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Edoardo Mozzanega

Artist in residence

Performer, director and dance maker, Edoardo Mozzanega after graduating with a Master's degree in Aesthetic Philosophy, attended a MA in London in Dance Professional Practice at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. He studied theatre and dance with teachers such as Cesare Ronconi and Mariangela Gualtieri (Teatro Valdoca), Maria Consagra, Alessio Maria Romano and the Batsheva Dance Company.

His research uses different tools and languages, including theatre, dance, storytelling, video making, somatic practices, to investigate their transformative power in relation to reality, how we perceive and narrate it. This investigation lead him to create different performative forms such as video installations, workshops and performances in theatre and site-specific.

In 2019, in collaboration with other artists, he conceived Neutopica, a project of transdisciplinary artistic residencies with an experimental and collaborative form that take life and space in disused places and marginal areas. His most recent works include Domoscape (2019), SONICA (2023), Dream of a tiger (2023) and Tiger's nap (2024).

In the depths of the cave, where for hundreds of thousands of years hominids coexisted with big cats, in a darkness where they were seen without seeing, and where the first images were drawn, HIDE, Edoardo Mozzanega's new project investigates the boundary between visible and invisible, between inside and outside, between disquiet and pleasure.

The third and final chapter of the Tiger Trilogy, HIDE comes to life from an exploration of the phonatory practice of the fry or creak, a grave, percussive sound, similar to a feline purr, which in humans corresponds to the state of maximum relaxation of the vocal cords. Mozzanega observes the sensation it generates in the practitioner and the observer: the performer indulges in pleasure by emitting an inhuman sound poised between watching and being watched.

The word "hide" encompasses all directions of research: concealment, the pleasure of epidermal contact and hidden vision, in a contrast between relaxation and tension.