<em>Human Signs</em>

Stefania Ballone; Andrea Carraro; Giulio Galimberti

doi:10.6092/issn.2036-1599/14136

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Stefania Ballone La Scala Theatre, Milan, Italy

Stefania Ballone graduated from La Scala’s Ballet School and has been a member of La Scala’s corps de ballet since 2000, where she participates in all of the theatre’s productions during the season, also performing solo roles. In 2011 she graduates in Modern Literature and in 2014 in Theatre and Performing Arts Sciences from the University of Milan, with a thesis on the Ballet at La Scala in the 1990s. In the same year, she takes part as a choreographer in the Gala des Étoiles at La Scala. In 2016 she receives the Europaindanza Prize for her interpretation of the role of the stepmother in Mauro Bigonzetti’s Cenerentola. In 2017 she created the choreography La Valse for the corps de ballet of Teatro alla Scala. Since 2020 she has been co-artistic director and dance curator of Human Signs.
Andrea Carraro University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy

Andrea Carraro is a young cultural operator with experience in the field of contemporary art, as an artist and as a curator, and in the digital business with roles in museum installation, data analysis and content development. His main occupation is the valorization and study of Italian and international cultural heritage, through a combination of fine arts, anthropology and new technologies. Among his projects: Leonardo’s exhibition at Palazzo Reale, Milan (2015); Giostra del Saracino, Arezzo (2018); 17SDGS rooms, seeds&cheap (2020); “I bambini ricordano la Shoah”, Union of Italian Jewish Communities (2020). Since July 2020, he combines his unusual training with the field of dance, thanks to a professional collaboration with Stefania Ballone.
Giulio Galimberti Independent researcher

Giulio Galimberti graduated in Philosophical Sciences with full marks from the University of Milan with a thesis on synaesthesia in contemporary art. His interests lie in phenomenological aesthetics, performing arts and visual culture. He wins the Exploit your Talent scholarship for the entire course thanks to his career as a professional dancer. He works with New English Ballet Theatre, Opéra de Bordeaux, Friedrichstadt Palast in Berlin and Israel Ballet in Tel Aviv. He dances in various operas at Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Teatro Regio in Turin and Arena di Verona. He holds meetings on piano accompaniment for dance at the Paolo Grassi Foundation in Martina Franca.

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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-1599/14136

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Human Signs is a global, digital participatory artwork conceived by Yuval Avital during the Covid-19 pandemic. It consists of dance and singing contributions by more than 200 artists from 50 different countries. In the article Andrea Carraro proposes an application of the anthropological method to Human Signs, investigating the peculiar example of Lengger dance. Stefania Ballone, dancer at Teatro alla Scala in Milan and choreographer, gives the testimony of her own work as dancer, curator and co-artistic director of Human Signs. Giulio Galimberti proposes to think of Avital’s work as a new opportunity to show the ambivalence of imprisonment: the artists involved show the possibility of exploiting the situation of immobility to create a performance charged with a strong inner dynamism, imaginative and emotional.

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