Michele Rizzo

2014 - 2017

Michele Rizzo developed his interest in art and performance in Italy, where he studied piano, dance technique, and architecture. In 2011 he graduated from the SNDO (School for New Dance Development) in Amsterdam. As a performer he worked with a.o. Nicole Beutler & Ulrike Quade, Diego Gill & Igor Dobricic and Emio Greco | Pieter C. Scholten. In addition to his work as a performer and maker, Rizzo regularly gives workshops at the SNDO in Amsterdam and at international festivals.

In 2014 he developed M, an on-going project, which will take the form of a performance, exhibition and magazine in collaboration with dramaturge Igor Dobricic and various visual artists including Daniel Vom Keller, Katarzyna Szugajew and Erwin Olaf. This project was supported by ICK, Nagib (Maribor) and Dansmakers Amsterdam. With the support of ICK Higher (2015) and Spacewalk (2017) were also created.

Website

www.michelerizzo.wordpress.com

Project M

This project proceeds from an attempt to offer a glimpse Iinto the life of a contemporary dance maker at work in a studio. More specifically, it concerns Michele Rizzo's idiosyncratic approach to such a life - his particular personal way of dealing with a situation of embodying, on a daily basis, the double position of a choreographer and a dancer at work. The paradox of this project and a main dramaturgical and performatilve point of research contained in it is how, in a literal rather than metaphorical sense, to make an invisible, hidden creative process into a valid (visible) public product without compromising the integrity of either. In this sense, the project explores the limits of invisibility and visibility and self-reflection in the work of a dance artist, both from a personal and a theatrical perspective.