"In the gap, in the fissure between the infinite potentials that each of us holds at birth and what we ultimately embody: here we have become entangled."
Laura Boato
Winner of the 2012 edition of the Danz’è di Oriente Occidente competition, choreographer Laura Boato received support from the Festival for the co-production of the show On the Market. The project consists of three scenes—Incarnation, Beauty, Art—that observe the same phenomenon from three different perspectives, namely what happens when “the flood of the Market” enters our lives and impacts our very observation, filtering and thus modifying the appearance of everything, and of ourselves, in our own eyes.
Incarnation presents itself as a homage to being “in potential”: it expresses nostalgia for all those potential beings that, day after day, choice after choice, are laid aside, discarded, abandoned, or simply removed.
Beauty, on the other hand, investigates the idea of beauty that we have come to reference today: a pre/judgment resulting from a complex journey that traverses cultural, social, and economic dynamics, most often unconsciously, which at the same time influences and conditions our way of decoding the world, images, objects, people, and even our perception of ourselves. Finally, in Art, in a manner that is at times surreal and at times too closely aligned with the reality that many artists experience daily, the reasons for art confront those of the market; while everything happens, on stage, Ariadne Mikou dances, beautiful and unaware, reaffirming the deep value and wonder of dance, but also our guilty unconsciousness and negligence, until the final extreme...
Laura Boato, choreographer and performer, was born in Venice in 1975. After initial training under the attentive guidance of Manola Bettio, she specialized in contemporary dance through the study of various techniques including Release Technique, Klein Technique, Feldenkrais method, and Contact improvisation. She spent a period of study at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen and completed her training in New York with S. Klein, D. Dorfman, M. Haim, and K.J. Holmes. She served as an assistant to Malou Airaudo at the Isola Danza Academy directed by Carolyn Carlson.
As a performer, she has worked abroad for the Quatrième sous-sol company in Paris and the Sanja Strimbakou Dance Company in New York, and in Italy with some of the most well-known national companies, such as Ersiliadanza, Tocna Danza, and Lubbert Das. With the Indaco Association, she has produced performances in collaboration with the Venice Biennale, Ca' Foscari and IUAV Universities, the Embassy of Albania, the Jewish Community of Venice, Emergency, and the Opera Estate Festival Veneto.
In spring 2011, she was selected for the international project Choreographic Collision – Moving the City, produced by La Biennale di Venezia / Danzavenezia.
In 2012, she participated in the International Festival La Biennale Danza di Venezia – New Dance Research section.
She is the artistic director of the festival A Piede Libero - Mogliano Danza and co-founder and since 2011 President of REV - Rete Veneta Arti Performative, the coordination of dancers, choreographers, and independent companies in Veneto.
www.lauraboato.com
