ALMAVENUS
The company AlmaVenus was created in 2018 by Nina Negri, director and choreographer.
By challenging cinematographic montage-thinking on stage, AlmaVenus composes objects crossed by a multiplicity of voices, subverting the point of view of the materials from which they draw inspiration. In this way, the company imagines evolving dispositifs that approach the relationship with spectators in a sensory and musical mode, and question the way in which dominant imaginaries impact minoritized bodies.
In collaboration with the other artists in the company, she has developed a specific methodology - the montage of Images-Plateaux (stage-images) - for horizontally combining different media and scenic languages within the creative process. While having the same valence, the Images-Plateaux are both a physical thing and a sensitive phenomenon, and are as much about form and force, plan and trace, as about the experience of the gaze and dialectical thought. The dramaturgy follows procedures derived from cinematic grammar - such as jump-cut, found footage, echo editing, de-synchronization between field and off-field - orchestrated by notions of rhythm, address, plasticity and meaning.
AlmaVenus AlmaVenus has presented its creations at the following venues: Comédie de Genève (Geneva - CH), Galerie d'art Rivellino (Locarno - CH), Villa Mais d'Ici (Aubervilliers - FR), La Manufacture (Lausanne - CH), Centre National de Danse (Pantin - FR), Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (Paris - FR), Sale Docks (Venice - IT), Musée des Arts et Métiers (Paris - FR), Festival Assemblaggi Provvisori (Lucca - IT), Théâtre Vidy (Lausanne - CH), Arsenic (Lausanne - CH), Théâtre Populaire Romand (La Chaux-de-Fonds - CH), Théâtre Les Halles (Sierre - CH), Théâtre de la cité internationale, Festival Transforme (Paris - FR), Festival Les Créatives (Geneva - CH), La Grange, Centre / Arts et Sciences / UNIL (Lausanne - CH), La Bâtie Festival (Geneva - CH), Scènes du Grütli (Geneva - CH), primary schools in Switzerland.
By challenging cinematographic montage-thinking on stage, AlmaVenus composes objects crossed by a multiplicity of voices, subverting the point of view of the materials from which they draw inspiration. In this way, the company imagines evolving dispositifs that approach the relationship with spectators in a sensory and musical mode, and question the way in which dominant imaginaries impact minoritized bodies.
In collaboration with the other artists in the company, she has developed a specific methodology - the montage of Images-Plateaux (stage-images) - for horizontally combining different media and scenic languages within the creative process. While having the same valence, the Images-Plateaux are both a physical thing and a sensitive phenomenon, and are as much about form and force, plan and trace, as about the experience of the gaze and dialectical thought. The dramaturgy follows procedures derived from cinematic grammar - such as jump-cut, found footage, echo editing, de-synchronization between field and off-field - orchestrated by notions of rhythm, address, plasticity and meaning.
AlmaVenus AlmaVenus has presented its creations at the following venues: Comédie de Genève (Geneva - CH), Galerie d'art Rivellino (Locarno - CH), Villa Mais d'Ici (Aubervilliers - FR), La Manufacture (Lausanne - CH), Centre National de Danse (Pantin - FR), Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (Paris - FR), Sale Docks (Venice - IT), Musée des Arts et Métiers (Paris - FR), Festival Assemblaggi Provvisori (Lucca - IT), Théâtre Vidy (Lausanne - CH), Arsenic (Lausanne - CH), Théâtre Populaire Romand (La Chaux-de-Fonds - CH), Théâtre Les Halles (Sierre - CH), Théâtre de la cité internationale, Festival Transforme (Paris - FR), Festival Les Créatives (Geneva - CH), La Grange, Centre / Arts et Sciences / UNIL (Lausanne - CH), La Bâtie Festival (Geneva - CH), Scènes du Grütli (Geneva - CH), primary schools in Switzerland.