Naples. Gennaro Cimmino, choreographer and trainer, founder of the Centro Nazionale di Produzione della Danza Körper and the company of the same name, passed away after a short and ferocious illness. With him we lose a great artist but above all a good and generous traveling companion.
His indomitable curiosity for the new was welded with a tenacious attachment to the cultural roots of the land that had formed him. This trait, over the years, has shaped his activity as a choreographer and, more generally, the profile of an intellectual who was able to make Raffaele Viviani and the new wave of contemporary ballet, the archaic notes of Vesuvian music and the most disturbing frequencies of the digital universe, via Toledo and Karl-Marx-Allee, the Spanish Quarters and the Parisian Banlieues, dialogue.
The thousand influences that crossed his life have shaped the world that Gennaro had created with Körper, transforming a school into a small theater that was the heart of the national choreographic production center recognized by the Ministry of Culture, a dream pursued for years and then realized, as Körper Young, a totally free high-level training course for young people from Campania, which is the synthesis of his artistic and human values and which will continue thanks to his teaching: dance by everyone and for everyone.
From 10am on November 3rd the chapel of rest will be set up in Körper, via Vannella Gaetani, 27. At 17pm the funeral will be held in the Church of San Pasquale a Chiaia.
BIOGRAPHY Gennaro Cimmino
He studies with Nirvana Paparo, Marianna Troise, Elsa Piperno, Joseph Fontano, Roberta Escamilla, Garrison and other national and international masters. At the beginning of the 80s he meets Maurice Bejart who directs him towards choreography. Having as his objective the Total Theater of the avant-garde of those years, he approaches the study of the techniques of the actor: Stanislavsky, Grotowski.
He works in Rai as an actor in radio dramas with Licia Maglietta, Toni Servillo and others. He attends the directing course held by Pino Simonelli at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples. Since 2003 he has dedicated himself definitively to Dance and entertainment by founding Körper.
In the last 15 years he has dedicated himself to supporting young choreographers in the area, producing shows by Francesco Nappa, Francesco Colaleo, Luna Cenere, Gennaro Maione, Giovanfrancesco Giannini, Nicolas Grimaldi Capitello, Sara Lupoli, Adriano Bolognino and other young choreographers from Campania. In recent years he has returned to choreography with two shows: “Aesthetica-esercizio n°1”, which won an award in New York and with “Vivianesque”.
On November 3 and 4, 2018, the show Vivianesque debuts at the Teatro Bellini in Naples, in a national premiere, receiving much critical and public success. From December 5 to 16, 2018, he curates the review at the Sala Assoli “Korperformer”, aimed at the use of all the new languages of the contemporary scene.
As part of the exhibition “Choreographies for an exhibition” by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Fondazione Donnaregina/Museo Madre, he coordinates all the performances scheduled from December 2018 to March 2019 with the choreographers: Olivier Dubois, Matteo Levaggi and Luna Cenere and with the artist Franco Silvestro he gives life to a performance in homage to the great photographer entitled “Dennis with flowers” which closes the exhibition dedicated to Robert Mapplethorpe. The performance participates in the Premio Laguna Arte Prize and wins the first prize in the Performance section, participating on October 2, 2021 in the exhibition at the Arsenale in Venice.
On November 20, 2019, the show Vivianesque after the Teatro Politeama in Naples, was staged at the Teatro Ateneo of the University of Salerno. Confirms the care of the review on young choreographers "Körperformer" at the Teatro Sala Assoli from 2019 to 2023. Closes the diptych of Aesthetica with the debut at the Teatro Piccolo Bellini on December 3,4,5, 2021, 2, 18 of "Aesthetica - exercise n°19" with replicas on December 2021 and 2022, 2022 at the Sala Assoli. Begins in January 2024, a three-year collaboration XNUMX/XNUMX with the Archaeological Museum of Naples, where new Dance performances will be staged.
His research on the meaning of “Neapolitanity” has never stopped being deepened, he would dedicate the next show to Giuseppe Patroni Griffi.
Body | National Dance Production Center
Founded in 2003 by Gennaro Cimmino, Körper is a Production Center that aims to explore all expressive languages around dance, theater, music and contemporary art.
The activity of the Center focuses on the production and promotion of dance, as an art of the body, a privileged and universal communicative language, in a perspective of exchange and comparison with other European and international artistic realities.
The recognition of the MIC in June 2022 as a National Dance Production Center comes after 20 years of activity and encourages the Center to expand its support for young choreographers throughout the country. Over the years, Körper has built a network with local institutional entities, such as the Teatro Pubblico Campano, the National Archaeological Museum of Naples – MANN, the Museum of Contemporary Art – MADRE, the Academy of Fine Arts, the Casa del Contemporaneo Theater Production Center, the Federico II University of Naples, the National Theater of Naples and the Regional Choreographic High Schools with which it is in constant dialogue, thus expanding its programming proposal in the places of the partnerships.
A Production Center that works with different artists with the intention of promoting and accompanying them towards work and professionalism. In addition to the work of the choreographer Gennaro Cimmino, the center supports artists such as: Luna Cenere, Giovanfrancesco Giannini, Francesco Marilungo, Gennaro Maione, Adriano Bolognino and Roberto Tedesco.
Article published on November 3, 2024 - 09:34
