«Gennaro was the most curious, generous and fatherly man I have ever met in my life. He made me feel part of his life from our first meeting. Courageous for himself and especially for others. An immense pain.».
With these words, the actress Lalla Esposito, remember Gennaro Cimmino, Neapolitan choreographer, founder of the National Dance Production Center Körper and of the company of the same name, of which he was artistic director, passed away prematurely over the weekend.
Cimmino has always pursued, in his artistic career, a "total" and international vision of dance and performing arts in general, some of his works are unforgettable such as "“Aesthetica – exercise n°1″, “Aesthetica – exercise n°2“, “Dennis with flowers” dedicated to Mapplethorpe, and the wonderful “Vivianesque”, an experience of astonishing syncretism that mixed the traditional imagery of Raffaele Viviani with the language of contemporary dance, in an alternative and highly topical reading of the “Neapolitanness” expressed in the works of the famous twentieth-century playwright.
His teachers were Nirvana Paparo, Marianna Troise, Elsa Piperno, Joseph Fontano, Roberta Garrison, Steve Paxton, Julyen Hamilton and then Maurice Bejart who advised him to dedicate himself to choreography.
With Cimmino, we lose not only an artist, but an intellectual, a man of immense culture and a vivid sensitivity with a sharp and unconventional view of life, relationships, and art.
