"Le LA du Monde" (Dante's Divine Comedy read by Humanity)

To share together Dante's message of unity, love and peace in a polyphony of voices in all the different languages of the world.

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"Le LA du Monde" (Dante's Divine Comedy read by Humanity)

<p><strong><a href="https://vimeo.com/258708288" target="_blank">VIDEO SUBTITLED IN ENGLISH</a></strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Choreographer, tap-dancer, dancer, and videographer, since 2006 I&#39;ve been filming throughout the world numerous men and women reading a passage of Dante&#39;s <em>Divine Comedy</em>, each in their own language.</p> <p>As of today, I filmed more than 2,000 people, in more than 40 different languages and dialects and in more than 600 places.&nbsp;The goal is to have all the continents represented.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>This crowdfunding will be used to complete filming particularly in the Asian continent</strong>.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/487731/Tournage_Messico_540x-1518803320.jpg" width="100%" /></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/497278/1_Goal_of_the_Project-1521283082.jpg" width="100%" /></p> <p><strong>-&nbsp;Celebrating</strong> on September 14, 2021, the 700th Anniversary of Dante&#39;s death.</p> <p><strong>-&nbsp;Realizing</strong>&nbsp;a worldwide installation entitled <strong><em>Divine Babel</em></strong> : the simultaneous screening of the film <strong><em>Le </em>LA<em> du Monde</em></strong> with the 100 cantos of the <em>Comedy</em> projected on 100 screens, located in 100 different places around the world.</p> <p><strong>-&nbsp;Representing all continents to make this <em>Babel</em> truly devine </strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/487757/Tryptique-1518806850.jpg" width="100%" /></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/497279/2_Goal_of_the_Crowdfunding-1521283098.jpg" width="100%" /></p> <p><strong>- Supporting</strong> a collective, original, unique work</p> <p><strong>-</strong>&nbsp;<strong>Completing</strong> all filming within the celebration date of 2021 (it&#39;s tomorrow already&hellip;)</p> <p><strong>-</strong>&nbsp;<strong>Preserving</strong> the liberty to operate, create all thanks to you</p> <p><strong>-&nbsp;Financing </strong>filming<strong> </strong>in the Asian continent</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/497280/3_Ethics_of_the_Project-1521283111.jpg" width="100%" /></p> <p><strong>- Highlighting </strong>the message of unity, love and peace that Dante brings to earth</p> <p><strong>-&nbsp;Recomposing</strong> through images Dante&#39;s universal poem in a living fresco</p> <p><strong>-&nbsp;Reflecting&nbsp;</strong>the diversity of people, cultures and heritage</p> <p><strong>- Blending together&nbsp;</strong>our languages,&nbsp;our spiritualities,&nbsp;our spaces,&nbsp;our temporalities</p> <p><strong>-&nbsp;Giving access</strong> to knowledge and learning, to the stories and science hidden within this fundamental work</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>There is no doubt that Dante&#39;s work, with its universal power, can certainly travel through the centuries to speak to us today, in our world of emergency, of Inferno, of Purgatory, of Paradise.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>With the heartfelt and profound belief that the <em>Comedy&nbsp;</em>(renamed <em>Divine Comedy</em>&nbsp;a century after Dante&#39;s death) is a prophetic work that bears in itself the mystery of its survival, of its outstanding vividness and of its growing notoriety.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/488298/Tryptique2baiser-1519051307.jpg" width="100%" /></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/497282/4_Dante_and_Asia-1521283200.jpg" width="100%" /></p> <p>The idea is to confront the Asian world through the mystical experience of Dante&#39;s western thought.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/497168/Duo_Livre_Asie-1521235712.jpg" width="100%" /></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Shooting locations</strong> :</p> <p><strong>Moscow</strong> (10 days), <strong>Trans-Siberian railway </strong>(15 days) to <strong>Vladivostok </strong>(3 days), <strong>Japan </strong>(20 days), <strong>South Korea </strong>(10 days), <strong>China</strong> (25 days), <strong>Mongolia </strong>(10 days), <strong>India </strong>(30 days), <strong>Georgia </strong>(10 days), <strong>Armenia </strong>(15 days).</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/497399/11_Dante_Readings-1521300398.jpg" width="100%" /><strong>In famous locations</strong> such as The Forbidden City and the Great Wall of China</p> <p><strong>in natural environments</strong> like Lake Baikal (Russia), Mount Fuji (Japan), the Gobi Desert (Mongolia)</p> <p><strong>in holy places</strong> like the Bulguksa Temple (Korea), the Tatev Monastery (Armenia), the Temple of the Sun at Konark (India)</p> <p><strong>in places of every day life</strong> like the market in Kutaisi, the garden of the Cafe Littera in Tbilisi (Georgia) &hellip;etc.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/497398/11_Linking_Dante_s_work_to_the_contemporary_Asian_world-1521300386.jpg" width="100%" /><strong>-&nbsp;Bringing </strong>Dante&#39;s Adam&#39;s tree to the tree of Bodh Gaya where Buddha had the Enlightenment&nbsp;- Purgatory<em> XXXII</em></p> <p><strong>-</strong>&nbsp;<strong>Resuscitating </strong>Dante&#39;s Argonauts in the Georgian Caucasus - <em>Paradise XXXIII</em></p> <p><strong>-&nbsp;Connecting </strong>Mosca &ldquo;the Third Rome&rdquo; with Constantine&#39;s Empire - <em>Paradise VI</em></p> <p><strong>-&nbsp;Going to</strong> Confucius&#39;s tomb to introduce him to Aristoteles &ndash; <em>Inferno IV</em></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/497285/11And_most_of_all_let_CHANCE_decide-1521283306.jpg" width="100%" /><strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULUdi5myBpE" target="_blank">Hell, Purgatory or Paradise ?</a></strong></p> <p>This has been the ritual since the first shots in 2006. Readers choose their own world, opening the book at any point and reading the page in front of them. And we all know that chance is never really just that!</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/497286/5_GA_multydisciplinary_artist_Orange-1521283341.jpg" width="100%" /></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Tap dancer, contemporary dancer, tap dancer, coreographer, videographer, editor, art is a way of life for Ghislaine Avan.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/488247/Ghis_Portrait_-1519047529.jpg" width="100%" /></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>In 1995 she&#39;s in New York taking classes from the great tap-dancer Chuck Green and in the year 2000 she obtains the <em>Fulbright student grant</em> to further develop her technique with Roxane Butterfly e Max Pollak.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>In 1997 Ghislaine Avan opens the Compagnie Tempo Cantabile (a public utility association, Law 1901) with herself as artistic director.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>In the bosom of her Compagnie, Ghislaine renews the choreographic language of tap dance. Her involvement touches equally the worlds of dance and contemporary music and she collaborates with numerous musicians like Claude Barth&eacute;lemy (Orchestre National de Jazz - Paris), Lorenzo Pagliei (IRCAM - Paris), Francesco Casciaro (TEMPO REALE - Firenze), Didier Ythurssary, Ramon Lopez, H&eacute;l&egrave;ne Breschand, Alexandre Yterce.&nbsp;</p> <p><strong><a href="https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x189ze4" target="_blank">Tap-dance electroacoustic</a></strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>For her choreography research, she gains support in France from institutions such as the Ministry of Culture, the Pays de la Loire Region, the General Council of the Sarthe, the City of Le Mans, CNC (Dicr&eacute;am), the General Council of Val-de-Marne, SACEM, ADAMI, SPEDIDAM, ARCADI.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/497287/7_At_the_heart_of_her_work-1521283357.jpg" width="100%" /></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>In 2006 she started the multimedial works based on the Comedy&nbsp;<strong>&laquo;&nbsp;</strong><strong><em>Trasumanar&nbsp;&raquo; in the fields of Performing Arts and Visual Arts. </em></strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/497289/10_In_performing_arts-1521283463.jpg" width="100%" />&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<strong><em>Seuil (Threshold,)</em></strong><strong> </strong>a choreogrphic ensemble of ten shows/events inspired by the Poem of which four have already been realized<strong><em>The Comedy sensations</em></strong> a series of sensory performances to discover/experience the poem through the five senses.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/488207/Un_Instant-1519042033.jpg" width="100%" /></p> <p><strong><a href="https://youtu.be/J7hGW7NQvmU" target="_blank">Choreographic &quot;Un instant entre deux instants&quot; (A Moment Between Two Moments) </a></strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/497290/10_In_Visual_Arts-1521283482.jpg" width="100%" /><strong><em>Le </em></strong><strong>LA<em> du Monde</em> </strong>is a film <em>in progress</em> that began in 2006 and is still expanding. This audiovisual material opens a wide range of possible realizations in the field of Cinema, figurative arts, information and communication technologies.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/497191/Ghis_Filmant-1521242616.jpg" width="100%" /></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/497386/8_Film_Television2-1521298721.jpg" width="100%" /><strong><em>Le </em>LA<em> du Monde : </em></strong>an integral version of the <em>Comedy</em> in all languages. This 24h film will be further/equally adapted into a shorter TV version of 50&#39; and a longer 90&#39; movie version.</p> <p><strong><em>Le Visage de la Com&eacute;die</em></strong> (The Face of the Comedy) artistic documentary realized in 2015, produced by Ravenna Festival that has received UNESCO patronage.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/497387/8_Installations___Visual_Arts2-1521298740.jpg" width="100%" /><strong><em>Divine Babel :</em></strong> 2021 celebration, a living fresco of images that blend together in a symphony of voices and faces.</p> <p><strong><em>The Angels of the Comedy : </em></strong>Photo installation, a series of portraits of readers and film shoots.</p> <p><strong><em>Immersion in Dante : </em></strong>3D Installation &quot;Sph&egrave;re Num&eacute;rique&quot;&nbsp;Valenciennes (24-25 may 2018)</p> <p><strong><em>Dante&#39;s World Map : </em></strong>a numeric work that allows you to have an interactive tactile experience on the image of a world map</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/497388/8_ICT2-1521298753.jpg" width="100%" /><strong><em>A Web-Documentary : </em></strong>translation of Dante&#39;s Comedy in IT language, a Cyber Poem, an interactive space to travel through the body of Dante&#39;s Poem.</p> <p><strong><em>The Dante&nbsp;Alighieri App: </em></strong>a geo-location based mobile-app to access the filmed readings via <em>google-map</em></p> <p><strong><em>A Cyber Community</em></strong> born through social media and growing at every new shoot and encounter.</p>

Allocation of funds

<p><strong>The requested amount of EUR 6,105 covers only basic travel expenses as well as insurance and visa costs for 133 days of filming.</strong></p> <p>If we include to that food and lodging and the presence of a guide for some leg of the journey, <strong>the budget rises to a total of EUR 12,727</strong>.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/497314/Grafic-1521284862.jpg" width="100%" /></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Costs per country :</strong></p> <p><strong>Russia</strong> EUR 300.00 Moscow (10 days) EUR 590 Transiberiana (15 days) EUR 1,635 Vladivostok (3 days) Eur 87&nbsp;<strong>Japan</strong> (20 days) EUR 1,920 <strong>Korea</strong> (10 days) EUR 770 <strong>China</strong> (25 days) EUR 950 <strong>Mongolia </strong>(10 days) EUR 520 <strong>India</strong> (30 days) EUR 1,090 <strong>Georgia</strong> (10 days) EUR 1,090 <strong>Armenia</strong> (15 days) EUR 515</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>The total sum of these costs is part of yet another budget of EUR 25,454 that would allow me to have a second director and photographer by my side who could chronicle the film shoots, the making-of and the encounters that are just as important as the actual film shoots.</p> <p>Finally, the ideal budget, which includes all costs and technical material would be of EUR 57,434.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Reaching the goal of EUR 6,105 would allow me, and my lucky star, to start the journey.</strong></p> <p><strong>If we could reach EUR 12,727</strong>, I would be in Seventh Heaven flying lightly floating in the air in the&nbsp;towards the Land of the Rising Sun.</p> <p><strong>Reaching the third budget level</strong>, would double our energy, our enthusiasm, our joy and our images!&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>This is our dream&nbsp;&hellip; how could we not continue hoping ?!?&nbsp;</strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/488249/Ghis_l_Amour_nous_fait_devenir_...-1519048278.jpg" width="100%" /></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&quot;LOVE makes we us become what we&nbsp;LOVE&quot; Saint Augustine</p>

Rewards

€3

  • 11 contributions
Your name will be included in my social media and in the closing credits in Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise in all the world's languages. ❤️ Number 3, the perfect number, strong number, holy number, alchemic number, Dante's most prominent number... embodies harmony itself.

€9

  • 12 contributions
Same reward as the former plus 11 web photos complete with details and stories about the filming of the first leg of the journey: from Moscow to Vladivostock (trans-Siberian route), sent to your email address. ❤️ Dante's poem is also associated to the number 9, the number of perfection and the number of Beatrice.

€11

  • 18 contributions
Same reward as the former plus 11 web photos complete with details and stories about the filming of the second leg of the journey: Korea and Japan, sent to your email address. ❤️ Dante writes his “sacred” poem in hendecasyllables (lines of 11 syllables). Multiplied by 3 in his tercets gives us a total of 33, the next amount.

€33

  • 31 contributions
Same reward as the former plus 11 web photos complete with details and stories about the filming of the third leg of the journey: China and Mongolia, sent to your email address. ❤️ 33 cantos per realm in Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise are divided into 33 cantos each.

€64

  • 8 contributions
Same reward as the former plus 11 web photos complete with details and stories about the filming of the fourth leg of the journey: India, sent to your email address. ❤️ The 64th canto of the Comedy is where Dante meets Beatrice …

€100

  • 11 contributions
Same reward as the former plus 11 web photos complete with details and stories about the filming of the fifth leg of the journey: Georgia and Armenia, sent to your email address. ❤️ With the introductory canto and 33 cantos per realm, the Divine Comedy includes 100 cantos.

€333

  • 3 contributions
All the former rewards plus the DVD* box-set of the Movie “Le Visage de la Comédie” (The Face of the Comedy) an audiovisual poem of 100 minutes made for the 750th anniversary of Dante's birth (Édition Venus d’Ailleurs). ❤️❤️❤️ *The DVD is not just a film produced for mass consumption. It's a work of art, an audiovisual poem illustrating not only the Divine Comedy, but also 11 years of Ghislaine Avan's work and journey with Dante as her guide.

€515

  • 1 contribution
All the former rewards plus a book from the Artist with travel notes, pictures and verses from the Comedy (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso). A work of art book in limited and numbered edition (Éditions Venus d’Ailleurs), with a signed dedication, sent to your home address. ❤️ The number 515 that appears in the last canto of Purgatory brings with it an aura of esoteric mystery. “a time in which, dispatched by God, a Five Hundred and Ten and Five will....” Pg XXXIII v43

€1,265

All the former rewards plus a private personal screening of the documentary that will be realized during the Asian part of the journey “Dante in Asia”. ❤️ The year of Dante Alighieri's birth.

€3,333

All the former rewards plus at your expense and your time, you can come meet me in any part of Asia of your choice to follow the pilgrimage, attend filming and share the divine adventure!!!! ❤️ 3X4=12 >>>>>> 1+2 = 3 ❤️

€14,233

All the former rewards plus the status of contributing producer in the Film “Le La du Monde” which will be screened in 100 different cities and places throughout the world. With a 24 hour broadcast on the web on September 14, 2021 (anniversary of Dante's death in 1321). ❤️ The total sum of lines in Dante's “sacred” poem. ❤️❤️❤️

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