Dance
Vinterresa
Resource
Vinterresa (Winter Journey) is a new dance solo about the power of memories and our past by choreographer Carl Knif for Swedish dancer Madeleine Månsson
Giuseppe Comuniello
Artist
Giuseppe Comuniello is a visually impaired dancer and choreographer from Italy supported by Oriente Occidente Dance Festival. In 2019, he was one of the selected artists to take part in the third Europe Beyond Access laboratory held in Maastricht. His work, spanning both stage and screen, demonstrates a broad range of interests including differences in perspectives, the haptic realm and touch, group dynamics, and streams of consciousness. Giuseppe is also part of the disabled artists group, Al. Di. Qua, alongside Chiara Bersani, Diana Anselmo, Dalila D’Amico, Aristide Rontini, Valentina Alessandria, Claudio Gaetani, and Giacomo Curti. In his portfolio, he has worked with Camilla Guarino, Virgilio Sieni Company, Alessandro Schiattarella and BewegGrund Company, Civil Ballet Company, musician Francesca Gaza, among many others. He has taught workshops with: Stopgap Dance Company, Camilla Guarino at the Teatro Comunale of Ferrara for the Festival La società a teatro, Mariateresa Diomedes for Disability on stage at the Orme festival in Lugano, and Silvia Berti at the Istituto Cavazza in Bologna. This film is part of a series of artist profiles produced by the transnational network, Europe Beyond Access.
Sophia Neises
Artist
Sophia Neises is a choreographer, dramaturg, performer and theatre educator from Germany. In 2019, as a visually impaired artist she began an intense exploration around audio description as an art form, as well as ‘non-visual dance’ and its influence on the relationship between performer and audience. She has also collaborated with Jess Curtis/Gravity in Berlin and San Francisco for the performance (In)Visible exploring dance for non-sighted audiences, and with Zwoisy Mears-Clarke.
Aristide Rontini
Artist
Aristide Rontini is a choreographer, performer and community dance artist.
He graduated at Codarts – Rotterdam Dance Academy.
His works have been presented in festivals and theatres in Italy and abroad, such as Oriente Occidente, ERT – Emilia Romagna Teatro, Holland Dance Festival among others.
He has been committed works by dance companies Introdans and Skånes Dansteater.
He is Aerowaves Twenty25 artist with his solo Lampyris Noctiluca.
He is an associated artist at the italian dance company Nexus Factory.
Rontini is a disabled art professional. Over the years, he has been involved in projects and conversations around access and disability culture in the performing sector.
As Community dance artist, he has been meeting non-professional communities in workshops and performance activities for more than a decade.
As a freelance dancer, he performed in works by Micheal Schumacher, Georgh Reischl, Simona Bertozzi, Candoco Dance Company, Alessandro Schiattarella, Michela Lucenti, Angelica Liddell, Carl Olof Berg, Vahan Badalyan e Diego Tortelli.
Laila White
Artist
Laila White is the woman of two lives. The pair woman: The woman with two names, two mothers, two crutches, and a twin sister. She was born in the inhospitable desert of the refugee camps of Tindouf, where, at seven months of age, she contracted poliomyelitis. At the age of eight, she was fostered by a Swedish-Catalan family in Girona (Spain). She began to dance, letting herself go naturally in the dark. Her room became the refuge where she would find peace and eliminate the pain she suffered at school due to bullying. After some time dancing without light, a person came into her life which allowed her to start dancing from the light. She began to explore further, looking for the creative and artistic plasticity offered by other tools such as photography, painting, sculpture, and video composition. These helped her to find another form of parallel expression.
Tatiana Cholewa
Artist
Tatiana Cholewa is a dancer and choreographer from Poland. She has taken part in many projects organised and supported by Europe Beyond Access, including an international artistic laboratory in Maastricht with Holland Dance Festival, laboratories with Marc Brew in Bytom and with the Institute of Music and Dance at the Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle.
