#aerodanze

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Giannina Censi, Aerodanze.

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Giannina Censi: Aerodanze, Courtesy of Man Museo D'Arte Nuoro, Archivio MART, Rovereto

One of the most famous Italian dancers and choreographers, Milan-born Giannina Censi created a new form of movement for Futurism. She trained at La Scala, leaving at 17 to move to Paris, continuing her classical dance education. Once there, she spent her spare time taking Indian and Spanish dance lessons, expanding both her repertoire and her body’s capabilities. By the time she met Marinetti, Censi’s range and knowledge of movements initiated what he would call a “metallism” of dance, reinventing the medium for a Futurist audience. Her piece Aerodanza saw her body contort, arched dramatically backward and forwards in mechanical motion, moving in an entirely new way. “My body had to express what the plane was doing,” she said. “It flew and above all gave the impressions of these trembling wings, of the trembling apparatus.” https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/10840/five-female-futurists-who-thrived-during-arts-most-misogynistic-movement

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Giannina Censi: “Aerodanze: partenza di aeroplano/ (departure of the airplane)” Photo from the book Cultura fisica delta donna ed estetica femmenile by G. Poggi-Longostrevi (Milan: Hoepli, 1933), 247. Reproduced with permission of Mart, Archivio del '900 di Rovereto (Italy), Fondo Giannina Censi.