Hong Kong Dance Exchange 2024
Italy

SIMPOSIO

Duet created and danced by
Lia Claudia Latini and Giovanni Leonarduzzi

Description

From Plato’s story to the present day, a continuous tension in search of the total, unique, complete body. From the “hermaphrodites” narrated in Aristophanes’ speech, supernatural figures, in strength and shape, to the divided body that we have.

The attempt at reunion, the tension towards completeness, the relationship never completely “satisfied” because it is now impossible to go back to being a “single body”.

A perennial desire for reunion, a desire that animates and moves bodies.

From Plato’s specific story to the analysis of current society and the dynamics of the relationships it contains: the difficulty of finding, maintaining and cultivating a relationship as a couple in a society that pushes towards ever stronger individualism and which leads to less acceptance of the couple’s “compromise”.

From here our moving figures are born where the two bodies, added together, create a larger one.

Awards
  • 16/12/2023 invitation awards for: NDA Festival (Daegu) ; Jeju international dance festival (Juju Island) ; HKDance exchange HongKong; Akita Dance Festival (Japan)
  • 22/06/2023 invited @ RIDCC Rotterdam (Holland)
  • 20/05 /2023 first prize @ SoloDuo BarnesCrossing competition, Köln (Germany)
  • 23/10/2022 First prize of the Jury and Audience Prize @ DanzaXtrema Certamen Coreografico (Navalmoral de La Mata)
  • 25/07/22 first prize in Certamen Danza en el Camino (Burgos y Nueva York)
  • 08/07/22 Audience award at Copenhagen International Choreography Competition
  • 02/07/22 Jury award and audience award at Choreography36, BalletGesellschaft
  • 02/07/22 Production award from Giuseppe Spota/ MiR Dance Company in Choreography36, BalletGesellschaft