altroteatro dance company
Lucia Latour was born in Rome. She graduated at the National Academy
of Dance, where she met masters such as Boris Kniaseff, Mila Cirul, Kurt
Joss. In 1968 she graduated in Architecture at the University of Rome.
In 1969 she gave birth to Nadja. In 1972 she participates in the foundation
of "Gruppo Altro/Lavoro intercodice", made of painters, composers,
poets, dancers, architects, graphic designers and photographers.
With Gruppo Altro, through a methodology of collective work, she carries
out complex research on the possibilities which intercode entails in creative
action, and realizes exhibitions, teaching experiments and theatrical
perfor-mances. This experience ends in 1981 when "ALTRO - Dieci anni
di lavoro intercodice" (Edizioni Kappa) was published.
From 1981 to 1985 Lucia Latour further develops her research within the
contemporary dance context. With the collaboration of the composer Luigi
Ceccarelli, she forms an experimental group with whom she explores new
movement techniques with reference to space, sound and image. Actually
the intercode assumption is still powerful in setting forth its effects
and a european conception of improvisation has in this period been taken
on as a reference technique, with connections to the topics of memory,
automatism, tension and visionary intents.
The group's works are: "Pas d'espace" (1981), "Spatium
Teca" (1983) and "Lalu La" (1985) performed in Italy and
France.
In 1986 Lucia Latour founds ALTROTEATRO Dance Company and defines a new
working theory by setting forth the attempt to destructure the body in
a visionary context and to deprive it of its conventional spatial reference
marks, working against gravity towards new fields of energy and speed.
She replaces the improvisation techniques with "assembly" ones,
according to the idea of a "machine" producing sense and emotion
which, through the tension and confrontation between the different parts
of the project, develops a methodology essential in framing the relationship
between the choreographer and the other artists involved. The works of
this period are: "Frilli Troupe" (1986), "On y tombe …on
n'y tombe" (1988), "Aniccham" (1989), "Naturalmente
tua" (1992).
Lucia Latour has had two significant enduring collaborations: the former
with the composer Luigi Ceccarelli, which she breaks off in 1996, the
latter with Loïc Hamelin, who since 1989 creates the lighting design
of all the performances produced.
In 1997 Lucia Latour forms a new group of dancers with the assistance
of Ketty Russo, who has been dancing in the company since 1988.
Lucia Latour's creations with the new dancers are: "Straballata"
(1997), music by Alvin Curran, "Du vu du non vu" (1998), with
the collaboration of the visual artists Carlo Bernardini, Pino Barillà,
Licia Galizia and Paolo Radi, music by Enrico Venturini, "Šansa"
(1999), music by Enrico Venturini.
From 1978 to 1988 she taught at the National Academy of Dance, in 1985
she taught at the "Silvio D'Amico" Drama Academy.
From 1996 to 2000 she has been directing a workshop of contemporary dance
at the "1st Artistic Lyceum" in Rome.
In 1991 she took part in the foundation of the Centre Européen
pour la Coreographie, directed by Susan Buirge, at the Prémontrés
Abbaye, in France, and in 1992 in the establishment of the LAICC (Liberi
Autori Italiani Coreografi Contemporanei).
From 1993 to 1996 she has been the artistic director of the contemporary
dance festivals Aspidistra and Segni Mobili, in Rome.
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