BIOGRAPHY: Ariella VIDACH Choreographer and Dancer born in 1956 in Umag (Croatia) - Italian citizen- Ariella Vidach began producing her choreography in New York where she moved in the 80’s inspired by the work of the most significant artists of the postmodern dance generation as Trisha Brown, Dana Reitz, Steve Paxton and with the aim to deepen her study in contemporary dance. Her work was presented in the United States, Canada, Germany, Holland, France, Switzerland, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia and Macedonia, Turkey, Luxemburg, Cuba and Portugal. She is co-founder of Avventure in Elicottero Prodotti , founded in 1988 in Lugano and she creates in 1996 with Claudio Prati, the Ariella Vidach - AiEP dance company with which she produced multimedia performance among others: Exp ('96), Drans ('98) and Beat Box ('00), Opus (2001), Buffers (2003), DanxyMusic (2004), Id (2005), Intervita (2007), .Mov (2009). The Ariella Vidach - AiEP dance company has an artistic space inside Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan, an industrial archeological area that was renovated and reused as cultural and artistic venues. She currently teaches at Scuola D’Arte Drammatica Paolo Grassi and Artistic Academy of Brera and continues her research producing performances concerning the relationship between body and technology. She lives and works in Milan and Lugano.
ARIELLA VIDACH AIEP AVVENTURE IN ELICOTTERO PRODOTTIAiEP takes new technologies as a landmark where to evolve the artistic research from. With a constant outlook to the expressive languages at hand, it’s focused on topical issues, as the body’s perception and reaction when involved in an artificial surrounding. For more than 20 years the artistic directors, Ariella Vidach (choreographer and dancer) and Claudio Prati (video maker and director), have explored interactive technologies in relationship with the body and its movement, creating more and more refined and evocative artistic works. In addition to performing productions, AiEP plays an important role at imparting knowledge on interactive technologies applied to performing art, organizing festivals and producing young artists. Ariella Vidach – AiEP - Avventure in Elicottero Prodotti is a partnership between cultural associations founded in 1988 in Lugano and in 1996 in Milan, by Ariella Vidach and Claudio Prati, whose mutual intent was to produce multimedia performances and projects to develop an artistic language that investigates on different art fields (dance, music, video, art and design). In 2013, AiEP was awarded the WSA E-Content Creativity Award promoted by the U.N. for its innovative research work on interactive technology and dance. In 2017 AiEP was awarded the "Premio Speciale Danza" as part of the Swiss Dance Awards promoted by BAC UFC-Federal Office of Culture. In 2020 AiEP gained additional support from Pro Helvetia's Close Distance call to respond to ‘distance’ and find new research and creative perspectives during lockdown, resulting in the new ongoing production DancetheDistance. Company AiEP’s most recent productions are based on interactive media and VR applications that build the performance’s world of sounds and images in real time.
