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Collaborations

Here you will find works I have been collaborating artistically in the conception and in the choreography.

SPLASHES

SPLASHES is a performance collectively created by Augusto Pirodda, pianist active in the improvisation and jazz scene, Claudia Ignoto, visual artist experimenting with live analogical projections, Alexandros Anastasiadis and Margherita Dello Sbarba, both dancers and choreographers.

Imagine a transforming painting: organic liquid forms, vivid colors, live created with fluids and objects on an overhead projector. Let the room be flooded by this painting. Mirrors, reflective surfaces, bodies, walls… Now add a pianist and two dancers.
That’s the recipe for SPLASHES a visual, sonic and physical journey in two parts. The project is a transdisciplinary collaboration between the four artists; they invite you to experience the unfolding of each unique moment.

Embodied Fluidity

Embodied Fluidity is a lecture performance that happened in 2024 for the Invisible Actants, AHRA PhD symposium at the AA School for Architecture in London. It is a collaboration between the dancer Margherita Dello Sbarba, the architect Takako Hasegawa, the visual artist Kirsty Badenoch, the community and theatre artist Jonathan Ben-Shaul.
For the Roundtable we created a participatory dialogue through live investigative activities.
Rather than presenting ourselves prior to a discussion, we set the condition for a live happening during
which our engagements and research concerns revealed themselves through the course of
intertidal actions. By responding to each other in our own languages – moving, drawing, making,
voicing, writing, in conjunction with some visuals; we registered our physical live dialogues in some form of tangible evidences.

ODDACITY collective

In 2022 Margherita co-funded the collective ODDACITY, together with Tamora Dinklage, Anna Roßmüller, Sebastian Varra, Dimitrios Vasilakis and Vincent Köhr. Under Oddacity they are finding ways to work together collaboratively, non-hierarchically and co-creatively. As a cluster of artists, they are looking for ways to work together and create interdisciplinary performances based on the interweaving of their individual approaches to dance/mediation/performance as well as the common desire to engage in social and political discourse through their artistic work.

DREAMS (2021)

“Sharing a dream means disclosing deeper aspects of personal empowerment” (Lee Irwin)

Dreams is a duo based on real dreams created and performed by Margherita Dello Sbarba and Francesco D'Amelio, the original music was composed and performed by Justyna Niznik.

The performance is a collection of dream fragments, a succession of scenes that are apparently incongruent but united by the aesthetics and theme of dreams. Dancing choreographies alternate with theatrical scenes with original texts written by Francesco D'Amelio. A journey between imagination and reality to awaken the dormant dreams in each of us.

Choreography and interpretation: Margherita Dello Sbarba, Francesco D'Amelio
Music: Justyna Niznik

WOLKEN (2019)

In the piece "Wolken", the musicians Álvaro Núñez Carbullanca and Moritz Wesp and the dancers Francesco D'Amelio and Margherita Dello Sbarba blur boundaries. They are interested in the moment in which they no longer appear as dancers or musicians, but as "operators" who use different forms of expression. Movements, sounds and things become equal materials that can be heard and felt.

tanzhaus nrw Düsseldorf for Now&Next

BATH (2019)

Bath is a collective multi-sensorial experience, which tries to establish new kinds of relations between the participants. As the action unfolds the difference between performers and public dims until it disappears completely, there are only participants, sharing that moment, stepping together into the unknown. In its simplicity Bath opens possibilities of change and transformation. The hierarchical system is overcome, we are all the same body yet different, each needing to be listened to, to be approached with care.

Created with: Francesco D'Amelio

Presented at the Symposium Dance/Music trans-disciplinary practice at the Hochschule for Music und Tanz Köln. Tour in China in August 2019: Nanjing, Wuhu, Shanghai.