L’importanza della trasmigrazione degli ultimi sciamani

In conceiving the project RIC.CI Marinella Guatterini wanted to re-propose to the attention of audience and critics an important season of the Italian research choreography, that of the 80s and 90s.
Among the works that mark this time full of creativity there is certainly Duetto by Alessandro Certini and Virgilio Sieni, a small dance masterpiece that has been hailed by critics as “a metaphor of a choreographic game, the pleasure of the cultured invention alongside funny symbolisms”.
Ritualized and intense choreography, almost a danced struggle, Duetto refers to a strong evocative and concrete framework: a blue painted canoe, colored stones, a thunderbolt.
The musical score (from The Rite of Spring to The Firebird and Petrushka) celebrates the story of two Indian warriors, two heroes who meet, challenge each other, move apart, all in the sign of a harmonious fusion between dance and pure storytelling.
Within the Project RIC.CI – Reconstruction Italian Contemporary Choreography. Anni ’80-’90 Duetto is here re-proposed with interpreters of Fattoria Vittadini, company founded by graduates of the Corso di Teatrodanza of the Scuola Paolo Grassi/Fondazione Milano.

inspired by Bhagavadgîtâ
from VI par van of the epic poem Mahaˉbhaˉrata

choreography: Alessandro Certini, Virgilio Sieni ñ Parco Butterfly
music: Igor Stravinskij, Johann Sebastian Bach, Giancarlo Cardini
voices: Joseph Beuys, Billie Holiday
scenography: Tiziana Draghi, reconstructed by Scenicamente
costumes: Loretta Mugnai, realized by da Nicolao Atelier, Venice
originally performed by: Alessandro Certini and Virgilio Sieni
reconstructed by: Alessandro Certini, Virgilio Sieni
performed by: Mattia Agatiello, Riccardo Olivier

1989 production: Compagnia Parco Butterfly
2011 production: Fattoria Vittadini

Within the project
RIC.CI.
Reconstruction Italian Contemporary Choreography
Anni ’80-’90
conception and artistic direction: Marinella Guatterini

In collaboration with:
AMAT | Associazione Marchigiana Attività Teatrali / ARTEVEN Circuito Teatrale Regionale Veneto / TPP | Teatro Pubblico Pugliese

In co-production with:
Fondazione Teatro Grande di Brescia / Fondazione Fabbrica Europa per le arti contemporanee / Fondazione Milano Civica Scuola di Teatro Paolo Grassi / Fondazione Ravenna Manifestazioni / Fondazione Teatro Comunale di Ferrara “Claudio Abbado” / Torinodanza | Fondazione del Teatro Stabile di Torino

[photo: Viola Berlanda]