Keeping update about your job it is the most\nimportant thing to maintain a high-quality job performance. Before covid-19 hit\nthe city, I was attending local performances every week. Unfortunately, now it\nis not happening so I\u2019m watching at least three choreographic work online every\nweek; keeping track of upcoming work from well-known companies around the world\n(like works in progress and future projects). I\u2019m researching on dance websites\nupcoming projects or performances to attend as a member or audience, most of\nall from local or newborn companies. Reading blogs, magazines, newspapers is\nalso another way I use to keep track of what is happening in Europe and USA.\nBut, most of all, the best thing I do to keep me update in studying the past:\ndance history, post modernism, visual art, pioneers of contemporary and\nreadying-watching their work. Last, but not least, since dance is more and more\nmoving towards the multimedia production, I\u2019m studying visual arts and doing\ncurses or videography and photography trying to apply the same method in\nchoreography. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
NY\nGlam: <\/strong>Do you have\nyour own choreography? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Yes, I do. And this is why I shaped S|R|P|Z, to\ndefine and outline my choreographic work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n S|R|P|Z is my\ncreative space to give room to my own voice and vision collaborating with\nvarious artists and non-artist in the hope to achieve my mission as artist and\nhuman being. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Right now, it is\njust me founding my projects connecting with people sharing my work with\norganizations in events or creating events. I\u2019m working on it to create a solid\nteam or to expand an already existing business to set the network and to turn\ninto a company or no profit organization. My dream is to have different\nlocations around USA and EU trying to create a corporation of artist to inspire\neach other and make a safe creative space. <\/p>\n\n\n\n NY\nGlam:<\/strong> What are your goals as a\nchoreographer?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This is why my mission\n<\/strong>is \u201cto normalize art and to empower minorities\u201d. \u201cTo normalize art\u201d because\nI feel that between the \u201cordinary people\u201d and artists there is a wall. Artists\nare no- necessary & not well-paid workers and every time I share, I\u2019m an\nartist people ask me the typical question \u201cwhat is it your real job?\u201d and\nunfortunately, it is true that being an artist most of the time does not paid\nyour rent. But the things that bother me the most is that people things I\u2019m not\ndoing nothing everyday living in my own clouds. Also<\/strong>, in another hand,\nartists create this wall: thinking about ballerinas create this iconic ideal of\nperfection that most of the time scare people letting feel them inferior, or\ncontemporary pieces that are way to abstract without description without\nhelping the audience to understand the message behind. I want to make art\nfor people<\/strong>, I want to be a bridge to welcome people to the art world\nwithout feeling judge or overwhelmed. I want to make art that speak about\npeople, giving my point of view to understand the world and to let people think\nabout it. This is the reason behind my goal to introduce art into\n\u201cnon-artistic\u201d environments, to let art be our daily routine letting it be\nunderstandable and normalized. This is why, also, my priority is to help the\ncategory of minorities.<\/strong> As a spokeswoman of minorities (immigrant, lgbtqa+,\ndancer) I want to give voice to social issues that people tend to forget. Part\nof my passion of this, it is because before to move to NYC I worked in a mental\nhealth care center and it was heart breaking to see how people were judge or\nforget from the society, and they are just people with dreams and passion. I want to use art as a non-activist documentary of this world to\nexplain what it should be changed, to give some possibilities of change and\ncreate space of reflection. <\/p>\n\n\n\n NY\nGlam:<\/strong> What\ndoes choreography mean to you? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Choreography is my voice and my vehicle to spread my mission. It\nis my artistic\/visual point of view of how I see the world, to outline social\nissues that needs to be solved, portrait a new ideal solutions or fertile environment\nto grow reflections. A healing process of self-discovery from inside to outside\nand from outside to outside. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I believe as each\nindividual in this world that have been choosing a career, I choose to express\nmy opinion through art, and I\u2019ll use it to contribute to this world to make a\nbetter place for everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n NY\nGlam:<\/strong> How\nwould you describe your choreography style? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n As I said before, the need to have technical dance companies is fundamental for the dance world to keep existing, but my bases are going in the opposite direction. In my choreographies you will always find a technique base, contaminated from the dynamic of the urban dances- since that was my training and education for most of my dance career. But I\u2019m not going to use technique just to show off it, I\u2019m going to use technique to deliver a message: the human being conditions. So, grounded movements, pedestrian patterns, daily life actions and storytelling are going to be always present in my work. My work it will never impress because of the extremely high technique, it will impress because each human being will fill a bit a part of it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n NY\nGlam:<\/strong> Describe\nyour biggest accomplishment to date?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n My biggest accomplishment is not\nlocated in the past, but in the present or even if in the future. My biggest\naccomplishment is when everyday someone tell me \u201cyou inspire me\u201d. Being able to\nkeep doing what I love, to have and give work and being able to be model of\ninspiration for people, it the biggest accomplishment I could ask for. It was a\nhard journey, and a lot of people give up feeling alone, so If I can represent\na strong person who achieve her dreams overcoming difficulties, helping others,\nthis would make me feel I achieve my mission as human being. <\/p>\n\n\n\n NY\nGlam:<\/strong> What\nskills are important for a successful career in choreography?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Passion. You have to be in love of\nwhat you are doing. Being an artist means: dealing with compromises, sacrifice,\nstruggle, facing discrimination and being misunderstood. It is too easy to feel\npush down, to give up. You have to be your strength and finding a new reason to\ndance every day. If you don\u2019t have passion, this drive of unconditionally love\nwhat you ate doing no matter the conditions you are facing, you cannot make it.\nAnd I don\u2019t speak about being successful in term of money, fame- for me those things\nmean nothing. Being successful in life, in my opinion, means achieve every day\nyour mission and being happy of your life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n NY\nGlam:<\/strong> What\nare your favorite stores for inspiration?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I strongly believe in dreams and in\npeople who work hard every day to realize them. So, all of my inspirational stores\nare people who embrace this message- and it does mean they are not just\ndancers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n First -common to say, but important to\ndo not forget- is my mum and my partner. And other people could be from the\nbiggest names who made the history to the old lady in the same ballet class who\nis living her life and she is happy just because she can dance. Most of them\nare my teachers and mentor who followed me in my journey in NYC. And actually,\nI want to add, that everyone inspires me: I can learn every day a lot from\neveryone, and I\u2019m glad I\u2019m surrounded from such and amazing community of\nartists. <\/p>\n\n\n\n But if\nI have to name some of the names who inspired me artistically, I wanted to\nname: Pina Bausch, for her unique expressionist movements in dance\nwith modernist works in the highly dramatic mode of modern dance theatre\ndealing with psychological trauma arising from relationships \u2013 Mats Ek, for his\nsocial engagement of psychological dilemmas combined with subtle humor, form\nthe basis of his choreographies, concept of \u201cmovement is a means of individual\nexpression\u201d where aesthetic value is not his first priority – Ohad Naharin for his\ninclusive way to conceptualize movements and Damien Jalet, Hofesh Shechter, Marina\nAbramovic and Yoann Bourgeois.<\/p>\n\n\n\n NY\nGlam:<\/strong> What\nare the latest choreographies you were\ncreate? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The last works I made are completely\ndifferent between each other. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The first one is a Dance Movie named \u201cHOME DANCE FILM\u201d a dance movie directed and created by me in\ncollaboration with the dancer Aika Takeshima and the videographer Rebecca\nMarcela Oviatt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The theme is rotating\naround the concept of <<if you believe in yourself, in your dreams and\nyou work hard to realize them, and you never give up, there is still hope and\nwe can succeed even if it seems impossible from outside. I<\/strong>n this\nsense of loss, where even our room is not any more comfortable for us and it\ndoesn\u2019t feel home. When we look at the mirror and our reflection is a\nstranger and we don\u2019t know our identity, we can just look deep inside us and we\nwill find an answer. Because we are stronger than what we think and deeply, we\nalready know what we want. <\/p>\n\n\n\n THIS IS WHY I CALLED THIS\nWORK HOME: JUST COME BACK HOME, BE YOURSELF AND TRUST IN YOU AND IN THE PROCESS\nEVEN IT IS HARD.>><\/p>\n\n\n\n The\nsecond is named \u201cBLOCKS\u201d a collaboration with the artist Aika\nTakeshima. “BLOCKS”\nis a new kind of online live performance named – Joining Style Performance –\npremiere on February 26th 8PM EST 2021. We wanted to break the ordinary idea of\nperformance transforming it in an interactive place to share and discuss\nconcepts together. The performance was created for and with the audience. We\nimprovised movement and words rotating around the concept of the children\nblocks game. We reacted to everything happening around us and the audience. We\nlet audience, thoughts, dance, events guide us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n NY\nGlam:<\/strong> What\nare you currently working on? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Currently I\u2019m working on a\ndance movie based on Bipolar Disorder. As I said before, when I was in Italy, I\nused to work in a health care house being in contact with people affected by\nmental disorders. In that year I collected many testimonials of people affected\nby bipolar disorder. Those people are human individuals with dreams and emotions,\nwe don\u2019t have to portrait them as a minority and, most of all discriminate\nthem, just because they cross periods of depression and periods of abnormally\nelevated mood that last from days to weeks each. With my personal-artistic point\nof view and structure of the video, I want to demonstrate that being in\ndrastically different emotional state in a time period of five minutes it is\nnormal and also what they lived it is exactly what every human being experience\nduring life. The problem is not the subject itself, but how people portrait it.\nAs I mentioned before, with this work, I want to empower minorities though art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n NY Glam:<\/strong> Do you express yourself creatively in\nany other ways?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n As most of the artists in this world, whatever is art, intrigue me. I love going to museum, studying art, reading, painting, drawing. But I found really interesting to work as a model for photographers who has a visual\/artistic concept, so I can balance the quality of dancer movements and creativity with the value of photography that is able to capture the moment forever, expanding my choreographic ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And another one, is making dance reels under submission: I take it as a different choreographic project. This time the dance material is not mine, but I have choice how of how to cut each piece, how to transition, playing with musicality, elevating each dancer qualities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n NY\nGlam:<\/strong> How\nhas your work evolved since you began choreography?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n It drastically evolved. Most\nof all, pandemic made me change from choreography on stage to creating dance\nmovies. Actually,\nI deeply love it and I\u2019m sure I\u2019ll keep doing dance movies. Most of all to\nshare it with a bigger audience and also because I feel that all the society is\nturning more and more into the virtual world. But also,<\/strong> because I deeply\nfeel that videography allows to widen the possibilities: about point of view,\ndynamic, framing, location, timing. There is more room to play, more elements\nto consider, but also more possibilities to create a work that really reflet\nyour vision. Most of all because, since I\u2019m not a videographer, that allowed me\nto collaborate with different artists and this expand even more my knowledge\nand I can share my artistry with another person. In another hand<\/strong>, I\ntruly miss working with a large group of people, to rehears seeing the process\nand rawness of work that slowly shapes. Watching how the work evolve into the\ndancers\u2019 bodies and the performance energy of \u201cone shot only but everything\ncan happen<\/em>\u201d. This feels real and give more value to all the work behind\nthat all the dancers put into a performance to dance as the best as they can.\nMainly, watching my work being delivered directly to people seeing their\nemotions and reaction. So, I\u2019ll keep doing both. Dance must exist in both ways.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n In terms of technical aspects, also pandemic made me change. Before, I used to make choreographies in different structures, but always mostly frontal, never using props, using voice as extra element. Now I\u2019m more aware about the space and its depth. Playing with angles, different point of views, costumes and props, voice as instrument. Story telling is still the keys in my work, but I discovered different ways to use some elements I\u2019ve been working with. Working with visual artists and studying choreographics books definitely was my plot twist as choreographer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n NY\nGlam:<\/strong> Your\nmotto in life?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n From the \u201cThe Little Prince\u201d novel by\nAntoine de Saint-Exup\u00e9ry \u201cIt is only with the heart that one can see right:\nwhat is essential is invisible to the eye\u201d. <\/em>Call me a girl made of\nemotions, I believe what makes rotate this globe and moves people is love and\npassion. The reality of what we can just feel and not seen, it is what makes it\nso special, and it is kind sensation I\u2019m looking forward in my life, in my\ndance pieces and when I dance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n NY\nGlam:<\/strong> What\nis your advice for aspiring young choreographer?\n<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Easy so say, hard\nto do, but it is the key word, is to do not give up.<\/em> As I said before,\nit is not easy. Most of all because we decide as job position a non-ordinary\nway that people may disagree or not understand. Mainly for choreographers, that\nare not dancers, but creators. We are making art that doesn\u2019t last forever on\nstage, but it is made to be delivered on stage for one night. We have to work\nhard to make it history. We must be\ndancers, we must have a vision, a definition, being creative and unique and we\ncreate work for others. Our field of study is not just one, because we could\nget inspiration from anywhere (for me is sociology, visual art, psychology,\nliterature, history) and more we know, more out work is going to be complete and\nrich. It means we should also be able to cover a position of leader and\ndirector. We need to be our self-employee, create our company, create\nwork-space-opportunities, and all of this is matter of study, dedication and\nnetwork. A lot of to say and to do, this is why I use that as my main advice.\nOr community is going to be always ready and open to help young choreographers\nlike me. Taking inspiration from others, speak with them about their journey,\nlearning from them, sitting next to a person who is working from decades about\nit, it is the best way to get started. Because I strongly trust that this world\nneeds more artists with a strong message to deliver, a message of becoming and\nchange. We are looking for the missing artists, not the best one. You don\u2019t\nneed to be extraordinary; you need to be unique how you are. Be your art. You\nare art. To be an artist, you need a message, trust in it and work on it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n NY\nGlam:<\/strong> What\u2019s\nnext for the 2021?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Next in this year, there\nare a lot of projects S|R|P|Z in collaborations with a lot of artist and\nnon-artist that I\u2019m so excited to share. First of all, soon I\u2019m going to\nrelease my second dance video about Bipolar Disorder performed by Aika\nTakeshimaof which I\u2019m director, creator and videographer. Second, I\u2019m so glad\nto say, my previous works (also in collaboration with Aika Takeshima) \u201cHOME\u201d\nand \u201cBLOCKS\u201d get accepted to appear in a lot of dance festivals online and we\nare working to present the works \u201cBLOCKS\u201d and the one based on Bipolr Disorder\nLIVE in NYC. In the next season, is going to come out on YouTube (already out\non Spotify) the music video of \u201cYoko gets Antibodies\u201d from the composer Aaron Waldman,\nof which I choreographed and directed. Right now, I\u2019m working with the writer Paul\nRabinowitz and dancer\nGeorgia Husborn on a dance movie \u201cdance in poetry\u201d named \u201cThe Monastery\u201d of\nwhich I\u2019m choreographer, dancer and director. I\u2019m also working with the\nvideographer Kent Miller for a dance movie named \u201cWhen we could touch\u201d. Likewise,\nI\u2019m working on several projects with the photographer\/videographer SDF MEDIA. Additionally,\nI\u2019m working individually with some local painters, photographers and visual\nartists on some ongoing process. Another plan, I\u2019m going to teach my\nimprovisation-creation workshop called \u201cSelf-Portrait\u201d in the summer intensive\nin NYC of VALLETO DANCE COMPANY of which I\u2019m company member. From the same company, I connected with the\ndancer Andr\u00e8 Saucedo with who I\u2019m going to create a dance video and a live\nperformance about GAD. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Exclusive Interview with Sara Pizzi – Choreographer Sara Pizzi was born and raised in Italy. 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