Tag: 12 Oct
British Breakfast
With the UK Delegates With the support of British Council Come and meet delegates from organisations from across the UK at this “British” breakfast. Over a cup of tea, you can find out more about the dance scene in the UK and see if there are opportunities for collaboration. This event is supported by the […]
Pastorale – Open Studios
The work heads in the direction of the desire to build “experiential choreographic rituals” like Kudoku and Still. Pastorale is an utopian elsewhere we desire to reach, that place where we are unified with the nature of events, a place that might be gained through dance and ritual. Pastorale explores the theme of the Nostalgia […]
Annotazioni per un Faust/ Evocazioni – Open Studios
Notes for a Faust/Evocations is a creative process that starts from Goethe’s opera and subsequent visions by Mann and Pessoa around the Faust figure to create its own vision inspired by the themes of the Sabbah and Evocation. Faust is a symbol of personal crisis and revolution. Plural in nature, he represents the plurality of […]
Elegìa (o delle cose perdute) – Open Studios
The Elegy (or Lost Things) choreographic project is inspired by a corollary of primarily existentialist and introspective reading we reached at the end of a productive cycle featuring Alcesti (a work of the most humanist of the tragic Greek playwrights) and Don Quixote (the self-examination of a misunderstood hero). Other literary works that provided inspiration […]
Les Miserables – Open Studios
A ruthless and immoral canvas on today’s period, a contemporary middle-class drama, occasionally familiar. An overview of stereotypes, of the already seen, already said, already acted on. A little theatrical farce of human misery: the body and the voice in service of a pathetic collective that resembles that of Aristophanes’ ‘The Frogs’, or perhaps one […]
Opacity#5 – Open Studios
The Gran Ballo Excelsior was created in 1881 in celebration of the triumph of Civilization over Obscurantism that keeps people «in the shadows of servitude and ignominy» positioning itself in a precise cultural scheme of affirming the concept of national identity and respective collective unconscious. The question behind the entire work process is what survives […]
GrandPrix – Open Studios
The GrandPrix Project stems from a reflection on encounter in contemporary dance and its productive processes. Although different generations of artists make up this wide choreographic context, the possibilities for creative exchange are limited. The wider-frame of GrandPrix is to propose itself as both platform and place of encounter between two generations vaunting different study […]
Punk. Kill me please – Open Studios
Punk. Kill me please emerged from our fascination with Punk Rock, the revolutionary weapons of its aesthetics, and the political questions it shouted, all of which remain open today. At the heart of the story from which the choreographic exploration begins is the legendary and painful relation (and its tragic conclusion) between Sid Vicious and […]
Home – Open Studios
Home starts from the need to come home, return to the origins of a language, and the questions that this need consequently raises. Addressing the idea of Home confronts us with scenarios and imaginings that regard liquid, multiform, transformational identity, with images of war, flight from one’s native land bound for some unknown place, whether voluntarily […]
Un/Dress | Site specific version
Un/dressis a metaphorical performance in which the fusion of body with fabric gives life to a moving painting that explores the changes and migrations of cloth. While preserving our natural way dressing and undressing, the piece becomes an inquiry into the role of the female’s clothing and body in modern society. The body both strongly […]
WRECK
WRECK – List of extinct species is an interdisciplinary performance mixing movement, sound and visual art. A huge black plastic soft sculpture inflated with air moves through the space like a hunter. This abstract object has a very evocative power. Swallowing and spitting human beings. It could be an allegory of Leviathans or legendary undersea […]
Bermudas
Bermudas is a choreographic system for a variable and interchangeable number of performers (from five to thirteen). It supports the idea of a perpetual motion ruled by an organic order, aiming at the creation of a dynamic continuum in space and time, while making visible the workings of each performer to feed and alter the […]
A. semu tutti devoti tutti?
Adopting an iconographic apparatus, extremely contemporary, the performance tackles, with a universal language, current issues such as violence against women, and religious and economic fundamentalism. A.semu tutti devoti tutti? is dedicated to the patron Saint of Catania – deprived of her breasts as a punishment for her refusal to get married with the city Proconsul – […]
Avalanche
According to french philosopher Derrida, “archive fever” (mal d’archive) is the destructive force in all conservation and cataloguing projects. The man who archives commits violence against what mustn’t be remembered. In archive time, the future, in order to ensure that something will survive, something else must be killed. In Avalanche, the eye of a Cyclops […]