Synthetic Disjunctions

2020

In Synthetic Disjunctions the maker and solo performer Elisa Zuppini explores dance as a visual and textural manifestation. Her body encapsulates the experience of dancing into forms as 'abstract objects'. Aware that this very experience is irrepressible, she enlightens the excess that remains uncontainable. Constantly operating through a friction between withholding and manifestation, Zuppini embodies a series of forms like living objects. Something eerie is activated in space and an irregular architecture unfolds by default as a result of internal relational logic. We have to figure out the body as a heavy and dense material in space, that creates new gravitational forces.

Synthetic Disjunctions is a piece in development that Elisa started working on during the pandemic at New Adventures, a residency supported by ICK Dans Amsterdam.

Photo: Thomas Lenden

Credits

Choreographer and Performer | Elisa Zuppini
Sound design | Elisa Zuppini
Advisor | Bruno Listopad

Elisa Zuppini

Elisa Zuppini is a choreographer and dance maker originally from Italy. She graduated from SNDO- School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam, where she is currently based.

Started dancing at a young age, Elisa was always driven by an unceasing passion for the art form of dance and its generative philosophical aspect. Today, her choreographic research articulates around notions of relational movement and materiality in relation to the body and its affective dimensions. She is interested in the body as a transformative technology through which we can potentially access new (or lost) perceptions of reality, and those of relationality.

In 2016 she was awarded as Young Talent in Choreography from OpenFlr, Florence (IT), in 2018 she won the scholarship for Danceweb residency program at Impulstanz in Vienna (AT). Since February 2019 she is one of the supported artists by the dance company ICK Amsterdam and in the same year she became one of the members of Jacuzzi, a convergence of Amsterdam-based choreographers. Since 2018 Elisa has been collaborating on a long-term basis with the Dancer and Performer Federica Dalla Pozza, Artist and Dramaturg Bruno Listopad and Dj and Producer James Whipple (M.E.S.H.).

Moving on!

Plein Theater willingly offers a platform for dance, performance and experiment. In our vision, we give talented makers the opportunity to develop and present themselves. Therefore we are very excited to have started a collaboration with ICK-Artist Space! The production house for dance ICK Artist Space supports the development of young choreographic talent. They propose adventurous programming by a new generation of makers for a monthly dance evening at Plein Theater: Moving On!

With Moving On! Plein Theater wants to continue as a stage for contemporary dance and act as a stepping stone for new, talented makers.