MOPS_DanceSyndrome
Choreus Numinis
© Photo by: MOPS_Mario Curti
Choreus Numinis
© Photo by: MOPS_Mario Curti
Choreus Numinis
© Photo by: MOPS_Mario Curti
CCC_Collective Culture Conscientia
© Photo by: MOPS_DanceSyndrome
A photograph from CCC_Collective Culture Conscientia by MOPS_DanceSyndrome depicting four dancers standing in a row, all connected by their arms. Each one is dressed in a different brightly coloured leotard; red, green, yellow and blue.
Sublime SporciX
© Photo by: MOPS_Mario Curti
A photograph from Sublime SporciX by MOPS_DanceSyndrome depicting a dancer leaning forward holding a white stuffed toy. She is on a stage with an audience in the background.
A Caress from the Universe
© Photo by: MOPS_Fulvio Pettinato
A photograph from A Caress from the Universe by MOPS_DanceSyndrome depicting three dancers on a stage with smoke rising from the background. The dancer in the foreground is making a dance movement with her arms in different directions, and the two in the background are stood with their hands on their hips looking in a different direction. They have a naked torsos and are obscured by the smoke.
Sublime SporciX
© Photo by: MOPS_Paolo Battaglia
A photograph from MOPS by MOPS_DanceSyndrome depicting two dancers facing different directions stood side by side, and staring at each other. Both are wearing brown coloured tops with some sheepskin attached.
Lo scintillio della brina
© Photo by: MOPS_Massimo Pedrazzini
A photograph from Lo scintillio della brina by MOPS_DanceSyndrome depicting a performer sitting on a large beanbag with her arms outstretched. In the background are two more performers sitting back to back on another beanbag. The backdrop is blue.
Contact details
Ela Franscella
Founder, choreographer, and artistic director
MOPS_DanceSyndrome
Contemporary Dance School & Company
CH-6600 Locarno
Switzerland
Artistic Directors
Ela Franscella
Online
Email: info@mopsdancesyndrome.com
Website: http://www.mopsdancesyndrome.com/index_en.html
CCC_Collective Culture Conscientia
Duration: 21
Description: CCC_Collective Culture Conscientia brings the audience to reflect on the dimension of authentic knowledge and is inspired by "Museum to scale 1/7", hundred ‘rooms’ with original work from contemporary Belgian artists. CCC invites the audience to go beyond the rooms of consciousness, in a qualitative and individual research of one's self-awareness.
Extra information: Type of venue: Art museum, art gallery, school, conference hall
Space needed: 5 x 8 meters
Technical specifications (not obligatory): 4 par led, 4 white fresnel led, PA system for music with CD or USB player with min 2x1500W speakers
Time needed on location (set-up, performance and wrap-up): 6 hours
Max number of performances in one day: 2
People on road: 4 dancers - 1 choreographer - 1 technician - 3 assistants
Freight: none
Sublime SporciX
Duration: 21
Description: Sublime SporciX invites the audience to reflect on the intrinsic bond between the human being and the animal and the movement's awareness become ring of conjunction amid reality and fiction. In a mysterious equilibrium, wild and wise, the danced expression meets the imaginary and the meditation on a path of continuous transformation.
Extra information: Typer of venue: Art museum, art gallery, school, conference hall
Space needed: 5.5 x 5.5 meters
Technical specifications (not obligatory): 4 par led, 4 white fresnel led, PA system for music with CD or USB player with min 2x1500W speakers, video projector
Time needed on location (set-up, performance and wrap-up): 6 hours
Max number of performances in one day: 2
People on road: 4 dancers - 1 choreographer - 1 technician - 3 assistants
Freight: none
Choreus Numinis
Duration: 21
Description: Choreus Numinis is the result of an in-depth study of a selection of artworks chosen from the masterpieces permanently exposed at the Museum Ghisla Art Collection in Locarno, artworks that have significantly marked the contemporary art scene: the action painting, the Pop Art, the south American expressiveness and the programmed Italian art.
Extra information: Type of venue: art museum, art gallery, school, conference hall
Space needed: 6 x 4 meters or 5 different positions measuring an average of 15 square meters
Technical specifications (not obligatory): 5 par led, 5 white fresnel led, video projector
Time needed on location (set-up, performance and wrap-up): 4 hours
Max number of performances in one day: 3
People on road: 4 dancers - 1 choreographer - 1 technician - 3 assistants
Freight: none
MOPS_DanceSyndrome offers workshops, raising-awareness presentations, and post-show talks. Every activity is custom tailored to the event, the participants, and the atmosphere. Please contact info@mopsdancesyndrome.com for more information.
“Un evento particolare, strano, anche spiazzante, che nel nome della danza può raggiungere un nuovo ecumenismo” (“This is an unusual event, strange, certainly, but also disorienting, with the potential to achieve a new ecumenism in the name of dance”)
Mauro Pecchenino, Editor, The International Newsmagazine
“La coreografia culla in un onirico misticismo, sfiora il pubblico con la lievità dei gesti, la grazia della semplicità […]” (“A cradle in a dream-like mysticism, this choregraphy touches the audience with the lightness of gestures, the grace of simplicity […]”)
Maurizio Canetta, Director, Radiotelevisione Svizzera di lingua Italiana (RSI)
Latest Video
The heart, soul and body of MOPS: a video portrait of a unique project in Europe. The video MOPS - The Natural Order: using words, sounds and images, it takes you on a voyage of discovery of the philosophy and the world of the MOPS_DanceSyndrome. This short video portrait describes some of the milestones achieved by a project that has no parallel anywhere else in Switzerland and Europe, a project whose constituent elements are art, culture and social awareness and that has grown and flourished in the course of the last ten years.
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