Manuela Rastaldi

Manuela Rastaldi, italian, graduated in Zürich, started her personal research in 1998 creating a solo Ennesima.
Manuela Rastaldi created the trio performance TRA in July 2000 and then Stanze# , a series of site specific performances. In July 2001 she presented the performance/installation Studies for Loom at Szene Salzburg. In 2002 she created Loom . In 2004 she created Layers and Soffici Immagini (video installation). In May/September 2006, Manuela Rastaldi worked as a repetitor with the dance company FTS ( Folkwang Tanz Studio) from Essen, Germany on the performance 13 reasons , choreographed by M.A.De Mey.
In October 2006, she signed the choreography Le vie di Gibellina , a site specific work specially created in the frame of the video installation 'From Inside'of Thierry De Mey (premiered at Bozar - Brussels, April 2007).
Specchi, two variations on « the woman cut into pieces» has been created in November 2007 during the festival Mettre en Scène in the Théâtre National de Bretagne in Rennes (F).

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Projects

Specchi

2007

The argument of Specchi , two variations on "the woman cut into pieces" - located between dance and visual art - is the deconstruction of the female form. Here it would involve dismantling the mechanism of illusion, extrapolating it by bringing it into view and exposing on stage with mirrors that cut off, dislocate, derealize; boxes that contain,...

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Soffici Immagini

2004

Soffici Immagini is a video installation in diptych. More than twenty women appear consecutively, every one of them revealing another woman in the mirror she's holding. Women of all ages, all forms. All unique, but all women. The difference in the similar.

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Loom

2002

LOOM is a choreography for four female performers.And/ or a video installation. LOOM questions the appearing/disappearing of the body and introduces a gradual revealing of the body; it's a move from a barely visible shadow that is occupying the whole performance stage thanks to motion. Duration of the performance: 30 minutesAnd/ or a presentation...

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