Evening of Film and Discussion with Alessandro Sciarroni and Michael Wyatt (COLT)

Born in 1976 in Italy, Alessandro Sciarroni has developed a career in the performing arts, after an early interest in the visual arts and theater. He has presented his works at contemporary dance and theater festivals, in museums and art galleries, as well as in non-conventional spaces, involving professionals from other creative fields.

Sciarroni takes inspiration from the specific practices of dance, circus, and sport. But in addition to the rigor, coherence, and clarity of each of his projects, his work strives to uncover—through repeated practice pushed to the limits of performers' physical endurance—the obsessions, fears and fragility of the performative act, in search of an alternate temporal dimension and an empathetic relationship between audience and performer. His body of work has travelled the world, including the Biennale de la danse de Lyon, the Kunstenfestival in Brussels, the Impulstanz festival in Vienna, the Venice Bienniale Danza, the Festival d'Automne and the Séquence Danse festival at CentQuatre-Paris in Paris, the Abu Dhabi Art Fair, the Crossing the Line festival in New York, the Hong Kong Art Festival, the Juli Dans Festival in Amsterdam, the TBA Festival in Portland and the Panorama festival in Rio de Janeiro. He has also shown works at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and MAXXI in Rome. In 2019, he was awarded  the Venice Biennale Danza 'Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement'. He is an associate artist at CentQuatre-Paris and at the Triennale Milano Teatro.

Alessandro Sciarroni is currently a Montgomery Fellow and HOP Artist-in-Residence at Dartmouth College for a two-week residency, April 13-27, participating in the Leslie Center for the Humanities Institute, The Craft of Translation: a Poetics of Practice and presenting his Save the Last Dance for Me at the Hopkins Center for the Arts.

Clips from successive versions of Folk-S (2012-2021) and a film directed by Cosimo Terluzzi about the creation of Aurora (2015)

Tuesday, April 21

7:00pm-9:00 pm

Moore B03

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Information about Sciarroni's other public events and the Humanities Institute can be found below:

Friday, April 24, 2:00pm-3:30pm and 5:00pm-6:30 pm / Saturday, April 25, 2:00pm-3:30pm

Save the Last Dance for Me

Saturday, April 25, 10:30 am-12:00 pm

Dance Workshop, Saving the 'Polka Chinata'

More information about The Craft of Translation: a Poetics of Practice