FORWARD DANCE COMPANY will present SULLE SPONDE at the opening of the German Pavilion at the 18^th international architecture exhibition La Biennale di Venezia on May 19, 2023.

Choreographer Alessandro Schiattarella and the dancers of FORWARD DANCE COMPANY as well as its artistic project director Gustavo Fijalkow created in renewed collaboration SULLE SPONDE (2023) especially for the German Paviliona, a site-specific adaptation of SULLE SPONDE DEL LAGO – ON THE SHORES OF THE LAKE (2022). SULLE SPONDE DEL LAGO draws on the classical ballet Swan Lake and dismantles the established canon and subversively reassembles the piece in inclusive and diverse ways, while claiming its place in the long genealogy of stagings of this famous ballet.

SULLE SPONDE thereby seeks dialogue with its surroundings at the Giardini della Biennale and, in the spirit of the curators of the German Pavilion, opens up spaces of perception and care, repair and renewal, fragility and perfection: spaces in which our ideas of norms, narratives and nations can meet in new ways.

FORWARD DANCE COMPANY is thus part of the general concept of this year's German contribution to the prestigious architecture exhibition entitled Open for Maintenance – Wegen Umbau geöffnet, curated by ARCH+ / SUMMACUMFEMMER / BÜRO JULIANE GREB.

SULLE SPONDE will be performed as part of Performing Architecture, a program series from the Goethe-Institut that looks at the performative dimension of architecture, its intersections with choreography and the performing arts, urban development and civil society.

Dates

Fri, 19 May 2023, 13:15 (for press and selected audience)
Sat, 20 May 2023, 11:15 am + 2:30 pm (for all Biennale visitors)
Giardini della Biennale, German Pavilion | Venice

For further information visit: www.goethe.de/performingarchitecture
And here you can find a conversation with choreographer Alessandro Schiattarella on SULLE SPONDE: https://www.goethe.de/prj/par/de/prs/24738241.html

IMAGE Goethe-Institut