GRNDR_date no one

Year 2020

Location Firenze

Info

Ideation and execution: Andrea Zardi/ZA | DanceWorks

Sound: Federico Dal Pozzo

Graphics: BAM Andrea Maurizio Berardi

Costume Designer: Mara Pieri, Umberto Trabaldo

Production: ArtGarage – Napoli, Cinqueminuti – Reggio Emilia

Residences: Teatro Gioia – Piacenza, CasaLUFT/Zerogrammi – Torino, Parc Performing Arts Research Centre – Firenze

Première: Fabbrica Europa 2020 – Firenze

Studio: Eastman Summer Intensive 2017 – Anversa
Festival Miniatures 2017 – Perugia
Principi Attivi 2017 – Milano

A figure — a speedmodel — drifts from one profile to another, from body to body, erasing the space between yet, in rare flashes of lucidity, still searching for a way out. GRNDR_Date no one probes the world of dating apps for fleeting encounters and their impact on how we behold the other — their body, their presence — as these gazes become entangled with new, shifting dynamics of human and social connection.

The piece unfolds through poses and metamorphoses: the body reshapes itself, offering up its most desirable fragment. Loneliness, sexual impulse, and alienation drive an individual to retreat into this fenced-in realm of relations, where the very first measure of intimacy is the distance to the next profile.
What stands out is the seductive detail of a body — slipping from profile to profile, among fragments of flesh, scattered pieces of desire.