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Marta Bellu

Le cavità del segno \ Primo studio, Marta Bellu
Le cavità del segno / Primo studio , Marta Bellu
I versi delle mani, Marta Bellu
I versi delle mani, Marta Bellu | ph Monia Pavoni

Marta Bellu dancer, choreographer and psychologist, is interested in awareness and expression practices involving the mind-body system in an artistic, evolutionary and social sense.

Since 2014 she has been involved in choreographic research in dialogue with language and musical composition, investigating the relationship between body, sound and light.

In the same period she began working on dance and choreographic research projects with people with disabilities collaborating with L'Associazione Trisomia21, Autismo Svizzera Italiana, MAD (Murate Art District), and since 2021 with dancer Laura Lucioli for the show I versi delle Mani.

Since 2019 she has been an associate artist of Versiliadanza and in 2021 she is one of the founders of A Corpo Vivo, based in Cagliari, with which she realises projects and workshops that interweave ecology and artistic practice.

With the multidisciplinary group Trifoglio (Donato Epiro, Andrea Sanson) she realises Acquitrini (2023), Iride (2023) and Where else? (2020).

After completing a Master's degree in Neuroscience and Contemplative Practices, she is dedicated to the study and practice of Tibetan Buddhism at the Lama Tzong Khapa Institute.

The imagery that illuminates the darkness is ecological, but not anthropocentric: figures of hybrid creatures with blurred contours, in which human, zoomorphic and abstract elements mix and merge. Strange apparitions, generated by the paths of the hands, in a scenario of geometric signs, in cavities. Compositions of creatures floating in an imaginary space like oneiric fragments. A polymorphous and sonorous layering of abstract and living bodies, limbs and faces, bones and hands, which imprint themselves, settle, make noises, sleep in the shadows and generate dreams.

Le cavità del segno investigates the gesture as the first natural sign, the first trace of human thought, in the cavities, at the origin of language. The research develops within the relationship between gesture and sound, in their vibrating together in depth. Subterranean crystalline morphologies take shape in the dark in a tension between geometry and presence, sign and image.

The project is a new stage of research and creation with the dancer with Down syndrome Laura Lucioli and the musician and performer Francesco Toninelli.

A Versiliadanza production with the support of us and Fondazione Armunia and Open Dialogue, a bilateral cultural exchange project run by Stopgap Dance Company and commissioned by Arts Council England, the Italian Ministry of Culture (Performing Arts Department), the Italian Cultural Institute in London and the British Council.
In collaboration with Associazione Mus.e and MAD Murate Art District.

I versi delle mani weave sound patterns, they draw dances, they are mouths that open.

The air, light, takes shape, becomes a gesture, a circular sound, one generates the other. They speak to each other. It is the hand that gives the time and the response of the lung. Physical sounds, proximity and sidereal distance. Producing a breath of air to activate the fire, a circulating intensity.

Rotation, balance, an out-of-control dance.

I versi delle mani is a 2021 production, the aim of the residency is to develop a poetic audio-description that can not only make the performance accessible to a blind and visually impaired audience, but also inform the dramaturgy and enrich the work by placing it in dialogue with the relational plot that constitutes the origin of the choreographic and sound score.

With the support of MiC - DIREZIONE GENERALE SPETTACOLO.
In partnership with APS Arcigay Il Cassero / Gender Bender, Centro Servizi Culturali Santa Chiara di Trento, APS Fuori Luogo (Festival Fisiko!), Associazione Nexus di Bologna, IAC, Menhir/Le Danzatrici en plein air e TeatroMenzatì/Tex il teatro dell'ExFadda, Versiliadanza

I versi delle mani

Marta Bellu
Event
People - Artistic residencies
Oriente Occidente Studio
Jul 30 2023 - at: 08:00
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