BIOGRAPHY
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Raffaella
de Santis, nata in Italia, ha conseguito il dottorato in Chimica Fisica in Canada.
Ha svolto ricerca negli Stati Uniti, in Irlanda e Germania. In seguito
si è dedicata interamente all’attività artistica, studiando pittura
e scultura a Parigi, Urbino, Venezia, Salisburgo e Milano. All’ Accademia
di Brera ha conseguito il Diploma in Scultura. Le sue mostre sono state
presentate in Portogallo,Germania, Italia, Stati Uniti e Giappone. Ha
lavorato con Gunther Schneider Siemssen, scenografo dell’Opera
di Vienna e del Metropolitan Opera di New York, a un particolare
sistema scenografico che utilizza proiezioni di ‘luce dipinta’,
sviluppando poi questa tecnica in un evento artistico indipendente,
come rappresentazione all’aperto, su larga scala, di un’opera o come
lightscape, in continua mutazione, per concerti jazz o danza.
Fin dal ‘89 ha presentato spettacoli in Italia, Austria, Germania e USA. A Los
Angeles ha collaborato con il coreografo Donald McKayle, creando
le proiezioni astratte per l’opera jazz di Horace Silver ‘Rockin’
with Rachmaninoff’ e la lightscape per il concerto di danza all’aperto
‘Dances in Painted Light’ per l’Irvine Arts Festival ‘91.
Nel
1991 , a New York, ha fondato il Painted Light Theater e preso
parte all’attività artistica della città con spettacoli di ‘luce
dipinta’ per concerti jazz e danza. Nel ’97 ha creato le immagini
astratte per l’opera barocca ‘ Aminta e Fillide’ alla Manhattan
School of Music.
L'opera di Tan Dun 'Marco Polo', presentata per la prima volta
al MITTELFEST 2000 di Cividale del Friuli in forma di spettacolo di
luci all'aperto, è stata rielaborata nella presente versione in occasione
delle celebrazioni per il 750° anniversario della nascita di Marco
Polo a Roma, a Villa Celimontana, e come spettacolo di apertura del
festival "Stile Libero" a Sesto San Giovanni, Milano. |
Raffaella
De Santis, born in Italy, has a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry.
She has done research in Canada, the U.S. and Germany, in the field
of pigments, color and light. Later she focused her interests
on art. Raffaella studied painting and sculpture in Paris, Salzburg,
Urbino, Venezia, Milano, and obtained an M.F.A. in Sculpture at the
Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milano.
She has exhibited in Portugal, Germany, Italy, the U.S. and Japan.
Raffaella worked then with Gunther Schneider
Siemssen, scenographer at the Vienna Opera, Austria and
at the Metropoltan Opera of New York, on the technique of painted
light projections as a scenographic tool. Later she developed this technique
into a self- standing art event, as a large- scale, open- air representation
of an opera, or an ever- changing lightscape to a dance or jazz concert.
Since 1989, she presented Painted Light performances
in Italy, Austria, Germany and the U.S.
In Los Angeles she worked with choreographer Donald McKayle,
creating the abstract projections for Horace Silver’ s
jazz opera,’ Rockin’ with Rachmanoff’,
and the lightscape for the open-air dance concert ‘Dances
in Painted Light’ for the Irvine Arts Festival ’91.
Living in New York since ‘ 91, she took part to the artistic activity
of the city, presenting installations and Painted Light
performances for jazz and dance concerts, and in ‘97 the
abstract lightscape for Haendel’ s Aminta e Fillide
at Manhattan School of Music .
Tan Dun’ s opera Marco
Polo , presented for the first time as an open-air light projection
performance at the MITTELFEST 2000 festival ‘ The
silk road’, at Cividale del Friuli,Italy, has been rielaborated
in the present version for the’ Celebrations for the 750th
anniversary of Marco Polo birth’, and presented in May’
05 at Villa Celimontana, Roma and in Milano, on September 10th.
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seen and the color to be heard. It is my great honour to work with her for
the inventive lighting art with my music of 'Marco Polo'. That is a very
unforgetable memory of my music life."
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PRODUCTIONS and INSTALLATIONS
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"SunMoon", concerto di luci. Light Projection Performance of Tan Dun "Nine Songs", anfiteatro Villa Strozzi, Firenze 2009.
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"Marco Polo", light projection performance of
Tan Dun opera for "Stile Libero Festival", Sesto San Giovanni, Milano, September 10, 2005 .
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"Marco Polo", a new production of the light projection performance of
Tan Dun opera for the celebrations of the 750° anniversary of Marco Polo.
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open air show at Villa Celimontana, Roma, May 28, 2005 |
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“Fuoco
sull'acqua”, Concerto di Luci su musica di Tan Dun.
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S. Margherita - Venezia |
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“Marco
Polo” Open air light projection performance of Tan Dun’s
opera.
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Chiostro dei Tolentini, 1999 -
Venezia |
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MITTELFEST
2000 – Cividale
del Friuli |
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Autunno Musicale di
Como, 2001
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Burghausen
Arts Festival, 2002 - Germany |
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“Jazz
in Painted Light” Jazz improvisations on a light projection
performance.
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Cami Hall, 1999
- New York City
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“Sublimation”
Light Installation. |
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Downtown Arts
Festival, 1998 - New
York City
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“I
Fiori di Sempre” Light Installation and Dance performance. |
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Auditorium S. Margherita, 1998
- Venezia
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“Disquieting
Eclipse” Light Installation and Dance performance.
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Theater des Augenblicks, 1997
- Vienna
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Light
projections for G. F. Haendel’s “Aminta and Fillide”.
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Manhattan School
of Music, 1997
- New York City
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“Blazing
through the Innerscape” Light Installation and Dance Performance.
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Stadtkinotheater, 1996
- Salzburg
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“Jazz
in Painted Light” Light Installation for a Jazz concert.
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International House, 1996
- New York City
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“Colibrì”
Light installation and Dance performance.
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Merce Cunningham
Studio - New
York City, 1996
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“Capriccio”
A night at the Opera plus “Intermezzo” at the foyer, Fashion show.
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International House, 1995
- New York City
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“Light
Installation and Performance”.
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ACME Art Co., 1994
- Columbus, Ohio
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“Painted
Lights” Light Installation, Recital and Dance performance.
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International House, 1994
- New York City
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Lightscape
for “Dances in Painted Light”, open air dance concert.
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Irvine
Arts Festival,
1991– California |
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Painted
Light projections for Horace Silver’s “Rockin’ with
Rachmaninoff”
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Barnsdall
Arts Center, 1991 - Los
Angeles, California
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“Carmina
Burana, Luci e Suoni” Open air light projection performance to K. Orff’s
music.
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Lago Maggiore, 1990 –
Italy
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“Mefistofele,
Luci e Suoni” Open air light projection performance to A. Boito‘s
music
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Lago Maggiore, 1989 – Italy
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“Borealis”.
2nd International Festival of the Performance.
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Cagliari,
1989 – Italy
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“MultiMedia
‘89” One week of artistic activities: exhibitions, seminars,
performances.
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Borgo Ticino, 1989 – Italy
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Installation
for the “3rd
International Symposium of Sculpture”
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ASPIS – Cagliari, 1988 –
Italy
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PRESENTATIONS and CRITICAL REVIEWS
"La Repubblica", 10 September 2005
"Il Tempo", 28 May 2005
"Corriere della Sera", 27 May 2005
“Kultura”, July 2000
“Partire, Tornare - la via
della seta”, MittelFest 2000
“La Nuova”, July 1999
“Gente Veneta”, June 1998
“Salzburger Nachrichten”, June 25, 1996
“Woman and Earth”, Vol. 5, no.1, 1996
“The
Village Voice”, April 1996
“The Other Paper”, June 16, 1994
“The Irvine World News”, Oct. 24, 1991
“The Orange County Register”, Oct. 19, 1991
“The Los Angeles Times”, Oct. 17, 1991
“The Irvine World News”, Oct. 17, 1991
“Arte Cultura”, Oct. 1989
“Corriere di Novara”, Sept. 14, 1989
“Corriere di Novara”, July 24, 1989
“La Stampa”, July 18, 1989
“La Stampa”, July 12, 1989
“La Nuova”, June 24, 1989
“L’Unione Sarda”, June 24, 1989
“La Repubblica”, Oct. 3, 1988
“L’Unione Sarda”, Sept. 20, 1988
“La Nuova”, Sept. 8, 1987
“Bergamo Oggi”, Dec. 21, 1985
“Bergamo Oggi”, Nov. 26, 1985
“La Repubblica”, Nov. 7, 1985
“Correio do Sul”, Dec. 25, 1980
“Correio da Manha”, Dec. 18, 1980
“Commercio do Porto”, Nov. 17, 1980
“O Dia”, May 15, 1980
Mariano Apa, “I Perché dell’Icona”, p. 8, 12, 1984
Mariano Apa, “Microcosmo-Macrocosmo”, p.14, 1984
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