Cristiana Natali

Associate Professor

Department of History and Cultures

Academic discipline: M-DEA/01 Demology, Ethnology and Anthropology

Collaborations

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:: Università degli Studi di BOLOGNA
Country:: Italy
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").