Plateau of Humankind / dance

Carolyn Carlson

Dance is a form of art, an expression that becomes concrete in space, time and energy. The idea, the poetry, the emotion and revelation of dance emerge in the gaze of the beholder.

Dance and the visual arts have a common point of view; they raise the imagination of mankind – that "pure vision", free of words, which is the explanation of both.

The Dance Section of the Biennale will express this shared dimension through two projects: a new creation at the Teatro alle Tese by Carolyn Carlson (with music by Giovanni Sollima), and a project by the French Fabrice Lambert, which will involve the collaboration of a video artist.

As guests of the earth, we must share and encourage the awareness of just how fragile our planet is, and how destructive the hands of mankind can be.

Plateau of Humankind / music

Bruno Canino

The tendency is to have the performer listened to, placing the musician, the artificer of sound and music, at the centre of attention. With a series of concerts focusing on atypical instruments, we aim to explore the relation between music and the visual arts by proposing a shift in attention: away from the performer to the instrument. We will present instruments that are not part of the normal classical western repertoire, either in form or in sound. These are also "visual " instruments, produced by or derived from far and distant cultures. Their presence miraculously shifts the focus of the music from the musician toward the object (the machine, the invention) that is producing those sounds.

Plateau of Humankind / theatre

Giorgio Barberio Corsetti

The Plateau of Humankind associates two words that have immediate theatrical associations. It suggests the whole of humanity, caught for a single instant, so that their words and actions become an object of aesthetic appreciation that reveals tensions, emotions, conflicts, struggles and quietude.