Casual bystanders is based on the choreographic reconfiguration a corpus of “not-extraordinary” gestures proceeding from kinetic and verbal fragments of casual bystanders observed in public places. Between 2014 and 2015 Salvo Lombardo has been observing and writing into a series of notebooks progressively numbered, their postures, their gestures, the rhythmic pace of their movement […]
VITTORIA DE FERRARI SAPETTO + SIMONE GRAZIANO DANIELE NINARELLO + DAN KINZELMAN LUISA CORTESI + GIANLUCA PETRELLA Three encounters with dancers and musicians. Independent modules, linked within a single evening, creating a triptych of music and dance outside normal formats to give shape to a variety of choreographic and sound styles evoking one another, […]
Emmanuel Lévinas says that, in the simple encounter with the Other, the essential, the absolute comes into play: the showing, the epiphany of the other is where I discover that my world is mine as long as I can share it with the Other. This tension, this impossibility to escape from the Other, which […]
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 […]
Le Trait, as the line that joins the three works of the new creation of Nacera Belaza. Two solos and a duo, like an echo to the path of the Franco-Algerian choreographer. After having danced for years alongside her sister Dalila, Nacera Belaza this time chose to work on a solo: a way to […]
A daybreak work, the infancy of contemporary Italian dance taking its first steps in that distant year of 1982, Calore, by Enzo Cosimi, amazed the spectators of thirty years ago. It was an authentic revelation of Mediterranean taste, of solar energy speckled with shadows, an original research expressed in peaks of (pure) dance while […]
Inspired by the quatrains of Persian poet and Sufi mystic Djalâl ad-Dîn Rûmî, Ha!, the latest creation by Bouchra Ouizguen, is an exploration of madness. Using the same working method which led to the success of Madame Plaza, co-produced and presented at Fabbrica Europa in 2009, Bouchra Ouizguen returned to travel around Morocco in […]
Aomori is a place, climate is emotive, the body is alive, souls blossom The body becomes space and space is transformed into body; in repetition the movement assumes a sensibility of an internal landscape, reflecting the soul of Aomori, the silent repetition of snowfall. A focus of detail a Tsugaru ‘hand dance’, from vertical […]
In 1983 Pupilla, a pièce by and with Valeria Magli, was rich in such unequivocal cultural references as Hans Bellmer and Heinrich von Kleist, articulated in a series of evocative, moving, rarefied images. It still is. Today’s recreation of the pièce, performed by three dancers from DanceHaus Company, still tells the tale of the […]
Rock Rose WoW tries to define the profile of three different bodies that exceed toward their ownego doing everything they can do. It’s a performance about silent revolutions. By analyzing from different prospectives the theme of the race to self-realization, we can think about all the different personalities living in us, and about the […]
In 1988 the meeting of Michele Abbondanza and Antonella Bertoni in Paris marks the beginning of an artistic collaboration that leads to the foundation of the Company Abbondanza Bertoni. Michele Abbondanza studies in New York with Carolyn Carlson and is among the promoters of one of the fundamental experiences for the Italian choreography: the […]
Once Upon a Time is an interdisciplinary creation, in which there is a constant dialogue between dance, video, music, and lights. This dialogue brings together experiences of women of different generations on stage. It is an investigation through time and the translation through the body of memories, desires, experiences, images, movements and relationships. The […]
Taken from Jean Cocteau’s literary text Les enfants terribles (1929), thoroughly disconcerting in its fearful modernity and its dealings with the age of adolescence, so atrociously happy and tortuous, with such tragic severity and impalpable elegance, La boule de neige by Fabrizio Monteverde, already back in 1985 unravelled a current of Italian contemporary dance […]
by and with Martina Francone, Simone Tecla, Hrafnhildur Einarsdottir, Roberto Masotti, Gianluca Lo Presti No-Nothing/Something is a multidisciplinary performance inspired by Ovidio’s Metamorphosis. It is a composition of a series of episodes in which dance, live and music, and video improvisation meet, overlap and blend creating multiple scenarios made of images, sounds and movement. […]
We ain’t going nowhere. We are here to stay. We are here. We are here. We are. R_ESISTERE is a dance-concert on the theme of resistance. It originates from the desire of embodying a sense of revolution and it portrays protest as an essential part of being human, challenging the social beliefs around it. The […]