Francesca Chiodi Latini
wpZimmer resident in 2019
Born in Torino, Italy in 1993, Francesca is a performer and choreographer based in Leuven, Belgium. She has been working for Voetvolk/Lisbeth Gruwez since 2017: currently as a rehearsal director and assistant for Into
the Open (premiere February 2022) and she’s previously performing in The Sea Within, which premiered in 2018.
Since 2019 Francesca is a Trajectory Artist at wpZimmer in Antwerp.
JARDIN POILU, her first purely choreographic creation has premiered in September 2020 in C-Mine, Genk and was performed during Love At First Sight in Antwerp. The concept of the piece was pitched during the Roel
Verniers Price in 2017 in the context of het TheaterFestival in Brussels.
After pursuing her studies in contemporary dance in Torino and in Paris, she moved to Belgium where she attended the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp, graduating in 2017.
Her education has always intertwined with creative working projects as well as personal choreographic creations: in Paris she performed for Corinne Lanselle in the choreographic concert Room 83 (2013). She composed in 2014 her first solo PRIMARI, presented in different festivals in Europe: SOLOCOREOGRAFICO, Turin (IT), IX FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE SOLOS DE DANçA CONTEMPORANEA, Lisbon (P), DANCE FESTIVAL INGOLSTADT 2014, Ingolstadt, (D). She then joined Batucada, from Marcelo Evelin, performed in the Kunstenfestivaldesarts 2014. In 2015 she joined the project Atlante del Gesto from Virgilio Sieni Company, performed in the Prada Foundation in Milano (IT). In 2016 she composed her second solo AMARYLLIS, finalist of the BCDC Brussels Contemporary Dance Competition.
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JARDIN POILU
JARDIN POILU “The poetic is the familiar dissolving into the strange, and ourselves with it.”
From Inner experience by George Bataille
JARDIN POILU is a white garden of memories.
Inspired by the barren arctic tundra, JARDIN POILU evokes a landscape of treeless nature: a desolate part of a world as white as snow and as cold as ice. Furry and prickly flowers grow during the short summers, coloring the landscape in which the memories of three absurd siblings appear and disappear. They learnt how to walk, explore and overcome the harsh conditions of their homeland, sometimes together, sometimes separated. Fragments of their childhood reappear in their minds: the comfort and warm affection of the family, the moments spent together in harmony as well as the smaller conflicts, the teasing and games. Bits of daily and ordinary moments alternate with poetic images, bringing the viewer on a trip which interweaves a tangible reality with abstraction.
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