Double
bill: L'uomo - Lo Giudice Dance l SQ - Ali Heffetz
Lo-Giudice Dance are an internationally touring contemporary dance company
based in the North-East of England under the direction of choreographer
Anthony Lo-Giudice. Since 2012, the company has entertained audiences across
the UK and Europe from small and intimate performances on the Grand Canal in
Venice and The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, to large scale festivals such as
Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Movimentale Napoli, Agitart Figueres es Mou and
performances in UNESCO world heritage sites in Italy, Prague and
Ukraine.
L'uomo (translating in Italian as ’The Man’) is a short dance theatre duet
centred around two men. It is an enveloping of two people, entwining themselves
through intimate gestures that interact and reciprocate the invitation to
touch and connect to another. Caught between a place where delicate exchanges
of affection and moments driven by the heart-felt become entangled with the
discomforts of prejudice, L'uomo examines and highlights the concerns
same-sex couples can still face when holding hands or showing affection in
public.
Choreography: Anthony Lo-Giudice
Dramaturgy: Vivien Wood
Dancers: Anthony Lo-Giudice and Alex Rowland
Music: Jóhann Jóhannsson
https://www.logiudicedance.com
Ali Heffetz is an Israeli artist based in Berlin. Her works examine the
threads between body, textures and sound, and touches topics related to
emotional patterns and variety of mindsets. Her work had been shown in venues
such as Färgfabriken Stockholm (Sweden), Birmingham International Dance
Festival (UK), SOMA art gallery (Germany), Zimmer TLV (Israel) and United-C
Art house (NL).
The piece ’sq’ is reflecting on our mental leftovers. Melted memories,
fantasies, and all the in-betweens. It is a travel between our inner rooms,
where underlaying desires are peeled off, endless ambiguity face rusty
imagery, and blind determination is silently falling apart. Aiming to build
visible structures made of physical sensation, ‘sq’ seeks to delve into the
diverse surfaces of human emotional intensity. Transparent layers of
polarities sketch a visual representation of the unconscious, and examines
the characteristics of hidden realities.
Direction: Ali Heffetz
Music: Alexander Wallin
Dance: Stefano De Angelis & Ali Heffetz
Costumes: UY Studio
MUA: Basil Prinz
Artistic advice: E. Spencer Agoston
https://www.aliheffetz.com/
Reykjavík Fringe 2019