of their own main heroic center. A feminine and masculine motion at once: a resourceful welcome, a defiant grace. The more their kisses draw free movements, the more mine feel the weight and constraints of a universal society and culture that perhaps continue to fear this...”