Segni propri

Diana Anselmo

30/01/2025, 06.00 PM — 08.00 PM

Workshop

The workshop aims to dismantle, with all the necessary and pestiferous care, the myth of the able and indestructible body.
Starting with a theoretical introduction by artist and performer Deaf Diana Anselmo, Segni propri delves into themes such as normality and deviance, discredit and social order, drawing from sociology and microsociology. This is followed by a practical session led by dancer and choreographer Giuseppe Comuniello, exploring the possibility of a co-presence that surpasses and empties the false dichotomies of ability/disability.

Both facilitators are members of Al.Di.Qua. Artists, the first European association of and for disabled artists.

The workshop is free with the presence of an Italian sign Language interpreter. To participate, please register by writing to [email protected]

 

BIO

 

Diana Anselmo is a Deaf visual artist and performer, activist, and improvised human being. Bilingual in LIS (Italian Sign Language) and Italian, she made her debut with her first performance Autoritratto in tre atti (2021), which is still being presented at various festivals in Italy and internationally (Serbia, Switzerland, Portugal, Germany, Cyprus). Abroad, she made her debut in Berlin, performing in Le Sacre du Printemps (2022) by Xavier Le Roy. Recently, she exhibited her first solo show Je Vous Aime at the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation (2024), and is now represented by Galleria Eugenia Delfini.
She is one of the founders of Al.Di.Qua. Artists, the first European association for artists with disabilities, where she has participated in various European festivals (Switzerland, Sweden, Netherlands, Latvia). She is the youngest member of the Cultural Advisory Board of the British Council.
 


Giuseppe Comuniello began his dance career in 2009 with choreographer Virgilio Sieni, with whom he still collaborates today. He has also worked for national and international choreographers such as Alessandro Schiattarella, Emanuel Gat, Emanuel Rosenberg and Michela Lucenti/Ballettto Civile with Bed Lambs, a show that won the Danza&danza award for best Italian production. At the same time he began a journey on the transmission of movement through contact improvisation, holding workshops on movement open to all in collaboration with the association Muvet of Bologna, the company Teatro Danzabile of Lugano, the Uffizi Gallery and the Sert of Florence for the recovery of drug addiction. Since 2016 collaborates with the Oriente Occidente Festival for the international network on accessible dance. His latest works are Danza Cieca, created and performed together with Virgilio Sieni for Matera European Capital of Culture 2019 and Lonely Planet, the first study of a research work with Camilla Guarino on perception debuted with the support of the Teatro Comunale di Ferrara within the review La società a teatro. This last project in 2020 was developed in Let me be produced by Versiliadanza.