The dance festival’s opening weekend, under the theme We Humans, focused as much on gravity and technology as emotional connection
enice, a city of already preposterous beauty, comes further stuffed with art during its famous biennale, founded in 1895. The exhibition has grown to encompass multiple art forms, including the lesser known dance biennale, which started in 1999 and actually happens every year. The dance strand has upped its game under the directorship of British choreographer– now Sir Wayne, having been knighted in the King’s birthday honours.
It confuses the senses. A body crosses the stage with long strands of light streaming behind him, like a giant silver mane filling the space. Is that a real person, or a projection? It’s actually impossible to tell at first. We see a man duetting with a digital creation, totally absorbed and ignoring the other human on stage. The interplay between human and digital, and who is in control, is an undercurrent; the uneasy relationship between ourselves and the flashing zeros and ones.
The Golden Lion is the major honour of the festival, a lifetime achievement award, although this year’s goes to a choreographer most dancegoers in the UK won’t have heard of. Seventy-year-old Cristina Caprioli is Italian born, danced in the US and Europe and settled in Sweden in the 1980s where she runs the company CCAP.
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