MATTEO STELLA DANCE ARTS - Production
Studio per Giovanna d’Arco
Concept: Matteo Stella Dance Arts (Matteo Levaggi | Samantha Stella)
Music: Golem Mecanique (Ideologic Organ)
Performer: Agnes Rosa Lamb
“Our Joan of Arc is a solitary, intimate, and fierce journey, where beauty is born from suffering and the body becomes the voice of the eternal.”
Matteo Stella Dance Arts begins an initial study for a new creation dedicated to Joan of Arc—an icon, a heroine, a saint, a controversial figure who has come down to us from the Middle Ages, told through countless nuances.
A liturgy that moves through vocation, inner struggle, war, martyrdom, and ascent. The choreography follows the dynamics of a ritual. A woman alone at the center of the space, the body as an altar. Every movement is an offering, every fall a sacrifice. The dancer does not narrate Joan of Arc: she embodies her.
FThe pièce is set on the music by French composer Golem Mecanique, published by the cult label Ideologic Organ (Stephen O’Malley), who in her experimental work employs a contemporary reinterpretation of the hurdy-gurdy, a medieval musical instrument.
Studio premiere DIAMOND COD DANZA Artistic director Chiara Olivieri, Mantova May 9 2026
Giovanna d’Arco, John Everett Millais, 1865
MATTEO LEVAGGI - Production
Open Skin concept: Matteo Levaggi
Open Skin draws inspiration from a work by Twyla Tharp that I had originally intended to acquire for BTT, in collaboration with the artistic direction at the time. Initially conceived for three women dressed in black leotards and boots, this work serves here as a point of departure for a personal reinterpretation.
The project is grounded in my deep affinity with Tharp’s choreographic research — particularly her seminal work In the Upper Room — which has had a significant impact on both my academic training and artistic development.
Within this framework, Open Skin unfolds as an open and non-prescriptive semantic structure, resisting any fixed narrative. The video is articulated into three sections—sound, encounter, and romanticism—through which shifting intentions and a distinct dramaturgical intelligence emerge. These elements guide the transformation of movement and the evolving relationships between the bodies.
Performers
Valeria Garcia Ortega
Eki Goñi Martinez de Lagran
Aimar Inchausti Garbuglia
Costume Design (live performance) Lorenzo Seghezzi
Artistic Residency
Escuela Profesional de Danza de Castilla y León – Ana Laguna, Burgos
https://fuescyl.com/epdcyl/actualidad-danza/taller-coreografico-burgos
Open Skin