La bagarre
Erika Di Crescenzo (Piemonte)
by and with Erika Di Crescenzo
production Inside/Off – Centro Daiva Iyoti – Cie La Bagarre
Thursday May 26, 2011
5.00 p.m.
spazio > GAM Gallery of Modern Art
An exercise in style, where the body of the dancer meets the musical instrument in a free-for-all.
La Bagarre is a melée, the free-for-all where distances are shortened, bodies touch, thrown down, pushed, and it doesn't matter if a barrier of decency or normality falls.
La bagarre (brawl) is also a joke, some kind of spitting or better yet, punching: at a time when you need to give as good as you get.
Erika Di Crescenzo
Director, choreographer and performer in theater, dance and improvisation. She studied ballet at the Academy Princess Grace in Montecarlo, the Teatro Nuovo of Turin and the school of the Ballet Theatre of Turin. Then she became interested in contemporary dance and studied with Fari Faust, Raffaella Giordano, Malou Airaudo, Claude Coldy, Emilio Greco and Virgilio Sieni.
From 1998 to 2008 she specialized in total body-voice improvisation and long form improvisation with the director Alberto Valente following the work of the company Officina Tribalico, formed by people with disabilities and without disabilities. From 2006 to 2009 she directed the company's nursery and created two shows for them.
Since 2007 she has alternated periods of creation with those of study and teaching adults, professionals and children. Since 2006, she has been the artistic director of the Center Daiva Iyoti of Turin, where she carries out activities of production, training and the dissemination of yoga, holistic research and theatrical arts.