Italian by birth and Swiss by origin, Elena Boillat works as a performer and multifaceted creator. Her activity gravitates around different realities in the field of performing arts and independent culture with projects, performances, collaborations and experimental, pedagogical and research processes. Over the years, she has developed an interdisciplinary path that focuses on the body as a poetic act, moving between expression, perception and resonance. Through a trans-linguistic practice, Elena is interested in gesture, voice, gaze, sound and silence as possible traces and manifestations, acted out within extended and intensified spaces/times.
Elena Boillat graduated from the University of Florence (DAMS) and graduated as a dancer and performer at the Accademia Paolo Grassi in Milan. She has been conducting in depth studies in the fields of voice and breathing, she has recently completed the advanced training course – ATT® method – in Rome, certifying herself as a teacher. She trained with international masters and choreographers such as Maria Consagra, Luciana Melis, Dominique Dupuy, Enzo Cosimi, Ariella Vidach, Kuniaki Ida. And with Atsushi Takenouchi, with whom she approached butoh dance.
She made her debut in Switzerland with the solo La forme de l’âme by director F. Rosso, for which she is choreographer and performer, creating a physical dramaturgy inspired by philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy’s 59 indices on the body; the project was selected for the Modern Body Festival in The Hague in 2016.
Winner of the cantonal call for cultural mediation in dance promoted by DECS Ticino and Reso with the project Mimesis, a performance/installation for a single spectator, toured in some cities in Switzerland during TanzFest 2019. Selected by Pro Helvetia for the master class programme Camping 19 at the CND in Paris.
In Italian-speaking Switzerland, she is co-founder of the movement Ticino is burning – Swiss Performing Arts Award 2022. From 2023 Elena is engaged in her first research on the acoustic voice, resulting in the performance P A R T I T U R A Z E R O, among the winning projects of PREMIO SCHWEIZ 24.
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PARTITURAZERO
2024 Edition
04.10 – 13.10
