Disambiguation

Elisa Zuppini
June works 2024
With her ensemble work "Disambiguation" for 17 dancers, Zuppini evokes the presence of a self-contained world where the human capacity for sensation and image creation, along with the active presence of non-human forces, are enveloped within a choreographic-machine that is both human-made and selfsustaining. "Disambiguation" emerges as a circuit of sensations woven with media references, fragmented loops, and dissociated postures. The circuit, as it seeks to understand itself and its own functioning, carries the work through its own self-perception. Within this domain, gravity acts as a multifaceted force, morphing within bodies and ultimately affecting not only our physical experience but also our individual, and collective introspective realities.

Credits:
Concept and Choreography: Elisa Zuppini
Creation in collaboration with the performers: Efua-Maria Raknerud Aikins, Kofi Boanyah, Harvet Burke-Hamilton, Tim Brügger, Lola Dupriez, Mandisa Gramelsberger, Jieon Ko, Hope Landu, Federica Lovato, Mia Malencia, Clémence Masakidi, Esteban Alejandro Obregon Moriano, Bo Nijssen, Efua-Maria Raknerud, Ditte Toppet, Rowan van den Boomen, May van Leeuwen, Maren Weertman
Supervisor Sound Editor: Fabian Reichle
Artistic Advisor: Bruno Listopad 
Repetitor: Tamara Beudeker 
Costume Design: Elisa Zuppini, Bruno Listopad 
Songs featured: ‘Distribution of Care’ by Lotic, ‘Fruitcake’ by BFRND

Elisa Zuppini is an Italian choreographer, dancer, and researcher. She studied dance and choreography in Italy, Portugal, and the Netherlands, graduating from the School for New Dance Development (SNDO) in Amsterdam, where she is currently based.
Driven by the philosophical and generative aspects of dance, she became interested in performance and choreography as expanded ways of understanding movement. She currently operates at the intersection of dance and visual arts, using choreographic devices as temporal sculptures. Elisa is the developer of De.sy.re. (Decentralised Systems of Relations), a kinetic technology that explores the body as a system of incorporating forces devoid of a fixed centre and examines how states of introspection can expand new choreographic languages. She received the Young Talent Choreography Award at OpenFLR 2016 and a scholarship to participate in Danceweb Longlife Burning in Vienna in 2018. She has been recognized with residencies at centres such as CAMPUS in Porto, Heidelberg Choreographic Center, FLAM in Amsterdam, and Veem House for Performance. She regularly presents her works in theatres, galleries, museums, and performing arts festivals. As an educator and advisor, she has worked at institutions like the Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts, Jacuzzi, Expanded Contemporary Dance, the University of Pennsylvania, the School for New Dance Development, CAMPUS, and the Rietveld Academy, among others.