Antoni Malinowski

Bridging lines milan

a wall drawing and a performance

October 2005

Antoni Malinowski

Bridging lines milan

a wall drawing and a performance

October 2005

Music by: Tomasz Gassowski
Directed by: Yong Min Cho and Sarah Taylor
Costumes: Yong Min Cho and Chiara Mauri
Dancers: the students of the course Teatrodanza at the Paolo Grassi School of Dramatic Arts in Milan

WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF:
School of Dramatic Art “Paolo Grassi”

UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF:
British Council

The Bridging Lines project was initially presented in Venice in 2004 during the 9th edition of the Biennale di Architettura. This work analyzes the relationship between space and light, combining various disciplines such as dance and music with the technical art of wall drawing.

Press release

The Bridging Lines project was initially presented in Venice in 2004 during the 9th edition of the Biennale di Architettura. This work analyzes the relationship between space and light, combining various disciplines such as dance and music with the technical art of wall drawing.

At Assab One as well, the lines drawn on the wall by Antoni Malinowski are translated into dance. The students of Teatrodanza from the School of Dramatic Art “Paolo Grassi”, directed by Yong Min Cho and Sarah Taylor, take over the space of this evocative industrial building, dissolving the architecture through movement, sound and steps, and display the alternate materialization of light and darkness.

Biographies

Antoni Malinowski
Born in Poland, he has lived and worked in London since 1980 where he studied at the Chelsea College of Art. Interested in the interaction of different expressive means, in his works he starts from the two-dimensionality of painting (considered as a first “laboratory” phase) to expand into three-dimensional architectural space, often using the wall drawing technique as a trait d’union (remember the one in the foyer of the Royal Court Theater in London). In 2004 he received a commission for a permanent installation at the Luxor Theater in Rotterdam where he began to collaborate with the composer Michael Nyman who translated his drawn lines into music. Malinowski’s interest in the different aspects of perception, and in particular the musical one, followed in the collaboration with the dancer and choreographer Yong Min Cho. He is currently working on a project commissioned by Broadcasting House BBC in London.

Tomas Gassowski 
Since the 1990s he has been composing music for cinema, television, radio and jazz groups. He has received numerous awards including at the Crackfilm Festival (Krakow, 1996) and the Kreatura Festival (Krakow, 2002). In 2002 he wrote the music and co-produced the film Squint your eyes (directed by Andrzej Jakimowski), obtaining a special mention from the jury at the 51st IFF Mannheim-Heidelberg 2002 and the Main SKYY Prize at the 47th IFF San Francisco (2004). In 2002 he composed and produced a recording for the jazz singer Anna Serafiska, winner of one of the prizes of the 2004 Montreux Jazz Festival.

Yong Min Cho
Dancer and choreographer, he lives between London and Milan. After studying architecture in Korea, he moved to Italy where he studied set design at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts and dance at the Paolo Grassi School of Dramatic Arts in Milan. In Venice he received a scholarship at the Accademia Isola Danza, worked with Carolyn Carson and collaborated with the Research Theater Centre. He has held numerous performances in England and Italy, including one in Milan at Palazzo Reale (2003). In September 2004 he collaborated with the artist Antoni Malinowski on the performance Bridging Lines Venice.

Sarah Taylor
For over twenty-five years she has been involved in contemporary dance, collaborating with various European theatres, including the Deutsche Opera in Berlin, the Komische Oper Berlin, the Teatre Lliure in Barcelona, ​​the Gelabert-Azzopardi Companyia de Dansa in Barcelona and the Balletto di Toscana in Florence. She has also worked as a choreography assistant with various names in the world of Italian and international contemporary dance. She currently lives in Trieste where she promotes dance as therapy within the city’s former psychiatric hospital.

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