Becoming Electric – How We Sound Together

With Mariagiulia Serantoni and Andrea Parolin

Through a collaboration of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Goethe-Institut Montreal and fabrik Potsdam – Internationales Zentrum für Tanz und Bewegungskunst, artists Mariagiulia Serantoni and Andrea Parolin have received a residency in the studios of Circuit-Est centre chorégraphique. This residency allows them to develop further their artistic relationship and explore new avenues of creative collaboration.

Who is it for?
The workshop is open to dancers, actors, amateur movement lovers, curious musicians, sci-fi enthusiasts—18 years and older.

What will we do?
We will engage in a shared journey of understanding and activating the Electric Body Practice, structured as follows:
● Preparatory exercises based on sensory, muscular, and energetic awakening of the body and breath.
● Simple vocal warm-up using vocalizations and reverberations.
● Focused explorations of the fundamental parameters of the Electric Body Practice, with special attention to being together in the room and how individual frequencies can influence, overlap, and redirect through bodies and voices.
● Final group jam session exploring the Electric Body Practice together.

A sound engineer will accompany us throughout the various phases of the workshop. In the center of the space, a microphone will capture our vocal emissions, which—especially during the final exploration—will activate the sound landscape, improvising and co-creating the sonic and physical space with us.

What is the Electric Body Practice?
The Electric Body Practice is a body-voice-sound practice created by Mariagiulia for her solo work AGiTA, developed in collaboration with sound engineer Andrea Parolin. It is a physical, vocal, and sonic practice grounded in principles such as oscillation, fragmentation, and crescendo to create a narrative without words. The practice generates an "electric" energy from the body through micro-vibrations, tremors, and oscillations, channeling it into the voice, which—through sound-based vocalizations—produces emotional and transformative atmospheres.

Mariagiulia Serantoni
Mariagiulia Serantoni is a dance artist, performer, and choreographer who explores the deep connection between sound and the body. Her work is inspired by the idea of listening to the "noise" of movement — both physical and emotional. She uses sound, noise, and energy as tools to imagine new ways of relating to ourselves, to others, and to the world. Through concepts like frequency, distortion, and tuning, she creates corporeal, sci-fi-like perspectives—worlds generated by the body and for the body—that invite alternative ways of existing in the world and with others.

Andrea Parolin
Andrea Parolin is a sound designer and engineer, working across film and performing art. By exploring and experimenting with all the nuances of sound, he collaborated on projects like Blazing Worlds by Sergiu Matis, Underground Memoirs and Eutropia by Mariagiulia Serantoni, and recently Wirrungen by Lina Gomez. He also worked on various projects by Jefta Van Dinther, Thiago Granato, Kareth Shaffer and others. His artistic vision emphasizes collaboration through the fusion of organic and digital soundscape.