EX

2008-10-12T15:16:00.000-07:00

CHOREOGRAPHY GIULIANA URCIUOLI
PERFORMER GIULIANA URCIUOLI
VIDEO ALESSANDRO AMADUCCI
PRODUCTION UQBARTEATRO
DURATION 17 MINUTES

EX is a study about trasformations, about passing through different places which belong to our being, crossed by different natures, like an energy that waves pushing from the inside and becoming skeleton, lymph, stalk, body: primigenian natures, vegetal, animal, digital natur
es, that anyway belong to our existing. trasformations and cellular replacement are often not gradual processes: they go trough sudden phases, interrupted at times by moments of quiet, silence...and so for the perception we have of the metamorphosy that is happening.
On stage one body builds interaction frames with the images projected on the skin.

VIDEO EX: http://www.giulianaurciuoli.blogspot.com/

FOTO: MARCOAMBROSI.IT

SITE SPECIFIC
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EX

EX is thought to be performed in a theater or as a SITE SPECIFIC-URBAN PERFORMANCE .
In this last case a dark place is needed (it’s enough proposing the piece to the public during the evening, in a not illuminated space) for the video projected on the skin to be seen.
An appropriate urban space (3m. x 4m. minimum) with a wall or something like behind is required.
The nature of the video projection allows the body to get into a metamorphosy which is giving different suggestions, according to the environment and the materials (organic, inorganic, ecc.) that are surronding the performer.
It’s also possible to perform in nature, with leaves, bushes, branches or natural elements behind the body, so that it can be absorbed by the natural elements and became part of them in it’s transformation.

IN SIDE OUT

DANCE GIULIANA URCIUOLI

VIDEO ALESSANDRO AMADUCCI

IN SIDE OUT is a SITE SPECIFIC VIDEO INSTALLATION ON WATER,
thought as a cut in the earth, reminding to an earthquake result or a cleft in the ice.The earth gets excavated and the hole which opens gets filled with water, with the help of a plastic sheet that doesn’t allow the water to be absorbed.
On this water is projected a video about a woman dancing during her last period of pregnancy: it’s an improvisation recorded with x-ray, in the silence of a dark room, reminding to what’s happening inside the woman’s body and inside the earth at the very beginning of things, before it germinates. A sort of genesis.
The cut in the earth is the giving birth, the beginning of something new, the pain, fecondity, sex, life that pushes from the inside.

The video installation doesn’t need a particularly invasive intervention on the environment, the excavation can also be of a small proportion, depending from the specific situation. The video doesn’t have any sound, and have a 21 minutes duration repeted in a loop.

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
-video projector

-acces to electric power
-the possibility to protect the video projector from eventual rain

INLAND

DANCE GIULIANA URCIUOLI

VIDEO ALESSANDRO AMADUCCI

It’s a project for a SITE SPECIFIC VIDEO INSTALLATION ON SALT, where a dancer embodies fancy worlds and landscapes, like a dream of an undernature which lives inside the body substituting organs, skeleton and blood.
Like a fluxus of images that travels in an unconscious state of mind becoming sensation and self perception of the living body: the vision of a microcosm reflecting an imaginery macrocosm.
Salt is an inorganic element totally connected to organic life, you find it in water, and dry it in the sun, it’s integrated in the human body and in nature outside as well. We are more or less for the 70% made of water, we eat salt, it gives taste, we need it to live…like we need the dream.
Salt and dream belong to the inner life of living things.

The video installation can be projected indoor or outdoor on SALT.
Several kilos of salt are needed -depending in quantity from the specific situation- to be put on ground, grass, paviment, etc…
The best situation for it is to create an inclined surface with the ground outside, or with a support in an inside space.

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

-video projector

-electric power
-cables
-the possibility to protect the video projector from eventual rain

THE DAY, THE NIGHT, THE DAY

2007-12-05T05:32:00.000-08:00

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.

GIULIANA URCIUOLI english

EX

THE DAY, THE NIGHT, THE DAY