LUNA CENERE (ITALY) with KOKORO reveals nudity strips down expectations, functions, meanings of the body. The body converts into a projection screen of moods, memories, and illusions. The flesh loses its shape, frame and corporeality we usually see. A soul leaves footsteps on stage.
Italian choreographer Luna Cenere reveals the ‘inner self’, or “kokoro” as Japanese people say. The expression embraces two words, which are ‘mind’ and ‘heart’. Cenere got inspired by the book “The Invisible Actor” by Yoshi Oida and Lorna Marshall.
Her solo refers to a collective consciousness and to an unconscious luggage of judgmental statements, with the aim of question them. Using a unique dance vocabulary, she unveils how definitions of reality seem to float in a vacuum. Today, nothing is entirely ‘good’ or ‘bad’, ‘beautiful’ or ‘ugly’. Let’s take the human body as an example – it will be under a very different spotlight on the stage.
AWARDS
Best Choreography – SOLOCOREOGRAFICO Dance Show Case, 2017
REVIEWS
„The human body is so familiar to us – our own, and others – it seems impossible that Italian dancer and choreographer Luna Cenere could show us something we don’t already know. And yet she does, over and over again.“. Kelly Apter – Aerowaves –Springback
LUNA CENERE
Luna Cenere is a dancer and young author from Naples. In 2011 she graduated from SEAD, (Austria) and participated as a guest member to the creations of the company ‘SEAD Bodhi Project’ made by Anton Lacky (Anton Lacky Company) and Josef Frucek (Rootlessroot). In 2014 she worked with Simone Forti and Anton Lacky, in 2016 with the Agitart Company (Spain). In the same year she became a member of the Virgilio Sieni Company (Italy).
Her solo KOKORO was selected by ‘Aerowaves Twenty18′ and won the Price for Best Choreography by the’ Solocoreografico 2017. Then follow the productions TWIN premiered at the FOG / Triennale Festival in Milan and PNEUMATIKA presented at the end of 2018 at T.A.N. in Naples.
Certified teacher form SEAD, Luna conducts workshops of movement research and improvisation. She lives between Italy and Belgium.
For viewers above the age of 18.
Duration: 30 minutes
Choreography and concept: Luna Cenere
Music: Gerard Valverde
Light design: Gaetano Battista
Production: Körper Compagnia
Support to the production: Virgilio Sieni/ National Canter of Production

Source: https://plovdiv2019.eu