FND/Aterballetto dances at IIC in Madrid

Thanks to the support and invitation of theItalian Cultural Institute of Madrid, the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto presents a programme specially designed for the spaces of Palacio de Abrantes, the headquarters of the Institute.
The event is entitled MicroDanze. A danced exhibition between live and virtual reality. MicroDanze is a project that goes beyond the ‘classical’ stage dynamic and cancels the distance between spectator and performer, designed not for the theatre but for museum, exhibition or emblematic spaces. A unique experience that offers spectators the opportunity to discover and rediscover places through dance.

At the centre of the Salón de Actos the two dancers Vittoria Franchina and Edoardo Brovardi perform Yes, Yes…, the duet by Diego Tortelli created for Brescia Capitale Italiana della Cultura 2023. The choreography in a few minutes tries to capture the atmosphere of the “Silver Factory” conceived by Andy Warhol in 1962.

In another room, FND/Aterballetto offers the public a curious and intriguing possibility: 2 MicroDanze in virtual reality. An immersive experience that places the spectator at the centre of the stage: this is Virtual Dance for Real People, a project that explores the relationship between dance and virtual reality and aims to answer the question: can the emotion of the performance exist without the dancer being present?

With MicroDanza Meridiana by Diego Tortelli the spectator, through oculus VR visors, finds himself in the 18th-century Historical Pharmacy of the former Sant’Agostino Hospital in Modena and will be right at the centre of a play between science and nature, between human and divine interpreted by two hypnotic dancers.

With virtual MicroDanza È pericoloso non sporgersi by Francesca Lattuada, on the other hand, the audience is transported to a cell in the Lombroso Pavilion of the former San Lazzaro psychiatric hospital in Reggio Emilia and meets an extraordinary contortionist. Her metamorphoses are incessant and lead to the blurring of ordinary temporality, to the loss of the most concrete notions of spatiality (high-low, large-small, visible-invisible…). The spectator experiences an immersion in a world in which all habitual references have vanished.