The piece comes from reflections and a deep sense of emptiness and fullness. We exist in this reality without having to do anything. Either the members of our family or the people who used to surround us since the moment we were born, are the first examples on how to be part of a life routine.  We learn everything from scratch observing what is around us, we receive an education based on the culture where we were raised in and we think everything reflects the way we were taught to do.
Institutions give us knowledge and our crossed paths with others give us a sense of community.
What we experience as mistakes give us wisdom and adventures make us marvel. But what if we arrive at one point when we have built everything that we thought we wanted and we fulfilled the desires of the ones we care for and we also took decisions that made us proud of ourselves but then in the end we happen to have a glimpse of deep consciousness and we realize something else.
WHAT IF LIVING WAS JUST KILLING TIME is a touching and somehow hydronic way of wasting time, on deciding how to use the time we received as a gift.  As I am doing right now, writing this. And you are doing so, reading it. So, as an artist, I choose to dance this unchangeable imaginary timeline. My will is to waste seconds, minutes and maybe hours honoring movement and the life I was given with it, celebrating the unknown and laughing about it but also mourning it.
I consciously take the decision of being present in this eternal dilemma we constantly fill with duties and appointments, avoiding thinking about the purpose of existence. There is no sense in what we do unless it has some meaning for us.

G i a d a  G r  i e c o  is a contemporary dancer, transdisciplinary performer and dance teacher based in Berlin. Born in Naples and graduated in Science of Movement at the University of Salerno, she has always been interested in movement and all possible kinds of art.
She attended many dance trainings in Europe: TTC in Naples directed by Fabrizio Varriale and Chiara Alborino; Specific training for contemporary dancers in Ladispoli with Loris Petrillo; Almadanza in Bologna directed by Elisa Pagani; then she moved to Portugal to be a student in the physical theater programme Performact and in 2021 she moved to Berlin to finish her studies at DART DSP.
She has been deepening her movement research all over Europe in many well-known workshops and intensives: B12 (Germany), Summer Intensive at P. A. R. T. S (Belgium), Summer Intensive Portugal (A Dos-Cunhados), Impulstanz (Austria) and others, until last year she moved outside Europe to attended the intensive course Kalakeli in India for one month and recently she has been invited to study at Suzanne Dellal in Tel Aviv, to join the GagaLab, dancing and researching movement qualities with the guidance of Ohad Naharin and the Batsheva Dance Company members.
She is currently working at Berliner Ensemble as movement choir member for “Exil”, a theater piece choreographed by Ted Stoffer and directed by Luk Perceval; she has been recently working with DNA Dance Company, directed by Elisa Pagani, for a production called “Mare Urbano” in Bologna and she is a guest teacher for Release technique, floorwork and improvisation classes at DART, Berlin.

Dance: Giada Grieco
https://www.instagram.com/der_suchende_19?igsh=M3lsdGh2eW8wbThr

Music: ASERET
https://www.instagram.com/aseretmusic?igsh=MXVpaGh0NmM4NXl5MQ==

Photo: Lucia Imparato
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Art installation on the wall: Luca Cuccurullo
https://www.instagram.com/luca.cuccurullo_art?igsh=MWhrOHdtMTUzOWtzaA==