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A project by Doriana Crema 

In this new stage of the Tabula Rasa residency, the dialogue between Doriana Crema, associate artists, and Gianni Staropoli continues. The focus will be on the body/light relationship.

What happens when a light enters space and a body receives it or passes through it? What happens when the body enters the space and chooses to enter the light? How do these two actions modify space and evoke images and memories?

The two subjects light and body in the alternation of being – one the main actor and the other the servant – are caught by the space as it proceeds its path as a container. At this stage, the audience remains in its space as observer and will be caught by the light that at different times will surprise the bodies in their being. Doriana Crema and Gianni Staropoli will move in the space, acting the light on sight or interrupting its lines with the presence of their bodies.

The question is about evoking without narrating, simply by moving through space, what images, what memories, in the here and now are.

by Elisa Giuliano
in collaboration with Almanac Inn

For the 2024 exhibition programme, the Turin-based non-profit space Almanac Inn invited curator and playwright Elisa Giuliano to create an exhibition to reflect on the role of images, documents and artefacts in the creation of social worlds. Starting from research work carried out in collaboration with the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the University of Turin, the Associazione Figli della Miniera di Macugnaga, and the Gruppo Spontaneo di Magliano Alfieri, Elisa Giuliano will develop an exhibition and a performance oriented towards the analysis of borders in the Piedmontese territory: the border between cultures, the border between sacred and profane, the border between rationality and irrationality.
During her residency period at the Lavanderia a Vapore, Elisa will work with artist Gianfranco Colla on the realisation of a play inspired by Il mondo in rivista (1926) by Mario Bertola, one of the works from the psychiatric hospital in Collegno conserved in the Art Brut collection of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the University of Turin. The show will be presented at the Almanac Inn in June 2024.

Elisa Giuliano is a curator, researcher and theatre director. She currently lectures at the MA Curatorial Studies at ZHdK Zurich. In 2022 she co-curated with Anselm Franke, Denise Ryner, Claire Tancons and Zairong Xiang the exhibition Ceremony (Burial of an Undead World) at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in Berlin. In 2020, she was a fellow at Ocean Space – TBA-21 Academy in Venice and in 2018 at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam. In 2019, Giuliano was part of the artistic team of the exhibition projects I-DEA and Blind Sensorium at Matera European Capital of Culture 2019. Her writings have appeared in publications such as NERO, Dirty Furniture, MUdec United and Arts of the Working Class.

Research Salvo Lombardo
Organisation Chiasma

The iceberg is an iridescent mass, solid and vulnerable at the same time; structurally compact but fluid. The iceberg is also the unravelling of a prejudicial deception: that is, it lends itself to recognisable emergencies in that display of its emerged part, of its expendable peaks; however, it is usually more its ‘deep’ nature that substantially characterises its bulk and power; this mass – beyond the visible – is an intricate relational warp. 
Through a series of long recurring residencies over the course of 2024, Salvo Lombardo, associate artist of Lavanderia a Vapore, starts from the figure of the iceberg to articulate a discourse on the dramaturgy of dance and, in general, on the prototyping of an institutional dramaturgy. How can an artist and a space build a network of visible and invisible interweavings, reciprocally crossing discourses, words, practices that inhabit the Lavanderia in order to affect the vision and future design trajectories of a possible institution?

A project by Elisabetta Consonni

Graduated in Communication with a final thesis on the social construction of the body in dance and graduated at The Place-London, Elisabetta Consonni deepened her research in performing art living in Holland (2004-2009) and Poland (2013-2015). Her works for conventional spaces aim to expand the practice of choreography seeking for performative devices to incorporate a social discourse. Her activism in the social and civic sphere takes the artistic form of a research process that since 2013 investigates the use and social meaning of public space and the declination of choreographic skills in working with marginalised groups. Her work searches for the continuous interlacing between practice and production of knowledge through it.

ON MOBILISATION focuses on community mobilisation through artistic processes. This bottom-up project co-funded by the European Union, takes an active role in an international solidarity and emancipatory movement. It aims to bring together and to engage individuals for favouring forms of social justice and equality. In order to effectively address the concept of micro-community mobilisation the project embraces local specificities of the four partner organisations: wpZimmer, Baltic Art Center, Studio ALTA and Lavanderia a Vapore. They are mobilised by adopting radical forms of cultural participation facilitated by six international artists: Kalle Brolin, Elisabetta Consonni, Daniele Ninarello, Ahilan Ratnamohan, Marika Smreková and Danae Theodoridou.

A collective research project between practices, theories and artistic paths promoted by Lavanderia a Vapore with Festival Orlando, Invisible Cities, Zona K and Periferico Festival.

Interspace is a collective research path articulated as a nomadic laboratory, promoted by an informal network of partners that investigates art as public space and artistic languages as places capable of generating a convergence of multitudes.

The research path involves curators from the promoting organisations and 3 artists selected through an open call who will go through 5 stages during 2024: 3 ateliers and two residencies. Tea Andreoletti, Giovanna Rovedo and Simona Da Pozzo are the artists selected for the 2024 edition.

Concept and direction Silvia Rampelli
Dance Alessandra Cristiani, Eleonora Chiocchini, Valerio Sirna, Stefania Tansini
Production Tir Danza 2024/25
Production support Lavanderia a Vapore, Armunia/Festival Inequilibrio

Central to Habillé d’eau‘s investigation is the investigation of the perceptive dimension that the scene realises through the tension of the concrete conditions of experience, the cognitive passage from sensation to perception, from the given to the representation of the given, in the field of the phenomenon.

In continuity with this projectual framework, the residency constitutes the first research nucleus for a short action, conceived as a single episode for Buffalo 2024 and for a new creation for four figures, which in the mode of action, time, space and theatrical light identifies the possible vehicle for a critical movement of the fruition set-up aimed at questioning the relationship with reality.

Silvia Rampelli has a degree in Philosophy and teaches a Master in Artiterapies at the University “La Sapienza” in Rome; she focuses her reflection on the nature of the act. Active in the performing arts scene and in theoretical and educational fields, she has been produced by La Biennale di Venezia and invited to major festivals.

A project by Fondazione Piemonte dal Vivo/Lavanderia a Vapore, Bolzano Danza / Fondazione Haydn di Bolzano e Trento, CSC Bassano del Grappa, Gender Bender, Triennale di Milano, Teatro Stabile dell’Umbria

Artists engaged by Lavanderia a Vapore: Quim Bigas Bassart; Viola Scaglione/Balletto Teatro di Torino; Elena Rolla/Compagnia EgriBiancoDanza; Daniele Ninarello/CodedUomo; Amina Amici/Compagnia Zerogrammi

Dance Schools: Ad’a Dance Studio, Apid Piemonte, Associazione Eclectica, Asd + Sport 8, Centro Ricerca Danza, Fondazione Egri per la Danza (Alta Formazione Egri Danza), Ginger Company asd, Mamadance, Scuola del Balletto Teatro di Torino, Dance Well Lavanderia a Vapore

Los Faunos is a new project developed with the choreographer Quim Bigas Bassart, four Piedmont dance companies and a network of national partners engaging ten local dance schools and communities around Lavanderia a Vapore.
From January to April, the project will unpack as an incubator for emerging talents that will benefit from the encounters with the leading artists in an open, dynamic, and informal net where to cultivate and express participants’ creative potential.
During these months, leading artists and participants will revisit the figure of the Faun, its queerness and intersectionality, adopting the repertoire as a creative ground to revisit the code and reflect on the present.
The international guest and the local companies will develop creative tasks and choreographic scores that can activate in dance schools, teachers and participants, a compositional and expressive ability that goes beyond disciplinary teachings.

Ph. Andrea Macchia

Research Salvo Lombardo
Organisation Chiasma

The iceberg is an iridescent mass, solid and vulnerable at the same time; structurally compact but fluid. The iceberg is also the unravelling of a prejudicial deception: that is, it lends itself to recognisable emergencies in that display of its emerged part, of its expendable peaks; however, it is usually more its ‘deep’ nature that substantially characterises its bulk and power; this mass – beyond the visible – is an intricate relational warp. 
Through a series of long recurring residencies over the course of 2024, Salvo Lombardo, associate artist of Lavanderia a Vapore, starts from the figure of the iceberg to articulate a discourse on the dramaturgy of dance and, in general, on the prototyping of an institutional dramaturgy. How can an artist and a space build a network of visible and invisible interweavings, reciprocally crossing discourses, words, practices that inhabit the Lavanderia in order to affect the vision and future design trajectories of a possible institution?

coreography Ginevra Panzetti / Enrico Ticconi
music and sounds Teho Teardo
video Sergio Salomone
graphic Ginevra Panzetti
first version created for Esplorazioni by Triennale Milano
in collaboration with Volvo Car Italia

Ginevra Panzetti and Enrico Ticconi – associate artists at Lavanderia – are based in Berlin and Torino; they have been working as a duo since 2008. Their artistic research interlaces dance, performance and visual art. Deepening themes related to the historical union between communication, violence and power, they draw on ancient imaginaries, creating hybrid figures or images between history and contemporaneity. Both graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and attended Stoà, School for rhythmic movement and philosophy in Cesena, led by Claudia Castellucci.

In anticipation of the next shared research residency, scheduled for autumn 2024 with the support of Culture MovesEurope and Lavanderia a Vapore and with the participation of four artists from the European scene, the curatorial team of Workspace Ricerca X is meeting to research about research. The April residency is a residency of thought, of sharing desires and questions, in a self-reflexive and fruitful posture, directed towards the construction of new curatorial perspectives, research dramaturgies and editorial choreographies. If doing research is essentially continuing to ask ourselves how we do what we do, with this residency the Ricerca X project takes the necessary space to immerse itself in these questions, inhabit them, re-articulate them and relaunch them towards possibilities and desires for the future.

Workspace Ricerca X – Research and Dramaturgy is a platform for the development and support of artistic research and dramaturgy in the field of choreography and performance. Established in 2016 with the aim of opening up avenues for the development and legitimisation of artistic research in the Italian context, it positions itself in dialogue with Northern European models and is aimed at professionals in the field of dance and performing arts.

A project by Fondazione Piemonte dal Vivo/Lavanderia a Vapore, Bolzano Danza / Fondazione Haydn di Bolzano e Trento, CSC Bassano del Grappa, Gender Bender, Triennale di Milano, Teatro Stabile dell’Umbria

Artists engaged by Lavanderia a Vapore: Quim Bigas Bassart; Viola Scaglione/Balletto Teatro di Torino; Elena Rolla/Compagnia EgriBiancoDanza; Daniele Ninarello/CodedUomo; Amina Amici/Compagnia Zerogrammi

Dance Schools: Ad’a Dance Studio, Apid Piemonte, Associazione Eclectica, Asd + Sport 8, Centro Ricerca Danza, Fondazione Egri per la Danza (Alta Formazione Egri Danza), Ginger Company asd, Mamadance, Scuola del Balletto Teatro di Torino, Dance Well Lavanderia a Vapore

Los Faunos is a new project developed with the choreographer Quim Bigas Bassart, four Piedmont dance companies and a network of national partners engaging ten local dance schools and communities around Lavanderia a Vapore.
From January to April, the project will unpack as an incubator for emerging talents that will benefit from the encounters with the leading artists in an open, dynamic, and informal net where to cultivate and express participants’ creative potential.
During these months, leading artists and participants will revisit the figure of the Faun, its queerness and intersectionality, adopting the repertoire as a creative ground to revisit the code and reflect on the present.
The international guest and the local companies will develop creative tasks and choreographic scores that can activate in dance schools, teachers and participants, a compositional and expressive ability that goes beyond disciplinary teachings.

Ph. Andrea Macchia

coreography Ginevra Panzetti / Enrico Ticconi
music and sounds Teho Teardo
video Sergio Salomone
graphic Ginevra Panzetti
first version created for Esplorazioni by Triennale Milano
in collaboration with Volvo Car Italia

Ginevra Panzetti and Enrico Ticconi – associate artists at Lavanderia – are based in Berlin and Torino; they have been working as a duo since 2008. Their artistic research interlaces dance, performance and visual art. Deepening themes related to the historical union between communication, violence and power, they draw on ancient imaginaries, creating hybrid figures or images between history and contemporaneity. Both graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and attended Stoà, School for rhythmic movement and philosophy in Cesena, led by Claudia Castellucci.