ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
HEARTBEAT / INNER_SELF / INSTALLATION07 – 08.2021
Nadalokal will welcome Elena Francalanci and David Eder as residents. During their stay they will work on the project: “DON´T TOUCH MY HEART”, a performance/installation that has as central point of the research the heart. The heart as a movement, as sound/beat, as motor, as emotional reference, as the constant rhythm. The live motor of the performance is the actual development of the heartbeat of the performers, with a live evolution of it, possible because of a stethoscope-microphone attached to the breast. It creates a relationship between each other beats, making the heart move the body, embodying the organ itself. It is a manifestation of the pure and row beat of the heart, celebrating life developing through different state of the mind and of the body.
David, Elena and Axier Iriarte worked on listening to their beat and try to connect and disconnect from the brain. They focused on the emotions and feelings that are directly connected with their heart pulse: calmness, anxiety, excitement/pain, emptiness. The performers became the heartbeat and the actually body that feels. They recreated an inside out reality, diving into the slimy and shining of the alive flesh and the darkness of the inside of the body. Working with voice and sound that can reconnect to gut and high pitch tones. Playing inside a dimension, where the human becomes tiny into the infinite of the ocean of the inside corpse. The idea to involve the audience in a sensibilisation short workshop before the presentation starts. The public will be introduced to the theme and to the microphone statoscope, aiming to a clear awareness of their beat. They will dive into it with a Gaga and Feldenkrais based class, get used to their own sound and reconnect to their body. full video under this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd-nYTyHBN0
Elena Francalanci is an Italian performer and artist based in Berlin. She started her career in Ballet to then continue into performing art and dance theatre. After her first experience in the dance company Balletto Teatro di Torino she decided to start freelancing, embracing her freedom of choice and disciplines, in which she started to create her own performances and explore different ways of expression such as sculpture and clothing. Her first creation DER GRÜNE TOT premiered in Le Studio Film und Bühne, Vienna, last September, characterized by a combination of live act and video. Followed by GET ME OUT OF THE LIMBO the premiered in HASARD3 streaming performing festival in Fribourg, Switzeland. She is right now in the process of creation of DON’T TOUCH MY HEART in Dwarsdriewer Performing art e.V, Kiel, Germany. Among her freelancing career she got in close contact with the Gaga Technique, she worked in Festspielhaus Sankt Pölten where she danced in „Decadance“ from Ohad Naharin, under the rehearsal direction of Ian Robinson, Yaniv Abrahm, Hilel Kogan and Iyar El-Ezra and in „Ballroom“ new creation from Shahar Binyamini. Next to her physical work, she got since 3 years closer to the more performative world and dance theater, collaborating and co-creating with Cornelia Böhnisch in Toihaus Theater, Salzburg and Renè Reinhardt in Schaubühne Lindenfels, Leipzig with whom she amplified her knowledge and body and mind awareness, working with sound and voice.
David Eder is an Austrian set designer, based in Berlin and Vienna, is working since 8 years in the movie business, deeply into the creation of sets and stages that represent the more hidden parts of the piece. He is also painting and drawing, mostly images of his inner persona. He was creating the set and the installation in 2019 for “Missing People” from Bela Tarr in Wiener Festwochen. In the past years he collaborated for the realization of the set of “Maximilian” from Andreas Prochaska and with Martin Reiter under the direction of Marie Kreutzer. He, together with Elena Francalanci, created DER GRUNE TOT performance that premiered in Le Studio Film und Buhne, Vienna last September. He has a background in choreography as well as engineering. Today she works with physicality of sound in relation to bodies, structures and electronics. The core of her work is immersive audio which is often manifested in multichannel sound compositions. Since the relationship between the body of the listener and the sound in the space is such a vital part of her method, some of the stereo versions on this website will just give an idea of the music and can not be compared with the embodied experience taking place in a physcial composition.
More information about our Residents:Elena & David
GET ME OUT OF THE LIMBO movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkEu5Xo9FWI&t=19s
DER GRÜNE TOT trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKtRnxLui_o&t=32s
DER GRÜNE TOT short movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvxAHwvuiOM&t=150s