L’ARTE DI MANTENERE VIVO IL MOVIMENTO DAL BASSO
THE ART OF KEEPING GRASSROOTS ALIVE

Incontro con Ingeborg Zachariassen
[13 dicembre 2025 - Teatro Limonaia, Sesto Fiorentino FI]

Cura dei testi Barbara Carulli, Matteo Siracusano
Progetto Art Lives Matter di Company Blu
con il contributo di Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze

ABSTRACT

In tutta Europa, l’arte e la cultura affrontano una riduzione dei finanziamenti ma anche una crescente risposta di intervento politico. In Ungheria, dove la censura e il controllo sono ormai realtà quotidiane, il contesto della scena della danza di Budapest continua a resistere. Ingeborg Zachariassen, scrittrice, coreografa e direttrice artistica con base a Göteborg, Svezia, esplora le intersezioni tra arte, politica e società, con particolare attenzione alle politiche culturali e alle condizioni precarie del settore della danza indipendente. Il suo recente articolo è basato su interviste con coreografi e scrittori. Riflette sulla lotta che il settore indipendente sta facendo per sopravvivere e invita ad una solidarietà transnazionale, sottolineando come la sopravvivenza dell’arte e della cultura sia inseparabile dalla salute stessa della democrazia.

Ingeborg Zachariassen

è un’artista interdisciplinare che opera nei campi della fotografia, del testo e della coreografia. Lavora come danzatrice professionista dal 2000 ed è attualmente candidata al master in Performing Arts Contemporanee presso l’Università di Göteborg. Nella sua pratica artistica si concentra sulle relazioni tra concreto e astratto, linguaggio e corpo, materialità e dissolvimento. In qualità di cofondatrice dell’iniziativa artistica No Deadline, facilita collaborazioni interdisciplinari e performance a Scen 46, oltre al festival d’arte annuale Rabbit/Duck.

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    THE ART OF KEEPING GRASSROOTS ALIVE

    Meeting with Ingeborg Zachariassen
    [13 December 2025 - Teatro Limonaia, Sesto Fiorentino (Florence)]

    Text editing Barbara Carulli, Matteo Siracusano
    Project Art Lives Matter by Company Blu
    With the support of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze

    ABSTRACT
    Across Europe, art and culture are facing a reduction in funding and increasing political intervention. In Hungary, where censorship and control have become everyday realities, the dance scene in Budapest continues to resist. Based on interviews with choreographers and writers, my recent article reflects on the struggle of the independent sector to survive. It also calls for transnational solidarity, emphasizing how the survival of art and culture is inseparable from the very health of democracy. Ingeborg Zachariassen is a writer, choreographer, and artistic director based in Gothenburg, Sweden. She explores the intersections between art, politics, and society, with particular attention to cultural policies and the precarious conditions of the independent dance sector.

    The knowledge that has emerged from Contact Improvisation is multiple and invaluable. The Apple’s Point of View. Political Histories and Practices of Contact Improvisation (Piretti 2021) is an attempt to bring together some of these studies, both recent and earlier ones, in order to celebrate the phenomenologies, anthropologies, histories, and activisms that have developed from a culture emphasizing reciprocal and egalitarian intersubjective relationships.
Despite the wide diffusion of Contact Improvisation in Europe—within dance, theatrical practices, and community-based work—there has been little theoretical elaboration, and a systematic study of its dissemination has yet to be undertaken.

    Ingeborg Zachariassen
    is an interdisciplinary artist who works in the fields of photography, text, and choreography. She’s worked as a professional dancer since year 2000 and is currently an MFA candidate in Contemporary Performative Arts at the University of Gothenburg. In her artistic practice she focuses on the relations between concrete and abstract, language and body, materiality and dissolvement. As a co-founder of art initiative No Deadline, she facilitates cross-disciplinary collaborations and performances at Scen 46, as well as the annual art festival Rabbit/Duck.