Residencies

choreography Daniele Ninarello
assistent to the choreography Elena Giannotti
dramaturg Gaia Clotilde Chernetich
production Codeduomo
with the support of MosaicoDanza
and CSC Centro per la Scena Contemporanea

Starting from the “silent protests” thought and created during the lockdown period, the idea of a new group piece wasborn, dedicated to the collective process of protest and liberation, in which the performers abandon themselves to aspace that they mutually construct in which it is possible to expose their vulnerable bodies. In this space the bodiesproceed together through a dance that comes from a real process of stream of consciousness, progressively releasing thetensions that have accumulated over time, to give movement and voice to postponed revolutions. The time we are goingthrough requires a reflection on the sense of care, participation, listening, cooperation and healing. Bodies undergocontinuous dictation from the outside, they are territories colonized by the culture of control, violence and offense. Ourvulnerability has been forced not to express itself, not to be observed, celebrated.

with Industria Indipendente, Silvia Calderoni, Yva
sound production in collaboration with Steve Pepe
light design in collaboration with Luca Brinchi

Industria Indipendente research is rooted in language: an expanded writing that inscribes itself on bodies, environments, surfaces; it becomes action and performativity; it liquefies and expands into sound, voice and light; that opens, contaminates, blurs the boundaries between you and me, self and world, us and others, here and elsewhere. Their new project – La Mano Sinistra (“The Left Hand”) – uses magic as a prism to “rewrite and manipulate the symbolic order: space of relationship and equality between human beings and the world”. Here writing becomes formula, poetry, spell, allusion, invocation and evocation, in tension with the de-hierarchization of the relationships between body and matter, knowledge and action, subject and environment, sound and luminous physical appearance. In Lavanderia a Vapore, together with Silvia Calderoni and Yva, they inscribe an environmental soundscape, which can be traversed and inhabited, in the form of a happening, open to the other*, in a “chaosmotic space – a place of possibilities and polyrhythmic and polyphonic resonances”.

Disabled Leadership and Dance Talent Development in Italy and UK 
by OrienteOccidente and Stopgap Dance Company
supported by British Council
within the framework of International Collaboration Grant

by Giorgia Ohanesian Nardin
with Giorgia Ohanesian Nardin
sound F. De Isabella
costume design Max Simonetto | naturaviolenta
ph. credits Tiziano Demuro

Giorgia Ohanesian Nardin is an artist, independent researcher and queer agitator of Armenian descent. Their research is built of a collection of pedagogic and performative events that focus on experiencing pleasure as a form of resistance to systemic oppression by relating a queer/transfeminist approach to somatic practices. Trained in dance, their work exists is the shape of movement/video/text/choreography/sound/gatherings and deals with narratives of hostility, survival strategies, rest, friction, sensuality, healing.

by Noemi Piva
with Noemi Piva, Sara Chinetti, Federica Siani
residency in collaboration with Zerogrammi/Casa LUFT
within the framework of Permutazioni 2022 

“I consider home where my suitcase empties.
I disguise an unknown place as Home.
I carry it with me foldable, pocket-size.
We carry along things that belong to us and to wich we belong to.
We spread them around us.
We call them Home.
Maybe Home is who or what absorbs a piece of me
who or what arouses something that I recognise.
Home is also a place where to lose yourself with no fear.
A place that kidnaps you without bad intentions.”
(August 2019)

Considero casa is related to the previous work Vedere te (1322) that involves the use of different props including a disassembled stool, built and used in the second half of the performance. Considero casa wants to tell a different story connected with the last chapter through the reproposal of this object that is geometrical and finished, but also flexible, maneuverable, handy. The dancers, through the use of different stools, will carry their idea of house around to make it “wear” to pre-existing places. The overlapping and construction/disassembly of the stools and their displacement will give body to new forms to dwell and a new sense to old sites. Every place is different and lends itself in a more or less hostile way to the needs of the individual. Moving is an unintentionally violent action, that impose its own idea of home to an earlier place, forced in this way to change its nature and lose its previous function. We will explore the place for every element (objects, bodies, space, music) to coexist in an homogeneous environment where everything has the same communicative potential. 

choreography Daniele Ninarello
assistent to the choreography Elena Giannotti
dramaturg Gaia Clotilde Chernetich
light design Gianni Staropoli
dancers and music to be defined
production Codeduomo
with the support of MosaicoDanza/Festival Interplay, Fondazione Piemonte dal Vivo – Circuito Regionale Multidisciplinare, Lavanderia a Vapore, Armunia/Festival Inequilibrio, Festival Oriente Occidente/CID Centro Internazionale della Danza, CSC Centro per la Scena Contemporanea
and of Ministero della Cultura
within the framework of Étape Danse

Starting from the “silent protests” thought and created during the lockdown period, the idea of a new group piece wasborn, dedicated to the collective process of protest and liberation, in which the performers abandon themselves to aspace that they mutually construct in which it is possible to expose their vulnerable bodies. In this space the bodiesproceed together through a dance that comes from a real process of stream of consciousness, progressively releasing thetensions that have accumulated over time, to give movement and voice to postponed revolutions. The time we are goingthrough requires a reflection on the sense of care, participation, listening, cooperation and healing. Bodies undergocontinuous dictation from the outside, they are territories colonized by the culture of control, violence and offense. Ourvulnerability has been forced not to express itself, not to be observed, celebrated.

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ÉTAPE DANSE
A cooperation project between France, Germany and Italy to support new choreographic creations

Étape Danse is a trilateral project for international choreographic residencies that aims to promote the new promising creations of significant choreographers of the contemporary scene from France, Germany and Italy. The program, initiated by the Bureau du Théâtre et de la Danse à Berlin, was born from the collaboration between Fabrik Potsdam, La Maison center de développement chorégraphique national Uzès Gard Occitanie, Théâtre de Nîmes and Associazione Mosaico Danza joined them in December 2018. In 2019 Mosaico involved the Fondazione Piemonte dal Vivo – PDV (Circuito Regionale Multidisciplinare del Piemonte) – Lavanderia a Vapore, in order to make the project sustainable, providing selected artists with a professional work space, contributing to their artistic growth, and promoting intercultural dialogue between guest artists and local companies. From 2021 Interplay involved also Torinodanza Festival / Fondazione Teatro Stabile di Torino – Teatro Nazionale, thus further increasing the financial support in support of contemporary dance. The project thus develops its international vocation in the best possible way, coming to support every year 3 talented companies selected: one French, one German and one Italian.

concept, choreography and performance Teresa Noronha Feio
dancer Laura Gazzani
sound composition Alessandra Bossa
samples Coro Gulbenkian
scent designer Elena Cobez
scene Lidia Zanelli
choreografic consultancy Francesca Cinalli
dramaturgical and theoretical consultancy Giuliana Pititu
thanks to Francesco Sgrò
ph. Stefano Mazzotta
executive producer Cordata F.O.R.
support Casa Luft / Zerogrammi (all’interno di PERMUTAZIONI coworking coreografico in collaborazione con Residenze Lavanderia a Vapore / Fondazione Piemonte dal Vivo), Spazio Zut! (all’interno del progetto Umbria una terra che ti muove di ATS CURA con il contributo di Regione Umbria e MIC), Sosta Palmizi e Fabbrica C 

A TALE FOR THE ROOTLESS is a choreographic investigation into the idea of personal archives. Her research is based on the reconstruction of identity through family and historical memories, embodying the image of colonial heritage and investigating in choreography a gestural, textual and rhythmic translation. Teresa starts from an assemblage of traces that date back to the decades of ’60-’70 in order to investigate her identity through the body and transforms it into fertile traces of which she grasps the contradictions and problems related to an identity heritage grafted.

concept, creation and dance Lorenzo De Simone
music Sabrina Felli
scientific research Gianfranco Cicotto
tutors Daniele Ninarello, Davide Valrosso, Doriana Crema, Enrico Pastore, Franca Ferrari, Marco D’Agostin
movement coach Rosita Mariani
production NINA APS
with the support of INCUBATORE PER FUTURI COREOGRAFI C.I.M.D.
research support PERMUTAZIONI 2019/2020, choreographical coworking by Casa LUFT, Zerogrammi and Fondazione Piemonte dal Vivo
winning project of AiR – Artisti in Residenza (call 2022)
with the support of Associazione Sosta Palmizi, KLm – Kinkaleri, Le Supplici, mk, Rosa Shocking

This project, designed for a single dancer on stage, sinks into the need of dealing with the question of kindness. It has become a forbidden pleasure. In our imagination as human beings, kindness is not a natural instinct: we all are crazy, bad, dangerous and profoundly competitive. People are driven by selfishness: impulses towards others are only forms of mere self-preservation. But even though the pleasure of kindness is risky, it is one of the most fulfilling things we’ve got. Today the term “kindness” embraces a range of feelings describable in different words: solidarity, generosity, altruism, benevolence, humanity, compassion, piety, empathy (Phillips A. & Taylor B., 2009).

by and with Daniele Ninarello and Patricia Carolin Mai
a project by Lavanderia a Vapore and Goethe-Institut

Every age brings with it “its roses and its thorns”…

Patricia Carolin Mai has her main production location at Kampnagel and K3 – Zentrum fürChoreographie | Tanzplan Hamburg. She studied dance at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp, the SNDOAmsterdam as well as the Master of Performance Studies at the University of Hamburg. The examinationof the body as an archive and central link for memories marks the centre of her choreographic work. Shehas presented her productions at international festivals in Israel, Italy, Belgium, Korea and othercountries. With her long-term research she is working on “bodies in states of emergency”. After Ready tosnap (2016) and BALGAN BODY (2018) she explores 2019 in HAMONIM (Hebrew for “what moves themasses”) the mechanisms of protection for a community and what is necessary for an individual tosurvive in a group. 70 dance enthusiasts create a stage community that dissects the parameters oftogetherness and practices a critical stance towards the masses. In the summer of 2019, she follows theinvitation of the Ninety9 Art Company to Seoul. With her group piece GAL-GAL she focuses on the self-empowerment of women in Korean society. In 2020 she is working on the twelve month solo self-experiment KONTROL to explore the limits of her physical capacity and metamorphosis, questioningcultural norms of body and gender. Patricia Carolin Mai has recently received Hamburg’s concept fundinguntil 2023. With the trilogy INTEAM she will continue her work (together with K3 │ Tanzplan Hamburgand the local dance community) about practices of community.

Daniele Ninarello is an artist active in the field of performing arts. His choreographic language isarticulated through a constant research of movement that focuses on the “living body” as a place ofmediation. His works are often constituted by movement practices that unfold in an experientialchoreographic dimension, where bodies are often oriented and kept alive by a collective consciousness. After attending the Rotterdam Dance Academy, he works with choreographers, musicians and composersof international renown: Bruno Listopad, Virgilio Sieni, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Ezio Bosso, Dan Kinzelman,Xenia Ensemble. Since 2007 he presents his creations in several national and international festivals. Since2010 his productions have been part of the Anticorpi XL network in Italy and abroad thanks to theprojects Les Reperages and Dance Roads. Kudoku, realized together with the musician Dan Kinzelman,debuted at Biennale Danza 10 in Venice, and is among the projects selected for AEROWAVES TWENTY17,NID Platform and Rencontres Chorégraphiques Seine-Saint-Denis France. He is currently associate artistof Lavanderia a Vapore- Centro di residenza per la danza and of Oriente Occidente Festival in Rovereto.

by and with Kamilia Kard
within the framework of Residenze Digitali 2022

Kamilia Kard works with 4/6 dancers in order to develop the choreographic pattern which she will translated into an algorithm within the digital space of the performance Dance Dance Dance (working title).

Kamilia Kard is an artist and researcher. After graduating in Political Economy from Bocconi University, she got a BA in Painting and a MA in Net Art at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan. She also earned a PhD in Digital Humanities from Genova University. Her research explores how hyper-connectivity and new forms of online communication have modified and influenced the perception of the human body, as well as our gestures, feelings and emotions. Her practice spans from digital paintings to websites, from video installations to 3D printed sculptures, from animated gifs to interactive virtual environments and videogames. Her work has been exhibited internationally in museums, galleries, public spaces and online venues. Highlights include: Careof, Milan (2021); Marséll, Milan (2021); Museo Pino Pascali, Polignano a Mare (2021); Galerie Odile Ouizeman, Paris (2020); Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris (2020); Dimora Artica, Milan (2020); Olomouc Museum of Art (2020); Metronom, Modena (2018, 2019 and 2020); EP7, Paris (2019); Victoria and Albert Museum, London (2018); iMAL, Brussels (2018); Digitalive @ REF, Rome (2018); Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland (2017); Triennale di Milano (2017); Centro Cultural São Paulo (2017); La Quadriennale di Roma (2016); Ludwig Museum, Budapest (2015); Hypersalon, Miami (2015); The Wrong Biennal, online (2014); Museo del Novecento, Milan (2013).

by Ginevra Panzetti and Enrico Ticconi
with 4 dancers/performers recruited by auditions
network project within the framework of JUMP: Oriente Occidente, Festival MILANoLTRE, I Teatri di Reggio Emilia, Lavanderia a Vapore/Piemonte dal Vivo, Marche Teatro/Inteatro Festival, Orbita, Scenario Pubblico/Compagnia Zappalà Danza, Teatro Comunale di Vicenza, Teatro Stabile dell’Umbria. (IT) // Torino Danza (IT) // Julidans Amsterdam (NL) // Le Pacifique – CDCN Grenoble Auvergne Rhône-Alpes (FR) // network Les Petites Scènes Ouvertes with the sponsorship of Caisse des dépôts (FR) // Pact Zollverein (DE) // Centre Chorégraphique National de Nantes within the framework of Accueil Studio 2022 (FR) // CCNR / YUVAL PICK within the frame of Accueil Studio program (FR) // Passages Transfestival – Metz (FR)
production Panzetti/Ticconi (DE) // Associazione culturale VAN (IT)
coproduction Tanz im August / HAU Hebbel am Ufer (DE)

Residency in preparation of the new choreographic creation by Panzetti/Ticconi (panzettiticconi.com); the duo – based in Italy and in Germany – has recruited 4 professional contemporary dancers and performers (m/f/d) for INSEL, which will premiere at Tanz Im August (Berlin) in 2023.

A place with specific geomorphic characteristics will be the starting point for the creation of dynamic and visual materials: the island. A portion of dry land, a circumscribed space that defines the walkable, the place on which it is possible to shape the idea and the practice of living. Based on the assumption that non-isolation is one of the most important conditions for the development of a community, we will address the particular social situation of communities based on islands and how this geographical condition has generated and preserved specific cultural traditions. In a symbolic sense, the island also stands for an existential condition that recalls interior isolation or a form of deep reflection, “detachment from the world”. Looking at literature examples like the iconic novel Robinson Crusoe by Defoe or the classical theatre play The Tempest by Shakespeare, the movement vocabulary, grounded on the figure of the castaway and the exile, will be developing from the dramatic, pathetic, at times narcissistic expressions of sorrow. We will be focusing on a peculiar plasticity of the body given by a dynamic balance between a high precision in time, rhythm, synchronicity and the emotional representation of the gesture.

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by Noemi Piva
with Noemi Piva, Sara Chinetti, Federica Siani
residency in collaboration with Zerogrammi/Casa LUFT
within the framework of Permutazioni 2022 

“I consider home where my suitcase empties.
I disguise an unknown place as Home.
I carry it with me foldable, pocket-size.
We carry along things that belong to us and to wich we belong to.
We spread them around us.
We call them Home.
Maybe Home is who or what absorbs a piece of me
who or what arouses something that I recognise.
Home is also a place where to lose yourself with no fear.
A place that kidnaps you without bad intentions.”
(August 2019)

Considero casa is related to the previous work Vedere te (1322) that involves the use of different props including a disassembled stool, built and used in the second half of the performance. Considero casa wants to tell a different story connected with the last chapter through the reproposal of this object that is geometrical and finished, but also flexible, maneuverable, handy. The dancers, through the use of different stools, will carry their idea of house around to make it “wear” to pre-existing places. The overlapping and construction/disassembly of the stools and their displacement will give body to new forms to dwell and a new sense to old sites. Every place is different and lends itself in a more or less hostile way to the needs of the individual. Moving is an unintentionally violent action, that impose its own idea of home to an earlier place, forced in this way to change its nature and lose its previous function. We will explore the place for every element (objects, bodies, space, music) to coexist in an homogeneous environment where everything has the same communicative potential.