Giorgia Bovo is a choreographer and multidisciplinary artist whose work takes roots in dance and choreography and branches out into theater and film. Using her body as a medium, she constructs surreal experiences that aim to feel more meaningful than reality. Drawing inspiration from personal and social matters, her work is directed to dissolve the distance between the performance and the viewer with images that trigger both the individual and the collective memory.
We hate pink!
It started off with a realization: we hated pink! Because it was a symbol of everything feminine. But isn’t rejecting femininity also an admission of patriarchy?
Join us in the fight to reclaim pink from the clutches of decades of appropriation as a symbol of questionable definitions of femininity. Through dance, theater, and lecture-performance formats, it’s a playful and ironic critique of how femininity is perceived and maintained.
People pleaser
“People pleaser” is an ironic reflexion on the constant need to be liked and approved by others. Starting from the act of posing for selfies, the piece evolves through a series of attempted absurd, and sometimes impossible, contorted paths taken in the hope of satisfying an external judgement, in opposition to the internal turmoil.
Through my skin
dance film
A surreal journey in 3 acts through the physical and emotional sensations of a performer’s life.
Choreographed, directed, shot and edited by the same person in order to minimize the layers of separation between the dance and the viewer.
Zooming out
When the technologies are not enough.
Created through a computer screen during the COVID-19 lockdown, this work represents the solitude, the frustration and the coping with the distance from the loved ones.
Commissioned by Pratiche di Slancio (youth dance ensemble, Italy).
Pronti?
Pronti? is a journey through the mind of the young dancer.
Commissioned by Pratiche di Slancio (youth dance ensemble, Italy).
Womb for one more
Commissioned by Indelible Dance, NYC, 2018.
Schiüch
Sciüch means stump in the old dialect from Piemonte (North West Italian region). Schiüch is also the name of the farmstead owned by my grandmother where I spent my childhood and early teen years. This piece is dedicated to my time there during which I witnessed the old traditions, the elders at work and the strong connection with the people and the earth.
Commissioned by: Periapsis Open Series, NYC, 2017.
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