elena catalano

My philosophy

1st: I do not belong

2nd: I approach dance culturally

3rd: I dance somatically

4th: I explore space and time, dancing

5th: I care details, a gaze, a gesture, the breath...

6th: I embody

7th: I translate

8th:I paint

9th: I play music

10th:...with my body...

0th Still...I don't belong

Travelling in the labyrinth of my body…all over the world I crossed my borders. I broke my  beliefs, in the foolish attempt to know the Othe and hence myself. Thirsty of exploring diversity somatically, on my skin, in my muscles, through the rhythm of language and time...

My work: blending movement materials coming from different dance traditions (African traditional dance, Middle-Eastern dance, Odissi Indian Classical Dance and Contemporary) I explore issues of identity, metamorphosis, location and dis-location, bodily experience and cultural meaning. My dance is site-specific, conceptual, expressive and culturally sensitive.