The Dynamics of an Expanding Friendship. Community Making in the Streets of Porto Marghera

Ariadne Mikou

doi:10.6092/issn.2036-1599/8758

Auteurs

Ariadne Mikou
Ariadne Mikou is an interdisciplinary artist-researcher, performer and emergent dance scholar interested in experimental practices across dance, architecture, visual arts and media.
Having presented her work internationally, she has also collaborated as performer a.o. with Abigail Yager, Bojana Cvejic and Christina De Smedt, Virgilio Sieni, Ismael Ivo, and Laura Boato. She has taught as a Visiting Lecturer in such institutions as the University of Roehampton (UK) and the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance (UK), and her articles have been published in peer-reviewed journals. In 2011, she co-founded the futuremellon/not yet art collective, and currently she is co-curator of [SET. me free] Dance & Movement on Screen. In the spring of 2018, she received her PhD in Interdisciplinary Choreographic Research from the University of Roehampton (UK), which was fully funded by a university scholarship.

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-1599/8758

Résumé

Margh’era. Un Secolo In Corsa (2017/18) is a choreographic project that managed to temporally transform a neglected industrial site into a place of community bonding. Devised by the Venetian female choreographer Laura Boato, it involved more than one hundred performers and an even larger audience number. As this urban performance remained confined to the area of Veneto in Northern Italy, this text attempts to explore what can be learned from this choreographic event in order to enhance our understanding of community (through) dance. How and why is a community is built? Paying attention to the “common” that binds together a community of diverse people (Day, 2006), augmented cultural citizenship (Stevenson, 2003), evolving feeling of locality (Appadurai, 1996) and shared “now-ness” are the basic concepts that this short paper discusses.