PORTFOLIO
THE RIGHT EYE OF CLINT (2019)
This solo tracks the perception of pressure. I was inspired by time spent in the South-West of the the United States, learning to ride horses, and watching Western films. I invited Clint Eastwood and his many decoys to the desert for a small occasion. We swapped our right eyeballs. Eye for an eye, plus germs and a tiny stye. His eye is a kind of camouflage that initiates me into a worldview/bodybeing that I don’t fully understand, and yet I perceive to be leaning on me. This lean produces pressure and I train myself to work with pressure like a horse, like a feeling of being watched. I am here now, hiding in plain sight, tying knots, and becoming an edge. Being in the presence of such resilient elements is not a new feeling, but wearing them and owning them is alien.
Choreography and Performance by Andrea Spaziani
Music and Performance by Matt Smith
Artistic Consultant: Danny Grossman
Photos by Francesca Chudnoff / Franznfriends
Premiere: April 11th-13th, 2019 at the Dancemakers Centre for Creation (Toronto, Canada)
(50 min)
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PREVIEW by Sky Fairchild Waller
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SILVER VENUS (2018)
SILVER VENUS is an ensemble reconstruction of the feminine persona VENUS that combines the activity of silver with aquatic behaviour It is a procreative anti-altar that transforms water into deeply felt sound waves and black fabric.
Choreography by Andrea Spaziani
Made in Collaboration with and Performed by Nicole Rose Bond, Irvin Chow, Francesca Chudnoff, Alicia Grant, Julia Male, Claire Turner Reid and Matt Smith
Makeup by Jooyeon Kim
Costume Design by Buzz / Rebaie by Rebée
Score design by Gracia Gallo / Concept Citron
Premiere: April 26th-28th, 2018 at the Dancemakers Centre for Creation (Toronto, Canada)
(60 min)
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LINK TO SILVER VENUS REDUX the sonic re-imagining of this choreography for the 2020 OFFTA Festival
THIS DESIRING PONY (2016)
Choreography and Performance by Andrea Spaziani
Text by Andrea Spaziani
Music by The Heimalich Manoeuvre (Lena Birgisdóttir, Allen Ferguson, Camilla Munck, Andrea Spaziani), and Colin Stetson
Video by Allen Ferguson
Premiere: December 15-16, 2016 at Dancemakers Centre for Creation (Toronto, Canada)
(60 min)
“This is an incantation for courage, a quest to soften, and to keep going”
This Desiring Pony is performed by the alter ego SCHPANDO. She materialized as a voice that brings consciousness to the unconscious of A Spaziani. She speaks indirectly, through technology, and performatively, in an attempt to improvise new forms that attend to the present moment as it is being listened to. She’s a character in a constant state of surrender, wearing the affects around her for the split second of their intensity. She is constantly morphing and slipping out from under the constraint of language, turning its meaning into malleable material for its own annihilation. She is a representation of how to get out of a constraint by going deeper into its particularities.
PREVIEW by Fabien Maltais-Bayda:
REVIEW by Victoria McKenzie
REVIEW by Robert Kingsbury
LINK TO UNBECOMING EGO MFA THESIS PAPER
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Manifest DENSITY (2017)
Choreography and Performance by Andrea Spaziani
Work in progress at Movement Research at the Judson Church, New York City
April 17th, 2017
(15 min)
A study on emblematic ambition and power: I want to take on the gravitational force of nine pendulous medals that I found in the garbage so that I can absorb their confidence through physical resonance. I want to hear them clanging in my sleep, because I want to deserve them. Only one is silver and I change myself harder. Only when things work do they matter.
RAFTERS (2015)
Choreography by Andrea Spaziani, made in collaboration with Alicia Grant and Julia Male
Audio score by Andrea Spaziani, with Music by Helene Smith, Colin Stetson, and Alice Coltrane
Presented at Audio Guides Produced by Project Humanity
Premiere: March 5th, 2016 at The Citadel Theatre (Toronto, Canada)
(30 min)
Influence: the occult ethereal fluid of a precocious voiceover.
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