Giovanni Leonarduzzi and Lia Claudia Latini are the founders of Compagnia Bellanda. They have seen their Company grow to become one of the most active international realities in the field of new dance, they are also regularly called as dance professors at: Balletto di Roma, Dance Hause-Kataklň of Milan and Opus Bellet (Florence) as well as in countless academies in Europe.
Sympósion is artistic and cultural project, based on three-year research project focused on the complexity of human relationships.
The work on this project is divided on two levels: the first one of image, physical and the second one narrative emotional, these two different planes are linked by philosophical reflection that underlies the creative process. These plans work in parallel, sometimes connected and directly influenced by each other, sometimes autonomously and even in contrast.
It started from the “Speech of Aristophanes” contained in Plato's “Symposium”. The continuous tension in search of the one body. The tension at the physical reunion of two now divided bodies in a perennial desire for reunion, a desire that animates and moves the bodies. The artists were are inspired by the figures of hermaphrodites narrated in Aristophanes' speech: supernatural figures, in strength and shape, with four legs and four arms and with a different and atypical mobility.
Through dance, a universal and direct language, the artists would like to be able to go beyond scepticisms and preconceptions, denying the formal label of a culture that imposes conventional canons and stereotyped models. Dance can offer an interpretation that can go beyond the social stigma in favour of a more open mentality.
Croatian Cultural Centre in Sušak (HKD)
HKD is a public cultural institution that hosts numerous cultural, educational and entertainment programs throughout the year with dance, drama, music, film and multimedia activities, as well as visual arts in the Kortil Gallery. Kortil has been operating as an exhibition space since 1997, with exhibition program open to contemporary domestic and foreign artists, applied art, for exhibitions of artists who marked the art of the 20th century, but at the same time for young authors who are just entering the art scene.
HKD hosts educational programs with dance, drama and music workshops and training for children and young people. It also implements community programs such as Kortil live and has its own volunteering program.
HKD is a member of the European dance networks Aerowaves and Pan-Adria and the music/organizational network MOST Music.