Sweet Spot_STUDIO is the first result of a research process on the propagation of sound within a space. For audiophiles and sound engineers, the "sweet spot" represents the ideal listening area, or the focal point between two loudspeakers, where an individual can enjoy the optimal rendering of what he is listening to. This assumption has evolved by projecting itself into a similarity between the dynamics that regulate the behavior of a sound in space and those that regulate the contemporary human condition. Is there a "sweet spot" for each of us? Is there an ideal existential condition? What factors contribute to its achievement? And what are the limits that prevent us from reaching it? These are the first of a series of questions investigated by the performer during some dance and creative writing workshop practices carried out with the communities. The proposed dance score doesn’t want to generate an answer, but to leave a physical and emotional testimony of the experiences that have emerged so far.
Mariagrazia Nacci is a dancer, performer, choreographer and professor. She obtains the first and second level degrees at the National Academy of Dance in Rome, specializing with honors in the teaching of dance disciplines with a contemporary dance focus. Since 2012, she has had her first experiences as a dancer in Rome and collaborates as a performer and choreographer with the theatrical innovation company Officina Accademia Teatro (OAT) in Potenza. In 2016 she moved to the Netherlands, where she deepened the practices of "instant composition" and came into contact with numerous artists and choreographers on the international dance scene, working as a dancer in the productions of Isabelle Beernaert and Krisztina De Chȃtel in the Netherlands and in Belgium. She is certified as a Pilates Trainer in basic and intermediate Matwork at the “Art of Movement” in Hilversum (NL). In 2019 she moved back to Italy to join the international artistic cast of "Humana Vergogna", a performance conceived by Silvia Gribaudi and Matteo Maffesanti for Matera European Capital of Culture. Alongside her artistic experience, she is a professor of contemporary dance technique, choreographic laboratory and dance history in the Dance High schools of Basilicata region (IT). She collaborates with Compagnia Teatrale Petra as a performer, choreographer and conductor of contemporary dance classes for the Theater in Prison review, "Theater beyond the limits". Her multifaceted training in the field of dance and performing arts aims to bring the new generations closer to the dance language and has been declined, in recent years, towards the search for new ways of approaching movement to involve communities. In 2022 she certified as Dancewell Teacher - Movement research for Parkinson, following the training promoted by the Municipality of Bassano del Grappa through its CSC Centro per la Scena Contemporanea, member of EDN - European Dancehouse Network.
