Vertical Dance Routes © Wanda Moretti 2020
Vertical Dance Routes
by Wanda Moretti
Vertical Dance Routes is a research project on vertical dance that draws on my life and interests as an artist and choreographer.
It presents and documents the evolution of vertical dance from its beginnings to the present day. Tracing the history of this unique art form at a time of incredible invention is a commitment to present and future generations. The research is divided into three parts: History | Moon and Movement | Reason.
Origin and History of Vertical Dance by Wanda Moretti
past lectures 2018- 2025
Reason
Pioneer
Gravity
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 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?
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?
Lectures 2018 - 2026
Vertical Dance Routes
The presentation explores the origins and development of vertical dance from the 1960s onward. Through the screening of rare video clips, it documents the unique practices of pioneering artists.
Dancers are shown performing site-specific movements in urban, industrial, and natural spaces. These vertical journeys reveal unique artistic visions that fundamentally shaped this new dance form.
To the moon and back
From evolutionary history to space travel, our relationship with gravity continues to transform. We first experience this unique force in the womb, a feeling we later seek to repeat as children.
As adults, we find new ways to rediscover and reinterpret this experience through art and science. Movement and its forms of expression become a way to play with gravity and dance with it.
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
Vertical Dance Fusion
directed by Anett Simmen
17th Sept 2021
Company Vola Stage Art
Teufelsberg Berlin
Berlin, Germany, EU
L'ascension de la Danse Verticale
directed by Fabrice Guillot
15th May 2019
Bibliotéque National de France BNF - François Mitterand
co-founded by Creative Europe
Paris, France, 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 - 17th August 2022
Vertical Dance Connections
Buchannan Center Performing Arts
Skip Harper Fund, Laramie, USA
Vertical Dance Days (online)
Sparrow Dance Company
directed by Esther Wrobel
Vertical Dance Routes
6th February 2022
To the Moon and back
Copenaghen, Denmark, EU
Nei suoni dei luoghi
Directed by Valentina Danelon and Gloria Campaner
8th June 2024
Festival internazionale di musica e territori XXVI Edizione
Castello di Udine, IT
III° Encuentro de Danza Vertical
19th September 2025
Directed by La Glo Circo
Centro Municipal de Rekalde
City Hall Bilbao
Where?
The beauty and power of vertical dance lie in its ability to bring bodies and places together,
dancing anywhere and creating relationships.
Here are some places that engage with IL POSTO DANZA VERTICALE
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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
contact
wandamoretti@ ilposto.org
VDC
Vertical Dance Centre
Via Lazzarini 12
Marghera-Venezia
30175
Italia
consultation is possible only by written request: interviews, articles, letters, videos, photos, dissertation and thesis
© Wanda Moretti 2020