Inventing worlds
Projects
Live shows
Collaborating with live musicians is the ultimate experience for a dance artist. In this series I have compiled videos from rehearsals and live shows, where most of the time I am just actively listening: connecting dance sequences I have from my own repertoire, in the flow of improvisation. This project is not so much about choreography, but nesting of ideas in real time practice. I am so humbled and thankful to Tato and his band for inviting me to jam along with my dance.
Video Artist: Robbert Bökkerink
Reels: Diego Hauptman
Band:
Tato de Lara: Voice, Sax, Flute
Michel Hessel: Voice, Guitar
Artur: Voice, Percussion
Alberto: Electric Bass
Manolo: Drums
Herve: Voice, Percussion
Rogim: Cavaquinho, Voice
Percusion: Ero, Edy
Pain & Pleasure
Dance Essay on the evolving relationship between dancers and technology.
Written, directed and choreographed by Adriana Di Cillo
Photography by Fernando Barranquero
Pole Dance Artist: Sara Del Pino
Capoeria Artist: Ana Cueto
Dancers: Milady dos Santos and Mirella Mateo
(I don´t own the rights to the music in the video)
Artist copyright: Puta da Silva
Dos Sonetos Corporales
A Kali, mi Madre – Dance poem for a screen dress at my backyard
Inspired on the poem by Rafael Alberti
Huele a sangre mezclada con espliego, venida entre un olor de resplandores.
A sangre huelen las quemadas flores y a súbito ciprés de sangre el fuego.
Del aire baja un repentino riego de astro y sangre resueltos en olores,
y un tornado de aromas y colores al mundo deja por la sangre ciego.
Fría y enferma y sin dormir y aullando, desatada la fiebre va saltando,
como un temblor, por las terrazas solas.
Coagulada la luna en la cornisa, mira la adolescente sin camisa
poblársele las ingles de amapolas.”
Music: Gino D´auri
Dancing in Nature – Catalunya
Interview for Caesurae Org, India.
Jayita Sengupta: What “stories” that you mentioned to once regarding this project, are choreographed in the dance?
Adriana: Great question! We found this tunnel/cave by chance while we were actually going to another site of interest. In this region of Catalonia in northern Spain, you blink and you are surprised with the most spectacular views of fortresses and castles. There is a legend in this particular county that supposedly took place during the Spanish re-conquest. It’s called the “Legend of the Bushes that walk”: the splendid Fortress of Mur was the center of the Moorish domination in the Tremp basin…
Dance Companies & organizations I have collaborated as a choreographer:
- City Moves Org, San Diego, USA: 1995
- Escola de Samba Sol e Mar, San Diego, USA: 1997 -2000
- CFHB, São Paulo, Brasil: 2002 – 2003
- Movimento Mudanza, Brasil, India: 2003 – 2006
- JBDanceCo, Madras, India: 2004 – 2007
- The Swingers, Madras, India: 2007
- Shangrila House (Lulu Sabongi), Sao Paulo, Brasil: 2011
- Hob Salam, Sao Paulo, Brasil: 2012
- Twist n Turns, Kolkata, India: 2013
- Darpana Academy of Performing Arts, Ahmedabad, India: 2013
- Triwat Org., Jaipur, India: 2013
- Sway Dance Studio, Ahmedabad, India: 2014
- Arjun Mishra Dance Company, Lucknow, India: 2013 – 2014
- Anart Foundation, Ahmedabad, India: 2014
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