Shows

ideazione, coreografia, regia Aline Nari
interpreti Aline Nari, Elisa D’amico, Francesco Dalmasso
voce recitante Graziella Martinoli
testi originali Daniela Carucci
produzione ALDES
in collaborazione con UBIdanza
con il sostegno di MIC – Ministero della Cultura, REGIONE TOSCANA / Sistema Regionale dello Spettacolo
un ringraziamento a Davide Frangioni e Guendalina Di Marco 

Lo spettacolo rientra nell’ambito del progetto Tanz Tanz. Segue laboratorio.

Il colore rosa è uno spettacolo di danza-teatro, rivolto ad un pubblico di bambini (5 – 13 anni) e famiglie in cui attraverso la metafora del colore si affrontano i temi della crescita, della costruzione della propria identità e soprattutto della necessità di preservare uno spazio intimo in cui accettarsi semplicemente per quello che si è, al di là degli stereotipi. Invece alle bambine si continuano a proporre giochi, scarpette, borsette, immancabilmente rosa (e di una sola zuccherosa tonalità), mentre per i maschi il rosa è un colore da evitare, da temere, da negare. Ma chi l’ha detto che il rosa è “da femmine” e il celeste “da maschi”? Il cielo è maschio o femmina? l’acqua è maschio o femmina? e le montagne? il temporale, le stelle, gli alberi? Il rosa, oltre ad essere stato storicamente anche un colore maschile, è un colore ricco di sfumature difficili da imitare o da riprodurre: perché ogni rosa è unico e ognuno può essere rosa a modo suo. Attraverso una scrittura coreografica globale (danza, gesto, voce) lo spettacolo Il colore rosa, nato anche grazie a percorsi laboratoriali sulla questione di genere, parla in modo ironico, evocativo e affettuoso del cammino difficile per riconoscersi nella propria diversità, nella possibilità di cambiare e trasformarsi. 

by Salvo Lombardo
a production by Chiasma 2023
as the third chapter of the trilogy “L’esemplare capovolto”
performers Chiara Ameglio, Jaskaran Anand, Fabritia D’Intino, Daria Greco,
light design, setting, technical management Maria Elena Fusacchia, Alessio Troya
music Iosonouncane, Milva, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
sound design Fabrizio Alviti
cultural advising Alessandro Tollari
training coach Pietro Piscitelli, Federico Pucher, Andrea Sorbello, Luigi Uberti
management and project coordination Giulia Vanni
administration Cesare Benedetti
co-production FESTIVAL MILANoLTRE, Fattoria Vittadini
sponsored by MIC – Ministero della Cultura, Regione Lazio
with the support of Lavanderia a Vapore, Teatro di Roma / Teatro Nazionale, Scenario Pubblico / Centro di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale per la Danza, C.L.A.P.Spettacolo dal vivo, CapoTrave / Kilowatt
in collaboration with Università degli Studi di Torino | Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici
thanks to CUS Torino, A.S.D Lotta Brescia and Lotta Club Jonio
Salvo Lombardo is associate artist of Lavanderia a Vapore and MILANoLTRE Festival

Salvo Lombardo’s SPORT performance identifies a specific existential dimension in the physical condition of the “fall” and in the same way a pretext to reposition the ideals of competition and performance normally based on principles of exclusion and conformity to precise anatomical, social, behavioral and cultural rules. Specifically, SPORT attempts to widen the gaze on the very concept of “performativity” of the body, both in artistic and sporting performance. In this sense, sport is investigated as one of the different articulations of the forms of dominant power, in the intersections between individual expression and public narration, at the crossroads with the construction of national, cultural and gender identities. SPORT by Salvo Lombardo is an opportunity to re-discuss the contemporary canons and imaginaries applied to the body in the “Occident” trying to reveal both the desperate attempt to resist its fall, as well as the inevitable, necessary and at times “loving” acceptance of the decline: of a condition, of a narrative system, of a world. The performance is the third chapter of the trilogy L’Esemplare Capovolto articulated in the rewriting of three historical works of the Italian academic dance repertoire of the late 19th century: Gran Ballo Excelsior (1881), Amor (1886), Sport (1897). 

ph. Andrea Macchia for Media Dance +

Coreografia Aakash Odedra e Lewis Major
Danza Kalli Vratti
Produzione Aakash Odedra Company e The Spark Arts for Children
Composizione Musicale Nicki Wells
Supervisione musicale Nitin Sawhney
Visual Ars Electronica Futurelab

Little Murmur, spettacolo dedicato al giovane pubblico, racconta le difficoltà che alcuni bambini e bambine affrontano entrando in contatto con il mondo delle lettere e delle parole. Un racconto che esplora – in modo poetico e divertente, attraverso la danza e le nuove tecnologie – le sfide e le tribolazioni dei disturbi specifici di apprendimento. Parole e corpi volano come stormi di uccelli mormorando nel cielo. In Little Murmur questo differente modo di leggere il mondo diventa occasione di bellezza e di celebrazione.

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”.

from an idea by Giorgio Rossi
a creation by Elisa Canessa, Federico Dimitri, Francesco Manenti, Giorgio Rossi
performers Elisa Canessa, Federico Dimitri, Francesco Manenti
scenographies Francesco Givone, Francesco Manenti, Francesca Lombardi
costumes Beatrice Giannini, Francesca Lombardi
illustrations Francesco Manenti
lighting design Elena Tedde
production Associazione Sosta Palmizi
with the contribution of  MiBACT, Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali e del Turismo/Direzione generale per lo spettacolo dal vivo; Regione Toscana/Sistema Regionale dello Spettacolo
with the support of Armunia (Rosignano LI), Wintergarten – Atelier di Teatro Permanente (Livorno), Comune di Castiglion Fiorentino (Ar)
Thanks to Spazio Nunc, Elena Giacomin

A grey house. Three grey characters. Bored, dull and clouded by the technological means, they move like prisoners of a predetermined mechanism, their gaze is always turned to the screens. But here comes an unexpected element! A butterfly will move their look elsewhere and the house will become the theatre of new adventures and transformations. A crescendo of emotions and vicissitudes in which the three protagonists will finally rediscover the power of fantasy, in a continuous game to free their bodies and minds. Esercizi di Fantastica tells, with the language of dance and movement, the power of imagination that transforms things and people into something always unexpected and extraordinary. The authors were inspired by the idea of “Fantastica” by the writer Gianni Rodari, whose 100th anniversary is celebrated in 2020. Close to the surrealism of the 50s and inspired by the work of Alfred Jarry and his pataphysics (the science of imaginary solutions), Rodari affirmed the existence of a Fantastica in total contrast to Logic.

The night event will be opened by the traditional encounter with Interplay Link, in which the young choreographers Elisa D’Amico and Francesco Dalmasso, recommended by the Festival Interplay, will present their creation.  

VIRGOLETTE_SHORT
by and with Elisa D’Amico, Francesco Dalmasso

Virgolette is a work on the sign, an attempt to re-design space, time and relationship starting from a system of rules. Based on specific space trajectories and possible modes of interaction, a system is established that matures and develops in action. The choreographic score originates taking into consideration distances, durations, interactions and encounters, which are stratified according to the logic of repetition and interruption, accumulation and progression. Virgolette is a system of cause-effect, back-and-forth reactions, where the climax is made by a discontinuous continuity of micro-climaxes, waitings, false starts and fake endings. Virgolette_short is an excerpt from Virgolette, a re-articulation of the choreographic material in another format.  

to follow MADE4YOU – PINK
production Eko Dance International Project

After a two-year postponement due to the pandemic emergency, Made4You-Pink has finally come to premiere. Pink. It’s the new production of Eko Dance Project and it will showcase five new creations coming from five emerging choreographers, selected by Pompea Santoro with Paolo Mohovich. A female edition, completely dedicated to female creativity. Francesca Frassinelli presents Broken Chords Can Sing A Little, with music by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Antonio Vivaldi and Arvo Pärt. Eva Calanni proposes Come tu mi fai sentire with music by the recently departed Ezio Bosso; Roberta Ferrara will stage Del tempo che fugge on music by Armand Amar while Donatella Poggio will present Te voio raccontà na storia on music by the famous Italian songwriter Alessandro Mannarino. For the opening of the show, Cristina Golin, called as Patroness of the event, brings on stage all the dancers of Eko Dance Company for a creation entitled Ecoico on music by Pärt, Noto and Cage. In memory of Mirella Freni she has also created some short interludes on arias sung by the great soprano from Modena.   

ECOICO
choreography by Cristina Golin
music A. Pärt, A. Noto, J. Cage

COME TU MI FAI SENTIRE
choreography by Eva Calanni
musi Ezio Bosso

DEL TEMPO CHE FUGGE
choreography by Roberta Ferrara
music Armand Amar

TE VOIO RACCONTA’ NA STORIA
choreography by Donatella Poggio
music Alessandro Mannarino

BROKEN CHORDS CAN SING A LITTLE
choreography by Francesca Frassinelli
music Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Antonio Vivaldi, Arvo Pärt

production Eko Dance International Project

After a two-year postponement due to the pandemic emergency, Made4You-Pink has finally come to premiere. Pink. It’s the new production of Eko Dance Project and it will showcase five new creations coming from five emerging choreographers, selected by Pompea Santoro with Paolo Mohovich. A female edition, completely dedicated to female creativity. Francesca Frassinelli presents Broken Chords Can Sing A Little, with music by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Antonio Vivaldi and Arvo Pärt. Eva Calanni proposes Come tu mi fai sentire with music by the recently departed Ezio Bosso; Roberta Ferrara will stage Del tempo che fugge on music by Armand Amar while Donatella Poggio will present Te voio raccontà na storia on music by the famous Italian songwriter Alessandro Mannarino. For the opening of the show, Cristina Golin, called as Patroness of the event, brings on stage all the dancers of Eko Dance Company for a creation entitled Ecoico on music by Pärt, Noto and Cage. In memory of Mirella Freni she has also created some short interludes on arias sung by the great soprano from Modena.   

ECOICO
choreography by Cristina Golin
music A. Pärt, A. Noto, J. Cage

COME TU MI FAI SENTIRE
choreography by Eva Calanni
musi Ezio Bosso

DEL TEMPO CHE FUGGE
choreography by Roberta Ferrara
music Armand Amar

TE VOIO RACCONTA’ NA STORIA
choreography by Donatella Poggio
music Alessandro Mannarino

BROKEN CHORDS CAN SING A LITTLE
choreography by Francesca Frassinelli
music Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Antonio Vivaldi, Arvo Pärt

Research project by Giuseppe Muscarello
production Pindoc/Muxarte
with the support of MiC Ministry of Culture – Sicily
Winning project AiR – Artisti in Residenza (call 2022)

Public sharing of the homonym artistic residency.

Thanks to an highly analytical study dimension, we have discovered an basic structure, consisting in a mechanical body supported by threads, linked to the joints, and an iron rod, which starts from the skull. This image includes the entire central axis up to hip bone. The request made to the dancer was to penetrate this form, holding it and moving independently though remaining moved by something else. Therefore, being both a pupo and a puparo at the same time.

concept Tommaso Serratore
dance Sara Sguotti, Tommaso Serratore
light design Eleonora Diana
music Gabriele Ottino
coproduction Perypezye Urbane, Versiliadanza
with the support of Centro Nazionale di Produzione della Danza Virgilio Sieni
and Fondazione CR Firenze – Bando Abitante 2021
thanks to MCF Belfioredanza, Teatro Frida

Domino represents the second episode of Mr Furry (2019), whose protagonist is a bizarre being who advances from a primordial dimension towards the present, in the incessant attempt to reach a state of completion.

In Domino it is precisely the ‘here and now’ that becomes the scenery in which to come to terms with what one has managed to achieve in the course of one’s existence; thoughts are always occupied by the past and the future, without ever dwelling on the present. A metaphysical dimension in which Mr Furry, with his unhurried movements and utopian ideals, compares himself to another creature similar to him, more energetic and bursting, who can never find a place that is really his. It is the interaction that moves changes and new impulses in an oscillation between the search for stability and the desire to maintain a dynamism typical of youth. It is a continuous and progressive forward motion that leads to an extremely psychedelic, energetic and dynamic science fiction situation, which induces us to accept that we cannot have controlover everything and to see in the present a new resource. Domino is a condensation of the life we are living, a path of growth faced by Mr Furry faithfully accompanied by his alter ego that, in some ways, completes him and like a domino, indissolubly divided into two parts, never leaves him but they become one.

solo by Raffaella Giordano
incipit and piano music Arturo Annecchino
extraordinary meetings, complicity and thoughts Danio Manfredini and Joelle Bouvier
editing and abstract compositions Lorenzo Brusci
lighting design Luigi Biondi
costumes Giovanna Buzzi
painted by Gianmaria Sposito
special thanks to Filippo Barraco, Sandra Zabeo, Romana Walther
production Associazione Sosta Palmizi
with the support of MiC and Regione Toscana/Sistema Regionale dello Spettacolo

“What is nature that loves to create, where is death. Similar to the edge of the world in the center of a non-existent landscape, the desire to create form. The silence is dense, like reading piano notes from a great distance. Like wild flowers in a field, that always bloom according to the same rhythm; a dress like the sky or the earth, a splash of colour with undefined contours, an expression of the porosity of the soul. Dear spectator I offer you my path as a gift, reflection of a celestial song” (Raffaella Giordano)

The process of creating a choreographic work by analogy draws on nature for inspiration, and evolves through the language of the body, while the IO becomes solely the point of departure for the overall vision. The roots of this work grew out of a book: The Hill of Summer by J.A. Baker, a bizarre and mysterious English writer who writes exclusively about nature. His gaze settles on the most minute manifestations of nature while at the same time encompassing the dizzying greatness that surrounds it.

by and with Federica Tardito
assistance Aldo Rendina
light design Massimo Vesco
light consolle Fabio Bonfanti
musical consulency Michele Anelli
projected image Pietro Bologna
costumes Monica Di Pasqua
production compagnia tardito/rendina
coproduction Sosta Palmizi and Arbalete
with the support of Compagnia Zerogrammi and Arte in Movimento
winning project of AiR 2020 (Lavanderia a Vapore)

Freely inspired by the figure of Sonja in the play Uncle Vanja by Anton Cechov.

I felt touched by the character of Sonja as this feminine figure knew me deep down; a strange feeling of closure and wonder … with no little tragicomic courage, I moved my first steps towards this figure with missed desires, and with a gaze toward the sky.The proximity with Sonja’s figure allows me to enter autobiographical areas with the necessary distance that helps me to use another look, ironic, on the un-graceful condition of the human being. Because of my inclination to drift I fall in a destabilising overturn between emotional excesses, from tragic to ridiculous admitting constant falls which become (hope-less) attempts to rise.(Federica Tardito)

Cechov’s characters are consciences which come to show themselves and are experienced “from the inside”, this particular approach of the writer helps the author to overexpose Sonja’s humanity. The main character of the performance Federica/Sonja was born from the pages of literature and sometimes mixes itself with the autobiographical features of the choreographer. The idea of the performance was born by the author’s and performer’s desire to come closer with a compassionate look at Cechov’s character; moved by the sensation of glimpsing a very thin vein, suspended, precarious, a recall towards that particular human dimension which is situated between the longing for salvation and its inevitable slide, a game on tiptoes, perpetually in search of a non-existent balance. The two women overlap themselves to turn upside down a dramatic situation and to put on scene the human fragility which becomes the trampoline to make human beauty emerge.

Live final sharing of Permutazioni 2019/2020 winning projects.

A TALE FOR THE ROOTLESS
by and with Teresa Noronha Feio

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.

VARIAZIONE #2: ELOGIO ALLA GENTILEZZA
by and with Lorenzo De Simone

VARIAZIONE #2: ELOGIO ALLA GENTILEZZA is a solo that draws life from the circular exchange between art (contemporary dance) and science (psychology). It is an act of personal and gestural subtraction to reach the essence of kindness, as an act, body and sight. In order to give back to people their own gaze and their own imagination that they have donated for the creation of this work. A succession and a constant and continuous unfolding of forms, actions and gestures derived from science translate through the body which create a conference attempting to answer the question “What is kindness?“.