1. First Sequence of Exercises/Actions
2. Second Sequence of Exercises/Actions
3. Third Sequence of Exercises/Actions
4. Floor Work
5. Isolations / Impulses
6. Open Work: Combining all the elements
6b. Open Work: Combining all the elements (with commentary)
These six videos document a research in solo physical training developed by Massimiliano Balduzzi over more than fifteen years. Balduzzi is shown practicing a sequences of exercises/actions, integrating floor work and impulses/isolations, and finally putting all of these elements together in a session of “open work.”
This video was shot in February 2013 by Ben Spatz and Manuel de la Portilla at Cave/Leimay in Brooklyn, and edited by Ben Spatz. They can also be viewed through the Routledge Performance Archive. See also this article.
[…] essay introduces the solo physical training practice of Massimiliano Balduzzi by analyzing six newly created video documents. It has three main purposes: First, to give verbal articulation to some aspects of Balduzzi’s […]
[…] in Drama, Theatre and Performance, and is based on a form of physical training developed by Massimiliano Balduzzi, which Spatz previously documented and analyzed in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training 5:3. […]