The Cooking-with-Nadi Show

Dancer, cook, or influencer? Whatever the case may be, this online project by Nadi Gogoulou is coming to combine dance with cookery and social media in 20 moves. Because “The Cooking-with-Nadi Show” started out as an Instagram account, with daily photos and stories posted over 20 days inviting followers to take part in polls to determine 20 ingredients: everything from their favorite fruit to the one basic ingredient their kitchens can’t do without. The project culminates in a dance-food film lasting 20 minutes. Meanwhile, the recipe finally undertaken is prepared live in front of viewers.

“Nadi enjoys life and every beat of it. C👀king is her strongest element. Follow Nadi for tricks and tips in the kitchen!”: this is how she introduces us to her new Instagram account. And she wonders: “How fancy can virtual cooking become? How many tips and tricks can be shared so that cooking and food can ‘fit’ online, making use of the qualities by which dance ‘fits’ online? Both the rules and techniques for managing movement in a choreography of food, and the ingredients needed to prepare a recipe. How does a dance performance vocabulary translate into the vocabulary of a recipe enacted? By counterpointing the performance of a recipe with the performance of a dance, the selection of cooking ingredients with the selection of movements for a choreography, and the make-up of a recipe with that of a choreography, Nadi is attempting to make food dance. What would life be like if food were dance?”