Residency in Ghent
belgium 2025
This month the artistic residencies for two young Italian choreographers selected by Stefano Fardelli within the EurAsia Partner Padova Danza, directed by Grabiella Furlan, and hosted by the EurAsia Partner Shoonya Dance Center of Ghent, in Belgium, directed by Swapnil Dagliya & Wim Boussery.
Isabel Paladin and Laura Manicone, both are having their choreographic master lead by Padova Project (Italy) and this month will travel to Ghent for this opportunity offered by EurAsia Dance Project International Network – ETS.
During the artistic residency in Belgium the two young choreographers will have the chance to keep working on their projects: “Come Verde Ongoing” by Isabel Paladin, a site specific solo and a dialogue with the trees through the support of a technology she herself tested, and “Folded Landscape” by Laura Manicone, a duet danced with Isabela and a reflection on the forces that drive humanity towards a potential future inherent in destructive energies, destabilising the foundations of our being as ‘social animals’.
More details coming soon.
WHEN & WHERE TO WATCH THEIR PIECES:
— for Isabel Paladin
the sharing will be at ZuidPark on Sunday 18th of May at 19:00 (7pm local time C.E.T.)
— for Laura Manicone
the sharing will be at Shoonya Dance Center on Tuesday 20th of May at 20:30 (8:30pm local time C.E.T.)
MORE INFO:
SHOONYA DANCE vzw
Stapelplein 41,
9000 Gent, Belgium
Phone: +32 9 395 33 79
Email: info@shoonyadance.com
About the Pieces
COME VERDE ONGOING
by Isabel Paladin
The performative project aims to create a listening space to re-evaluate the existing distance between man and the plant world. While maintaining her own identity, the dancer approaches the plant with care and curiosity. This proximity generates a dialogue between the plant structure and the body structure, in which the boundaries of the two entities, initially distinct, blur and amalgamate at times.
FOLDED LANDSCAPE
by Laura Manicone
Every era comes with its own communication barriers. Often, we look at the present believing its problems to be unique and unprecedented, idealizing the past as a better formula, though now corrupted and lost.
Every collapse of traditions and values leads to a loss of meaning. The underlying forces driving humanity toward a potential future also bring destructive energies, destabilizing the foundations of our being as “social animals.” Each of these upheavals draw desolate relational landscapes, where the future no longer represents a forward trajectory but a continual regression of the present.
This project aims to stage one of these landscapes, timeless and placeless. It is a space inhabited by two characters incapable of communication, unable to connect. These figures are suspended in a state of constant imbalance, trapped in a time that repeats infinitely, in an eternal recurrence of anxieties and fears, as real today as they were in the past.
Creation and Dance: Laura Manicone and Isabel Paladin.
About the Artists
Isabel Paladin
Isabel trained in performing arts at Codarts, University of arts in Rotterdam. She has worked for the companies de Stilte in Breda (NL) and Divadlo Studio Tanca of Banska Bystrica (SK). As a freelancer she has collaborated with Masako Matsushita, Arthur Rosenpheld, Chiara Frigo, Marie Alexis, Melanie Demers, Silvia Bugno and TheField Collective.
Laura Manicone
In 2015, Laura Manicone moved to Melbourne, Australia, where she deepened her understanding of Countertechnique with Chunky Move, directed by Anouck Van Dijk. The following year, she participated in the prestigious intensive program One Body, One Career. During her time in
Australia, she also worked as a dance teacher and choreographer for Dancebourne Arts Company, creating the piece SURFACE (2019), which toured across Victoria between 2020 and 2021.
