“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.” (Italo Calvino)
After my invitation to Dakar Biennial, Italian artist Stefano Canto realized the project “Structures” a work that combines visual art and dance. The artist created a series of concrete and steel sculptures that invaded the exhibition space of the IFAN Museum like skeletons from destroyed cities, while during the performance, a group of dancers directed by the Afro-Italian choreographer, Ashai Lombardo Arop, interacted with them using the installation as an original imaginative device.
In this work, it is the body that defines the architecture. The movements of the dancers complete the structures and architectures draw in the air reminiscent of Le Città Invisibili by Italo Calvino.
After the performance we asked to the dancers what was the feeling about their experience.
