Alessandro Magania is a New York-based performing artist working in theatre, dance and film, originally from Bologna, Italy. In addition to performing he has recently began creating his own work, experimenting with storytelling forms, counter-narratives, and ways in which to employ his lifelong passion for motion, transition and incongruities. He has presented pieces at Prelude Festival (Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, NYC) and Dixon Place (NYC), and received residencies from P.A.R.T.S. (Brussels), YADDO, and ToyKraft (NYC). He has performed in works by, among others, The Wooster Group, Eliza Bent, Sibyl Kempson, Target Margin, Peter Petralia, Andrew Ondrejcak, and Tereke Ortiz, in live and video installations by artists Roman Ondak, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Jarrod Beck, and Viva Ruiz, and in a handful of feature films. Festivals and venues include The Holland Festival, Edinburgh International Festival, Dublin Theater Festival, SESC Pompeia (Sao Paulo), Mil Santiago (Chile), and Miami Art Basel. He co-authored the screenplay for Asia Argento’s 2004 film The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things (Cannes Film Festival), and in 2012 made the documentary There Were Always Dogs Never Kids (Special Mention Prize – Milano MIX Festival, Italy). Magania has also directed and edited video works featured by Visionaire, Artforum, and Newness.
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Alessandro Magania
Radio Delirio
Wed–Sat, Jun 13–16 & Wed–Sat, Jun 20–23 @ 8 PMA piano recital featuring only the page turner. A radio program hot on the trail of a whistleblower hiding in plain view of the audience. Radio Delirio imagines a classical concert taken over by the man no one was even meant to notice.
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