CORPO PELVICO
Choregraphic project around the pelvis, 2021 - 2023
©Margerita Pulè
CORPO PELVICO is in line with the ethical and political ideal of care, in which intimacy is explored not only in relation to the individual subject, but also by engaging a collective dimension.
As Silvia Federici says, "Our bodies frighten us, and we don't listen to them", I consider it important in today's hyper-technological and accelerated context to create tools that enable us to develop awareness of our own bodily dimension, in order to reconnect with ourselves, our intimacy and our depth. Our struggle therefore begins with a reappropriation of our bodies, a reappraisal and rediscovery of their capacity for resistance, a celebration of their powers, both individual and collective.
My wish is to consolidate a conscious awareness of the body from the pelvic sphere: the propulsion center of movement, a source of vitality, a generator of pleasure and a place where identity can be expressed.
INSPIRATION
I'm inspired by MFS - Mouvement Fondamental Subtil (a concept conceived by Jean Louis Dupuy, osteopath and co-founder in 1990 of the somatic practice of Danse Sensible with his wife Marie Dupuy and dancer and choreographer Claude Coldy).
M.F.S
Is a very slow, deep movement. It's a property of the living, a vibrant expression of human nature.
It's a movement that represents the power of Great Nature (cosmos) to act within the body.
It's an extremely slow, embodied movement (in consciousness).
The physical state is relaxed by a calm, serene experience.
There's a relationship between bodily sensation and psychic sensation, between slowness and happiness (a state of exceptional joy).
PRACTICE
The practice, both physical and choreographic, is grounded in the pelvis: the starting point for developing and embracing personal awareness, expression and gratitude.
The somatic and sensory approach is the key tool for opening up the body's perceptive and sensitive capacities, while encouraging an economy of movement.
My intention is to deconstruct, rediscover and give voice to unknown patterns of the body, revealing imprints of the past and the joys of the present, and revealing new possibilities for movement.
I'm interested in exploring a primary gesture through subtle listening of the body.
Starting from the re-appropriation of this intimate space is a political act of recognition of a shared individual and collective memory.
I support this process through the intersection of practices such as danse sensible, experiential anatomy, fasciatherapy for dance, improvisation, and my experience as a dancer.
Concept & Work Francesca Saraullo
Dance dramaturgy research collaboration Alice Van der Wielen-Honinckx, Hélène Gautier, Ilaria Orlandini, Margerita Pulè
Fellows visiting Claire Tonna, Mira Matthew, Esther Genicot, Stéphanie Verin, Sabina Scarlat, Michela Depetris, Marta Olivieri, Valerie Tameu, Amalia Franco, Elisa D’Amico, Francesco Dalmasso, Erika Di Crescenzo, Doriana Crema, Ambra Pittoni, Mirko Guido, Elisabetta Consonni, Abigail Agius, Zoe Camilleri, Silvia Pezzarossi, Léa Tourneur, Giulia Ferrato, Anna Basti, Teodora Grano, Mariana C. Calazans, Giorgia Briguglio, Giorgia Fusari, Martina Gambardella, Giulia Basel, Anouscka Brodacz
PARTNERS
ACCUEIL RESIDENCE
Studio residency: Le Bamp; Kunstenwerkplaats; CC Maison de la Création; CC Garçia Lorca (Bruxelles, BE)
Studio residency (research grant): THE EVER PRACTICING ARTIST - Workspace Ricerca X (Turin, IT)
Studio residency (research grant): “Around a process of making” - Marosi Festival (Stromboli, IT)
Studio residency: Spazio Matta (Pescara, IT)
Studio residency (research grant): Zfinmalta dance national academy, (Valetta, MT)
Studio residency: Teatre de sa Teulera Andratx (Mallorca, ES)
SUPPORT
Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Service Général de la Création Artistique – Service de la danse (research grant) ; Wallonie-Bruxelles International ; Le Bamp ; ILES Artist Project | BE
Institut culturel italien à Malte ; unfinishedartspace ; Zfinmalta dance national academy | MT
ph Sabrina Cirillo
©Andrea Macchia, THE EVER PRACTICING ARTIST - Workspace Ricerca X
©Andrea Macchia, THE EVER PRACTICING ARTIST - Workspace Ricerca X
©Catherine Lemaître, Embrace - event