As part of the invitation of Jacopo Jenna to STHLM DANS for the presentation of Manifestus, we are happy to present two of his dance films, which will be screened at the Italian Cultural Institute.
Danse Macabre! (2024)
Short film created using some video materials from Danse Macabre! stage work expanded in a purely visual dynamic, very rhythmic and “stroboscopic” to induce a game of altered state, beyond dance, beyond the screen. Dance of death is a late-medieval tradition that combines visual art, architecture, poetry, and other media. It is one of the most widespread iconographic themes in the history of western art, extremely connected to the spread of the Black Plague, an epidemic which at the end of the Middle Ages wiped out millions of victims throughout Europe, but which also brought out a more complex thought about reality, which saw man tried to investigate deeply his relationship with the earthly world. It refers to the general idea that the movements of the stars, the gods, the spirits and nature are also a dance. Danse Macabre! is an invitation to dance to this unknown beyond, looking for an experience of perceptive displacement of the spectator, probing the dark matter of the imagination. Dance manifests itself in changing forms, attempting to free from the violence of representation, oscillating between different poles, making the invisible visible in a hyper-conscious tension between life and death.
Winning Project of the prize CollaborAction #6
Dance and collaboration: Ramona Caia, Andrea Dionisi, Francesco Ferrari, Sara Sguotti
Sound: Alberto Ricca – Bienoise
Artistic collaboration: Roberto Fassone
Direction and video editing: Jacopo Jenna
Lights: Mattia Bagnoli
Camera: Matteo Maffesanti
Costumes: Eva di Franco
Organization: Luisa Zuffo
Management: Valeria Cosi – TINA Agency
Production: Klm – Kinkaleri
Co-production: Tanzhaus nrw Düsseldorf
Video 12′:11”, shooted in Centrale Fies.
Project realized with the contribution of: Étape Danse project supported by Mosaico Danza/ Festival Interplay with Fondazione Piemonte dal Vivo and Festival Torino Danza, DanzaBureau du Théâtre et de la Danse à Berlin, Fabrik Potsdam, La Maison centre de développement chorégraphique national Uzès Gard Occitanie, Théâtre de Nîmes, EFFEA – European Festivals Fund for Emerging Artists, co-founded by the European Union, Italian Institute of culture of Cologne, MiC-General direction of performing arts.
Quadri (2016)
Limiting movement in space
testing the measure of things
testing the measure of gravity.
Standing on the edge,
feeling the dizziness of balance.
Moving around a window ladder.
Choreography: Marina Giovannini
With: Pablo Carta & Marina Giovannini
Direction, camera & editing: Jacopo Jenna
Production: CAB008
Video 9′ 19”
Developed as part of the choreographic research for the work Tre quadri by Marina Giovannini.
Presentation supported by the Italian Cultural Institute in Stockholm
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Jacopo Jenna is a choreographer and director creating stage works, video pieces and installations. His work explores choreography as an extended practice, through research that involves dance and video, studying new possibilities for embodying movement, passing through various languages and generating multiple performative contexts. Often audiovisual arts and movement are in dialogue, creating a performative act. As a graduate of Sociology at the University of Urbino Italy, he also studied dance in Codarts (Rotterdam Dance Academy). He creates training and educational programmes for various age groups experimenting with new ways of relating to performance art.
His work participated in festivals and venues including: Centrale Fies (Dro), Palazzo Strozzi (Florence), Pecci Center for Contemporary Art (Prato), Fabbrica Europa (Florence), Short Theatre (Rome), CNBD (Bucharest), Dansem (Marseille), Bipod Festival (Beirut), YPAM (Yokohama), Palazzo Grassi Punta della Dogana (Venice), Chantiers d’Europe – Théâtre de la Ville (Paris), Do Disturb – Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Mudam Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg, MAXXI (Roma), B-Motion festival (Bassano del Grappa), MilanOltre Festival (Milan), Tanec Praha festival, Belgrade Dance Festival, Tanzhaus nrw (Düsseldorf), Aerowaves Twenty22, NID – Italian Dance Platform (2022|2024).
