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The Crossing
A Triple Bill of Female Choreographers
Performers
Lay Bare | Antonella Albanese and Cassandra Bianco (ESENCO Dance Movement)
Our Mother Is Our Daughter | Jyoti Soni
E/U-topia | Antonella Albanese and Cassandra Bianco (ESENCO Dance Movement)
ESENCO Dance Movement, in collaboration with Jyoti Soni, presents a triple bill featuring three short contemporary dance works by young choreographers Cassandra Bianco, Antonella Albanese, and Jyoti Soni. Each choreographer brings their distinct dance poetics, exploring different paths of choreographic research, finding connections and points of intersection, merging perspectives, and creating visions without limits or definitions. An Italian duo and an Indian artist showcase three unique creations, recognised with significant international professional awards and acknowledgments, debuting together for the first time for an Indian audience in a singular evening.
Lay Bare
Concept: ESENCO Dance Movement
Creators and Dancers: Antonella Albanese e Cassandra Bianco
Music: Davide Nardelli
Costume Design: Be Nina
Light Design: Danilo Milillo
Executive Production: ResExtensa, Porta d’Oriente – National Dance Production Center with the support of MIC, the Puglia Region, and AREA Mediterranea, the first dance residency in Puglia – AnT Artists in Territories.
With the support of Mittelfest2023
Our Mother Is Our Daughter
Concept, Author and Dancer: Jyoti Soni
“The piece explores my journey growing up as a daughter. The relationship that I developed with my body growing up in a conservative Indian society. How education and exposure to different environments in modern society affected that belief.”
E/U-topia
Concept: ESENCO Dance Movement
Authors and Dancers: Antonella Albanese and Cassandra Bianco
Composer: Nicola Campanella
Dramaturg: Francesco Tirelli
Executive Production: ResExtensa – Porta D’Oriente – Centro Nazionale di Produzione per la Danza
With the support of Tanz Gervasi Company, Sala Nera – Tempio del Futuro Perduto, CineTeatro San Filippo Neri e Caleidoscopio, The Loom Movement Factory
Finalist for the Residanza – La casa della nuova coreografia 2023 grant, promoted as part of the “New Dance Box – scouting, promotion and more 2022/2024” project, with the support of the Ministry of Culture – Campania Region, in collaboration with the Teatro di Napoli – Teatro Nazionale.
In collaboration with:
Esenco Dance Movement: Founded in 2021 by the artistic collaboration of the duo Albanese and Bianco, who together lead, create, and dance for this choreographic project, the project is a place for their experiences to find an idyllic synthesis in a physical and poetic language.
The choreographic work co-created by Esenco Dance Movement is presented at national and international festivals in Italy, Spain, Bulgaria, and Turkey. The young authors are participating in the 2023 edition of Nuove Traiettorie – Azione Network Anticorpi XL.
The latest choreographic work by Albanese and Bianco received commendation as a project presented at the “Borderline Arte Festival Residenze” and is a finalist in the Residanza – La casa della nuova coreografia 2023 call. This is promoted as part of the “New Dance Box – scouting, promotion, and more 2022/2024” project, supported by the Ministry of Culture – Campania Region, in collaboration with the Teatro di Napoli – Teatro Nazionale.
Presented by:
Performers
Cassandra Bianco
Cassandra Bianco had her artistic training in Europe and New York (Peridance, Capezio Dance Center, Broadway Dance Center, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater) and participated in the Dance Journey Study Abroad program in 2018 at Kibbutz Ga’Aton. She danced for the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company of Rami Be’er in their creations “Mother’s Milk” and “Asylum.” Cassandra has worked as a professional dancer for events such as Andrea Bocelli’s concert in 2016, the Festival della Valle d’Itria, and Cirque du Soleil. She has also danced for companies including AlphaZTL under Vito Alfarano, Fabula Saltica under Claudio Ronda, ResExtensa Dance Company under Elisa Barucchieri, Erika Silgoner, and Emio Greco. She was part of the cast for the UNESCO Opening Ceremony in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, under the direction of the OLC Company.
Antonella Albanese
Freelance dancer and Co-Founder of the artistic duo ESENCO Dance Movement, Antonella Albanese dances for Metamorphosis Dance by Iratxe Ansa and Igor Bacovich,, Ez3 Company by Ezio Schiavulli, Equilibrio Dinamico by Roberta Ferrara. She was selected for Pioneer Project Artistic Dir. of Jiri Pokorny at the Korzo Theater with choreographies by Tine Erica Aspaas, Fernando Hernando Magadan and Tanznetz Freiburg Artistic Development Program in Freiburg Artistic Dir. of Romain Guion and Monica Gillet, concluding the journey with the performance “INTIMATE ENCOUNTER” by Emi Miyoshi. She performs in works by Jiri Pokorny, Iratxe Ansa, Igor Bacovich, Marco Blazquez, Matthias Kass, Clement Bugnon, Igor Kirov, Bert Uyttenhove, Maria Chiara De’Nobili, Ezgi Gungor, Rebecca Jensen, Sara Angius. Dance choreographic works presented at national and international festivals and theaters.
Jyoti Soni
Jyoti Soni is based out of Delhi. She is a dancer, choreographer and yoga teacher. She specialized in contemporary dance form. She has done her training in and under various school and teachers India and Abroad. She has trained in Kibbutz contemporary dance company, Israel. Currently she is teaching yoga classes and choreographing for colleges and projects.
