In this document, Leonardo Diana is introduced as a choreographer and dancer who created the solo work "Researching - And the man created himself". The work traces man's evolution from tangible painting to the immaterial virtual world. It depicts how man's avatar may alienate him and cause him to lose his soul and identity, remaining only a duplicate of himself. The document provides biographical information on Diana's dance training and performances with various companies since 2003.

1. Researching - And the man created himself

2. Versiliadanza
Researching
And the Man created Himself
Choreographer/dancer
leonardo diana
Painter
ronnie orroz
Video
leonardo filastò
Music
luca e andrea serrapiglio
Light designer
mario bacciottini
Artistic direction Versiliadanza
angelatorriani evangelisti

3. Convinced to the end thatour avatars will alienate usto the
pointthat the centrifugedforceof nature
willmaintainitsdynamic intensity, man willonlythen set
aside the paint brush and free himself ofits body. Realizing
the lose ofits soul and remaining only a fictitious and
disheartened duplicate ofitself.

4. In the work differentexpressionsform the
variousstepswhichmark man'sevolution. Taking the
viewerfrom the tangibleaspectof the paintingto the
impalpable and imaginabledigital. The body of the
dancerends up loosingitsconsistency and form in the
mysticaldisembodiedvirtual world and thus,
declaringitsdisappearance.

13. Leonardo Diana
Leonardo Diana, born in 1978.
His dance teachers have included Angela TorrianiEvangelisti, SimonaBucci, Paolo Mereu, Charlotte
Zerbey, Alessandro Certini, , Jacqueline Davenport, Susan Barnet,Eugenio Scigliano and Aurora
Benelli. He has participated in workshops with Franco Di Francescantonio, Gabriella Bartolomei,
Carolyn Carlson, Susanne Linke, Julien Hamilton, Richard Haisma, Beatrice Libonati, Micha Van
Hoecke and Tanya Khabarova.
For five years he has undertaken a course for professional contemporary dancers in the Nikolais
technique, directed by SimonaBucci and Paolo Mereu. He studies release technique and contact
improvisation with Charlotte Zerbey and Alessandro Certini.
From 2003 he has danced for the Associazione Versiliadanza by Angela TorrianiEvangelisti. In
summer 2004 he took part in the Versiliadanza performance AssaggidiPotere - Macht Das Was?,
choreographed by Susanne Linke. In 2005 he collaborated in the triennial Versiliadanza project,
presenting a solo at various festivals. In the same year he graduated in scenography from the
l'Accademiadi Belle Arti in Florence. In 2007 he shows his first solo “Verso la Luce” at the Festival
“FabbricaEuropa” inside the project MOVING_movimento. From 2008 he started a coproduction
between Versiladanza and an Armenian company.
In 2009/2010 he worked for the tanz company of Bremen Theater under the direction of Urs
Dietrich. He took part in the performances “Dividendo” choreographed by Urs Dietrich and in
“Double Lives” with the choreography of Tero Saarinen.
In 2011 he has presented a new production “Researching-and the Man created Himself” for the
final of “PremioEquilibrio Roma” and in different international festivals as “FabbricaEuropa, in
Florence” and “Lunatica Festival”.
From 2004 became part of the company Porte Girevoli working with the director Claudio Cinelli,
to create various performances of puppets theatre, both in Italy and further afield.

14. www.leonardodiana.com
info@leonardodiana.com
www.versiliadanza.it
Tel: 0039 339 4828 168