as part of Fabbrica Europa 2024

Umlaut is a sound between two, the assimilation of two sounds that create a third with a double vocal and sound identity.
One of the questions from which the author starts to outline a choreographic project is: where are the bodies?
What is the space that regulates vision?
How much is it possible to play with the boundaries and aesthetic politics of representation of this space?
In short, what is the first plane of representation?

For Umlaut, at the moment, the answer is the space of the set: television / film set / backstage theatre. Why? Because the theatrical space, in its dialogue between performance and audience, in its constitution as a live event, always points the shadow of the finger at the real, the true, whereas Umlaut wants to further shift the place of representation by emphasising its ambiguity and dealing with the choreographic possibilities of the ‘obscene’ in the sense of ob skené, the off-stage, applying the consequences of a post-truth time.

Within this choreographic environment, among the generative sources present, in addition to the aesthetics and practices of the author’s previous works (in particular ff_fortissimo), Umlaut makes use of the study of two figures and contexts: one belonging to the ballet repertoire Giselle (the second act) and the other Joanne d’Arc (with particular reference to Dreyer’s silent film ‘The Passion of Joan of Arc’).

Vincent Giampino earned his B.A. at the S.N.D.O. School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam. In 2017, his work Panda Express, co-created with Oneka Von Schrader, was a finalist for the “Prix Jardin d’Europe” at ImPulsTanz. In 2018, his creation Extended symmetry was selected by the Network Anticorpi XL for the Vetrina della giovane danza d’autore in Ravenna. He was selected for NID Platform 2019 in Reggio Emilia, in the Open Studios section, with Virtual2 and for the 2023 edition in Cagliari with Umlaut. He presented his works in Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Italy. He has been an associate artist of TIR Danza since 2019.
Currently he is interested in defining a choreographic language around a post-human bodily object that loses its centrality of perspective.

concept, texts: Vincent Giampino
Performance: Greta Francolini, Vincent Giampino
production: TIR Danza
co-production: Lavanderia a Vapore
selected by NID PLATFORM 2023 – Open Studios