Arteles Catalogue 2023-2020
Arteles Creative Center's residency artists and their projects 2023-2020
Arteles Creative Center's residency artists and their projects 2023-2020
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Back to Basics program / AUGUST <strong>2023</strong><br />
Giada Matteini<br />
USA / Italy<br />
www.wadedance.org<br />
About<br />
I am a multi-hyphenated creative being, cultural manager and<br />
entrepreneur, inhabiting conflicting cultures that both enliven<br />
and haunt me. I was born in Florence, Italy, but I have been<br />
living in New York City for almost three decades now. Dance<br />
is my first love and I have spent most of my life manipulating<br />
movement in its many forms as a performer, choreographer,<br />
curator, producer, and educator. I have been teaching all over<br />
the world, taking my favorite travel companion (my son) along<br />
with me to the Americas, Europe, and Asia.<br />
Intersections fascinate me; the women-led multifaceted<br />
performing arts company I founded, WADE, intersects with<br />
research, restorative justice strategies, women’s rights<br />
and social action. The more unexpected the intersections,<br />
the more interested I am: classical ballet with radical love<br />
and self-care, soft jazz with ice hockey, grind culture<br />
with authentic connections. I wander between art forms,<br />
geographical borders and languages, centering in my<br />
purpose every day and finding myself in awe of the crooked,<br />
knotted, and gnarled beauty of trees.<br />
WADEintoLOVE<br />
The book, part love letter to New York City, part selfdeprecating<br />
memoir, chronicles the journey that led me to<br />
create WADE, a company born by transforming my grief<br />
into an act of love. It speaks of my experience with violence<br />
both in the childhood and marital home, how dance has<br />
continued to be intertwined with these experiences offering<br />
solace, healing and the strongest impetus to end the cycle<br />
of violence. It wants to offer an in-depth explanation through<br />
biographical essays of why a survivor would want to invest<br />
time in working with perpetrators of violence. And finally, it<br />
highlights the choices I have made along the way to create a<br />
pedagogical approach to ballet based on somatic awareness<br />
and radical love.<br />
In my DreamSpace, all men stand up to sexism and violence.