Vertical Dance Routes is a research of vertical dance that has encompassed almost my entire life and my interest as an artist and choreographer. It introduces and documents the evolution of vertical dance from its inception until the present day. Tracing the history of this unique art form at an incredible moment of invention, is a commitment to present and future generations. The research is divided into three parts: History, Moon and the Movement, Reason, each of these chapters is a video accompanied by my voice.
Gravity
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 FranceBNF - 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
Department of Theatre and Dance, Wyoming University
12th August 2022 Berry Biodiversity Center
Skip Harper Fund Laramie, USA
To the moon and back
Department of Theatre and Dance, Wyoming University
To the Moon and back - 15th August 2022
Vertical Dance Connections - Performance17th August Buchannan Center for the Performing Arts
Skip Harper Fund Laramie, USA
Vertical Dance Days (online)
To the Moon and back directed by Esther Wrobel
6th February 2022, Vertical Dance Routes
Sparrow Dance Company
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
