"Rethink Dance": Alessandra Ferri

Nothing knew. These thoughts have been bothering us for quite a while now. But Miss Ferri has a strong marketing power and her statements get lots of attention. Whatever. It is good that at least somebody is being heard when speaking of this issue… A very important one!

Copyright: Shoko Matsuhashi

Rethink the dance

Intense debate if any. What happened to dance as art.

"I'm a critic; I'm also worried," he indicates, as he stares into infinity. It is that dance, at its discretion, has adopted tendencies that take it away from what gives it deep meaning: the intention to communicate and tell something in an artistic way. Physical deployment and preparation based on the achievement of acrobatic skills, in order to win contests that award this type of development, seem to have taken the scene of young dance students worldwide. And it is in these frames that, eventually, art loses ground to leave room for the valuation of movement by movement itself, without more.

And he explains: "There's a very good side about competitions, which is that the guys have the opportunity to meet each other, to observe different levels - to measure - to win a scholarship, but I think the problem is with the judges. As jurors, it is our responsibility to maintain the artistic level. We have an obligation to say 'yes, this kid can do 8 spinners, so what? what's up with that? Do I want to see that on stage? '. I believe as artists we have a responsibility to observe art and not just the physical or athletic part that comes with dance. So the boys have their teachers pushing them to do more pirouettes, more jumps, more skills at the age of fifteen, sixteen to do well in the competition. But that's not the point, that's not dancing. That's one kind of competitive dance: a performance that gets a score and has more to do with the Olympics than dance. Dancers are supposed to try to do something different, which is to communicate on a higher level through dance. The way music or painting does too. It's not about applauding someone who can jump high; that's a trick. It's a circus. And I don’t want to be a part of it.”

Alexandra Ferri.