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Within the project Secret Florence

This solo is constructed with linear architectural joints, levels of movement that slide one into the other, dynamic complexities that articulate imagination spaces in continuous disappearance, supported by air, volatile structures that do not generate weight.

Mandala immediately dusted. Peak that probably is the Methedras.

[Methedras (the last peak), the mountain that is mentioned in The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien. At page. 531 Merry, in a dialogue with Pippin, thinks to see its summit]

Full Scholarship at the American Dance Festival, Duke University USA 1990 Fabrizio Favale in 1996 gets the “Critics Award as best Italian dancer of the year”. As a choreographer in 2011 he received the “Medal of the President of the Republic to the Italian choreographic talent”. From 1991 to 2000 he was a dancer for the company Virgilio Sieni. In 1999 he founded the company Le Supplici. The years following his works are invited to important contexts of the international scene as Venice Biennale, Suzanne Dellal Tel Aviv, Expo 2010 Shanghai, SIDance Seoul, Kitazawa Town Hall Tokyo, La RED Serpiente Messico, Santarcangelo Festival, Gender Bender, Danae Festival Milano, Festival of Edinburgh, Internationale Tanzmesse NRW Duesseldorf. His creations Un ricamo fatto sul nulla and Il gioco del gregge di capre received choreography awards in Spain, Germany and Serbia. He is the creator of independent research projects including the Piattaforma della Danza Balinese for Santarcangelo Festival, co-designed with the choreographers Michele di Stefano and Cristina Rizzo. With his creation Ossidiana he will participate in 2016 Biennale de la Danse de Lyon.

concept: Fabrizio Favale
dancer: Daniele Bianco
production: Le Supplici / KLM
with the support of MIBACT and Regione Emilia-Romagna

Secret Florence‘s core mission of the project is to enhance the attractiveness of the city during the opening week of Pitti Immagine Uomo.
This is achieved through an innovational and high quality artistic proposal intended for a young, international audience interested in unveiling the connections between contemporary artistic languages and the extraordinary historical heritage of Florence.

Secret Florence is produced and promoted the Municipality of Florence with the support of Pitti Immagine and involves a number of Florentine organizations and institutions that work at the international level and represent a plurality of artistic expressions ranging from music to dance, from visual arts to the cinema : Fondazione Fabbrica Europa, Le Murate. Progetti Arte Contemporanea, Lo Schermo dell’Arte Film Festival, Museo Marino Marini, Museo Novecento, Tempo Reale – Centro di ricerca, produzione e didattica musicale, Virgilio Sieni – Centro di produzione sui linguaggi del corpo e della danza.

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Secret Florence is part of Fiere Pitti Immagine 2016 Special Programme promoted by Centro di Firenze per la Moda Italiana and realized with the support of Mise (Ministry of Economic Development) and Agenzia Ice as part of the project in support of Italian fairs and ‘Made in Italy’.

[photo: Giovanni Barbato]