LOS FAUNOS

For the Los Faunos Project, Lavanderia a Vapore experiments with a transnational work model by inviting the Catalan choreographer and artist Quim Bigas Bassart to work with Nest, the network of Turin production companies, with the involvement of teachers from local dance schools: in a dynamic that combines expansion of the artistic imagination and aesthetics of reference and territorial rooting, it was decided to entrust to an international artist the proposal of an inspirational vision starting from the figure of the Faun and its declination in the repertoire, accompanied by tasks creative and choreographic scores that can activate in dance schools, teachers and participants, a compositional and expressive ability that goes beyond disciplinary teachings oriented towards perfect interpretation.

The project, mindful of the activities carried out for Swans never die together with other Italian subjects online, starts from the reinvention of the repertoire around the figure of the Faun, due to its current relevance full of potential angles (investigation on interspeciesism, hybridization and identity fluidity, dissimilarity, connection between dance body language, queerness in a broad sense as the co-presence of complex and non-unique elements, also applicable to the desire to facilitate the assembly of heterogeneous audiences/people).

The final outcome of the process will be presented on 28 April 2024 in Turin as part of the events created on the occasion of the International Dance Day promoted by the International Dance Council of UNESCO.