Per artistə

Project Stefania Tansini
With the support of Mosaico Danza, Lavanderia a Vapore

Moving through different spaces is part of our everyday life, we do it effortlessly and we let places influence our being. Stefania Tansini wants to investigate the relationship between places and the human figure: how the body, in its dancing state, relates to the places it inhabits and in turn is influenced by them in postures and dynamics.
Studies for M, are preliminary experiments of this research path. Workshops, interventions in nature or urban places, moments of working in the room, rehearsals with professional dancers or dancers, and periods of theoretical study. Within these initial activities resides the choreographic project, a dance production contaminated and influenced by the rich store of encounters, stimuli, research and experience.

Stefania Tansini – Ubu Award 2022 as best actress/performer under35 – is a graduate of the Paolo Grassi Academy. She has worked as a dancer for Romeo Castellucci, Cindy Van Acker, Simona Bertozzi, Luca Veggetti, Enzo Cosimi, Ariella Vidach. She also collaborates with Motus. She has embarked on an authorial path of research on the body, which she pursues through choreographic projects and collaboration with other artists.

Photo Giulia Lenzi

by and with Silvia Mai
with the support of Anna Paola Bacalov, Chiara Marolla, Lorenzo Monguzzi, Adriano Sangineto and Echo, a dog

The project originates from the word Sono. Designating this word, the research looks at the biographical question by observing how life becomes part of the creative work and is inevitably a necessary cause of it. Traversing dance, animal relationship and anthroposophical art therapy, the work is structured in four parts, each inspired by the movement/sound of a letter of the word Sono, immediately recognizing at least three levels of research: a sound-voice direction; a gesture-body and image direction; and a graphic-spatial direction.

Silvia Mai, dancer, pastoralist, art therapist in training. The path in the artistic sphere is marked by meeting Raffaella Giordano, Silvia Rampelli, Dominique Dupuy, Claudia Dias, Anna Paola Bacalov and experience on stage as performer and author. After a few years of artistic silence where he knew and practiced life as a shepherd he resumes the thread of artistic research with Prospettive Animali conceived for Danae festival 2021, and work as a performer (in Desert by Leonardo Delogu and To Repel Ghostsl/Lettera al Padre by Gennaro Lauro). In 2023 she began training in Anthroposophical Art Therapy at the European Cinnabar in Milan. Creator of Raku (GD’A Veneto Prize 2012), Animal Perspectives (2021), Oikos/SONO (winner Tuttoteatro Dante Cappelletti Prize 2024) the video projects Kyou and Dentro (2024).

A water-based bodywork in which water invites in an intimate, self-reflective space. The research aims at an artistic translation of this unique quality of intimacy, in which the body of the giver becomes an invisible medium, helping the receiver to truly connect with their own body. A space in which participants can immerse themselves in a safe and alternative environment, encouraging them to unleash their creative potential. How can we co-create a space of trust and a condition in which playful exploration is encouraged? The research then investigates how embodied practices can bring new depth to our daily time, helping us to connect, think and work in ways that fully honor our selves.

Jija Sohn is a Japanese-Korean artist based in Amsterdam. She has rooted her practice in the principles of well-being, care and fullness of life. Since 2019, she has dedicated her work to exploring human connections and relationships, developing three community-based projects-“Lands of Concert,” “Phantom Travels” and “Landing on Feathers.” She also worked on the community project “Performing Gender – Dancing In Your Shoes” with Theater festivalBoulevard in 2022-2023.These projects became her way of looking inside human nature, recognizing and embracing all its flaws and strengths. Since 2023 he has been studying water body practices such as Watsu® (Shiatsu in Water) and Water Dance and immersing himself in water as an environment for the exploration of movement as artistic territory.

A water-based bodywork in which water invites in an intimate, self-reflective space. The research aims at an artistic translation of this unique quality of intimacy, in which the body of the giver becomes an invisible medium, helping the receiver to truly connect with their own body. A space in which participants can immerse themselves in a safe and alternative environment, encouraging them to unleash their creative potential. How can we co-create a space of trust and a condition in which playful exploration is encouraged? The research then investigates how embodied practices can bring new depth to our daily time, helping us to connect, think and work in ways that fully honor our selves.

Jija Sohn is a Japanese-Korean artist based in Amsterdam. She has rooted her practice in the principles of well-being, care and fullness of life. Since 2019, she has dedicated her work to exploring human connections and relationships, developing three community-based projects-“Lands of Concert,” “Phantom Travels” and “Landing on Feathers.” She also worked on the community project “Performing Gender – Dancing In Your Shoes” with Theater festivalBoulevard in 2022-2023.These projects became her way of looking inside human nature, recognizing and embracing all its flaws and strengths. Since 2023 he has been studying water body practices such as Watsu® (Shiatsu in Water) and Water Dance and immersing himself in water as an environment for the exploration of movement as artistic territory.

choreographic project Marina Donatone
performers and research collaborators Gianmaria Borzillo, Ilaria Quaglia, Teresa Noronha Feio
sound Elena Rivoltini
production CodeDuomo
with the support of Live Arts Cultures, CSC
Centro per la Scena Contemporanea di Bassano del Grappa, Lavanderia a Vapore
administration Anna Damiani
organization Monica Maffei

Plein air originates from the experience of artistic experimentation with childhood and the use of tactile practices as a means of adherence to the self and encounter with the other from oneself. The co-presence of concrete datum and imaginative dimension that the experience of touch allows proves to be extremely generative for creative purposes and capable of creating images that are now familiar, now discordant and of constructing a scenic temperature at once raw and magical. These two dimensions feed off each other, creating even very sudden deviations that give rise to incongruent imagery and unexpected synaesthesia.

Marina Donatone‘s work has been supported byMattatoio di Roma, Lavanderia a Vapore, Santarcangelo Festival, Teatro India – Teatro di Roma, Short Theatre, Sín Arts Culture Centre in Budapest, OperaEstate and C.U.R.A. Centro Residenze Umbre, among others. In 2020 and 2021 he is part, with the Short Theatre festival, of the MiBACT Boarding Pass Plus Dance internationalization project for artists and curators.Since 2022 he has been collaborating with the educational departments of Palazzo Grassi – Punta della Dogana and the Civic Museums of Venice, and since 2024 he has been leading movement workshops for children at the Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi.

a project by Anna Basti
with the critical collaboration of Ariadne Mikou
Chiasma Association
realised with the support of Lavanderia a Vapore as part of the ‘Residenze Trampolino’ programme
Artists involved for Lavanderia a Vapore: Viola Scaglione/Balletto Teatro di Torino; Elena Rolla/Compagnia EgriBiancoDanza; Amina Amici/Compagnia Zerogrammi
participating schools: Ad’a Dance Studio, Apid Piemonte, asd Sport 8, Artemovimento – choreographic research centre, Fondazione Egri per la Danza (Alta Formazione Egri Danza), Il Gabbiano Danza, Mamadanse, Scuola del Balletto Teatro di Torino, Tilde Danza

Final moment of the project developed over the previous months, with over 80 participants. A rewriting of classical opera with groups of non-professionals and specific communities, using the repertoire as a tool to reflect on the contemporary. The bodies that have gone through this process give life to La companie des étoiles, a changing, temporary grouping, in which the hierarchy that normally informs companies dedicated to the repertoire is annulled.

It begins with a warm-up/warm-up open to all citizens with the format LE CLASSIQUE C’EST CHIC! by Anna Basti.

a project by Anna Basti
with the critical collaboration of Ariadne Mikou
Chiasma Association
realized with the support of Lavanderia a Vapore as part of the program “Residenze Trampolino”
Artists involved for Lavanderia a Vapore: Viola Scaglione/Balletto Teatro di Torino; Elena Rolla/Compagnia EgriBiancoDanza; Amina Amici/Compagnia Zerogrammi
Participating schools: Ad’a Dance Studio, Apid Piemonte, asd Sport 8, Artemovimento – center for choreographic research, Fondazione Egri per la Danza (Alta Formazione Egri Danza), Il Gabbiano Danza, LADD L’arte della Danza, Mamadanse, Scuola del Balletto Teatro di Torino, Tilde Danza

The project Carmen_Nous sommes toutes des étoiles is developed through dialogue between various stakeholders in the area, dance schools, artists Viola Scaglione, Elena Rolla, Amina Amici and choreographer Anna Basti as an activation point to reflect on the content that great ballets and classical works have and continue to convey. The goal is to imagine a rewriting of the work with non-professional groups or specific communities, questioning the hierarchy of bodies that classical ballet expresses and the relational dynamics that its plot brings into play. By reinterpreting not only the ballet but the figure of Carmen herself as an embodiment of the revolutionary power of the feminine, the project activates a process of rediscovering the potential of the body and dance with respect also to current issues that surround us.

From 2019 to the present, Anna Basti‘s research is increasingly oriented toward the involvement of non-professionals and the construction of experiential and participatory containers, in the conviction that knowledge about the body has a revolutionary and transformative power if it is shared with as many subjectivities as possible. With this in mind, it straddles different artistic languages, taking research on the body as a basis for being able to build bridges between various disciplines.

concept and research Flavia Zaganelli
performance and research Maria Durb, Lucrezia Rosellini, Flavia Zaganelli
production Associazione L’Altra

A broad inquiry around and toward pleasure. A tendency, an inclination to search for a condition of openness, connection, rest, bliss and enchantment that can foster Pleasure toward self and others and question the situatedness of our bodies and their positioning in the world. In Placebo Dances we seek postures that are shaken by desire, that gently disrupt bodies and make them waver, to find an erotic closeness of our being in the world. Pleasure is here salvation in times of catastrophe.

The research of Flavia Zaganelli, dance artist and performer, is cross-disciplinary and multidisciplinary. Her performance works investigate the mechanism of relationship in its changing facets. In 2021 she debuts in Danza Urbana with The Game We Play and creates INVISIBILIA thanks to the award of the Bando Abitante of Compagnia Virgilio Sieni. In 2023 she debuts with electrica /ecosi’stɛma/ at Spazio Kor. She is an artist selected for the Boarding Pass Plus Dance 2023 call for proposals for her new research Placebo Dances, hosted at Moving in November Festival (Helsinki) and Graner (Barcelona) in collaboration with Santarcangelo Festival.

a project by Anna Basti
with the critical collaboration of Ariadne Mikou
Chiasma Association
realized with the support of Lavanderia a Vapore as part of the program “Residenze Trampolino”
Artists involved for Lavanderia a Vapore: Viola Scaglione/Balletto Teatro di Torino; Elena Rolla/Compagnia EgriBiancoDanza; Amina Amici/Compagnia Zerogrammi
Participating schools: Ad’a Dance Studio, Apid Piemonte, asd Sport 8, Artemovimento – center for choreographic research, Fondazione Egri per la Danza (Alta Formazione Egri Danza), Il Gabbiano Danza, LADD L’arte della Danza, Mamadanse, Scuola del Balletto Teatro di Torino, Tilde Danza

The project Carmen_Nous sommes toutes des étoiles is developed through dialogue between various stakeholders in the area, dance schools, artists Viola Scaglione, Elena Rolla, Amina Amici and choreographer Anna Basti as an activation point to reflect on the content that great ballets and classical works have and continue to convey. The goal is to imagine a rewriting of the work with non-professional groups or specific communities, questioning the hierarchy of bodies that classical ballet expresses and the relational dynamics that its plot brings into play. By reinterpreting not only the ballet but the figure of Carmen herself as an embodiment of the revolutionary power of the feminine, the project activates a process of rediscovering the potential of the body and dance with respect also to current issues that surround us.

From 2019 to the present, Anna Basti‘s research is increasingly oriented toward the involvement of non-professionals and the construction of experiential and participatory containers, in the conviction that knowledge about the body has a revolutionary and transformative power if it is shared with as many subjectivities as possible. With this in mind, it straddles different artistic languages, taking research on the body as a basis for being able to build bridges between various disciplines.

a project by Silvia Calderoni and Ilenia Caleo
with Silvia Calderoni, Ilenia Caleo, Ondina Quadri, Francesca Turrini
sound climate Martina Ruggeri
organization and curation Elisa Bartolucci
co-productions VIELNURVIEL (Ghent); Motus Vague; Emilia Romagna TeatroERT / National Theatre

temporale is a performance project that investigates subtle phenomena, on the brink of perception, and materializes the restlessness of this present time. The dramaturgy is composed of emotional movements and meteorologies. Can a change of mood move the air, shift a chair, change the landscape? temporale is an ongoing search for transitions, for shifts. In a time dominated by full HD, low-definition entities – ectoplasms, condensed humors, gelatinous and sticky bodies that multiply over the duration of the performance – and backrooms are preferred: environments that exist only in the web, quasi-places that do not exist. In these endlessly repeated yellow rooms, something happened. But we don’t know what.

Calderoni-Caleo met in 2012 and began a joint project between art residencies, research ateliers and performances. Since 2017, they have been teaching at IUAV Venice in the Visual Arts Workshop. Starting with the Biennale College Teatro 2018 workshop, they gave birth to KISS (2019). For the Queering Platform of the Freespace West Kowloon in Honk Kong, they conceived the nomadic project SO IT IS. In 2021 they were part of Flu水o, for which they created the performative action thefutureisNOW? (Milan, Seoul, Shanghai). In 2022 they created the installation Pick Pocket Paradise for the exhibition “Espressioni confrazioni” at the Castello di Rivoli – Museum of Contemporary Art (Turin).They are associate artists of the Italian Pavilion of the Architecture Biennale 2023. In 2023 their latest performance work The present is not enough debuted in Hamburg.

concept by Fabritia D’Intino, Vincent Giampino and Riccardo Guratti
development by Fabritia D’Intino, Vincent Giampino
support Teatri di Vetro and Lavanderia a Vapore

Research project that aims at the overflow of individual processes within the margins of others’ processes, mixing, hybridizing and bastardizing subjects and authorships. The intent is to create a horizontal zone of analysis, confrontation and reciprocity where choreographers exchange materials, research, practices, works and objects of interest. The aim is to give space for a process of homogenizing the knowledge and perception of each other and their work, to grasp and name the foundational pillars and strengths of individual choreographic processes and artistic discourses. Foundational to the work is the operation of boosterage, i.e., dismemberment and relocation of different authorships in a fortified, empowered, exploded meaning.The attitude of exchange is one that defines the “how” and not the “what.” From an alliance perspective, one wants to grant oneself a space of self-curatorship, defined in boundaries of closeness, friendship, assonance. This apparatus arises from proximity and offers itself as a basis and support for the flourishing of new frequentations, connections and relationships in a shared and expanded temporality.

a project by Anna Basti
with the critical collaboration of Ariadne Mikou
Chiasma Association
realized with the support of Lavanderia a Vapore as part of the program “Residenze Trampolino”
Artists involved for Lavanderia a Vapore: Viola Scaglione/Balletto Teatro di Torino; Elena Rolla/Compagnia EgriBiancoDanza; Amina Amici/Compagnia Zerogrammi
Participating schools: Ad’a Dance Studio, Apid Piemonte, asd Sport 8, Artemovimento – center for choreographic research, Fondazione Egri per la Danza (Alta Formazione Egri Danza), Il Gabbiano Danza, LADD L’arte della Danza, Mamadanse, Scuola del Balletto Teatro di Torino, Tilde Danza

The project Carmen_Nous sommes toutes des étoiles is developed through dialogue between various stakeholders in the area, dance schools, artists Viola Scaglione, Elena Rolla, Amina Amici and choreographer Anna Basti as an activation point to reflect on the content that great ballets and classical works have and continue to convey. The goal is to imagine a rewriting of the work with non-professional groups or specific communities, questioning the hierarchy of bodies that classical ballet expresses and the relational dynamics that its plot brings into play. By reinterpreting not only the ballet but the figure of Carmen herself as an embodiment of the revolutionary power of the feminine, the project activates a process of rediscovering the potential of the body and dance with respect also to current issues that surround us.

From 2019 to the present, Anna Basti‘s research is increasingly oriented toward the involvement of non-professionals and the construction of experiential and participatory containers, in the conviction that knowledge about the body has a revolutionary and transformative power if it is shared with as many subjectivities as possible. With this in mind, it straddles different artistic languages, taking research on the body as a basis for being able to build bridges between various disciplines.