Vertical Dance Routes © Wanda Moretti 2020
Vertical Dance Routes
by Wanda Moretti
Vertical Dance Routes is a research project on vertical dance that draws on my life and interests as an artist and choreographer. It presents and documents the evolution of vertical dance from its beginnings to the present day. Tracing the history of this unique art form at a time of incredible invention is a commitment to present and future generations. The research is divided into three parts: History, Moon and Movement and Reason. Each of these chapters is a video accompanied by my voice.
Gravity
Pioneers
Reason
How did the history of perpendicular movement to the wall begin? Learning to walk and move on the vertical plane at different angles. What did the moon landing leave us with?
Vertical dance was born out of the extreme need to bring spaces, artists and audiences together in a new way of seeing the universe as a unified whole of body and space.
How did each artist's movement/dance/choreography develop? What was the motivation for the artists to develop vertical dance, even though they did not yet call it that?
Origin and History of Vertical Dance by Wanda Moretti
past lectures 2018- 2022
Irish Aerial Dance Festival
directed by Chantal McCormik
10th July 2018
An Griánan Theater
co-founded by Creative Europe Programme of the EU Union
Letterkenny, Ireland, EU
San Francisco Aerial Arts Festival
directed by Joanna Haigood
12th August 2018
Fort Mason
Centre for Arts and Culture
Festival Pavillon
San Francisco, California, USA
L'ascension de la Danse Verticale
directed by Fabrice Guillot
15th May 2019
Bibliotéque National de France BNF - François Mitterand
co-founded by Creative Europe
Paris, France, EU
Vertical Dance Fusion
directed by Anett Simmen
17th Sept 2021
Company Vola Stage Art
Teufelsberg Berlin
Berlin, Germany, EU
History of Vertical Dance
To the moon and back
Vertical Dance Days (online)
Department of Theatre and Dance, Wyoming University
12th August 2022
Berry Biodiversity Center
Skip Harper Fund
Laramie, USA
Department of Theatre and Dance, Wyoming University
To the Moon and back - 15th August 2022
Vertical Dance Connections - Performance 17th August
Buchannan Center for the Performing Arts
Skip Harper Fund
Laramie, USA
Sparrow Dance Company, directed by Esther Wrobel
Vertical Dance Routes - 6th February 2022
To the Moon and back
Copenaghen, Denmark, EU
Thinking Dance
In all the equipment pieces the choreographic decisions, time, place, order of movements, kinds of movements, the nature of the sound (for example, dialogue) are strictly governed by the choice of equipment. The movement and language are generated in terms of the most economical use of the equipment. It is hard to imagine anyone choosing or inventing those particular movements or that language outside of the chosen equipment situation.
Trisha Brown, September 1972
photo courtesy of NASA/Langley Research Center LaRC
consultation is possible only by written request: interviews, articles, letters, videos, photos, dissertation and thesis
VDC
Vertical Dance Centre
Via Lazzarini 12
Marghera-Venezia
30175
Italia
© Wanda Moretti 2020