‘The interdisciplinary project ZoA developed by Barbara Berti and co-performed by her within a quartet, completely captivated me. On the one hand,the open space full of plants, four performers and four Chihuahua dogs had a special, I would almost say magical aura. Especially the handling of the small dogs and plants stood out, as I have not seen anything like it in this form before. All the participants: plants, dogs, people seemed to be on the same level, which was characterised by an extremely sensual and loving interaction. What was absolutely fascinating was the calmness and naturalness with which Barbara Berti went into duos with individual dogs, leaving a wonderful, sensitive, harmonious impression. ‘…
Review ZoA by Ingo Reulecke, Professor of choreography HZT, Berlin. August 2022.
…’ It’s called Dogod – The situation and it was one of the most interesting performances of the section Bestiari Fantastici in the last edition of the historic theater festival in Romagna, more and more hybridized between different performing arts.’ …
by Davide Turrin
Il fattoquotidiano newspaper
… “The dog appears as the focal point of a mirror that in Berti’s reflections reconsiders, refers, overturns and dismantles consolidated perspectives on performance. In fact, the dog comes to emerge as the ‘parameter’ figure for opening the relationship between bodies and space in a tuning favored by the choreographic practice of the ‘sensing body’, which breaks down usual hierarchical scales and develops a pleasant interspecific ‘horizontality’ in the rapprochement between humans and non-humans.” …
DOGOD, an intersectional dance Stefania Zampiga
03/28/2024 Review DOGOD for Antinomies
…. ‘Berti’s home studio is her own laboratory and garden. Since the beginning of this year, she has cohabitated with the plants that became the environmental design for the performance “Zone of Acceptance” — by propagating cuttings, observing growing cycles of moss and begonias, learning to make kokedama to suspend the plants in a hanging jungle that is sensitive to weight and light and breeze, and that can shift as the plants grow. She also has an expanded, expansive research process with dogs and with dog-human relations. She holds what she calls workshops for ‘citizens’, bringing dog and human participants together into subtle listening spaces that use attention as a tool for intersubjectivity. ‘…
Review Tanzschreiber by Cory Tamler
28. September 2022
BARBARA BERTI 