Parade Genève

Founded in 2012, The School of Narrative Dance offers an alternative system of education based on emancipation, inclusion and self-teaching, initiating multidisciplinary international projects focused on narration and choreography. The project has already been developed in more than 25 cities: London, Miami, New York, Rome, Zurich, Manheim, Berlin, Oulu, Mantaa, Ebensee, Gotheborg, Malmö, Copenhague, Shenzhen, Rivoli, Cuienca, Bregenz, Paris, Kassel, Evora, Turin, Cold Spring, Cagliari, York, Utrecht, Palermo, Johannesburg, Venise, Milan, Modica, and soon in Amsterdam and Geneva.

Marinella Senatore’s art (IT, 1977, based in Rome) is that of a pure energy flowing from short-circuits between the different elements she gathers in a single (real or virtual) space. The artist’s role is to activate a mechanism for producing a transformative force from the convergence of the elements that enter it; a force then transmitted in the surrounding area until it reaches the audience.

Parade Genève, taking place across the city centre, will involve a procession featuring dozens of dance groups and other amateur performers. The planned route runs between the Parc des Bastions and the Pavilion de la danse, via the old town. Among those who have expressed an interest in participating are brass bands, tap dancers, slameurs, yoga groups, opera singers, parkour, krump, twirling, wrestlers, runners, string quartets, rappers, dancers, disabled musicians, and more.

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CANCELLED

The Parade Genève by Marinella Senatore should have brought dozens of amateur dancers and musicians, activists, athletes and other performers in the streets of Geneva on Saturday September 12 from 3 p.m. After more than 8 months of preparation, while the difficulties and weaknesses had accumulated, we finally had to make the sad heavy decision to cancel this flagship project of Dance First Think Later, due to the situation related to COVID-19.