5 million people, zero auditions, one radical idea: art belongs to everyone.
Through the voice of its founder Marinella Senatore, the video focuses on a few key themes of The School of Narrative Dance project. The artist describes how the nomadic school, founded in 2013, centers on the concept of "assembly" and collective creation which promotes an educational system based on emancipation, inclusion and self-cultivation. A school which continues to travel and has, until now, worked in more than 15 countries in the world and involved some 5 million persons including activists, both amateur and professional workers, dancers, choreographers, actors and poets in an atmosphere of shared knowledge. As the artist speaks, scrolling across the screen are images from the itinerant performance held in Naples in September of 2019.
Direction
Intimate voiceover weaving through communal movement
Production
Naples streets become democratic stage
Director
Domenico Palma
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Senatore's 'School' directly challenges Italy's traditional maestro-pupil art education hierarchy. No auditions, no hierarchy, no finished product—just process as pedagogy.
The 2019 Naples iteration specifically engaged local activists and precarious workers, making visible the city's invisible labor forces through movement.
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