Chiara Frigo
A Human Song
World premiere
June 20 & 21, 2026
Kunsthalle Hamburg
This large-scale participatory art project involves people from the local area of different ages, cultures, and backgrounds. A poetic event that considers the power of bodies, a sea of humans that travels through the meditative action of walking and running together, supporting one another, accompanying one another to the ground, rebelling and standing back up. “A Human Song” is inspired by the action of wandering in which there is no point of arrival. Based on a single spatial movement, a human wave moves from one end to the other, and then starts again, within an individual and collective cyclicity. Through a choreographic score, artists and local communities meet to share pathways of collective creation. The performance aims at activating processes to create temporary communities, to take care of one another and be inclusive.
Choreographer and performer, co-founder of Zebra Cultural Zoo, Chiara Frigo has developed her artistic interest in the field of dance and performing arts. Having graduated in molecular biology, she has taken part in international research projects collaborating with Amsterdam’s SNDO, Vancouver’s Dance Center,London’s The Place, Rotterdam’s Dansateliers, Copenhagen’s Dansescenen, and Madrid’s Paso a 2-Certamen Coreográfico de Madrid.
In 2010 she started to collaborate with Montreal’s Circuit Est choreographic centre, where she has been a guest for production residencies since. Her piece “Himalaya” marked the beginning of a research around the topics related to spirituality in arts, “Blackbird”, a community project is inspired by art as a form of activism and collective creation.
This guest performance is kindly supported by the Italian Ministry of Culture Ministero della Cultura, Direzione generale Spettacolo, supported by Istituto Italiano di Cultura Hamburg.
Concept and direction: Chiara Frigo
Artistic Team: Maru Rivas, Gio Charlie Garzotto, Isabel Paladin
Collaboration on dramaturgy: Riccardo de Torrebruna
Sound design: Andrea Gianessi
Video: Matteo Maffesanti
Project Manager: Nicoletta Scrivo
Production: Zebra Cultural Zoo
The research took place as part of Choreography Connects, a project by CoisCéim Broadreach (Ireland),
CSC/Comune di Bassano (Italy) and Le Gymnase CDCN a Roubaix (France)
Supported by Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, Teatri di Vetro (Rome), Teatro Civico di Schio,
CSC Bassano del Grappa, Venere in Teatro Festival, Umbria Danza Festival, Habitat 83
Project selected for NID Platform 2024 / Open Studios Section, Teatro Comunale di Vicenza
Project created with the support of Regione Veneto
