CARMEN | Nous sommes toutes des etoiles
a project by Anna Basti
with the critical collaboration of Ariadne Mikou
Chiasma Association
realized with the support of Lavanderia a Vapore as part of the program “Residenze Trampolino”
Artists involved for Lavanderia a Vapore: Viola Scaglione/Balletto Teatro di Torino; Elena Rolla/Compagnia EgriBiancoDanza; Amina Amici/Compagnia Zerogrammi
Participating schools: Ad’a Dance Studio, Apid Piemonte, asd Sport 8, Artemovimento – center for choreographic research, Fondazione Egri per la Danza (Alta Formazione Egri Danza), Il Gabbiano Danza, Mamadanse, Scuola del Balletto Teatro di Torino, Tilde Danza
The project Carmen_Nous sommes toutes des étoiles is developed through dialogue between various stakeholders in the area, dance schools, artists Viola Scaglione, Elena Rolla, Amina Amici and choreographer Anna Basti as an activation point to reflect on the content that great ballets and classical works have and continue to convey. The goal is to imagine a rewriting of the work with non-professional groups or specific communities, questioning the hierarchy of bodies that classical ballet expresses and the relational dynamics that its plot brings into play. By reinterpreting not only the ballet but the figure of Carmen herself as an embodiment of the revolutionary power of the feminine, the project activates a process of rediscovering the potential of the body and dance with respect also to current issues that surround us.
From 2019 to the present, Anna Basti‘s research is increasingly oriented toward the involvement of non-professionals and the construction of experiential and participatory containers, in the conviction that knowledge about the body has a revolutionary and transformative power if it is shared with as many subjectivities as possible. With this in mind, it straddles different artistic languages, taking research on the body as a basis for being able to build bridges between various disciplines.
