A magazine photograph of a renovated cave room in Basilicata, Italy, intrigued me. Every cell of my being knew I had to be there.[……]
Chiaroscuro
Filmed in Matera, Italy, conceived and produced by Elaine Colandrea, filmed and edited by Prue Jeffries, from Materadancescapes[……]
San Falcione Dancescapes #6:”What is Refuge?/Cos’e un Rifugio?”
Seeking refuge often lands people in situations almost as difficult as what they are trying to escape.[……]
San Falcione Dancescapes #5: Under the Rock/ Da Sotto la Roccia
With this dance I bow to my mentor Emilie Conrad, who said to me many times in the last year of her life, “Elaine, it is time to get out from under your rock.”[……]
San Falcione Dancescapes #4: “Communitas,” a dance in an earth womb, or natural cave, in the south of Italy
For years, I have led Continuum workshops in beautifully renovated caves in Matera. [……]
San Falcione Dancescapes #3: The practice of Continuum has inspired many dances
From a new project in a southern Italian landscape that is a part of me, that teaches me, and welcomes me home to myself over and over[……]
San Falcione Dancescapes #2: Watermark Arts dance art project in progress in southern Italia
Curled in fabric sacs, our moving bodies released the scent of thyme from the plants below us[……]
San Falcione Dancescapes #1: Teaching and filming in southern Italy
After many years in the practice of Continuum, I discovered in myself a longing, not just to make art, but to realize myself and others as living art[……]