progetto TO|GET|HER la storia di come diventai un partigiano

sabato 20 Amelia, h 22.00 Spazio Agorà, via farrattini 81


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E’ un progetto basato su come ci identifichiamo, come sviluppiamo un senso di comunità e appartenenza, quali sono i luoghi in cui l’arte esiste e può esistere. Tutto cio’ sfidando i confini canonici del mondo della danza. Sono nata e cresciuta in Italia, nello specifico a Perugia, a 18 anni mi sono trasferita a Seattle (USA), dopo aver conseguito una laurea Universitaria, sono rimasta. Sono dieci anni che vivo negli Stati Uniti, in molti mi chiedono se penso mai di tornare a vivere in Italia. Io preferisco non pensarci. In questo periodo storico italiano, io non potrei mai avere lo stile di vita da libera professionista che ho a Seattle, e che mi permette di creare e di crescere come artista. Ma l’Italia resta un’inspirazione forte, che continua a infiltrarsi nei miei lavori. Nello specifico in questo progetto sono i Garibaldini e i Partigiani italiani, a irrompere nelle mie visioni. Che sia una coincidenza, trovarsi a studiare un periodo storico italiano, di rivoluzione popolare e patriottismo in un momento in cui entrambi sono sentimenti quasi completamente annichiliti dal pensiero comune. In cosa si identifica l’italiano medio? In cosa si identificano i milioni di italiani all’estero? Cosa ci rimane dell’Italia?
La residenza VERDECOPRENTE mi darebbe l’opportunità di studiare in prima persona il movimento garibaldino italiano e quello partigiano. Due movimenti popolari che lottarono per l’Italia. Possibilmente conoscere alcuni partigiani, condurre delle interviste sul territorio umbro, per poi utilizzare i materiali raccolti e creare una performance. La ricerca e cio’ che verra’ creato in questa residenza verra’ poi presentato nella versione finale di questo progetto a Seattle nella primavera del 2015. E’ poi in organizzazione una tournée negli Stati Uniti ed in Italia nel 2015-2016.
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Alice Gosti is a space transformer. Born and raised in Perugia, Italy. She currently lives in Seattle.
Daughter of the dynamic art duo Sandford&Gosti, she trained in her hometown at Associazione Culturale Dance Gallery with Rita Petrone and Valentina Romito. Alice graduated in 2008 with a B.A. in Dance from the University of Washington. In college she developed an interest in experimental film and installation. She is an emerging dancer/choreographer/performer/filmmaker. Alice has performed in works by Paige Barnes, Keith Hennessy, Carolyn Carlson, PB_TMOG, Bruno Collinet, Jane Comfort, Laara Garcia, Mark Haim, Tonya Lockyer, Monica Mata Gilliam, Tiffany Mills, Amy O’Neal, Fritha Pingelly, Cherdonna and Lou Show, Jennifer Salk and Ellie Sandstrom. She has received – the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Dance 2012 and Dance Web Scholarship 2012 for ImPuls Tanz in Vienna. Alice’s videos have been shown in group shows in Seattle, Perugia, Cascia, Spoleto (Italy) and Tokyo (Japan). And her choreography has been shown in Italy, Germany and in the United States. Since 2009, she has been curating a quarterly series of restaurant cabaret/performances at the Pink Door (Seattle).

sito web: Alice Gosti

Alice Gosti project TO|GET|HER – the story of how to become a partisan

This is a project based on how we identify, on how we develop a sense of community, on a search for the places where art exists and can exist. All this originates from distrust in the canonical confines of the world of dance. I was born and raised in Italy, in Perugia to be more precise. At the age of 18 I moved to Seattle (USA). Having obtained my university degree I stayed. I have been living in the US for 10 years now but people often ask me if I would ever think of coming back to Italy. I prefer not to think about it. At present I could never lead the kind of life as a freelance professional as I do in Seattle which allows me to create and to grow as an artist. Nevertheless, Italy gives me strong inspiration which continues to infiltrate my work. In this specific work it is the Garibaldians and the Italian partisans who invade my visions. It may be a coincidence finding oneself studying a historic Italian period of public revolution and patriotism at a time in which both are feelings that have been almost completely annihilated in public thought. What is it that the average Italian identifies himself with? What do the millions of Italians abroad identify themselves with? What does Italy still mean to us? The VERDECOPRENTE residence would give me the opportunity to personally study the Italian Garibaldian and partisan movement onsite. Two popular movements that struggle for Italy. Perhaps I could get to know some partisans, do some interviews in the Umbrian region and then use the collected material for a performance. The results of my research and whatever is created during this residency shall then be presented in the final version of this project in Seattle in Spring 2015, and subsequently in the US and in Italy during 2015-2016.