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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.

Performance by Lovísa Ósk Gunnarsdóttir
Performers Amanda Daly, Kate Connaughton, Kristjana Stefánsdóttir, Line van den Boom, Lovísa Ósk Gunnarsdóttir, Majella Biernat, Ólöf Ingólfsdóttir, Phil Stewartmyar, Remi Ajike, Sheila Drumm, Sveinbjörg Þórhallsdóttir, Þórey Sigþórsdóttir
Special thanks to all the women who took part in the project through the open call promoted within the Perform Europe touring programme

The work addresses the silence and taboo that seem to surround the menopause in Western society, inviting the audience into a world of vulnerability, shame, empathy and humour. The performance is the conclusion of a shared journey with a group of women invited to participate through an open call.

From 6.30 p.m. in the theatre APERITIF by the Renken Association

as part of Tanz Tanz within the program of Spring Rolls
in the framework of the project (M)OTHERS ON TOUR
with support from Perform Europe, a program co-funded by the European Commission’s Creative Europe program and implemented by IETM International Network for Contemporary Performing arts, European Festivals Association (EFA), Circostrada Network, European Dance Development Network, Pearle Live Performance Europe and IDEA Consult

Codomestication is a project that transforms the performance of artists Krõõõt Juurak and Alex Bailey – co-parents of Albert – into a nomadic concept passed on to artist Michela Depetris and her family. How is it possible to rethink parenting without giving up, as adults, all our needs and desires? What role can children play in caring for us?

Info and Reservations
Info: WhatsApp Didee Association + 39 3884229129
Access to the workshops is free of charge and is by prior mandatory reservation at pedrazzoli@lavanderiaavapore.eu

project curated by DOM
freely inspired by Peter Weir’s film Picnic at Hanging Rock
set design, texts and artistic direction Leonardo Delogu, Valerio Sirna
in dialogue with Daniela Angelucci, Emanuela Freire,
sound design Lemmo
technical support Mael Veisse
production Sardinia Theatre, Fuorimargine – Production Centre for Dance and Performing Arts of Sardinia
national preview

A, picnic on the edge of the night, a temporary bivouac for nocturnal stories.
Interweaving research around the gesture of walking and nomadism with the theme of stanziality and the light inhabitation of public space, in this site-specific work DOM invites the public to a collective exercise of rest and suspension.
When night falls, the clocks stop, perception lapses, the landscape emanates indecipherable messages, as languid as the heat that rises from the ground as moisture descends from the sky and trunks, muslin robes settle on the grass and dark rocks, someone walks away. Nature then appears in all its seductive power, beckoning bodies to itself, inviting them to rest and lose themselves, issuing an irresistible call to go beyond, to cross the threshold between dreaming and waking. A cry on the threshold of experience from which one does not return or, if one does return, does not have the words to recount it.

Start 6 pm: Lavanderia a Vapore
End at 9 p.m.: Certosa Park

followed by musical selections by Valerio Sirna and Anna Basti

by and with Enrico Malatesta

An urban performance, a collective walk that, turning to the Lavanderia a Vapore, produces mottling of sound, transient through the city of Collegno and realised with the hands, with portable sound reproduction devices, found-sounds and poor materials.
Malatesta confers a performative dynamic to the passage, to the crossing, combining his experience in the field of musical research with the exploration of the relationship between sound and body, with the intention of strangling the audible of the street and making everyone participate in their own form of listening, which stands out from time to time against the background noise of Collegno.
The walk also includes some appearances by the ‘Walking bucketheads’ freely inspired by a scene from the documentary ‘Encounters at the end of the world’ by W. Herzog. In order to simulate the extreme weather conditions of Antarctica during a survival course, the instructor makes the participants wear white buckets on their heads as devices to reproduce conditions of poor visibility and hearing difficulties. Based on this suggestion, some of the buckets become strange characters active in brief forays of bucket drumming.

Free participation with reservation by emailing pedrazzoli@lavanderiaavapore.eu

Departure 16.00: Piazza Europa Unita, Collegno
Arrival at 5.30 pm: Lavanderia a Vapore

with Anna Basti, Benjamin Khan (with the support of Fondazione Nuovi Mecenati), Cristina Kristal Rizzo, DOM, Enrico Malatesta, Lovísa Ósk Gunnarsdóttir (with the support of Perform Europe) and other artists to be defined
With the support of Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo

A festival dedicated to vitalism and the figure of the shape-shifter: hybrid bodies, iridescent creatures, humanoid bestiaries, vegetable and animal skeins, monsters and enchantments: we celebrate a zone of interregnum that arises from the temporary convergence of irreconcilable and ever-changing forms and subjects.
Against the necropolitics that atrophies and deadens sensibility and the senses with reductionisms that surgically remove the beauty of complexity, the Spring Rolls festival reanimates us with encounters and experiences that put the lifeblood back into circulation, rearticulating the muscle of wonder through encounters with the other and the unexpected, silencing the fear of difference. We celebrate liberation, the founding anniversary of political and also cultural life, we celebrate the unleashing of forces beyond logic and rationality with projects that overflow into public space, that agitate collective bodies like Carmen, dedicated to the rebellious feminine, like When the bleeding stops evoking the figure of the witch or the cry as a healing rite as in Bless the sound.
We fluidify limits and labels, of identity and behaviour, to give life to new assemblies and possibilities of being together. Solve et Coagula repeat alchemical formulas: we break constricting chains to generate new amalgamations. We participate in an afflatus and a transformative circularity that embraces people, landscapes, things and living beings, discovering in collaboration the glue for a new world.

concept, choreography, costumes and sound Cristina Kristal Rizzo
dance Annamaria Ajmone, Giulio Petrucci, Vincent Giuseppe Giampino, Jari Boldrini, Cristina Kristal Rizzo
music Frank Ocean
production Fuorimargine – Production Centre for Dance and Performing Arts of Sardinia
with the support of TIR Danza
co-production Festival Danza Estate
with the support of PARC Performing Arts Research Centre, h(abita)t – Rete di Spazi per la Danza / QB Quanto Basta / Creazione 2021

The cartographies of Echoes enter into a dialogue with the space that hosts them; they become an intimate activity, an ability of the bodies to enter into contact with the landscape, a kinetic system that plays poetically with the anatomy of forms and the beauty of measurement.
The work involves five dancing bodies that seamlessly design and compose a choreography built on repetitions and differences, moments of solitude as well as choral scores with simple and linear body themes, musically sustained by loops and very long slowdowns generated by the melodic pop sound of R&B star Frank Ocean.
The image composition includes a live streaming dimension activated live by the dancers themselves, an internal point of view that brings bodies and tactile detail closer to the eye and skin, revealing the digital’s potential ability to deposit affective particles. Anyone can see this virtual part of moving images through their phone during the live performance, in another place or at a later time. Echoes expresses the simultaneously light and radical tension of a choreo-politic embodied in the thought of bodies.

concept and choreography Benjamin Kahn
with Thi Mai Nguyen
music design Lucia Ross
light design Neills Doucet
assistant dramaturgy Théo Aucremanne
external eye Cherish Menzo
texts Benjamin Kahn inspired by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Death Grips, Darek Jerman, MAVI
production companies Benjamin Kahn
thanks to Les Halles de Schaerbeek, Léonard Degoulet, Louis Daurat, Sati Veyrunes
co-production Klap Maison pour la danse, Charleroi Danse, Les Halles de Schaerbeek
with the support of Nuovi Mecenati – Franco-Italian Foundation for Contemporary Creation

In September 2020, a group of New Jersey mothers decided to gather in a park and shout at the top of their voices. They felt neglected in the fight against the pandemic. The act of collectively shouting, claiming space in front of their egos, and sharing this need in an informal gathering seemed to be a soothing practice in these desperate times. Following this first collective cry, the New York Times installed a public telephone line in the hope of serving those in need of a primal cry. One of the starting points of the research is the outcry of the social protest of these mothers and many other women in recent decades.

«Bless the Sound that Saved a Witch like me» is written in the plural, to emphasise the diversity of realities and the infinitely different cries that coexist in and around us. There is this intimate, existential cry and the public cry, from personal to collective urgency. There is in the writing the solo and the chorus, like a solitude marked by all struggles. Crossed by the complexity of their inseparable co-existences, «Bless the Sound that Saved a Witch like me» seeks to invest the boundaries between the intimate and the collective and the possibility of a necessary liberation.
‘Bless the Sound that Saved a Witch like me’ is like a cry of alarm, this time in the context of the geopolitical, ideological and ecological crisis we are currently experiencing. It voluntarily disassociates itself from the perspective of a ‘possible future’ in order to confront a possible and urgent present, with the desire to rethink a space of representation in a more radical and immediate relationship with the audience, to propose a form that is less intellectual than instinctive, an experience that cannot yet be articulated.

Viewing is recommended for audiences aged 12 and under; please note: loud sounds, stroboscopic effects, use of smoke, partly naked bodies (topless).

From 7 p.m. in the theatre APERITIF by the Renken Association

conceived and directed by Elisabetta Consonni
with Daniele Pennati
an initiative of Fondazione Piemonte dal Vivo as part of the Corto Circuito project and the We Speak Dance festival
in collaboration with Lavanderia a Vapore, Progetto Zoran, Tecnologia Filosofica and Associazione Andromeda

The workshop starts from the research behind Missing Outs, a performance that addresses the theme of contemporary neurosis over what we consider “missed opportunities”: what we could have done, wanted to do or should have done, but for one reason or another did not come to fruition. The theme will be approached through the collective writing of texts, using as a semantic grid: the right answers not given at the right time, the hypothetical third period and uchronic stories. The medium of film dubbing will also be experimented with as a metaphor for attempting to take voice in a projection that is nevertheless not reality. Collectively it will be decided what, of the various experiments experienced, can be presented to the audience.

Performance:

• Thursday, April 17, h 21.00, Cinema Lumière in Pianezza (TO), as part of Progetto Zoran’s “Sguardi” season;

• Friday, April 18, h 21.00, Movicentro ZAC! in Ivrea (TO), as part of the “Morenica_NET” season curated by Tecnologia Filosofica and Associazione Andromeda.

INFO
Progetto Zoran sguardi@progettozoran.com
Morenica morenicasignal@gmail.com  
Lavanderia a Vapore estdahl@lavanderiaavapore.eu

conceived and directed by Elisabetta Consonni
with Daniele Pennati
an initiative of Fondazione Piemonte dal Vivo as part of the Corto Circuito project and the We Speak Dance festival
in collaboration with Lavanderia a Vapore, Progetto Zoran, Tecnologia Filosofica and Associazione Andromeda

The workshop starts from the research behind Missing Outs, a performance that addresses the theme of contemporary neurosis over what we consider “missed opportunities”: what we could have done, wanted to do or should have done, but for one reason or another did not come to fruition. The theme will be approached through the collective writing of texts, using as a semantic grid: the right answers not given at the right time, the hypothetical third period and uchronic stories. The medium of film dubbing will also be experimented with as a metaphor for attempting to take voice in a projection that is nevertheless not reality. Collectively it will be decided what, of the various experiments experienced, can be presented to the audience.

Performance:

• Thursday, April 17, h 21.00, Cinema Lumière in Pianezza (TO), as part of Progetto Zoran’s “Sguardi” season;

• Friday, April 18, h 21.00, Movicentro ZAC! in Ivrea (TO), as part of the “Morenica_NET” season curated by Tecnologia Filosofica and Associazione Andromeda.

INFO
Progetto Zoran sguardi@progettozoran.com
Morenica morenicasignal@gmail.com  
Lavanderia a Vapore estdahl@lavanderiaavapore.eu

conceived and directed by Elisabetta Consonni
with Daniele Pennati
an initiative of Fondazione Piemonte dal Vivo as part of the Corto Circuito project and the We Speak Dance festival
in collaboration with Lavanderia a Vapore, Progetto Zoran, Tecnologia Filosofica and Associazione Andromeda

The workshop starts from the research behind Missing Outs, a performance that addresses the theme of contemporary neurosis over what we consider “missed opportunities”: what we could have done, wanted to do or should have done, but for one reason or another did not come to fruition. The theme will be approached through the collective writing of texts, using as a semantic grid: the right answers not given at the right time, the hypothetical third period and uchronic stories. The medium of film dubbing will also be experimented with as a metaphor for attempting to take voice in a projection that is nevertheless not reality. Collectively it will be decided what, of the various experiments experienced, can be presented to the audience.

Performance:

• Thursday, April 17, h 21.00, Cinema Lumière in Pianezza (TO), as part of Progetto Zoran’s “Sguardi” season;

• Friday, April 18, h 21.00, Movicentro ZAC! in Ivrea (TO), as part of the “Morenica_NET” season curated by Tecnologia Filosofica and Associazione Andromeda.

INFO
Progetto Zoran sguardi@progettozoran.com
Morenica morenicasignal@gmail.com  
Lavanderia a Vapore estdahl@lavanderiaavapore.eu

conceived and directed by Elisabetta Consonni
with Daniele Pennati
an initiative of Fondazione Piemonte dal Vivo as part of the Corto Circuito project and the We Speak Dance festival
in collaboration with Lavanderia a Vapore, Progetto Zoran, Tecnologia Filosofica and Associazione Andromeda

The workshop starts from the research behind Missing Outs, a performance that addresses the theme of contemporary neurosis over what we consider “missed opportunities”: what we could have done, wanted to do or should have done, but for one reason or another did not come to fruition. The theme will be approached through the collective writing of texts, using as a semantic grid: the right answers not given at the right time, the hypothetical third period and uchronic stories. The medium of film dubbing will also be experimented with as a metaphor for attempting to take voice in a projection that is nevertheless not reality. Collectively it will be decided what, of the various experiments experienced, can be presented to the audience.

Performance:

• Thursday, April 17, h 21.00, Cinema Lumière in Pianezza (TO), as part of Progetto Zoran’s “Sguardi” season;

• Friday, April 18, h 21.00, Movicentro ZAC! in Ivrea (TO), as part of the “Morenica_NET” season curated by Tecnologia Filosofica and Associazione Andromeda.

INFO
Progetto Zoran sguardi@progettozoran.com
Morenica morenicasignal@gmail.com  
Lavanderia a Vapore estdahl@lavanderiaavapore.eu