Bio: Alice Gaspari

Alice has been taking exams in ballet since she was 6. Alice trained in Italy, studying at the northern school of contemporary dance and winning her postgraduate diploma with Phoenix dance theatre. She is also training to be a yoga teacher.Recent projects include work with the choreographer Janine Harringhton (Millennium Bridge dance) in June 2012, Big Dance  at Opera Holland Park, organized by the English National Ballet, with Romanian choreographer Arcadie Rusu, projects with C-12 dance theatre and Era dance theatre.
 

‘As soon as we started working on secrets, from the very beginning at the audition, I thought it was the kind of project that I’d love to work on. Just the word secret brings so much – it’s scary, intriguing, it’s the unknown and yet it will always exist – it is infinite! Everyone has secrets, big or small or less important. Why is that? It’s fascinating.

I thought the project was a clever idea – especially being able to interact with the audience and the people following us online. It is an honour to be the instrument for other people to see their secrets taking shape, creating meaning and adding movement, but at the same time respecting their privacy and anonymity.

I always remember my best friend once told me ‘you’re unable to keep secrets…I can read it on your face…but I’m glad you always share them with me.’ She was right – I was unable to keep secrets for myself, but I was always sharing them with her, and her alone. Thinking about it now – I had secrets myself too, ones that I didn’t even share with my best friend. I was afraid of being judged, scared of the consequences. They felt too strong to be told, they could have influenced too much, too many people would have opinions about me.

So why do I love working with other peoples’ secrects? It’s not because I want to know everything about everyone or because I want to put myself into other people’s lives, it’s because I’m attracted by this huge world that seems to exist behind us all. Something my own experiences, my own secrets, my own confessions can only begin to relate to. Secrets are secret for a reason and I feel really honoured to be part of a project that tries to look into that world.’

In-Finite comes to Rich Mix on 8th March 2013. For bookings click here.

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