THE TOOLS' DANCE
video archive of Agricultural Gestures | collective performance | audio documentary | drawings & mixed media photos
2011>2017
The Tools' Dance is developed involving farmers, dancers and historians of agriculture.
The landscape mutations and its effects on the social dynamics, as well as the relation between cities migrancy and agriculture, are some of the issues that comes up where the project is invited: for each new crop tools dance search - also among seasonal workers - people able to participate in these temporary agrodance workshops; in order to collect movements and gestures through the mechanization of the latest centuries.
The Tools' Dance were developed on diverse crops into different places: in Spain for the research on olives and vineyard gestures; in Italy for rice, wool and tomato; and in Albania on the tobacco. The project has been staged in different forms, recently in July 2017, a collective performance, curated by Martina Angelotti were presented in Milan at Fabbrica Del Vapore.
One of the aim of the project for the future is to create a group of farmer-performers in order to realize one or more dance-theatre plays.
here some blogs on the realized and related researches:
"Noi facciamo finta di lavorare loro fanno finta di pagarci" on the tobacco in Northern Albania;
"Stop being such a tool" on the show realized in 2017;
"Tre Titoli" on the movie realized in Southern Italy into the fields of tomato production.
below the video archives' pieces
video archive of Agricultural Gestures | collective performance | audio documentary | drawings & mixed media photos
2011>2017
The Tools' Dance is developed involving farmers, dancers and historians of agriculture.
The landscape mutations and its effects on the social dynamics, as well as the relation between cities migrancy and agriculture, are some of the issues that comes up where the project is invited: for each new crop tools dance search - also among seasonal workers - people able to participate in these temporary agrodance workshops; in order to collect movements and gestures through the mechanization of the latest centuries.
The Tools' Dance were developed on diverse crops into different places: in Spain for the research on olives and vineyard gestures; in Italy for rice, wool and tomato; and in Albania on the tobacco. The project has been staged in different forms, recently in July 2017, a collective performance, curated by Martina Angelotti were presented in Milan at Fabbrica Del Vapore.
One of the aim of the project for the future is to create a group of farmer-performers in order to realize one or more dance-theatre plays.
here some blogs on the realized and related researches:
"Noi facciamo finta di lavorare loro fanno finta di pagarci" on the tobacco in Northern Albania;
"Stop being such a tool" on the show realized in 2017;
"Tre Titoli" on the movie realized in Southern Italy into the fields of tomato production.
below the video archives' pieces
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Related Artworks
LA LUZ NEGRA. Sound novel, 12min ca. stereo 2013
La Luz Negra it's an audio novel that documents
and tells on the northern african migrancy in Spain.
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EL CAMPO ES UN CAMOUFLAGE. Acrylic color on mirror, Ø 80cm 2017
Once in the 2013 Sheida, algerian far-mers involved into the The Tools Dance
in Spain, said "El campo es un camou-flage" referring on how many tensions and troubles exists between locals and migrants farmers, hidden into the fields' daily labor.
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EVERY MORNING, LEONARDO SPEDICATO GETS ONTO A CLAAS GT8000
Monologue 20min ca. 2010
The monologue tells on a dystopian future where the humans are joined to strange kind of farming machines, trying to imitate the same machines.
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LA INTEGRACIÓN DE UN MINOTAURO. FineArt Print 70cm X 100cm edition 1/3 2013
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HARVEST-COMBINE WITH MEN AND SCHYTHES. FineArt Print 50cm X 70cm edition 1/10 2011
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VERSO UN'AGRICOLTURA PIÙ UMANA. Mixed Media on gift paper
30x50cm 2013