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"Strengthened by a fresh aesthetic and urgent approach, he was able to imprint - and express - an intention of change and above all, reciprocity in the interactions of their generation."
       
     
"Young adventurous man, Scott Elstermann, who is cementing his career by making new works in diverse settings."
       
     
"A reflective gold platform appeared underneath, illuminating their costumed bodies and giving the dance an uplifting spirit that reconnects the work to its pure beginnings."
       
     
"The dance becomes a code, culminating ìn a techno-inspired moment."
       
     
"The piece begins with the full ensemble forming a large embrace that then opens outwards, as if the dance simply starts through their proximity to each other."
       
     
"Duets and solos follow one another in a puppet style, like an exercise in manipulation."
       
     
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MOSAIC

*WINNER - LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA COLLEGE DANZA COMMISSION*

As part of La Biennale di Venezia College Danza program, Director and Mentor Wayne McGregor challenged Elstermann to create a work in response to Venice and the adjacent Biennale Architettura.

Responding to St Mark’s Basilica’s golden domes, the Ascension of Christ and binary tensions, Mosaic sees a futuristic capsule set the parameters for a double rupture; an oscillating performance of extraction and structural uplift signalling generational transition and renewal. Static, picture-perfect moments of control and connection are dismantled, hurled and overlaid with historical imagery that reach deep into our movement archive to create something of the present. Our imagined future may appear bleak but by retracing our past and peeling back the layers of heritage, we have the capacity to yield to an alternative future; to reveal and reflect a new narrative where threads of old are delicately collated into a patchwork of progression.

Length: 30 minutes

Commissioned by La Biennale di Venezia as part of the Biennale College Danza program

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PREMIERE

Ca’ Giustinian, Sala delle Colonne, Venice, July 23 - 25 2023

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CAST AND CREATIVES

Choreographer: Scott Elstermann

Dancers: Kayla Gabrielle Aguila, Anastasia Crastolla, Francesco Giammattei, Giuseppe Iodice, Giorgio Lombardo, Amanda Peet, Fernando Pérez Hernández, Yume Takojima

Composer: Louis Frere-Harvey

Costume designer: MARANTICO (Filippo Soffiati & Adriana Suriano)

Lighting designer: Fabio Bozzetta

Mentor: Wayne McGregor

Photography: Andrea Avezzu

Thank you to La Biennale di Venezia, Biennale College Danza, Wayne McGregor, Francesca Benvenuti, Robert Binet, Neil Brown, Leonardo Bucalossi, Martina Cappellesso, Roberto Cicutto, Francesco Cocco, Federica Colella, Margherita Morucci, Olimpia Russo, Felicitas Willems

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Video footage available upon request. Visit Contact

"Strengthened by a fresh aesthetic and urgent approach, he was able to imprint - and express - an intention of change and above all, reciprocity in the interactions of their generation."
       
     
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"Strengthened by a fresh aesthetic and urgent approach, he was able to imprint - and express - an intention of change and above all, reciprocity in the interactions of their generation."

Mattia Guerrini, Opera Life Italia Magazine

"Young adventurous man, Scott Elstermann, who is cementing his career by making new works in diverse settings."
       
     
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"Young adventurous man, Scott Elstermann, who is cementing his career by making new works in diverse settings."

Lee Christofis, Dance Australia Magazine

"A reflective gold platform appeared underneath, illuminating their costumed bodies and giving the dance an uplifting spirit that reconnects the work to its pure beginnings."
       
     
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"A reflective gold platform appeared underneath, illuminating their costumed bodies and giving the dance an uplifting spirit that reconnects the work to its pure beginnings."

Elisa Frasson, TANEČNIAKTUALITY.cz

"The dance becomes a code, culminating ìn a techno-inspired moment."
       
     
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"The dance becomes a code, culminating ìn a techno-inspired moment."

Elisa Frasson, TANEČNIAKTUALITY.cz

"The piece begins with the full ensemble forming a large embrace that then opens outwards, as if the dance simply starts through their proximity to each other."
       
     
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"The piece begins with the full ensemble forming a large embrace that then opens outwards, as if the dance simply starts through their proximity to each other."

Elisa Frasson, TANEČNIAKTUALITY.cz

"Duets and solos follow one another in a puppet style, like an exercise in manipulation."
       
     
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"Duets and solos follow one another in a puppet style, like an exercise in manipulation."

Elisa Frasson, TANEČNIAKTUALITY.cz

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