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maltatoday | SUNDAY • 30 APRIL 2023 8 ALMANAC My essentials PAOLO MNAGIOLA 44, choreographer and artistic director My name is Paolo and I'm currently the artistic director of ZfinMalta, Malta's National Dance Company. I'm an artist working in the field of dance and choreography, interested in movement and its complexity, in relationship with our ever-changing society. I have a Maltese partner, a beautiful and needy Gozitan German Shephard and beside doing what I wanted to do since I was little, through my work as director, I aim to help others achieving their best. I'm a Buddhist, living in Malta for the time being, in a constant quest to become a better and more sensible human. 1 4 5 1. Book 2. Film 3. Internet 4. Music 5. Place NAVIGATING the internet for fun is something I try to keep to the bare minimum. When I feel in the mood for some con- structive time I go for a mix of podcasts and YouTube channels: CGP Grey, Kurtzgesagt, VOX and the Institute of Art and Ide- as. Another very fascinating tool is the current ChatbotGBT soft- ware. If prompts are accurate, it can give you access to good knowledge. As far as TV goes, I loved the first season of Sever- ance and I can't wait for Season 2 and beside being a huge Game of Thrones fan and everything around it, I lately enjoyed every single episode of The White Lo- tus Season 2 and The Last of Us. AS a choreographer I have the luxury to listen to a lot of music for work, new and past works, classical and contemporary, indie and commercial. I'm currently into American minimalism and I love the works of Ste- ve Reich and John Adams. I'm also a huge fan of Rosin Murphy as well as Italian 70s music. I love the work of Carmen Consoli and I'm always drawn, when I need inspiration, to the work of Loscil. I'VE visited a lot of countries as a dancer, working for tour- ing companies, and we've cov- ered pretty much the globe. However, a place that stuck with me, which I visited for lei- sure, was Nepal. It's an incred- ible country which made me reconnect with my faith and made me once again aware of the beauty and the fragility of this planet. NOWADAYS reading has become a difficult exercise for me. We are bombarded with notifications and click baits that it takes discipline to switch off those devices and connect with written words on paper. I like to read local news, as they help me to un- derstand better the context in which I operate. I read news- letters, from small publishing houses, collecting interesting and new topics that are in the field of ecology, art and cultural changes, and I love science fiction. I'm currently on my second book, Waking Gods, part of a trilogy by Syl- vain Neuvel. TRIANGLE of Sadness was the most recent film I watched, that stayed with me for some time. Incredible work by Swed- ish filmmaker Ruben Östlund, and so far, the most accurate and most intelligent satire on our current economic and po- litical system. 3 2