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In this document, Leonardo Diana is introduced as a choreographer and dancer who created the solo work "Researching - And the man created himself". The work traces man's evolution from tangible painting to the immaterial virtual world. It depicts how man's avatar may alienate him and cause him to lose his soul and identity, remaining only a duplicate of himself. The document provides biographical information on Diana's dance training and performances with various companies since 2003.
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- 1. Researching - And the man created himself
- 2. Versiliadanza Researching And the Man created Himself Choreographer/dancer leonardo diana Painter ronnie orroz Video leonardo filast嘆 Music luca e andrea serrapiglio Light designer mario bacciottini Artistic direction Versiliadanza angelatorriani evangelisti
- 3. Convinced to the end thatour avatars will alienate usto the pointthat the centrifugedforceof nature willmaintainitsdynamic intensity, man willonlythen set aside the paint brush and free himself ofits body. Realizing the lose ofits soul and remaining only a fictitious and disheartened duplicate ofitself.
- 4. In the work differentexpressionsform the variousstepswhichmark man'sevolution. Taking the viewerfrom the tangibleaspectof the paintingto the impalpable and imaginabledigital. The body of the dancerends up loosingitsconsistency and form in the mysticaldisembodiedvirtual world and thus, declaringitsdisappearance.
- 13. Leonardo Diana Leonardo Diana, born in 1978. His dance teachers have included Angela TorrianiEvangelisti, SimonaBucci, Paolo Mereu, Charlotte Zerbey, Alessandro Certini, , Jacqueline Davenport, Susan Barnet,Eugenio Scigliano and Aurora Benelli. He has participated in workshops with Franco Di Francescantonio, Gabriella Bartolomei, Carolyn Carlson, Susanne Linke, Julien Hamilton, Richard Haisma, Beatrice Libonati, Micha Van Hoecke and Tanya Khabarova. For five years he has undertaken a course for professional contemporary dancers in the Nikolais technique, directed by SimonaBucci and Paolo Mereu. He studies release technique and contact improvisation with Charlotte Zerbey and Alessandro Certini. From 2003 he has danced for the Associazione Versiliadanza by Angela TorrianiEvangelisti. In summer 2004 he took part in the Versiliadanza performance AssaggidiPotere - Macht Das Was?, choreographed by Susanne Linke. In 2005 he collaborated in the triennial Versiliadanza project, presenting a solo at various festivals. In the same year he graduated in scenography from the l'Accademiadi Belle Arti in Florence. In 2007 he shows his first solo Verso la Luce at the Festival FabbricaEuropa inside the project MOVING_movimento. From 2008 he started a coproduction between Versiladanza and an Armenian company. In 2009/2010 he worked for the tanz company of Bremen Theater under the direction of Urs Dietrich. He took part in the performances Dividendo choreographed by Urs Dietrich and in Double Lives with the choreography of Tero Saarinen. In 2011 he has presented a new production Researching-and the Man created Himself for the final of PremioEquilibrio Roma and in different international festivals as FabbricaEuropa, in Florence and Lunatica Festival. From 2004 became part of the company Porte Girevoli working with the director Claudio Cinelli, to create various performances of puppets theatre, both in Italy and further afield.
- 14. www.leonardodiana.com info@leonardodiana.com www.versiliadanza.it Tel: 0039 339 4828 168