A Performative Exploration of Identity and Space.
Orchestrating Spaces is a multidisciplinary performance by longtime collaborators Sharon Estacio (US/PH/IT) and Giovanna Rovedo (IT), whose artistic research bridges dance, anthropology, and holistic practices. Supported by a Perform Europe 2024–2025 grant, the work explores how we relate to identity, space, and time through the embodied experience of the moving body.
Human ways to belong in space and in time.
Orchestrating Spaces travels across a multitude of circuits and situations – the skin of the body, the walls of a house; driving to work, flying across the world; sitting in a garden or floating on a screen in a virtual meeting point. All these worlds – micro/macro, theoretical or real, discovered and lived, imagined, created virtually or in person –expand our notion of living. This stratification of situations on different levels helps us to understand how an Italian person moving back home to Friuli after having lived in Rome for several years can feel much like a person that has moved to a foreign country. Abitare in Italian means ‘living’ but also suggests behaviour, clothing, and the intimacy of a home: a place in which humans create a sense of belonging. Orchestrating Spaces is an ode to the daily verse, the memories that accompany each humble human action. Retracing questions etched into the map of our minds, creating shelter; the bricklaying made extraordinary.
Giovanna Rovedo and Sharon Estacio are contemporary dance artists with backgrounds in anthropology and holistic health. They began working on The Reconciliation of Magik Salap (a Triptych) in 2015, a multimedia project whose aim is to study and document the mobility and multiplicity of identity at transnational and transcultural levels. In light of this ongoing project, their current work brings into focus the conceptual and societal relations between space, thought, emotion and action.
Estacio and Rovedo’s collaborative work has been presented at and has received support from: UP Vargas Museum – Manila (PI), Firenze Open Art/ Le Murate PAC, SESTO TRAM / Teatro Limonaia (IT), Officina Caos/ Teatro Stalker Festival Per Un Teatro Contemporaneo – Turin (IT), Festival La Città che Viaggia funded by MIBACT/SIAE – “PerChiCrea” – Cagliari (IT), Festival Paesaggi del Corpo – Velletri (IT), Teatro Comunale Gozzi – Pasiano di Pordenone (IT). They have been artists-in-residence and have conducted workshops at: Tabuk City, Kalinga (PI), Murate Art District for Sharing Training/ Attivisti della Danza (IT), Biblioteca MEM as part of Festival La Città che Viaggia and Cagliari Botanical Garden as part of Officin&Ideali – Residenze in Transito (IT), Company Blu Peer Coaching; Art. 43 (IT), CSS Dialoghi – Performing Arts Residencies at Villa Manin (IT), ARTinVAL – Tramonti di Sotto (IT). In 2024, they participated in the global dance conference Dancing with Decolonization.
This performance is part of their ongoing European tour across Italy, Sweden, and Finland, and follows a creative residency and workshop at KALAMAJA in Varjakka.
The performance takes place in The Red House @ Aittatori 7, on Monday 11th August 2025 at 7pm.
The performance is mainly visual, English text in the soundtrack has Finnish subtitles. Please note that the Red House is not wheelchair accessible due to steps up to the door. Tickets cost 15€ and are very limited. Please book in advance to ensure a place.
About Perform Europe
Perform Europe, supported by the European Union, is a funding scheme for the European performing arts sector. It facilitates international networking and supports inclusive, diverse, and eco-friendly touring projects across the 40 Creative Europe countries. Perform Europe emphasises practices rooted in sustainability and inclusivity, aiming to transform the performing arts sector and ensure a balanced distribution across the continent.
Perform Europe is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union and implemented by a consortium of six organisations: IETM – International network for contemporary performing arts, European Festivals Association (EFA), Circostrada, European Dance Development Network, Pearle * – Live Performance Europe and IDEA Consult.
