Attakkalari hosted a collaborative choreographic residency led by two of the founders and choreographers of Collettivo Mine. Roberta Racis and Fabio Novembrini, together with five Indian dancers – Hemabharathy Palani, Pooja Gajanan Kadam, Shivaranjan NS, Dayanand Akhilesh J and Sumesh V.M. – worked on a special version of Corpi elettrici presented on February 10 at at Bangalore International Centre within the festival Body Matters – Move to Transform festival
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A period of work in Oslo for the young Italian artists Valerio Palladino, Elisa Sbaragli and Rebecca Lena, together with the dancer Sigrid Marie Kittelsaa Vesaas (Norway) and the musician Johann Loiseau (France), accompanied by the choreographers and dancers Heine Avdal (Norway) and Yukiko Shinozaki (Japan) as tutors. In this residency the process was focused on the theme of landscape both in the meaning linked to our society and in that of the concrete locations where performative actions take place.
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A new residency in Norway for Valerio Palladino, Gennaro Lauro, Elisa Sbaragli and Rebecca Lena, again with the artistic coordination of Heine Avdal and Yukiko Shinozaki, this time as part of the festival (((O)))utpost 2023 in Flørli, where the results of the work were presented to the public on June 2 and 3.
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After online meetings held from May to August, Italian dancers and choreographers Olimpia Fortuni, Fabio Novembrini, Roberta Racis and the videomaker Federico Torre, together with the artists Albert Garcia (Macao/Taipei), Jereh Leung (Singapore), Er Gao (Guangzhou) met in Macao to further develop, with the curatorial coordination of Daniel Kok (Singapore) and Antonella Cirigliano (CROSS), the topic of the “Diorama” as a performative container for different forms of physical practices, artistic propositions, critical reflections, experimental methodologies. The results of their collective work were presented as part of Macao CDE Springboard.
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A residency in Manila for choreographer and dancer Olimpia Fortuni and the sound artist and performer Katatonic Silentio with Manila-based artist Pablo Bermudez, who investigates the utilization of costumes and video art format merging with the movement and the sound performed by Olimpia Fortuni and Katatonic Silentio in their work X. The result of this research was presented in the form of an installation/performance on October 20, 2023 at the 1f Projects art space in Manila.
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Olimpia Fortuni and Katatonic Silentio were at the Asia-Europe Cultural Festival 2023 in Singapore, where at the end of a period of residency they presented their work X at the Asian Civilisations Museum on September 27. On this occasion, the Malaysian choreographer and dancer January Low joined the performance. This new version of the piece has highlighted the cultural exchange between Asian and Western culture.
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From 14 to 27 November 2023, at the Teatro della Misericordia in Sansepolcro, an audition was held to select actors, actresses and performers who will participate in a new Italian-Japanese co-production, the creation phase of which will take place in 2024 in Japan, where the debut will take place. This new work will involve Italian and international artists, directed by Takahiro Fujita, one of the most interesting directors and playwrights of the new Japanese scene, founder of the company mum & gypsy, partner of the CRISOL project.
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Video shooting at the Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts for the video installation Digital India, later presented at CROSS Festival 2024 in Verbania. The videomaker Federico Torre, accompanied by Antonella Cirigliano (CROSS), followed the development, rehearsals and production of 4 pièces of the Indian company Attakkalari Dance Company which uses Bharatanatyam, Kalaripayattu and Kathakali as a basis for contemporary works.
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A research residency in Cuba, during which the musician Pino Basile and the choreographer Roberto Olivan (Spain) as a tutor, along with the operator Lorenzo Pappagallo, worked together with dancers from the Asociación Hermanos Saíz for an exchange of creation and production practices. At the end of this period of work, a public presentation took place at Habana Espacios Creativos.
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After the work process carried out in Bangalore at the Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts in March 2024 by the videomaker Federico Torre, accompanied by Antonella Cirigliano (CROSS), the video installation Digital India is presented to the public as part of CROSS Festival 2024.
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The young Italian dancers Giulia Cannas, Rachele Montis and Nunzia Picciallo in residency in Montreal to work with the choreographer Danièle Desnoyers, director of the Le Carré des Lombes company, and the Canadian performers Châtelaine Côté-Rioux, Brontë Poiré-Prest, Myriam Arseneault, as part of the creative process Les Scénographies-Paysages focused the exploration of the artistic potential of natural spaces to give life to a site-specific co-creation.
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The creation process of Les Scénographies-Paysages led by Danièle Desnoyers continues in Sardinia where Giulia Cannas, Rachele Montis and Nunzia Picciallo, with Châtelaine Côté-Rioux, Brontë Poiré-Prest and Myriam Arseneault, give life to traveling performances in dialogue with urban and natural spaces and heritage sites in Cagliari, Villacidro and Paulilatino.
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The Italian choreographers and dancers Pierandrea Rosato and Michele Scappa and the sound artist Katatonic Silentio in Changsha for a period of residency where they worked with the director-choreographer Lian Guodong on the project something not right along with the dancers of the Mid-mountain Dance company. The results of this creative process were presented in Changsha as part of the Mid-Mountain Dancers Art Week.
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The four young performers Alessandra Cozzi, Lara Di Bello, Giorgia F. Fiorentini, Luca Maino, selected by the director and playwright Takahiro Fujita during the audition/workshop in Sansepolcro, in Japan for a period of creation with the mum & gyspsy company and the public presentation, at the Toyooka Theater Festival and at the Shikoku Gakuin University, of Chair/IL POSTO, the work resulting from this creative process.
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After a residency process lasting several months in Cuba, Spain and Italy, which brought together the Spanish choreographer Roberto Olivan, the Italian musician Pino Basile and the young Cuban artists Chamely de la Caridad Hernández Baquet, dance, and Olber Viquillón Rodríguez, music, the production El resto del naufragio was presented in Italy and Spain.
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After the residency in China, the creation process of something not right continued in Florence where director-choreographer Lian Guodong and choreographer and dancer Lei Yan worked with dancers Pierandrea Rosato and Michele Scappa, sound artist Katatonic Silentio and dancers Gunika Aniwa and Lou Hio Mei. The residency took place at MAD Murate Art District (Sept 23-28), where on the 29th an Open Studio was held for spectators and professionals. From Sept 30 to Oct 1, the residency continued at PARC Performing Arts Research Centre and on Oct 2, something not right was presented to the public at Teatro Cantiere Florida as part of the Fabbrica Europa festival.
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