THE DAY, THE NIGHT, THE DAY

THE DAY, THE NIGHT, THE DAY
CHOREOGRAPHY AND DANCE GIULIANA URCIUOLI
VIDEO ALESSANDRO AMADUCCI
MUSICAL DESIGN PAKI ZENNARO

PRODUCTION UQBARTEATRO
DURATION 50 MINUTES

A vital pulse, continuous, alternate,

marks our fluid or broken living rhythm,

for sure not homogeneous,

scarred by the alternation of feelings,

going through different ages,

one inside the other,

sometimes superimposed,

or so far away to look like

vanishing points,

poles that draw our visions,

our dreams

and we transform ourselves…

one being into another being,

a continuous metamorphosis

that makes us always another one,

the other of the imaginary, of the desire,

and still that pulsating cell of the beginning.

A cycle that repeats itself, alternate phases, a turning back.

These are the images that go with the birth

of this performance which took different times

and went through different periods.

At first a fluid feeling that flows, a continuum,

interrupted at times by moments of suspension,

pauses, breaking points that break up its course.

Instants when you are ready to bound

after a long stay on the edges

or when you just don’t know and wait.

A separation, the longing,

the alternate flash of the lighthouse,

a crossing flight.

a beat that pulsating, bumps and changes its vital rhythm.

Then things flowing one into the other and ages as well.

Expecting a child: the strength of an original nucleus

that germinates and transforms itself,

but being there since forever,

as if ages were wrapped one around the others,

transforming themselves, but everything remaining…

just like that original cell of the very beginning.

In the video these images have found a new way to take shape

following a course tied up with pregnancy.

A multiplication that changes a being into another,

creates ties, connections, marks a crossing, lives.

GIULIANA URCIUOLI

Degree in Performing Arts Disciplines - D.A.M.S. Philosophy and Literature University – Bologna, and diploma at the Italian Professional Dance School in Milano.

Deepens the studies of contemporary dance with teachers like Luisa Casiraghi, Raffaella Giordano, Carolyn Carlson, Ivan Wolfe, Nigel Charnok, Josef Nadj, Wim Vandekeybus, Malou Airaudo…

In 1994 joined the Szeged Contemporary Dance Company at the Szeged National Theatre in Hungary, danced in important international festivals and collaborated with different choreographers: Juronics Tamàs-Hungary (Kroki, A porond, Trió, Le sacre du printemps, Homo ludens, Sárember) , Roberto Galvan-Argentina (Requiem, Night flight, Concert for bandoneon and orchestra) , Itzik Galili-Israel (Top cream, If), Amir Kolben-Israel (G-is-el-2), Ben Craf-UK (Sepia Smiles), Vera Sander-Netherlands (Anstatt zu leben hängen wir dran), Piet Rogie- Netherlands (Tracks).

In 2000 she joined the Carolyn Carlson Company at the Biennale di Venezia and danced in several performances produced by Biennale di Venezia: J. Beuys Song, Light Bringers with the choreography of Carolyn Carlson, Une chambre dans le desert , et with the choreography of Alessandra Vigna e Yutaka Takei, SPES, sentimentalismi per esperti sentimentali with the choreography of Silvia Traversi.

With her own choreography she has gained international recognition:

-Di passaggio, choreography and dance Giuliana Urciuoli and Valentina De Piante, production Maszk – Szeged (Hungary), first prize at the National Competition for choreographers and performers Infiorata - Genzano di Roma (Italy), second prize at the International DanceFestival/Competition - Iasi (Romany);

-Summa choreography Juhos Istvan, Panja Fladerer, Giuliana Urciuoli,Valentina De Piante; production Mu theatre - Budapest (Hungary);

-Belladonna, performance on poetical texts from Marina Cvetaeva, Anna Achmatova, Emily Dickinson, choreography and dance Giuliana Urciuoli, acting Daria Anfelli, production UqbarTeatro;

-Il giorno, la notte, il giorno, choreography and dance Giuliana Urciuoli, production UqbarTeatro;

-La corsa dei fuochi, Opera senza cornice, poetry and direction Ida Travi, acting Daria Anfelli, choreography and dance Giuliana Urciuoli, production Poetica&Uqbar;

-EX, choreography-performer Giuliana Urciuoli, video Alessandro Amaducci, production UqbarTeatro.

Collaborates as choreographer and dancer with the videoartist Alessandro Amaducci: Cromosoma; Elektric Self ; Flesh Path; The day, the night, the day, EX.

In 2007 creates with Ida Travi and Daria Anfelli POETICA&UQBAR, a centre for art and culture that was born from the collaboration of Poetica and Uqbar Teatro, two Associations active in the fields of poetry, theatre and contemporary dance, for the promotion of a poetical theatre.

Teaches classes and workshops internationally.