Francesca Genovese
Master of Arts in Dance
Teaching & Coaching Dance Professionals
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PROJECTS
Project | Karneval der Tiere
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Children to the organ! - The world classic by Camille Saint-Saëns played and danced by Basel schoolchildren.
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100 Basel children take a participatory approach to Saint-Saëns' stroke of genius. What they experience and feel in the process is creatively realized with the dancers and choreographers Andrea Tortosa Vidal and Francesca Genovese under the direction of Andrea Pfaehler. Musically, the animals from fish to lion will be performed by the 'first symphony' youth orchestra and organ students aged 9 - 15 years, in an arrangement by Matthias Kuhn. Great classical music - not just for little ears.
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CONCERTS 2023
School concert - Friday, September 1
Family concert - Saturday, September 2
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https://www.ofsb.ch/karneval-der-tiere
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Project | Art Experience in Motion
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As part of the Kunsttage Basel, dance interventions in the exhibition In Ekstase by P. Staff invited visitors to move on Saturday, August 26, 2023 and Sunday, August 27, 2023.
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In the first room, an electric net hangs above the visitors: What happens when you touch it? Does the body twitch from the electric shock? Dance teacher Francesca Genovese encouraged the participants to make various movements in order to experience the rooms of P. Staff's exhibition with their whole body.
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EXHIBITIONS
P. Staff
In ecstasy
June 09, 2023 - Sep 10, 2023
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https://www.kunsthallebasel.ch/education-program/art-experience-in-motion-taenzerische-interventionen-zum-mitmachen/
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Project | Klein Heidi
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​Abridged ballet by Richard Wherlock
Project leader Francesca Genovese
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The Swiss children's classic about the little nature-loving Heidi in a playful, interactive danced version especially for kindergartens, daycare centres and primary school classes. In the subsequent movement workshop, the children themselves slip into the various roles from Richard Wherlock's story ballet 'Heidi' to newly composed music by Tino Marthaler and Alain Pauli.
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In cooperation with the Ballet School Theater Basel.
With the kind support of the Wilhelm and Ida Hertner-Strasser Foundation.
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Klein Heidi – Gekürztes Ballett von Richard Wherlock | Theater Basel (theater-basel.ch)
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Ballett: Heidi nach Johanna Spyri | Theater Basel (theater-basel.ch)
Project | Schneewittchen
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Abridged ballet by Richard Wherlock
Project leader Francesca Genovese
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The fairytale of Snow White in a playful, interactive danced version especially for kindergartens, daycare centres and primary school classes. In the subsequent movement workshop, the children themselves slip into the various roles from Richard Wherlock's story ballet "Snow White" to music by Dmitri Schostakowitsch.
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In cooperation with the Ballet School Theater Basel.
With the kind support of the Wilhelm and Ida Hertner-Strasser Foundation.
Snow White 2019/20 | Archiv Theater Basel (theater-basel.ch)
Project | NBA
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Francesca Genovese performed live with AATMA Performing Arts at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia and at the Madison Square Garden in New York for the NBA. Choreography by Amit Shah.
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https://www.aatmaperformingarts.com/
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Project | DEVDAS
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Francesca Genovese was part of the ensemble in DEVDAS, a dance spectacle, performed at the Theater for the New City in New York. The timeless tale of everlasting love by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay. Presented as a ballet set in India's hyper competitive dance reality world, where woman rule, and love and loss is just a transaction. With Indo-Contemporary choreography by Swarali Karulkar and music composed by Aalap Desai, Junoon Performing Arts and Hypokrit Theatre Company presented this classic tale as has never been seen before.
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For more informations, please click the links below:
https://letstalkoffbroadway.com/2016/11/reimagined-mukherjee-performing.html
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http://www.theasy.com/Reviews/2016/D/devdas.php
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http://www.junoonperformingarts.com/
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Project | Embodied Architecture:
PROXIMITIES
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Francesca Genovese was one of the performers in this project. Embodied Architecture: PROXIMITIES is a collaboration between Yuliya Savelyeva and Lindsey Dieter, made possible by The Sheila Johnson Design Center and Aronson Gallery in New York City. Sound installation by Zachary Barr. Videography and projection by Mac Roy. Choreography by Lindsey Dieter, Yuliya Savelyeva and Amy Gardner. PROXIMITIES re-established the experience of an embodied architecture to ignite critical discourse and interdisciplinary exchange.
She performed also at iGuzzini and Palais des congrès in Paris, France.
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For more informations and videos about the project, please click the link below: