Work | Tiziana Longo

Toro

Solo dance Performance

2024 Theater Xcai, Tokyo

Concept, Dramaturgy, Dance: Tiziana Longo
Music & Light Design: Masaru Soga
Photo : Makino Hiroshi
Guest: Soprano Singer Marielle Murphy

Ole' Ole' Ole' Ole' Ole' !!!
In Spain, the "toro", the star bull, has no chance of survival in the so-called "corrida", the bullfight. Stripped of his strength, he suffers a brutal humiliation and collapses, drowning in blood.

Toro has no way out. Is it the end or the beginning?

He has always been the victim.
Until now.
But now...
This piece portrays the journey of a toro in his lonely and sacrificial way, far away from any matadors, patriarchal rules, abuse, violence, sexism and gender discrimination.

Apiece about grief, resilience and letting go
A ritual performance of "unplayable" cinematic pictures, with humour, contrasts, twists and turns, blended with the surreal fantasies of romantic vintage Italian cinema.
Toro: taking agency and subverting the idea of the pretty woman?

The piece presents nudity

MUT

Concept, dance, installation idea, audience's handmade gift : Tiziana Longo
Music composition and violin: Hoshiko Yamane

Performed in Tokyo, Berlin, Sydney, Bruxelles, Riga

2017-2018-2019-2024

Information is essential to strengthening one's critical attitude. Dance is essential and has the power to keep it human and touch the people directly.

How often can I see what is in front of me?
How often do we read the news without having an idea of the depth of that reality? We are every day bombarded by the news we read, acknowledge the conflicts, war, games of power, domination, manipulation abuse but we rarely deeply get touched by them. Until it touches us personally until such prejudices touch not just an immigrant or refugee but somebody we love, our friend, family, our daughter, mother.
We are used to hearing such news, throw away the newspaper, and continue the daily life as always. But if the newspaper could take life, crackles, swell, explode what would we see? What would come out of it? What kind of visual and body experience will be there for the audience?

Shifting from personal to public news, this piece is a collective solo that includes stories from many women of different countries and cultures that come to be taken as icons to represent the contradicted faces of our society. For the woman and human rights the word "MUT", courage in German, in ancient Egyptian language was referred to a mother goddess, a primal deity of water, the cosmic mother that gives birth to live. “MUT” means also mutilated/mutual/multiracial.
About nowadays's media's domination and manipulation, individual, cultural and religious identity's conflicts, about nationalism, racism and prejudices
How can we open up and peel off our masks to stand and find back who we really are?
“MUT” encourages new actions toward dignity, equality, and freedom.

ACQUA/Wie die Steine auf dem Grund des Flusses
ACQUA/Come le pietre sul letto del fiume

Concept/Images/Dramaturgy and Dance: Tiziana Longo

Music Composition: Hoshiko Yamane

Installation and Costume: Almyra Weigel

Supported by Bezirksamt Neukölln von Berlin for the Festival an der Kunstbrücke am Wildenbruch

In the frame of the Initiative "Draussenstadt", the project has been selected for the Festival "Uber Wasser"

The toilet facility at the Wildenbruch bridge, transformed by the municipality in a gallery, between the Weingandufer canal and Wildendenbruchplatz is the occasion of the gathering and celebration. The municipality has invited artists to create a project around it with the theme: on the water.

All the events are happening outside and are free of charge.

ACQUA/Wie die Steine auf dem Grund des Flusses is a site-specific performance tailored-suit to Weigandufer Canal next to Wildenbruckplatz.

The performance itself is an ichi-go ichi-e 一期一会 journey.

One time and only in a lifetime!

In this performance I was injured from 3 weeks ago with a lesion at the Meniscus. But I was there.

I am thankful to Bezirk Pankow for the support

Do you see the flowers?
After such a long, hard period of global pandemic locked up at home: Water! The desire to be reborn and to bloom
Watering our vital forces, our spirit, our existence
like watering flowers
Healing is a slow process
And the river is long

You heal when you decide which boat to take Board it
Floating

Floating
on the water
It's the water
A floating object moves
It is the object of the dream...
the unconscious floating on the river of consciousness...
We stand in our existence like stones.
The stones of this river seem hard and unfeeling
We lie down in our existence like stones
The stones in this river look hard, but they are by the water formed The water flows through

We are all passed through

Performed in Berlin, lo Weigandufer/Wildenbruchplatz

Opening by City Councilor for Culture Karin Korte and gallery manager Dorothee Bienert

As part of the Berlin-wide DRAUSSENSTADT initiative, the Culture Department is organizing the “Über Wasser” festival from September 17th to 19th, 2021 at the Kunstbrücke am Wildenbruch.

Over the three days, various artists and artist collectives present 14 very different actions and audiovisual performances over the water, at the former ship landing area, around the Wildenbruchpark and on the newly designed Weigandufer.

In this performance I was injured from 3 weeks ago with a lesion at the Meniscus. But I was there.

I am thankful to Bezirk Pankow for the support

TERRA MADRE

A Photo/Body Installation Project
Dramaturgy and Dance: Tiziana Longo
Photo : Gabriele Cafici
Photographed in the Necropolis of Pantalica, Sicily

TERRA MADRE is the first series of a collaborative site-specific project set in Sicily with the Sicilian photographer and architectural designer Gabriele Cafici who has been working for many years on the theme of identity, roots, and Heimat Land, (Terra Madre). His work between light and shadow, reality and fiction, tells the poetry of life, the passing of time, the folds of existence and dig into the many layers of who we ultimately are, where do we come from.

The local dimension portraited in a wider anthropological frame evokes emotional states and morphological aspects where the daily life full of habits, costumes, and cultures becomes art through photography.

I have started this collaboration with Gabriele to heighten the hidden wonders of our Land, Sicily, a land full of magical landscapes, raw genuineness, generosity, and volcanic love.

After a long time we return

When the Mother Earth

The Touch

The Fire of Etna

The Hearth

That goes out harmoniously

every time as always

To be reborn intact

Every morning

like a flower

You

ARIA

Solo Performance/ Spatial experience/ Live music

Concept, Dance, Installation: Tiziana Longo / Motimaru Dance Violin: Hoshiko Yamane Organ: Peter Bretsch
Costume: Tiziana Longo/ Almyra Weigel
Performed at Zionskirche, Berlin in October 2020 and in St. Christoforus Kirche for Festival 48 Stunde Neukolln in June 2021

Claustrophobic home-officing, exceeding "ZOOMed-online" sessions, how is the body of nerves, bones, muscles, skin, surface and its depth reacting to all of this? Due to the current Covid- 19 worldwide pandemic, the life of everybody has changed with the social restrictions, distance, and lockdowns.
Covered by masks outside and yet still touched by an air that is constantly threatening our life's safety, living in the uncertainty and possibility to be contaminated, constricted to be isolated, closed at home, avoiding social contact and touch, how are the body and sensory nervous system functioning and responding?
In our daily life what stimuli come and how can these be translated in terms of proprioception- the sense of position and movement-? What kind of influence is the pandemic's situation giving to the field of performance and dance? How are the styles, the forms, the genres moving and where?
The piece in form of a 'Spacial Experience In-progress' represents the journey of this last 1 year and how humans are living the new "AIR".

Aria

Wind

something you can't grasp

ARIA

The story of a nun sardine
Aria Ariare Ariata AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRR IA' Air To be breathe in
breathed touched
The fire rages
Invisible
Intangible
He takes someone away
Touch
Breath
The fear that separates us
What is that'?
Is it real or fictional? Is it suspiciousness?
Is it indifference to touch?
Is it the lack of touch?
What touch? whose ? Air? It is disbelief ?The belief?
Did it ever touch you?
Did I ever touch you?
Did you?

ACQUA

Concept, dance and costume idea: Tiziana Longo

Costume realization: Elya Yalonetski

Water and Watering waterly

The desire to be born, grow, mature, bloom, cherish and perish.

And being Re-born!

Performed at Panke River in Berlin in the occasion of Elya Yaloneski's Art Promenade Project, in August 2020

SPAGHETTI

Concept, Choreography and dance: Tiziana Longo (Motimaru)

Daily reality converted into a surreal dimension becomes a dream where the human emotions melt into each other until the Zero root. There the transformation progresses and becomes change, innovation, absurdity in its full creative power. The future succulent sauce to be tasted.
Buon Appetito!

Performed at Tatwerk, Berlin, in 2019

GANGSTERS

Direction, choreography, costume by Tiziana Longo

with Toni Starker, Joanna Jani, and Marylin Moradian

Initially inspired by the paintings »Conformity«, »Uniformity« of Nina L Felice. It explores through subtle body movements the fixity of the body and its possibility of deconstruction and reconstruction. Between dream and reality, tragic and comic, sacred and profane the piece portrait three ordinary women who turn to be gangsters

What is their crime?

Performed in Berlin at Tatwerk, in Berlin, in August 2019

ME TOO

Concept and dance: Tiziana Longo

How many women have been attacked on 10? And how many men on 10?

It is possible to be attacked in a Tibetan Monastery.

Sometimes, in the churches priests have been abusers.

It was the father, a grandfather, a family's friend.

An acquaintance man told me that such a thing happen also because of the way I, you, we, were smiling, or moving...

What do you think? What does your sister think? Your mother?

When human beings are experiencing any kind of violence, manipulation, trauma, extraordinary powers come to be activated ..

they are happening too quickly while a feeling of being overwhelmed smashed us

It can be extremely difficult to deal with it

And it might take time until it heals... but it will radically be a spiritual transformation

Performed in Acker Stadt Palast, Berlin, in 2019

O

Solo dance
Concept, Dance: Tiziana Longo
Supervision: Motoya Kondo Music: Hoshiko Yamane Costume: Jean Beißel

Performed in Acker Stadt Palast Theater, Berlin in 2019

A journey where borders between stage and audience blur in search of what disappear forever
remains if remains
comes back

Tu Tun Tu Tun Tu Tun Tu Tun Piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiii iiiii iiii iii ii i i i i i O

Performed in Acker Stadt Palast, Berlin, in 2018

AKA

“赤AKA” Vol. 1-5

Concept, Dance, Installation: Tiziana Longo / Motimaru Dance
Costume: Tiziana Longo

A series of body and mind movement researches on the topic of the “Feminine”
Feminine refers not to Feminism but to human quality.
In „赤AKA/RED“ continues Motimaru's research on the movement behind the movement.
What is there behind? And behind the behind?
The night event includes 3 performances, a solo, a trio and a solo.

Performed in Berlin at UTERO, Supalife Kiosk Galery, Helmodtplatz Nachbarschaft, Tatwerk 2016-2019

LOVE FOR A

Project. OA ∞ Orbital Aritual | Love for A"

Concept & Dance: Motimaru (Motoya Kondo/Tiziana Longo) x IZEN (Hong Kong)

"Love for Aritual/ Love for A" was a body installation with the live music of Izen.

During this time I was working with the piece MUT and I brought an open version of the first and second scene of that.

I was researching with the material of the newspaper on the theme of texture, surfaces and depths.

Performed in Bergen Kyott, Norway in October 2017

MARE
FUORI DAI DENTI A PIEDI NUDI

Performance/ Spatial experience for photo shooting captured bu IRIGENIA ProudActions
Concept, Dance: Tiziana Longo

Danzare a piedi nudi

fuori dai denti

quando le metamorfosi sono l' equilibrio e il mare finisce

Dove il mare finisce poi ricomincia

Performed in Santorini, Greece, in 2016

STILL LIFE

“STILL LIFE”

Concept, Dance, Installation: Tiziana Longo & Motoya Kondo / Motimaru

This was a performative actions for a photo shooting session in Santorini captured by IRIGENIA ProudActions

Santorini, Greece, September 2016

TWILIGHT

Direction, Concept, Choreography, Dance : Motoya Kondo, Tiziana Longo

Music : Hoshiko Yamane

When we deeply love somebody without any reservation, we can totally feel the other with the body physically, as well as with the mind metaphysically. In such an empathic space, the borderline of the self start fading and the dualism in between melting.
What emerges in the “TWILIGHT” is an intermediate state where not only Me and You, but dancers and audience, man and woman, human and animal, life and death, everything and nothing, start blurring into vague forms where all the boundaries, contours, shapes and colours disappear altogether in space and time. A new landscape comes to life, a sacred cave to enter, that functions through the dance as a mirror for the audience to reflect on himself/ herself. The movement that lies behind the strong images and their aesthetics is a polyphonic pure motion, like an unceasing stream, overcoming any ordinary rhythm and choreography and where the real and the mythical intermingle.

This is an invitation to listen back to the physical empathy and to enter the realm of the unseen, beyond consciousness. The piece intends to offer a refuge for contemporary society that is fulfilled with conflicts between individuals, countries, and religions, by connecting back to deep physical reality and to even more profound dream-like transient world. A place where to pray and hope and where imagination, emotions and the inner higher qualities of the human nature come to be disclosed and expanded.

Performed from 2015 to 2019 in Instambul, Maastricht, Berlin, Tokyo, Sydney, Antwerp, Basel

BODILY NEWS

Concept, Direction, Dance: Tiziana Longo, Motoya Kondo
Music: Hoshiko Yamane

Everyday we are bombed with news.
In some cases of some country the original news are manipulated by the media and the companies standing behind them.
Everyday the same news comes to be broadcasted from a country to another in different ways, tones and filters according to the politics, which newspaper, radio or TV channel are supporting and the country's policy.
Economical interests, past or present history, and different cultures are going to influence what we are going to listen, to read, to think and project on.
All these news told by words come to be absorbed into the body reaching our mind, generating emotions, thoughts, easy judgments... judging the world without a direct experience of reality, starting from the way things look to me, that most of the time is not how the things are but how I am projecting my emotions or thoughts on them...
But what happens if we take out this mantel of rains of information and projections?

Performed in Tatwerk , Berlin in 2015

HEIMAT

Concept/Dance: Motimaru (Tiziana Longo/Motoya Kondo)

What is homeland? What stays belonging if the home comes to be destroyed or swept away by a tsunami or earthquake, an atomic explosion? What is than heimat?

Performed at the Japanisch Deutsch Zentrum in Berlin in 2012

PEACOCK

Concept: Peacock & Goldsmith

Dance: Motimaru (Motoza Kondo/Tiziana Longo)

In this performance for the band Peacock and Goldsmith there were two archetypical figures, half human half not.

A very old sacred animal soul in a young girl body

2013 At.tension Festival, Laerz, Germany

All photos by Peacock

SHIROKUROCHAN

Concept, Coreography & Dance: Motimaru (Tiziana Longo/Motoya Kondo)

The idea and the title in Japanese are influenced by a Japanese Comics titled “Tekkonkinkreet”.

White and Black, like in Taoism conception of Ying and Yang, are little creatures that represent the two contradicted elements of the Universe: Good and Evil, woman and Man, the West and the East, Heaven and Earth. Wishing that in their distance (間) there will be always the balance, the difference, coexisting in the infinity of love.

Venezia Biennale "Marathon of the unexpected" 2010, Venice, Italy

SEPPUN/BACIO

Bacio profondo/ Deep kiss/ Seppun

There are many countries, many different stories. Everybody speaks his own language. Lives are born, lives fade out, people fall in love, people separate.

What is connecting each other? What is separating?

Dedicated to who has something to forgive or be forgiven.

Performed in Tokyo Terpsichore Theater, Japan 2009

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