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Diana Anselmo and Cristina Kristal Rizzo

Diana Anselmo and Cristina Kristal Rizzo | ph Giulia Lenzi

Diana Anselmo is a Deaf visual artist and performer, activist and improvised human being. Bilingual LIS and Italian, he enters the performance world with Autoritratto in 3 atti in 2021, with performances in Italian and foreign festivals (Serbia, Switzerland, Portugal, Germany). Abroad, he makes his debut in Berlin with Le Sacre du Printemps by Xavier Le Roy.

In 2024 he made his entry into the visual arts, showing his first exhibition Je Vous Aime at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo. He is one of the founders of Al.Di.Qua. Artists, the first association in Europe of/for artists with disabilities - as well as accessibility manager of several festivals including Oriente Occidente.

Cristina Kristal Rizzo, a dancemaker based in Florence, has been active on the live arts scene since the early 1990s. She is one of the founders of the historic Kinkaleri collective, with which she has actively collaborated, crossing the international scene and receiving numerous awards including the Ubu Prize and the Lo Straniero Prize.

Since 2008, she has undertaken an autonomous path of choreographic research towards a theoretical reflection with a strong dynamic impact. Awarded the Danza&Danza Contemporary Choreography Prize 2020 with the creation TOCCARE the White Dance, she combines the creation of choreographic works with an intense activity of advanced training, theoretical writing and curation of events, establishing as one of the main personalities of Italian choreography.

Monumentum stands for: memory, document, sign of recognition, something from the past. Something that pauses and stops the continuous progression of the production flow, moving into the depths of memory, in a kind of temporal anachronism.

The Monumentum project began in 2022 with a solo performed by dancer Megumi Eda and a creation for ensemble. Monumentum changes shape and continues, multiplying the looks along the thread of choreography in a new step that makes use of the collaboration and interpretation of Diana Anselmo, deaf performer bilingual in Italian and LIS and activist/co-founder of the association Al.Di.Qua.Artists.

Monumentum DA is a dedication to his singularity.

The creation takes the form of a narrative, a body-to-body movement, which intends to amplify and give space to the intrinsic possibilities of sign language. Long marginalised and alienated by the phonocentric processes of power that have attempted to abolish it throughout history, LIS is a living, corporeal and human language.

It is accessible to all, containing in its form the possibilities of use for both hearing and deaf audiences. It is therefore about reconsidering the expressive potential of bodies and opening up a space in which diversity is purely a resource in relation to the imaginary of a momentary collectivity.

Forte Forte. Laboratorio di pratiche corporee

Cristina Kristal Rizzo e Diana Anselmo
Event
Oriente Occidente Studio
Jun 14 2024 - at: 13:00
Jun 15 2024 - at: 07:30
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