Cristiana Natali

Collaboration with:: 24 ore cultura
Country:: Italy
Description:: Rodin and Dance' exhibition at the MUDEC (Milan) 25 October 2023 - 10 March 2024 The exhibition was made possible thanks to the collaboration with the Musée Rodin in Paris, from which 53 works come; it recounts through an unprecedented exhibition project the fascination that dance had on Auguste Rodin. I curated the section of the exhibition related to the relationship between Rodin and the Cambodian dancers he met in Paris in 1906 and portrayed in hundreds of drawings, placing side by side with Rodin's works some objects from Cambodia or neighbouring areas, preserved in some Italian museums. The choice opted for works that have a close connection to the art of choreography (depictions of dancers or characters in choreographic performances) or that refer to Khmer culture. Info: https://www.mudec.it/rodin-e-la-danza/

Formal collaboration with:: Institut Supérieur de Musique de Tunis
Country:: Tunisia
Description:: Granted within the framework of the 2022 call "Global South", the project is coordinated by Matteo Paoletti (Università di Bologna) and aims at promoting the cultural cooperation between Italy and Tunisia through an articulated set of activities. Workshop, research, student exchange, and international conferences are some of the initiatives that will realise an effective opportunity of mutual knowledge between two shores of the Mediterranean. As part of the project, a performance was produced that reinterprets the myth of Dido and Aeneas in a contemporary key, through the use of musical instruments from the European and Maghreb traditions and the writing of music and dramaturgy as the result of coordinated work between institutions and artists from the two countries. https://site.unibo.it/music-theatre-italy-tunisia/en

Collaboration with:: Associazione culturale Nexus
Country:: Italy
Description:: Anthropological consultancy for BALLO 53, a project within the framework of the international festival Portici 2023 of the city of Bologna. The project, led by choreographer Simona Bertozzi, will be structured in workshops, training ateliers and other modes of exchange and dialogue with openings to the public over the course of 7 months (December 2022- June 23) and will conclude with a final performance. The project involves choreographers, dancers, musicians, video makers, volunteers and local communities.

Formal collaboration with:: British Council
Country:: United Kingdom
Description:: Participation in the project E-QUAL (Enhancing Quality, Access and Governance of Undergraduate Education in India), an International Collaborative Project funded by the European Union, coordinated by the British Council and involving Ambedkar University Delhi, Jadavpur University, King’s College London, Shiv Nadar University, Bologna University and Hyderabad University. For the project, I created the teaching unit “The anthropological recorded interview: methodological issues and ethnographic examples”.

Formal collaboration with:: Associazione culturale Nexus
Country:: Italy
Description:: Anthropological consultancy for the performance project "Lotus", promoted by the association “Nexus”. The project won the 2017 MigrArti-performance award, funded by the Ministry for Arts and Culture. The project involved sixteen young girls of the “Associazione Unione dei Tamil d’Italia”, who performed a choreography created by Simona Bertozzi, contemporary dance teacher, in collaboration with the Tamil bharata natyam teacher Sharmini Kavithasan. This choreography, a combination of the two teachers’ dance styles, was performed in Bologna ("Bologna Estate") and Pistoia ("MigrArti spettacolo 2017").

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