United States – Dewey Dell dance company in residence at the Macalester College
From August 12 to 23, Dewey Dell dance and performing arts company is in residency at the Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota, at the invitation by the Theater and Dance Department.
The residency includes a workshop for the students and the public presentation of Dewey Dell’s latest creation: the performance I'll do, I'll do, I'll do.
Every year, in order to enhancing the study of theatre, the Macalester College promotes a programme of residencies in co-operation with the Tofte Lake Center in Ely, which includes bringing national and international guest artists.
In Saint Paul, the Company will meet the students of the Theater and Dance Department in two introductory days of preparation at the College, followed by an intensive workshop at the Tofte Lake Center in Ely, from August 15 to 21.
The residency ends on August 23 with the public presentation of Dewey Dell’s latest work I'll do, I'll do, I'll do at the Macalester College theatre.
I'll do, I'll do, I'll do is a choreography "that weaves the threads of an imagined Sabbath".
After having explored, in the performance Hamlet, the concept of corporeity in the trance rites of possession – that is the visitation of a divine entity inside a human being –, here the choreographic research is inspired by ecstasy, which on the contrary is a journey of celestial ascension or infernal descent out of the body.
“The performance is rooted in an idea of ‘body in spirit’, that is a journey of the soul outside the human body. From the search for an ubiquitous body – present and absent at the same time, present in a real and visible world, but also in an invisible and not real world –, the idea of the movement at the basis of this work came. (…) Another great inspiration for this work were Carlo Ginzburg’s studies on the testimonies in the Inquisition trials on cases of witchcraft, in which the constant of the 'flight in spirit' emerges, and which Ginzburg in turn links to ancient fertility rituals. We found very interesting this relation between the idea of fertility, but also of femininity, linked to an absence of the body, to a transcendence to the body."
(from an interview with choreographer and performer Teodora Castellucci)
The tour is made with the support from ATER Fondazione.
