The Project
2022 ratifies the collaboration between GDO – Gruppo Danza Oggi by Patrizia Salvatori and UDA – Urban Dance Academy by Ilenja Rossi. Collaboration that took off in South Korea in the happy partnership with the MUT DANCE COMPANY and the Italian Cultural Institute.
The artistic partnership between the directors of the two structures sees the birth of the GDO/UDA Company which, made up of the best talents coming out of the UDA training course, finds in the production circuit of the GDO, whose vision is the research and promotion of new talents and new performative languages, the right emphasis on work.
The choreographic work is therefore attributable to contemporary dance but brings with it the spirit, the poetics, the energy, the “truth” of the Urban world, which is expressed both through a theatrical dramaturgy of content, and through the use of musical suggestions aimed at creating that relationship of emotions and feelings which today more than ever is needed in society and therefore in the theatre.
AssenzaSquilibrioEquilibrio
Debut choreographic project of the collaboration between GDO – Gruppo Danza Oggi by Patrizia Salvatori and UDA – Urban Dance Academy by Ilenja Rossi, which took off in South Korea in the happy partnership with the MutDance Company and the Italian Cultural Institute.
It is the triptych born from the compositional inspiration of Ilenja Rossi and the Collective, in times of pandemic.
AssenzaSquilibrioEquilibrio, almost a story of many of us of a period, of a phase that changedperspectives and visions but in the same way gave the possibility to those who wanted to interpretthe handicap as a push for change and therefore for something positive on which precisely find the balance because in every situation you must always find a way to interpret the difficulty as the engine of a transformation.
A form of thought that is expressed through images, sounds, and bodily sensations, equal and contrasting with each other. Everything takes shape, allowing access to unconscious contents, to that fundamental imbalance that observes, deconstructs, grafts, chisels and reconstructs: it rebalances.
Rossini vs Bach
From the one-on-one challenges of the Urban world, an unusual duel with blows of notes, a “battle” that proposed by the dancers of the GDO / UDA.
Taking advantage of the irony and play that Rossini proposes and exalts and the architectural expertise of Bach’s musical heritage which is very contrary to opera, GDO/UDA stages its challenge: the one between the two great composers who drag the spectators between syncopated, rhythmic brilliance and complexity of harmonies.
Pre-Giudizio
The choreographic project is through the bodies on stage, crescendo of external impulses that feed and constitute the PRE-JUDGE that permeates everything, distorts everything, modifies everything. Like a Chinese drop, doubt creeps into the person, the environment feeds it and permeates it, giving life to the preconceived opinion capable of making unjust attitudes take place. Forced bodies, ropes that connect and enclose within visions veiled by prejudicial thought that tells what is not as if it were denying what is. But are we sure that in a newspaper that denies the presence of this ingrained attitude, there isn’t already a PRE-JUDGE?
AssenzaSquilibrioEquilibrio (trailer)
Rossini vs Bach (trailer)
llenja Rossi –
The passion for hip hop was born in ’96 through which she will have experiences as a dancer in Italian and European clubs and theaters.
Since 2002 she has held workshops and choreographic laboratories, from 2007 to 2019 she has taught IDA, since 2017 she has taught
for the Summer Musical School of the Sistina Theater and from 2020 Coordinator of the Department of
Urban Dances of ASI. Since 2015 creator and coordinator of the UDA Urban Dance Academy the first Professional Training Center for Urban Dances in Rome, which works on a targeted process of global training and education whose purpose is to provide young dancers with the tools for professional improvement , through an absolutely avant-garde program on the European and international scene.