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ERIKA SILGONER
ASSOCIATED ARTIST
In 2015, Erika Silgoner founded Esklan Art's Factory.
Born in Catania, where she began her classical ballet studies, at the age of 14 she moved to Paris thanks to a scholarship. Over the years, in parallel to her experience as a classical and contemporary dancer, she combines personal research in Hip Hop culture. Erika is a teacher and choreographer in workshops for different international festivals and academies. In 2017 she won the 'Internationales Solo Tanz Theater Festival' in Stuttgart as best choreographer. Erika collaborates in drama with Fortebraccio Teatro, choreographing for 'Metamorphosis'. Esklan is currently performing in numerous Italian and European theatres, in October 2019 at the Prisma Festival Panama City, in SIT-MASDANZA artistic residency. Choreographer of the closing ceremony of the 2022 Olympics.
"I am not sure I can define what art is for me,
art is like love, it's something essential to be able to live fully,
but which as soon as you try to talk about it you
belittle its meaning, you debase its magic.
Art is the only medium that can take man to a higher level.
Art is the most sublime thing that exists."
CINDERELLA RELOADED
CHOREOGRAPHY AND DIRECTION | ERIKA SILGONER
PRODUCTION DANCEHAUSpiù / giugno 2022
Imagine a beautiful orphan teenager full of grace and purity, Imagine two malefic sisters and a severe and unfair stepmother, a gold castle and a prince that might saves her and gives her a romantic happy ending... well, nothing of all this Our protagonist is Cinderella for so many reasons, despite the fable is very distant from him, but he aspires hopelessly and clumsily however to the "they lived happily ever after."
“Cinderella" is a bitter and ironic, raw and yearning painting that brings the spectator inside a deep reflection.
GOLEM
AMORE SINTETICO
BY ERIKA SILGONER
with GLORIA FERRARI and GIOVANNI LEONE
PRODUCTION DANCEHAUSpiù
duration 24'
A synthetic being, a fetish, created by man to feed those high and low needs that devour him.
A grotesque, inexact love that is far from the very love it yearns for.
The innocence of a newborn creature who needs him, who tries to satisfy beyond its own limits ...
because it must.
GOLEM
MASSA GREZZA
CHOREOGRAPHY AND DIRECTION | ERIKA SILGONER
PRODUCTION | ESKLAN ART’S FACTORY
with the support of DANCEHAUSpiù
duration 60'
“Gōlem, from the Hebrew embryo, raw mass.
Material to which a soul has not yet been infused.”
The word "golem" appears within the Holy Scriptures and means light form, a raw material. It is the human being who is not finished in front of the eyes of God, he is Adam. In mo- dern Hebrew it takes instead the meaning of mute or defenceless. There is a Jewish legend that tells of a giant molded into clay, devoid of verb and soul, but incredibly strong and resistant, created in order to serve and protect its creator and the people of Israel.
The choreographer Erika Silgoner, fascinated by this anthropomorphic figure, revisits the myth of the "Golem" to investigate the existential limits of contemporary man and the com- plex laws that govern life.
D'ISTANTI
CHOREOGRAPHY AND DIRECTION | ERIKA SILGONER
PRODUCTION ESKLAN ART’S FACTORY
with the support of DANCEHAUSpiù
duration 20'
Stolen encounters of uncoded belonging. Elective affinities that live of perfect fits as well as irreconcilable frictions. D'istanti is a two-way dialogue made of body and silence, of stolen moments to be treasured in eternity. It is awareness in granting oneself, solidity in welcoming.
A woman drowns in her emotionality....
a man tries to save her
Only to be totally invaded by it
Though in a few painful and disconcerting moments of contact, they spend moments touching each other immersed in the 'only sound of an incessant rain
Water as a natural emblem of the conductivity of energy
They pass each other the shock
4 JOHN
CHOREOGRAPHY AND DIRECTION | ERIKA SILGONER
MUSIC | JOHN CAGE
PRODUCTION ESKLAN ART’S FACTORY
with the support of DANCEHAUSpiù
duration 60'/70'
This was meant to be a tribute to the brilliant American composer of the ‘900 John Cage. It is a study of sound and silence and the sound reactions and its dynamics. A crucial element in this work is the interaction between artist and audience. This interaction is essential to such an extent as to affect implementation and duration of the performance.
“The sound describes dynamics, it moves through the limbs of the dancer drawing a contemporary portrait of the moment you’re living.
When the audience prescind from the concept and starts to absorb it in a natural way, the movement becomes culture and the dancer becomes the connection between art and audience.”
Esklan confirm, with this work, to own a charming and original personality leading the viewer to the total involvement, leaving him satisfied but never satiated.
? I MA (SOLO)
CHOREOGRAPHY AND DIRECTION| ERIKA SILGONER
with GLORIA FERRARI
PRODUCTION ESKLAN ART’S FACTORY
with the support of DANCEHAUSpiù
duration 15'
Ima is a statement that becomes a question, and a conviction that insinuates doubt.
The soloist begins by laying down a gauntlet and challenges the audience to a silence game leading to a paced and electric dynamic. The atmosphere turns when Hamlet's doubts invade the mind of the dancer:
Who am I? What am I? Where am I?
From this moment the artist doesn't know anything anymore.
The performance is the mirror of a reality that disorients the essence of being human.
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ODE ALL'UOMO
FRAGILE
CHOREOGRAPHY AND DIRECTION | ERIKA SILGONER
MUSIC | VARIOUS AUTHORS
PRODUCTION ESKLAN ART’S FACTORY
with the support of DANCEHAUSpiù
duration 65'
An investigation on the incapability to listen to other people's thought and to rejoyce of others successes... Incapability to admit other people's value for the fear to go out with our own ego.
Conductor of the dynamics of the show is the mediocrity man, who conceals behind an apparent safety. In scene he provokes, he judges, he mortifies and, without scruple, he hurts the other protagonists labeled from him as useless and mediocre, becoming spoke- sman of a disarming and destructive attitude, largely diffused in the society now.
He represents that typology of man in continuous search of confirmations, avid of flatteries and ever prepared to lavish of it.