LAURA PANTE (1983) is a dancer and artistic researcher of dance theories and practices. She graduated in Visual Arts at IUAV University of Venice. Since October 2020 she has been a PhD student at the same university, where she conducts research titled Soil, Landscape, Habitat - three ways of the relationship between presence, body and the virtual under the supervision of Prof. Annalisa Sacchi. In 2019, she completed a period of study at APASS (Advanced Performance and Scenographic Studies) in Brussels.
Her research focuses on the analysis of the political articulation of thought and movement in the context of the relationship between body techniques and technologies of the self. She actualizes her artistic research by developing choreographic devices, performance projects, pedagogical experiences, dramaturgical practices and critical writings in which it is the body’s knowledge that stimulates new theoretical discourses and incentivizes the development of transdisciplinary and transhistorical procedures under the definition of expanded choregraphies.
Since 2017 she has been writing for Cactus Magazine, a visual culture magazine edited by Simone Rossi in which he develops a column titled Habitat series where she writes critical interventions on the artists and choreographers Cristina Kristal Rizzo, Anna Franceschini, Barok the Great, Annamaria Ajmone, and Enrico Malatesta. Some of her writings appeared in Artex (2022) and in Peng X, a notebook of signs, words and discourses edited by Silvia Fanti and Daniele Gasparinetti at the conclusion of the Live Art Week X festival (2021). She published her text Your wifi is streaming, my wifi is dreaming in the book titled These circumstances: On collaboration, performativity, self-organization and transdisciplinarity in research-based practices, edited by Lilia Mestre and Philippine Hoege, produced by APASS (Brussels, 2022).
In recent years she is on stage as a dancer for Jérôme Bel (Laura Pante, 2021), Cristina Kristal Rizzo (Sonno, 2021), Virgilio Sieni (Aura - on touching things, 2021), Romeo Castellucci (Tannhauser, 2017 - Ethica - Nature and origin of mind, 2016 - Giudizio, possibilità, essere, 2015 - Unheard, 2014), Silvia Costa (Alla traccia - Lode a ciò che è stato rimosso, 2016 - A sangue freddo, 2015), Compagnia Abbondanza Bertoni (Armida, opera directed by Luca Ronconi, 2015).
As performer, she works for visual artists such as Giorgio Andreotta Calò (Remoto, 2022); Anna Franceschini with whom she has collaborated since 2015 (Heels, 2021- Discolite, 2016 - 2022 - Doposole, 2016 - The diva who became an alphabet, 2015) and Alexis Blake (We will not be moved, 2016). Since 2019 she has been collaborating with the choreographer Cristina Kristal Rizzo as a theoretical accompaniment to her projects titled Toccare (2019) and Monumentum DA (2023).
In July 2022 she has been invited by Festival Danza Estate and Contemporary Locus to take part at TAD residency together with the artists Marta Cuscunà and Silvia Hell, at Monastero del Carmine in Bergamo. In 2017, she was invited by Tanztendenz at the 5th International Choreographers’ atelier, in Munich.
Since 2015 she has been developing her own choreographic and performance projects titled respectively: After Affect Clinique (2019), A space to be red (2019), No House no Place no space (2018), Screenshot (2018), Untail 2000.16 (2016), Ex and Esercizi di misura (2016) with dancer and choreographer Miranda Secondari, Cute (2016) with the dancers Francesca Antonino and Alessandra Bordino (2014), Aphonos - which has no voice (2015), in collaboration with dancers Giovanna Rovedo and Elisa Sbaragli.
She leads workshops on choreographic and movement practices: Cosmo-Techno-Poetics - Incroci di pratiche per un habitat ecologica with Danila Gambettola and Edoardo Lazzari in the context of the dance festival Venere in Teatro, Forte Marghera (2022). She has curated the study day Form and Format - the decoding agency of touching, in collaboration with choreographer Cristina Kristal Rizzo, at APASS (Brussels, 2019). She is a teaching assistant for the choreographic and performance workshops conducted by Chiara Lagani - company Fanny & Alexander (2018), Collettivo Cinetico (2019), Arkadi Zaides (2019) Cristina Kristal Rizzo (2022),and the fashion and performance workshop Muslin Brothers (2023-2024) at IUAV University of Venice, where he had the opportunity to collaborate with Luca del Pia as a performer for his stage photography workshop (2018). There she also lead his own movement workshop entitled The Matter-body into Space (2018).
Her training in these years is constant. She took part at Yes to the Wind, an intensive seminar held by Meg Stuart (Warsaw, 2019); from 2014 to 2017 she has taken part Biennale College Dance and Theatre in Crowd by Gisèle Vienne (2017), Unfolding Figures by Yasmine Hugonnet (2016), Title in progress, by Xavier Le Roy (2015), Bolero Variations by Cristina Rizzo (2014).
She received an annual fellowship from Raffaella Giordano and Compagnia Sosta Palmizi in 2015; she participated in seminars led by Leonardo Delogu including Dal terzo paesaggio al terzo luogo with Gilles Clemént (2014), and Camminare nella frana (2012); she was selected to participate at Esperienzze in variazione - Rete veneta arti performative (2014). Furthermore, she completed a four-year training in Danza sensibile,® a somatic and osteopathic technique developed by the dancer and pedagogue Claude Coldy (2016); she studies Hatha Yoga with Swami Samarpanananda Saraswati (Rishikesh, 2012).
LAURA PANTE by Jérôme Bel (2021), assistant Chiara Gallerani, artistic advice and executive direction Rebecca Lasselin, production director Sandro Grando. with excerpts from choreography by Cristina Rizzo, Xavier LeRoy and Scarlet Yu, Silvia Costa (sound by Lorenzo Tomio). original music Guglielmo Bottin, Beatrice Goldoni. a production CSS Teatro stabile di innovazione del FVG in collaboration with Institut français Italia and Fondazione Nuovi Mecenati. Jérôme Bel's work is supported by. Direction régionale des affaires culturelles d'Ile-de-France, Ministry of Culture-France. ph. roberta segata - courtesy centrale fies.
tournée: 14, 15 maggio, 17, 18, 24, 25 giugno 2021, ore 20 Udine, Teatro S. Giorgio / 28 maggio 2021, Thank you for coming, Dro (TN), Mezzelune / 19 settembre 2021, Vertigini Performing Arts Festival Belluno, Spazio Hangar 11 / 30 giugno 2022, Festival Inequilibrio 2022 Rosignano, Teatro Nardini / 6 agosto 2022, Terreni Creativi Festival 2022, Albenga (SV), Azienda Agricola Biologica Vio / 8 settembre 2022, NAO Performing Festival - The Garden, Milano, Cattedrale Fabbrica del Vapore / 6 ottobre 2022, Interazioni Festival, Roma, Teatro Palladium / 13 novembre 2022, crisalide festival, Forlì, Teatro Félix Guattari / 30 novembre 2022, rassegna teatrale asteroide amore, Venezia, Teatro Ca' Foscari a Santa Marta.
DISCOLITE perfomance for bodies and collapsible reflectors by anna franceschini, curated by pan - pierluca ditano e alessandro vangi with the collaboration of noa bonino, in the context of cinema flux. teatrino palazzo grassi - venezia (2022)
REMOTO site specific project by Giorgio Andreotta Calò, produced by studio andreotta Calò in collaboration with Musei Civici di Verona, Curated by Elena Forin With the support of ArtVerona. Project winner of PAC2020 - Plan for Contemporary Art, promoted by the General Directorate for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture. Performance curated by Laura, interpreted by laura e valentina PAnte. museo di castelvecchio - verona (2022).
peng on the beach book lounch Peng X, a notebook of signs, words and discourses edited by Silvia Fanti and Daniele Gasparinetti, in the context of the conclusion of the Live Art Week X festival - bologna (2021).
sonno concept by cristina kristal rizzo, production Xing/Live Arts Week X - GIANNI PENG, Lungo Reno - Bologna (2021). PH. luca ghedini.
aura - sul toccare le cose by Virgilio Sieni assistant Delfina Stella and Claudia Catarzi, production fondazione prada in collaboration with Fondazione Archivio Luigi Nono, venezia (2021). Ph. Marco Cappelletti.
heels live performance curated by Anna Franceschini and Jojo Gronostay, inspired by Chiara Vecchiarelli in collaboration with Flash Art, in the context of miart, Milan’s international modern and contemporary art fair. casa flash art - Milano (2021).
Tannhauser opera directed by Romeo Castellucci, choreography by Cindy Van Acker, produced by Bayerishe Staatsoper, Munich (2017).
Ethica - Natura e origine della mente by Romeo Castellucci - socìetas raffaello sanzio, produced by Biennale of Theare, Venice 2016, co-producer T2G - Théâtre de Gennevilliers centre dramatique national de création contemporaine, Théâtre de la Ville, Festival d’Automne (2016). ph. guido mancari.
Unheard a view by Romeo Castellucci Societas Raffaello Sanzio, music by Scott Gibbons, figure Laura Pante. a production of Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio in collaboration with Angelica - Music Research Center, in the context of la volpe disse al corvo, Special Project curated by Piersandra Di Matteo, produced by Comune di Bologna, Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio; under the patronage of Regione Emilia-Romagna, Teatro San Leonardo - Bologna (2014). ph. Guido Mancari.
Unheard a view by Romeo Castellucci Societas Raffaello Sanzio, music by Scott Gibbons, figure Laura Pante. a production of Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio in collaboration with Angelica - Music Research Center, in the context of la volpe disse al corvo, Special Project curated by Piersandra Di Matteo, produced by Comune di Bologna, Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio; under the patronage of Regione Emilia-Romagna, Teatro San Leonardo - Bologna (2014). ph. Guido Mancari.
alla traccia - Lode a ciò che è stato rimosso a project by Silvia Costa and Silvia Boschiero, performed by Laura Pante and Silvia Costa, sounds Beatrice Goldoni, costumes Laura Dondoli. Realized for Performing Santa Caterina a project by La società dello spettacolo and Viandustriae, for Foligno InContemporanea - Artistic Residences in collaboration with Comune di Foligno, Regione Umbria, MiBACT (2015).
A sangue freddo a project by Silvia Costa, with Silvia Costa and Laura Pante, co-production Uovo Performing Arts Festival 2015, first show at Teatro Franco Parenti - Milan. The project was performed in the autumn 2015 for Terni festival - Terni (Pg), Contemporanea festival at Museo Pecci - Prato, Crisalide festival - Forlì. PH. SILVIA BOSCHIERO.
in lieu of a liane by Anna Franceschini, long duration performance in the occasion or her solo exhibition, at Vera Cortes Gallery - Lisbon (2015)
discolite - performance for a solo dancer and strobo light by Anna Franceschini, in the context of the collective exhibition people in a building without the building curated by Careof, Kunstverein and Martina Angelotti - Milano (2015). ph. Alessandro Digiampietro.
the diva who became an alphabet by Anna Franceschini, with Laura Pante, Sara Monari, Marina Bertoni, in the context of the solo exhibition vitrine curated by Anna Musini, at GAM - Museo di Arte Moderna of Turin; the project was performed also for Artissima - Turin (2015)
crowd by GISéLE VIENNE, in the conext of Biennale College TEATRO, TEATRO DELLE TESE DELL’ARSENALE, Biennale TEATRO - Venezia (2018).
we will not be moved, a project by Alexis Blake, Realized in the conext of stage as a social platform, curated by Viafarini - Fabbrica del Vapore, Teatro Continuo, Parco Sempione - Milan (2016).
we will not be moved, a project by Alexis Blake, Realized in the conext of stage as a social platform, curated by Viafarini - Fabbrica del Vapore, Teatro Continuo, Parco Sempione - Milan (2016).
UNFOLDING FIGURES BY JASMINE HUGONNET, in the conext of Biennale College danza, teatrino palazzo grassi, Biennale danza - Venezia (2016).
UNFOLDING FIGURES BY JASMINE HUGONNET, in the conext of Biennale College danza, campo san maurizio, Biennale danza - Venezia (2016).
title in process long duration performance by Xavier Le Roy and scarlet yu, in the context of Biennale College Danza and shown also during biennale architettura, Sala d’Armi - Arsenale di venezia. Biennale Danza - Venezia (2015).
Bolero Variations by Cristina Rizzo, in the context of Biennale College Danza, Campo Sant’Angelo o dei Morti, Biennale Danza - Venezia (2014).
Bolero Variations by Cristina Rizzo, in the context of Biennale College Danza, Campo Sant’Angelo o dei Morti, Biennale Danza - Venezia (2014).
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