PHREN
PHREN 1. diaphragm 2. mind
daily space intimate oasis extra-daily / free access personal universe / internal external / shared exposed dislocated / hidden / introverted / exposed close distance constricted space / presented eye-camera come close / game diaphragm breath mind / to be / seen by far enclosed freedom / camera participates complex frequencies / phren / phren / the slow tempo beats of the mind heart
I do this alone / I do it at home / I do it often...
The action takes place in an enclosed space of small dimensions. The minimalist
ambience is reminding a hotel room or an angle of a living room. There is
a big sofa, a woman on the ground and a man in the corner. The man films
the woman from the close. The audience can peep in, four persons at the
time, through little openings made on the room’s walls. Or they can
watch what’s happening inside through the men’s camera at the
big screen placed outside the room. Her action with no beginning nor end
flows in a stream of words-movements-sounds-breaths, in a series of body-sound
waves, in a sequence of low and high frequencies, creating a contradictory
dynamic of exposition and introversion. Her doing is both the act of reveal
and the act of hiding. She discloses her intimacy in-directly, un-protected,
un-consciously. Concept / action Nhandan Chirco (Italy)
Texts / fragments by N. Chirco, W. Blake, A. Camus, G. Lorca
Camera and space Branko Popovic (Serbia /Italy)
video montage by Ideal Review - Mariano Marini e Rudy Mazzoni (Italy)
Produced by YANVII Cesena, with the support of Cesena City Council and Gambettola
City Council. With support of ECF - European Cultural Foundation –
program STEP Beyond
Thanks to LM Cineservice - Leonado Monti, Tomi Janezic
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Web site address: www.eurocult.org
Nhandan Chirco is an Italian performing artist born in 1972 in Milan. From 1994 to 1998 she has been a member of the team led by Thomas Richards at the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards in Pontedera (Italy), participating in different projects in Italy, French, Russia, Poland and Brazil. Since 1998 she is active as author and performer in Italy, France, England, Singapore, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Slovenia, directing dance-theater performances, conducting workshops and teaching. She collaborated with contemporary dance company En-knap from Ljubljana, with the Serbian director Branko Popovic, with the Slovenian director Tomi Janezic. In 2003 she collaborated to the creation and performed in Mezzanino, dance theater performance choreographed by Maja Delak, from En-knap Dance Company of Ljubljana and in Possible-Diagrams directed by Denes Debrei at Serbian National Theatre in Novi Sad. She directed and acted the performance "The un-casual time" presented at International festival INFANT in Novi Sad and Manover in Liepzig. In 2004 she directed and acted the performance Kanun at Serbian National Theater in Novi Sad, presented in Italy at Cantieri Teatrali di Koreja and Teatro Petrella. In 2005 she directed and performed in collaboration with Branko Popovic the performance "That's the show, free gratis and for nothing..." presented at Teatro E. Petrella – Longiano, at Polverigi International Dance Festival by Inteatro and at Il Laboratorio dell' imperfetto – Cesena (Italy). In 2005 she founded the cultural association YANVII in Cesena (Italy). She created and performed TWO – Variations on Identity, presented in Italy at the International Theater Festival Performa in Maribor (SLO) and International Festival Omissis - Italy. She collaborated in the production Nahod Simeon by SNP of Novi Sad, directed by Tomi Janezic. She led the course of Movement and Voice Work at the Art Academy of Novi Sad, Drama Department, in the post-graduate program Body Unlimited – University of Novi Sad (Serbia), from 2004 to 2007 she is docent of Body Work at Osijek Acting Academy – University of Osijek (Croatia). In 2007 she created the performance project "Play it again" in collaboration with Branko Popovic and with the contemporary music composer Milan Aleksic from Serbia and with Hotel Nuclear from Italy, presented in the program "Artists in residence" by O'artoteca - Milan. Recently she created the solo performance Phren presented as anteprima at Fabbrica in Cesena –Italy.
