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DREAM

Isn't the weakened women the symbol of the oppresed nation?
isn't the women who suffers, taken between the desires of her heart
and the obstacles of her body,
isn't she such as a nation controlled by its governors and clergy?

text by Khalil Gibran

Aracne

 

Piece inspired by Tarantism, a form of trance present in Southern Italy from ancient times till the ’70. At those times a women, bitten by the tarantula spider, would dance rhythmically for hours in order to get the poison out of her blood.

A little orchestra was accompaining her (tambourine, accordion, and violin) and her small house would become the scene of a colorful rite where she becomes one with the spider and then slowly comes back to her self, and by stepping fasterand faster she would kill the tarantula.

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Kaina

Kaina is a short movie inspired by Oscar Wilde and Quentin Tarantino. The woman in the movie confronts herself with a ghost, or with the fear that it represents, and finally succeeds in getting rid of it...but the story never ends...


PREMIERE in Rome, Italy 27th of June 2009 Festival "Effetti di Movimento II"


5 min.
concept, editing e camera: Kathleen Delaney
sound editing: Claudio Jacomucci 

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Blu Vertigo

3':23''
concept, editing: Kathleen Delaney
voice: Kathleen Delaney and Jean Baudrillard

 

Blu Vertigo was shot in the mediterranean sea, in Apulia (Southern Italy).

The sound track is a voice piece where a song is interwoven with the voice of Jean Baudrillard.

Cool Memories (hommage a Jean Baudrillard)
 

dance: Kathleen Delaney
music: Claudio Jacomucci

 

"Dialogue between the accordion and the dance steps, lightness of kisses and a gun - held when looking around. Words of light on the walls for the death of reality, and the illusion of the world, the void which gives strenght.Star ways turning around, stars made of light. In "Cool Memories" dance, thoughts, the rich musical research and images create a voluminous atmosphere of cured theatrality."

 

Valeria Ottolenghi "La Gazzetta di Parma" 12 august '09


"Exercise physique et spirituel a la fois. Sobre, retenu, poetique et singulier. L'esprit de Jean etait tout a fait la."


Marine Baudrillard, 30 january '09

RoadRunner
 

dance: Kathleen Delaney
accordion: Claudio Jacomucci
music:John Zorn
images:J.M.Basquiat
 

"A funambolic, contamined piece, full of quotations running on the thread of Basquiat's paintings, the american painter who used the canvas for graffiti, master of quoting and contaminating art in the New York '80. Music, graphics and dance are notes stolen from a crazy world on a multicolored notebook."

Daniela Boari, Musicultura On Line, feb. 2004

 

.""Kathleen Delaney's performance refuses any temptation of sublimity and pushes on irony...contamination between languages but also contamination inside the language of dance itself lowered by materials such as clownerie, pantomime and improvisation. The piece has a video projection where pop images and metropolitan paintings offer a multeplicity of possible events and micro-dramas. Claudio Jacomucci is on stage with a larger role then that of musician.The accordion becomes a character itself and dilogues with the body and the voice of Ms Delaney: making fun one of the other in a funny respiration."
 

Nicola Signorile, La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno, Novembre 2002
 

Road Runner has been performed in: "Venti Ascensionali", Orvieto 2002 "Babele 3", Teatro Duse Bari 2002 "Danze d'Inverno", Firenze 2002 Teatro La Fenice Senigallia 2003 "Il suono di una mano sola" Teatro Comunale di Cagli, 2004 "L'Altra Faccia dell'America", Teatro Lauro Rossi, Macerata 2004 "Lavori in Pelle", Alfonsine, Ravenna 2004.

OTher works:

Hor ch'è tempo di dormire 2006
Music by Tarquinio Merula
Roberto Balconi, voice
Bari Moskovitz, lute
Kathleen Delaney, dance

Euridice Nella Terra 2005
site specific performance in S.Patrick's wheel in Orvieto, Italy
Music by ClaudioJacomucci
Kathleen Delaney, dance and voice

Apparizione di Hildegarda 2005
on Hildegard von Bingen's text
Music by Hidegard von Bingen
Ilaria Severo, voice
David Monacchi, flutes and tapes

In a Landscape 2004
Music by John Cage
Arianna Camani, harp
Kathleen Delaney, dance

Egos 2004
Kathleen Delaney, dance and voice
Music by Claudio Jacomucci

Circulation 2003
Improvisation project with Kathleen Delaney, Carla Onni, Marco Cappelli, Lelio Giannetto, Claudio Jacomucci, in Palermo

O5 2003
improvisation project with Gabriella Maiorino, Giacomo Calabrese, Marco Cappelli, Claudio Jacomucci, Kathleen Delaney

Madame Sosostris 2002
on T.S. Eliot's text
Kathleen Delaney, dance and voice
Music by Claudio Jacomucci