PLACE/is a city written on this body?
Rosanna Terracciano
October 27 - November 1
Go behind-the-scenes and explore an in-depth portrait of choreographer and filmmaker Rosanna Terracciano. This dynamic offering includes the Current Conditions Talk, short film screenings, presentation, and green room artist talk and comes with supporting essays, images, thoughts, ideas and ephemera made available all week and includes an open discussion with the artists. Join us for the launch events on October 27 & 29, or view on your own timeframe through Tuesday November 3.
Rosanna Terracciano experiments within and around the boundaries of flamenco, dance, contemporary performance and short film, driven by an urgency to expose the vulnerable and introverted aspects of flamenco dance. Her solo performance works and short films have been presented throughout Canada and Europe, and, in 2019, she collaborated with Spain’s Juan Carlos Lérida in residencies and performances at the Dusseldorf Flamenco Festival and Barcelona’s Mercat de les Flors, In 2018, she created the ongoing online short film project, a quiet flamenco. She is Associate Artist at Dancers’ Studio West for the 2020-2022 seasons and is the 2017 recipient of the Jacqueline Lemieux Prize for dance from the Canada Council for the Arts.
“Rosanna Terracciano has no problem when it comes to upending stereotypes.”
Premiere Screening
PLACE/Is a city written on this body?
October 29, 7pM MT
Photo credit: Rosanna Terracciano
Short film premiere and retrospective dance film works by Rosanna Terracciano
PLACE/Is a city written on this body? - A short film adaptation of a performance trilogy of cities with significant professional and personal impact — Napoli, Calgary and Sevilla. Based on choreographies by Montreal’s Myriam Allard, Barcelona’s Juan Carlos Lerida and Rosanna Terracciano, and original music scores by Chris Dadge and Jonathan Parant, with guitar by David Matyas and voice by Rosanna Terracciano.
The premiere will be followed by a retrospective of mini films: LUNARES, buleríaneurótica, flamenco(de)constructed, and a film from a quiet flamenco project.
Photo credit: Rosanna Terracciano
Current COnditions Talk #3
Tuesday October 27, 7pm MT
A FLUID intersection of ideas
Geography and Gesture
Spain (and Canada's) New Flamenco Scene
Gesture, place and mental maps. How contemporary flamenco, risk, history and our sense of place are felt in the body.
A whole generation of artists are offering contemporary and alternative spins on the traditional Andalusian form. Join a conversation with current voices of flamenco's vanguard. Choreographers Rosanna Terracciano (Calgary/Montreal), Juan Carlos Lérida (Barcelona) and Myriam Allard (Montreal) join with architect Holly Simon (Seattle), writer Marcello Di Cintio (Calgary) and moderator Graziella Terracciano (UK) in a conversation rooted in flamenco perspectives, the body, politics and the edges of contemporary form.
Current Talk 3 Participants
Featured
Body + Space: Creative Ideas and Inspiration from our panelists
Rosanna Terracciano: Paris, Texas (1984). Directed by Wim Wenders, starring Harry Dean Stanton, Dean Stockwell, Nastassja Kinski, and Hunter Carson. The screenplay was written by L. M. Kit Carson and playwright Sam Shepard, while the musical score was composed by Ry Cooder.
Juan Carlos Lérida: Play music at home, stamp on the floor, feel vibration through the floor, dance with your home like a duet partner, touching the walls and corners while moving through the space.
Myriam Allard: My Brilliant Friend and the four Neapolitan novels part of the full series by Elena Ferrante. Against the backdrop of Naples that is as seductive as it is perilous and a world undergoing epochal change, Elena Ferrante tells the story of a sixty-year friendship between the brilliant and bookish Elena and the fiery, rebellious Lila with unmatched honesty and brilliance.
Holly Simon: Invisible cities by Italo Calvino. The question that Calvino seems to be asking is a big one: How should we live? It's best, I think, to read Invisible Cities like a traveler — slowly, luxuriously, as if you have all the time in the world.
Marcello Di Cintio: Salt Houses by Hala Alyan. Lyrical and heartbreaking, Salt Houses is a remarkable debut novel that challenges and humanizes an age-old conflict we might think we understand — one that asks us to confront that most devastating of all truths: you can't go home again.
Other Works by Rosanna Terraciano
a quiet flamenco - Exposing the introverted, vulnerable and muted aspects of flamenco dance through film. one artist at a time. a project by Canadian dance artist Rosanna Terracciano.
The Sounds and Sights of Dance: Rosanna Terracciano's A QUIET FLAMENCO - A review of a quiet flamenco.
A Flamenco of One’s Own - Rosanna’s thoughts on Israel Galván, “I saw an artist then who showed traces of vulnerability matched with a strong artistic voice and need for personal expression. In that moment, I began to uncover my flamenco. And everything changed.”
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Photo credit: Rosanna Terracciano
Rosanna Terracciano experiments within and around the boundaries of flamenco, dance, contemporary performance and short film, driven by an urgency to expose the vulnerable and introverted aspects of flamenco dance. Her solo performance works and short films have been presented throughout Canada and Europe, and, in 2019, she collaborated with Spain’s Juan Carlos Lérida in residencies and performances at the Dusseldorf Flamenco Festival and Barcelona’s Mercat de les Flors, In 2018, she created the ongoing online short film project, a quiet flamenco. She is Associate Artist at Dancers’ Studio West for the 2020-2022 seasons and is the 2017 recipient of the Jacqueline Lemieux Prize for dance from the Canada Council for the Arts.
Credits
Choreographer: Film adaptations of choreographies by Myriam Allard, Juan Carlos Lérida and Rosanna Terracciano
Performers: Rosanna Terracciano
Composer/ sound design: Film sound design adapted from original sound designs by Chris Dadge and Jonathan Parant
Videographer: Rosanna Terracciano
Editor: Rosanna Terracciano
Other acknowledgements: Created with the support of a Canada Council for the Arts and CBC Radio Canada Digital Originals grant.
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