Past event

29 May 2022

Luini 6 Bistrot

16:30

The Caffes d’artiste conducted by Marisa Hayes, Lorenzo Conti e Katja Vaghi are a special opportunity to meet the three choreographers featured in the projects produced and co-produced for the first edition of Lugano Dance Project between Switzerland, Europe and Canada. This is space for thinking about the dramaturgical themes of the works and for comparing different aesthetics and poetics.

Swiss choreographer and cultural manager Lea Moro lives in Zurich and Berlin. The author of innovative performances that examine the physical, social and emotional layers of human connections and encounters, since 2013 she has been presenting her works internationally.
In addition to her activity as a choreographer, Moro is co-founder of Berlin’s Acker'Festival (2013/14), she completed her training in "Systemic Organizational Consulting" at artop at the Humboldt Universität in Berlin (2018/19) and attended a training course entitled "Programming in the Performing Arts" at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg and the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich 2019/20). She has taught at the DOCH – School of Dance and Circus at the University of Stockholm, at the University of the Arts in Helsinki, at the HZT in Berlin and at the Manufacture of Lausanne. Since 2020 she is associate dramaturge of the productions of the Tanzhaus Zürich.

Is a Franco-American interdisciplinary scholar and curator. Her research focuses on the intersections between dance and the visual arts (notably, dance in museum spaces and screendance). She is editor in chief of  the French dance research journal Repères, cahier de danse published by La Briqueterie - National Choreographic Development Center and founding co-director of the International Video Dance Festival of Burgundy, an annual screendance platform created in 2009. Since 2016, she has been an invited curator in the dance department of Theatre Freiburg (Germany) and has initiated numerous screendance projects at La Briqueterie (production residency, education & outreach), with Numeridanse.TV, and in collaboration with the Lyon Dance Biennale. In 2015, she co-edited the book Art in Motion: Current Research in Screendance. She regularly writes for Dance Magazine (USA), Dance International (Canada) and Alternatives Théâtrales (Belgium), among other print and electronic publications. Initially trained in dance under Merce Cunningham and Kazuo Ohno (Japan), she holds degrees in dance history and visual studies from La Sorbonne.

Katja Vaghi’s research expertise rests on her theoretical and practical background. A Swiss Italian choreographer, somatic teacher and dance researcher, during her education in modern dance and ballet at Ballet Arts in NYC, she experienced different modern dance techniques (in particular Horton and Limón) together with urban and traditional dances (Hip hop and funk, Bharatanatyam and African dance). Her education was then complemented with a MA in literature and linguistics from Zurich University (English, Italian and Contemporary Norwegian) and a PhD in dance philosophy on the works of Jiří Kylián at the University of Roehampton (UK) under the supervision of Dr Anna Pakes and Dr Gerladine Morris. She has been associated lecturer at the University of Northampton (UK) and at the Rambert School for Ballet and Contemporary Dance, where she still is a visiting lecturer specialized in dance history and philosophy for BA and MA programs. She is now lecturer in dance history, theory,improvisation and composition at DIE ETAGE, school for performing and visual arts in Berlin. She is also visiting lecturer at the University of Roehampton (UK), school of the arts, dance section, and at the University of applied Sciences and Arts in Coburg, where she teaches embodiment and spatial experiences to architects, interior and integrated designers.

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