as part of NID Platform 2024
The new creation irreverent title That’s All Folks! by Damiano Ottavio Bigi / Alessandra Paoletti / FRITZ Company refers to the world of cartoons.
In a set that is both incisive and minimalist, a quartet of international performers consisting of Damiano Ottavio Bigi, Ching-Ying Chien, Issue Park, and Faith Prendergast is engaged in a work that puts dance, science, and myth into dialogue.
Inspired by the concept of the ‘event horizon’, it tells of physical vertigo towards the unknown and being suddenly dragged into a time and place where there is no longer a central axis or perspective but where everything changes depending on where we look.
FRITZ Company Bigi/Paoletti is an artistic project and a dance theatre company founded in 2020 by Damiano Ottavio Bigi, dancer and choreographer, and Alessandra Paoletti, actress and director. Their work is born in a dialogue with languages of different nature, moving between the genres of dance, theatre and visual arts.
Damiano Ottavio Bigi is an Italian choreographer, dancer and performer. From the Rome Opera to Dimitris Papaioannou’s company, passing through several companies (CNDC d’Angers e il CCN di Nantes) before becoming a member of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch (2005), where he still works as a guest artist. In 2010 he participated in the film “PINA” by Wim Wenders. The encounters of his career led him to confront different experiences and visions, enriching his world and inspiring his path. In 2016 he was awarded the “Premio Capri Danza International” and in 2020 the “Premio Sfera d’Oro per la Danza”.
Alessandra Paoletti is an Italian actress and director active in the field of research theatre and contemporary dance. Graduated from the National Academy of Drama “Silvio D’Amico”, as an interpreter and as a director/choreographer moves through different languages and visions. Among the most significant encounters and collaborations of her artistic career are those with A.Knapp, J.A.Stanzak, T.Ostermeier, J.Muller/Fura dels Baus, J. Sanchis Sinisterra, R.Garcia and L.De Bei, winning with the latter “Le Maschere del Teatro Prize” and the “Golden Graal Award”. She has long collaborated with the Istanbul Municipal Theatre as a foreign director.
a creation by Damiano Ottavio Bigi & Alessandra Paoletti
with Damiano Ottavio Bigi, Ching-Ying Chien, Issue Park, Faith Prendergast
composition and sound design: David Blouin
music: David Blouin, Colin Stetson / Sarah Neufeld Duo, Gary ‘Oslide, Henry Purcell, Hank Williams
lighting design: Lucien Laborderie
set and costumes in collaboration with Tzela Christopoulou
set construction: Marios Karaolis
technical director: David Blouin
materials in collaboration with the dancers
co-produced by Festival Equilibrio Roma, FRITZ Company, Compagnia Simona Bucci/Degli Istanti, Fondazione Fabbrica Europa / PARC Performing Arts Research Centre
supported by Pina Bausch Zentrum (Wuppertal), 2 WORKS/Dimitris Papaioannou, Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Colonia in collaboration with NID Platform, CHATHA Lyon, Centro di Residenza della Toscana (Armunia – CapoTrave / Kilowatt)
Selected by NID Platfrom 2024 – Programming section
Special thanks to Dimitris Papaioannou for his precious support
Thanks also to Tina Papanikolau, Bettina Milz, Felicitas Willems, Aicha M’Barek & Hafiz Dhaou, Gerarda Ventura, Alessandra Stanghini
photo: Monia Pavoni
