During Lago Film Fest, the observatory is divided into two main components: Performance Live and Moving Bodies, both are curatorial projects and, by necessity and vocation, site-specific. This condition is a fundamental starting point in the conception of each of our projects. It means that the places we inhabit turn into stages and the works that are presented on them are designed to dialogue with their environment: with its architecture, its history, its light, the natural elements that surround it and of course with the people who take part in it. Starting from this first idea we have begun and have continued our journey to create, experiment and innovate.

Looking towards the future, we hope that Lago Dance continues to support the strength of co-production, the idea of an active laboratory and the profound union of all artistic disciplines, making each form converge in a harmonious interaction. In sum, Lago Dance aspires to become a small Bauhaus of dance, a place of experimentation and innovation where the different arts intertwine, take inspiration from each other and invent new creative horizons.

If you would like to participate in this project and send us your video dance work around inclusion to be part of our archive, please fill in this form.

We will select films from this archive to be presented this year or at the upcoming editions of Lago Film Fest – Moving bodies.

You can submit any video dance project free of charge with no limits of time or year of production

With

FRANCESCA POGLIE

performer and curator of Lago Dance

Francesca Poglie is a dancer, choreographer and curator with international experience in the contemporary dance scene. From 2013 to 2018, she was part of the Emanuele Soavi InCompany, under the artistic direction of Emanuele Soavi, performing works such as Ariadne Amore, Relics, Dedalus and Aurea, with choreography by Soavi himself and Susanne Linke. During this time, she collaborated with prestigious institutions such as the Theater im Pfalzbau Ludwigshafen, the Koln Altefeuerwache, the Aachen Festival, the Staatstheater Duisburg, the Cologne Opera and the Gran Teatro La Fenice. Previously, between 2010 and 2011, she danced for the Staatstheater Darmstadt under the direction of Mei Hong Ling, performing choreographies by Mei Hong Ling and Johann Kresnik as well as playing the lead role in Ulrike Meinhof. From 2003 to 2006, she worked with Spellbound Contemporary Ballet, under the artistic direction of Mauro Astolfi.

Throughout her career she has participated in major productions such as AIDA for the Bregenzer Festspiele in 2010, directed by Graham Vick and choreographed by Ron Howell,  Peter and the Wolf in 2009, choreographed by Didy Veldman and assisted by Monica Mengarelli, in collaboration with prestigious theatres such as Hackney Empire Theatre, Leatherhead Theatre, Marlow Theatre, Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Cliff Pavilion Southend and Wales Millennium Centre.

Francesca Poglie holds a degree in Oriental Languages and Literature from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (1999-2003). Since 2019, she has been the movement and choreography assistant for Arcis_Collective, directed by Roberta Pisu while collaborating in the artistic team of Giovanni Napoli. Since 2016 she has been the artistic director and curator of the dance section for Lago Film Fest.

Curatela / Open Call 2018

• TRUST.S S
  ConTrust Collective (Andrea Cadorin, Nicola Lunardelli, Martin Angiuli)
  Coreografia: Malwina Stepien
  Italia / 2018 / 2’17”
  Selezionato dalla 26ª Quinzena de Dança de Almada
• STAKRA
  Sara Bonaventura
  Italia / 2017 / 4’50”
• DIH.BREATH
  Luca Quaia
  Italia / 2016 / 1’05”
• LIQUID PATH
  Mena Riusciano
  Italia / 2013 / 4’00”
• IN THE HOUSE OF MANTEGNA
  Michele Manzini
  Italia / 2017 / 6’39”
• VACUUM
  Salvatore Insana
  Italia / 2018 / 3’04”
• TWIN
  Aliki Chiotaki
  Grecia / 2018 / 1’15”
• VANITAS
  Vinicius Cardoso
  Brasile / 2017 / 5’41”
• NICOLAS GROSCLAUDE #1 (ALL WE CAN DO IS DANCE)
  Thibault Ras
  Francia / 2018 / 2’15”
• ARK[XY]
  Benjamin Juhel
  Francia / 2016 / 5’18”
• EXIT
  Mohanad Yaqubi
  Palestina / 2009 / 10’00”

Curatela / Open Call 2019

• Biscuit op72 n.2
  Jérémy Beaudet, coreografia: Biscuit Skuibi
  Francia / 2018 / 00’36”
• Clepsydra
  Sara Bonaventura, coreografia: Annamaria Ajmone
  Italia / 2018 / 2’28”
• Snags in Palladio
  Michele Manzini, coreografia: Barbara Canal
  Italia / 2015 / 6’20”
• Maids
  Sofia Castro, coreografia: Julieta Ferraro
  Argentina / 2018 / 5’13”
• Talk to me
  Nicolò Asahi Cameroni, coreografia e editing: Annalì Rainoldi
  Italia / 2019 / 6’34”
• BANG
  Jan Vesala, coreografia: Antoinette Helbing
  Danimarca / 2018 / 1’08”
• Silhouettes
  Davide De Lillis, Julia Metzger-Traber, coreografia: Davide De Lillis, Julia Metzger-Traber, Seeds of PossAbility
  Germania / 2018 / 4’05”
• In Between_Quell
  Anna Rose / Katie Sadler, coreografia: Anna Rose
  USA / 2018 / 6’57”
• The Big Race
  John T. Williams, coreografia: Ana da Costa
  USA / 2019 / 10’00”
• ORIGO
  Matteo Bittante, coreografia: Matteo Bittante
  Italia / 2018 / 4’55”
• Mass
  Fu LE & Adrien Gontier, coreografia: Fu LE
  Francia / 2019 / 12’00”
• Traces
  Nicola Hepp, coreografia: Jason Mabana
  Svezia / 2019 / 3’33”
• Fear me, love me
  Veronica Solomon, coreografie: Martha Hincapie Charry, Gabriel Galindez Cruz, Veronica Solomon
  Germania / 2018 / 6’07”

Concorso 2021

• Are As I
  Victor Rotier
  Germania / 2020 / 8’00”
• DON’T KISS. mov
  Carl Olsson
  Svezia / 2020 / 8’00”
• The Broken Phone Project
  Sara Europaeus
  Olanda / 2020 / 4’00”
• Disconnect
  Gregory Samson
  Olanda / 2020 / 4’00”
• Where We’re Going
  Heidi Duckler, Katherine Helen Fisher
  USA / 2019 / 3’00”
• Fibonacci
  Tomáš Hubáček
  Repubblica Ceca / 2020 / 8’00”
• Tradere
  Ignasi Castañé
  Spagna / 2020 / 5’00”
• Toporzel
  Iwona Pasińska
  Polonia / 2019 / 9’00”
• Earth Odissey
  Adi Halfin
  Vari Paesi / 2020 / 4’00”
• My Womb
  Martina Trepczyk
  Austria/Polonia / 2019 / 3’00”
• In Media Res
  Anthony Valon
  Francia / 2020 / 6’00”
• Tournant
  Gemma Rijnders
  Olanda / 2020 / 11’00”

Concorso 2022

• ONTKOPPELING
  Collective 2Deform
  Germania / 2021 / 7’00”
• Yurodivy
  Ryan Renshaw
  Australia / 2022 / 3’00”
• Anamnesis
  Evaggelia Lousioti
  Grecia / 2022 / 2’00”
• Moving through Waiting Rooms
  Sarah Choo Jing
  Singapore / 2022 / 6’00”
• IO|OI
  Francesco Lorusso
  Italia / 2022 / 8’00”
• Downfall
  Rona Fayad
  Libano / 2022 / 3’00”
• Shifting Tools
  Mattia Cursi & Francesca Santamaria
  Italia / 2022 / 1’00”
• La Galerie
  Loup-William Théberge
  Canada / 2022 / 11’00”

Concorso 2023

• Decoherence
  Adrijan Assoufi
  Canada/Brasile / 2023 / 3’18”
• They dance with their heads
  Thomas Corriveau
  Canada / 2023 / 8’27”
• Saphi
  J. Cano Larumbe
  Spagna / 2023 / 2’34”
• 7y98D
  Jeff Hamada & David Ehrenreich
  Canada / 2023 / 12’14”
• Fresh oranges into the ocean
  Silvia Giordano, Nuanda Sheridan
  Italia / 2023 / 11’11”
• Man Up
  Leve Kühl, Vera M. Schmidt, Marie Scholjegerdes
  Germania / 2023 / 4’30”
• Gloïne
  Giovanna Pesce Dalla Francesca
  Italia / 2023 / 3’58”

Film Osservatorio 2024

• HOC EST CORPUS MEUM
  Omotesando
  Spagna / 2024 / 1’30”
• SWAN
  Omotesando
  Spagna / 2023 / 1’20”
• Thorn (COLLAB CINEDANS)
  Alexander Stamatiadis, coreografia: Karim Khouader
  Grecia / 2022 / 8’48”
• Abbiosis
  Lucía García Paz
  Spagna / 2021 (Prima italiana) / 10’00”
• SOMA
  Arturo Bandinelli
  Spagna / 2023 / 10’00”
• Water Improvisation (COLLAB COORPI)
  Vera Daidone
  Italia / 2015 / 1’09”
• Nous n’attendrons plus les barbares (COLLAB COORPI)
  Alain El Sakhawi
  Italia / 2016 / 8’21”
  Produzione: COORPI – La Danza in 1 minuto (edizione 2015)
  Co-produzione: Scenario Pubblico / CZD Centro di Produzione della Danza
• Lucid Green (COLLAB ZED FESTIVAL)
  Joseph Gebrael
  Libano / 2020 / 4’48”
• 96 Samosas
  Marion Schrotzenberger
  Francia/Belgio / 2024 / 6’32”
• Bellydance Vogue
  Hadi Moussally
  Libano, Francia, Spagna / 2020 / 5’00”
• Oh Boy!
  Hadi Moussally
  Francia / 2019 / 10’00”