Past event

26 May 2022

Palazzo dei Congressi

17:30
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Brazilian dancer and choreographer Ana Pi creates a real performative educational project on urban dances, while thwarting the reductive equivalence between urban dance and hip hop.

Through a subjective journey between ten major cities of the world, the immense variety of dances created, practiced and shown in the street are evoked. Without claiming to be exhaustive, this dance conference gives an overview of a selection of urban dances: the Krump in Los Angeles, the Dancehall in Kingston, The Pantsula in Johannesburg or even the Voguing in New York, to mention a few. It acts at each stage to evoke the geographical, social and cultural context linked to each of these dances, their specific characteristics in terms of movement, body posture, modes of practice (battle, nightclub, team, etc.), as well as the musical styles and clothing attitudes associated with it.
The world tour takes the form of a dance conference performed by Ana Pi who, through costume changes, factual explanations, incarnations and dancing moments, evokes the complexity of these urban dances, with enthusiasm, empathy and simplicity.

texts, research, video editing, choreography and interpretation
Ana Pi

collaboration
Cecilia Bengolea
François Chaignaud

production
NA MATA LAB

executive production
Latitudes Prod. – Lille

in coproduction with
Association des Centres de Développement Chorégraphique Nationaux

with the support of
Direction Générale de la Création Artistique [La Place de la Danse CDCN Toulouse Occitanie, La Manufacture CDCN Nouvelle-Aquitaine, La Maison Uzès Gard Occitanie, Les Hivernales CDCN d’Avignon, Le Pacifique CDCN Grenoble Auvergne-Rhône-Alpe, Art Danse CDCN Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, La Briqueterie CDCN Val-de-Marne, Atelier de Paris CDCN, L’échangeur CDCN Hauts-de-France, Le Gymnase CDCN Hauts-de-France, Pole-Sud CDCN Strasbourg, Touka Danses CDCN Guyane]

Brazilian choreographer and visual artist, Ana Pi is also a researcher in urban dances, an impromptu dancer herself and a teacher. Her practice is situated between the notions of circulation, movement, belonging, memory, colours and ordinary gestures. In 2020 she created the association NA MATA LAB. Her first documentary, NoirBLUE - les déplacements d'une danse (2018), was selected by numerous film festivals and received considerable acclaim.
Together with her aunt, she created the choreographic piece O BΔNQUETE (2019), commissioned by Associação Videobrasil. In 2018 she created COROA a performance and installation for the Galeria Vermelho in San Paolo, which was also presented at the Lafayette Anticipations Foundation in Paris; that same year she was awarded the "Premio Rivelazione" from the Cooperativa Paulista de Dança di San Paolo. In 2017 she created NoirBLUE, a solo work for the stage conceived together with Jean Marc Segalen and Jideh High Elements and which was presented in France, Portugal, Belgium and Spain; also that year was the project Periphery & Peripherals, developed in collaboration with the Brazilian cultural centre Lá da Favelinha of which she has been a dancing partner since its creation. In 2015 she created DRW2 for the Instituto Inhotim and in 2014 Le tour du monde des danses urbaines, a project for the CDCN in France; with these interactive conferences she exhibited in Africa, South America and Europe, involving a multi-generational public from many social and cultural walks of life, as well as many institutional organizations with over 400 performances. In addition to these main projects, she developed the practice CORPO FIRME; danças periféricas, gestos sagrados and works with artists on various types of projects.
She lives in France where she is associate choreographer with Dancing Museums and is associate artist with the production company Latitudes Contemporaines.