This work was conceived, composed, directed and performed by Antonello Tosto

Body painting by Mariapia Di Lecce

The video operator is Joseph Geoffriau

Special thanks also go to dear Tommaso Schiuma.

Every sound, if there is a human being who listens to it, becomes music and every movement, if there is a human being who perceives it, becomes dance.

This work stems from the deep awareness that music and dance are inextricably linked. They are a continuum: one is a different manifestation of the other.

Anyone who dances (be it a tap dancer, an Indian Bharatanatyam dancer, a classical European ballet dancer) produces music with his movements. In turn, anyone who plays music (be it a percussionist, a flutist, a singer or, as in this case, a pianist) dances with his body or part of it.

In this series of works called “Handmade Tales” I try to enhance this natural link between dance and music:

My hands represent two characters who tell short stories. They tell them by interpreting a choreography. The stage on which all this happens is a keyboard. They dance and naturally produce music. The result for the user is not very different from what he can observe and listen to during any dance and music show. There is, however, a fundamental difference: the natural choreography that describes this music and the natural music that describes this choreography could not be different from what they are because one generates the other. They are to some extent a different manifestation of the same phenomenon.

I say no more and I leave you to the first episode of this series entitled "Handmade Tales: Lovers".

Enjoy it and thank you for being here!

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Antonello Tosto
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