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PARMA MOVING FESTIVAL - Solo Cose Belle

Festival of dance and performing arts in the city's public spaces

II edition

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PARMA MOVING FESTIVAL - Solo Cose Belle

Festival of dance and performing arts in the city's public spaces

II edition

16 > 20 September 2024 00:00 00:00

Parma

Parma, 16-20 september 2024

artistic direction Daniele Albanese
promoted by Europa Teatri
realised with the contribution of Comune di Parma and Fondazione Cariparma
in collaboration with the Library System of the Municipality of Parma and the Museum of Chinese Art and Ethnography

PARMA – Now in its second edition, Parma Moving Festival, the festival of dance and performing arts in the city’s public spaces, entitled only beautiful things, will take place in Parma from 16 to 20 September, under the artistic direction of Daniele Albanese, promoted by Europa Teatri and realised with the contribution of Parma City Council and Fondazione Cariparma, in collaboration with the Parma City Library System and the Museum of Chinese and Ethnographic Art.

Performances, site-specific creations, and talks make up the programme of the Festival that, after the 2023 edition in which the encounter between the city’s public spaces and the language of contemporary dance was experimented for the first time, arrives with the current edition at the beginning of a broader project outlining directions and forms to be developed in the coming years.

The nodal and identifying point of the Festival is always that of bringing the public closer to the languages of dance, which in turn are transformed by crossing unusual spaces and new ways of posing performance. The intent of this new edition – to which artists from the Italian scene among the most interesting for their refined artistic research have been invited – is to mix different spheres through the languages of dance, to re-evaluate urban spaces, crossing them and inhabiting them. The performances will be scattered in squares and open-air venues, as well as in the spaces of the Chinese Museum and the Teatro Europa.

A preview of the Festival, on Tuesday 10 September, at 6 pm at the Teatro Europa, will be the open rehearsal of Appunti per il sole (Notes for the Sun) by Daniele Albanese, with Fabio Pronestì and Diego Spiga, a fragment of a new project inspired by the Sun, as a symbol of strength and energy, and by its cyclical nature in our lives. A performance on the transition between movement and energy, in a progressive increase in the intensity of the show.

Inaugurating the Festival will be the very young Compagnia Parini Secondo x Bienoise who, after last year’s success, will present their new creation HIT OUT in Piazza Garibaldi on Monday 16 September at 6 p.m., an agile and compact version of their new choreographic and musical project in which jumping rope is used as a percussive element to manifest embodied rhythms. After a year of athletic training, supported by the Italian jumpers community and sponsored by MarcRope – Make your cardio an art in Milan, the group focuses on the sound produced by the skipped rope, dissecting its timbral possibilities. The jumpers on stage Sissj Bassani, Martina Piazzi, Camilla Neri and Francesca Pizzagalli, perform a rhythmic and choreographic score in which single-under, side-swing and double-under are both athletic and musical elements. The pounding succession of rope strokes becomes an echo of the rebellion against those forces that would have us motionless, lying on the ground with our eyes closed.

On the same day, at the Teatro Europa, at 9 p.m., Pietro Pireddu, one of the emerging choreographers on the Italian scene, returns to Parma with Panimundu, a reflection on the identity of performance and perception. Panimundu is a complex life form, an entity made up of bodies in space, of actions that are the sap that nourishes this life form, of paths that are the result of particular choices and internal movements. The performers Carolina Amoretti, Chiara Casiraghi and Giulia Gilera experience themselves and their own uniqueness, experimenting a reflexive approach that disposes them to observe their own actions as they are produced, reproduced and activated.

On Tuesday 17 September, at 5 p.m., in the courtyard of the Biblioteca Civica, Lucia Palladino, a transdisciplinary artist and researcher in the fields of performance, choreography and writing, presents Correspondances into the forest, an invitation to the practice of the unknown that moves as soon as it is named, an exercise in the struggle of resistance against the capitalist system of production that dominates the entire system of knowledge. Verbal language is investigated from an ontological point of view, i.e. how it becomes a producer of knowledge.

At 6.15pm at Alice’s Library, at Parco Ducale, Dehors/Audela present Mentre tutti intorno fanno rumore, concept by Salvatore Insana and Elisa Turco Liveri, choreography Elisa Turco Liveri, with Alice Ruggero, Andrea Sassoli, Cecilia Ventriglia, an outdoor version of the second fragment of the Aporie project, born in 2019 thanks to the support of the CNDC La Briqueterie in Paris. The result of a series of experiments, adaptations and temporal suspensions, Mentre tutti intorno fanno rumore is located in the infra-thin space between skin and dress, the fabric that simultaneously separates and connects, searching for the same possible relationship between the bodies in movement and the space/landscape traversed, negotiating and dissolving the distinction between inside and outside.

Four actions in four public spaces in the city: this is LABORATORY, which on Wednesday 18 September will take place in two locations in the historic centre, P.le F. Borri (6 p.m.) and P.le San Lorenzo (6.30 p.m.), and two in Oltretorrente, P.le Picelli (7 p.m.) and Via D’Azeglio/Portici Ospedale Vecchio (7.30 p.m.), with short choreographic actions by dancer-authors Riccardo De Simone, Chiara Montalbani, Manfredi Perego and Danilo Smedile. The four artists will propose different languages, united by great technical skills and a marked sensitivity to space. Four improvisations that will allow some corners of the city to come to life in a new way for the public and passers-by.

On Thursday 19 September, at 6 p.m. at the Pavese Library, C.G.J. Collettivo Giulio e Jari will present Fuego, a choreographic and sound format that feeds on a continuous becoming, declining developments, intentions and impulses in a constant flux. Shamanic and hypnotic elements are integrated to create an immersive experience, influencing movements and perceptions. This interaction between body and sound evokes a collective trance, transcends everyday reality and invites a transformative inner journey.

Afterwards, already guests of the first edition of the Festival, the philosopher Maurizio Zanardi and Alessandro Pontremoli, professor of Disciplines of the Performing Arts at the University of Turin, starting from their respective and different fields of research around dance, will be the protagonists of the Talk Dance and Power.

On Friday 20 September, at 9 p.m. at the Teatro Europa, Michele Di Stefano/mk presents SFERA #uno stato eternamente nascente. Like a chessboard in disequilibrium, the show is an assemblage of bodies seeking their own understanding by scattering words and gestures, hunting for a physiological alliance, a new form of intimacy. The sound of the voice and the dance are spatialised as in a Kecac, a ritual in the Balinese tradition built from an explosion of sounds generated by a complex vocal polyrhythm to fulfil a superstitious function, to awaken the dead and ensure protection against environmental threats. A ritual that, if today it has become an entertainment occasion for tourists, has lost none of its visionary charm. On the basis of this suggestion, the intention is to return corporeity to its magical function, an instrument capable of reshuffling the relationships between individuals and favouring the birth of dances that come to life from that understanding between bodies.

PARMA MOVING FESTIVAL - Solo Cose Belle

Festival of dance and performing arts in the city's public spaces

I edition

19 > 23 September 2023 00:00 00:00

Festival of dance and performing arts in the city's public spaces - I edition Parma

Parma, 19-23 september 2023

artistic direction Daniele Albanese
promoted by Europa Teatri
realised with the contribution of Comune di Parma and Fondazione Cariparma
in collaboration with the Library System of the Municipality of Parma and the Museum of Chinese Art and Ethnography

PARMA – A Festival of dance and performing arts in the city’s public spaces is the first edition of Parma Moving Festival entitled Solo cose belle (Only Beautiful Things), which will take place in Parma from 19 to 23 September, under the artistic direction of Daniele Albanese, promoted by Europa Teatri, realised with the contribution of the Municipality of Parma and Fondazione Cariparma, in collaboration with the Library System of the Municipality of Parma and the Museum of Chinese Art and Ethnography.Performances, videos, site-specific creations, talks, and conversations make up the programme of the Festival, which sees the presence of national and international guests with creations disseminated in squares and open-air venues, libraries, and in the spaces of Museo Cinese (the Chinese Museum) and Teatro Europa, so that the language of dance may become an integral part of community life.
Although dance is a universal language, it often runs the risk, in its paths, directions and aesthetic, of being far from common feeling. This first edition of the Festival, without losing sight of the complexity and depth of each artistic creation, wants precisely to seek new ways and places to convey its artistic message, rethinking and remixing the modes of fruition and creating, albeit in different spheres, a city cultural network of synergies and collaborations.

<p style=”margin-bottom: 50px;”>The programming sees a stimulating confrontation between generations, from the very young Compagnia Parini Secondo, Edoardo Sgambato and Ida Malfatti to historical figures of international dance such as Eva Karczag and Adriana Borriello, to prominent personalities of the city such as Lucia Perego, to the now consolidated formations of Italian dance grupponanou, Manfredi Perego and Chiara Montalbani. Accompanying the performances are choreographic video works by Dehors/Audela, Conrad Veit e Charlotte Maria Kätzl, grupponanou e Patric Chiha. Two scholars will accompany the festival: Maurizio Zanardi and Alessandro Pontremoli, great connoisseurs of dance and attentive observers of the Italian theatre scene.</p>

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The first appointment of the Festival is Tuesday 19 September in Piazza Barricate/Chiesa dell’Annunziata (5.00 p.m.) and in Piazza Garibaldi (7.00 p.m.) with the Compagnia Parini Secondo presenting Speeed with Sissj Bassani, Camilla Neri, Martina Piazzi, Francesca Pizzagalli, realised in collaboration with La Boutique dell’Autoradio, Finizio Power Team, Audiogamma Hi-Fi Trento with the support of Mastronauta Omegna, Comune di Verbania, Fondazione Comunitaria VCO, Nexus Factory Bologna.
A project selected for the Young Author’s Dance Showcase 2022 and supported by Dancescapes promoted by Danza Urbana, Speeed is a choreographic and musical project inspired by the Para Para and Eurobeat phenomenon, which spread in the 1990s in Tokyo clubs.
Following this, at 8 p.m., the film Sogno più non ricordo I dream no more I remember (12′, 2023) by Dehors/Audela, editing by Salvatore Insana, with Elisa Turco Liveri, music by Silvia Cignoli. The film – the title is a homage to the poetry of Lorenzo Calogero – is a fragment of a larger project linked to the exploration and audiovisual crossing of Aspromonte, a liminal rite of a mystical nature, a magical and archaic place.
This will be followed, in collaboration with the BIG Festival in Bari, by the screening of Blastogenese ‘, conception, screenplay and direction by Conrad Veit and Charlotte Maria Kätzl, who also star together with Juraj Černák, production Conrad Veit Film Funding Stiftung Braunschweigischer Kulturbesitz and Landeshauptstadt Hannover Kulturbüro (Germany, 26’39”, 2020). In the black-and-white film, the two artists stage an animal documentary set in stone quarries in which hybrid creatures deconstruct the boundaries between humans and animals, between masculinity and femininity. A journey to the dawn of silent cinema that reveals itself to be a utopian vision in which all life forms are equal.
At 9 p.m. Ruggine (Rust), choreography/dance by Manfredi Perego, original music by Paolo Codognola, a work produced by Tirdanza, with the co-production of Milanoltre Festival, in collaboration with Fondazione Teatro Due, Europa Teatri. Ruggine is a reflection on the product of the antagonism between darkness and light in man, a dramaturgical thought that deals with darkness, restlessness, caprice, suffering, observing without judgement these emotions and the actions they provoke.

On Wednesday 20 September, from 6 p.m., at Biblioteca di Alice in the Parco Ducale, Lucia Perego presents Filo conduttore: il respiro (The thread: the breath), an original site-specific performative action in which the thread is precisely the breath, which insinuates itself, continuous and silent, into every gesture and movement danced, unheard, motor of unusual rhythms, constant companion, bearer of life. A dancing breath as the thread of a continuous, mysterious creative act that for the dancer becomes indistinguishable from everyday life.
Another unpublished site-specific performative action is Geometrie liquide with Daniele Albanese, Chiara Montalbani and Manfredi Perego, three choreographers and dancers from Parma, whose paths have intertwined several times over the last ten years and who find themselves exploring the possibilities of the body in an unprecedented choreographic game.
Between the geometries of space and the sensations coming from an urban and natural location such as the Parco Ducale, the performance will reinvent new ways of encountering space and the public.
At 8.30 p.m. at the Museo Cinese there will be the meeting Spazio museale e live performance ( with Chiara Allegri, director of the Museo d’Arte Cinese ed Etnografico di Parma, followed by Melancolia a project by and with Edoardo Sgambato, with the support of Incubatore per futur* coreograf* CIMD. On stage, a lonely body, buried by over a thousand white cardboard boxes, crawls out of the rubble of its thought, moves navigating in the asymmetry between action and reflection, inhabiting that distance that is the cause of a strong sense of disquiet.

Staging of an artistic practice, performative action, theoretical lesson, public lecture are some of the nuclei from which the lecture La conoscenza della non conoscenza (The knowledge of non-knowledge) conceived by dancer, choreographer and pedagogue Adriana Borriello, who will present, together with Donatella Morrone, on Thursday 21 September, at 8.30 p.m., at Biblioteca Civica, takes its cue. The creation aims to accompany the spectator through the meshes that make up the fundamental principles of a choreographic thought and a creative-pedagogical method elaborated over time and multiple professional experiences.

This will be followed by Poesia Spaziale – talk by philosopher Maurizio Zanardi, one of the founders of the Cronopio publishing house and author of several essays on theatre and dance, with the involvement of Adriana Borriello.

On Friday 22 September, from 5 p.m., the Biblioteca Malerba will host Una certa idea di casa, a lecture/performance and interaction with the public with Daniele Albanese. Through simple actions shared with the audience and reflections, spoken and danced, the aim is to create a common space to ask questions and open new points of view. An action that takes place in the new Malerba Library, which symbolically is a ‘home’ of our culture and which, at the end of the performance, will be presented by the staff in its spaces and activities.
At Teatro Europa at 9 p.m. grupponanou presents Arsura, a project, choreography and scenes by Marco Valerio Amico, Rhuena Bracci, production Nanou Cultural Association, Rosa Shocking/Festival Tendance, support E Production. Arsura is a thirst generated by emptiness, absence, the resistance of a body alone in a vast space. It is a work about time and lack. A primordial state, a faithful mirror of the group’s research where light, space, disregard of time, bestiality, are tools with which to build and sculpt the dwelling of a being.
Before and after the performance, at 8 p.m. and 9.40 p.m., the Spazio Piccolo of the Teatro Europa will show on loop the videos of grupponanou Camera 208 and Baby Doe by Claudio Martinez, and Paradiso by Giulio Boato.

On Saturday 23 September, at 4 p.m., in Piazza Ghiaia the dancer and choreographer Ida Malfatti presents INFESTA in which she performs, together with Zoe Francia Lamattina and Francesca Dibiase, with the support of Incubatore per futur* coreograf* C.I.M.D. and Live Arts Cultures. INFESTA is a lump of bodies that goes nowhere and yet continues to move, a performative action for spaces that are not cleaned up, not neutral, not destined, a machine that digests the perceptual-affective atmospheres it passes through, a living mechanism that interlocks, questions, orients itself, repeats itself, falls.
At Biblioteca Pavese at 6 p.m. Eva Karczag presents Another Story. Un’altra storia a site-specific creation of 5 scores, 5 states, 5 journeys. As the performance happens and the journey proceeds, unexpected openings are revealed and original paths are followed; each performance and each new reorganisation of it becomes a new telling of the story. An independent artist who has worked with leading experimental dance groups (including the Trisha Brown Dance Company), Eva Karczag practices, teaches and supports exploratory methods of dance creation; her collaborations extend to writing, video, music and visual art.
This will be followed by the talk Choreographing Reality with Alessandro Pontremoli, Professor of Performing Arts at the University of Turin, where he coordinates the Performing Arts and Music Curriculum of the Doctorate in Humanities. In this talk he will outline the new instances of dance in the present in relation to the complexity of reality and the multiple and fluid approaches to the choreographic creative process.
At 9 p.m. the documentary film Si c’etait de l’amour – If it were love by Patric Chiha, an Austrian director of Hungarian and Lebanese origin, will be shown. Fifteen young dancers from different backgrounds and horizons are on tour with Gisèle Vienne’s epic dance work Crowd on the 1990s rave scene. A disturbing journey that explores our nights, our parties, our loves.</div>

In Movimento

a project by Daniele Albanese
video Salvatore Insana
assistant Yele Canali
organization and communication Francesca Divano

in collaboration with associazione ODV Lago di Pane and Europa Teatri
with the support of FONDAZIONE CARIPARMA

a special thanks to Lucia Manghi, Aldo Rendina, the community of Lago di Pane, the educators Carla Allodi, Giuseppe Arduini, Monica Apicella, Camilla Granini, Meriem Mouhtaram, Chiara Piazza, Elvira Serpieri, Martina Zarlenga and to all the kids that participated in the project.

anno di produzione production 2022

In Movimento was born from the encounter with the community of Associazione ODV Lago di Pane with the purpose of activating new ways of solidarity and sharing through the practice of movement. The project aims to identify tools for observation and creativity to foster integration into the social fabric of the community’s most fragile members.

Language, thinking, personal and relational growth are closely linked to the ability to move. The movement of the body reflects deeper movements and its investigation can bring great benefits, especially to those with greater fragility.

How does movement (exchanges, encounters, flows….) occur in the Lago di Pane community?

To answer this question, different “frames” of work were created that involved the entire community (not only the children, but also the educators and occasional guests) and alternated moments of pure observation with workshop phases, designed as encounters in the form of “motor interviews,” calibrated to the abilities and desires of each individual.

Salvatore Insana’s video bears witness to this subtle and fragile, yet profound and powerful encounter..

HOME ALTROVE

by and with Daniele Albanese
voice Eva Karczag
video and technical assistance Salvatore Insana
sound Daniela Cattivelli
light design Alessio Guerra
promotion and curatorship Francesca Divano

production Associazione Gruppo Nanou with the support of MIC – Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali e del Turismo/Direzione generale per lo spettacolo dal vivo, Regione Emilia Romagna, ResiDance XL – luoghi e progetti di residenza per creazioni coreografiche, Teatro il Lavatoio Santarcangelo, Centro di Residenza della Toscana (Armunia Castiglioncello – CapoTrave/Kilowatt Sansepolcro), ACS Abruzzo

anno di produzione production 2021

Home Altrove reflects upon the invisible communication between actions and thoughts, between what is here and what is elsewhere, starting from the assumption that the performance act can be considered a ‘home’ in terms of a personal, functional, emotional archive, therefore the place where our identity arises.

Home Altrove aims to explore ever-changing forms of language that flow within a heterogeneous environment in which boundaries – between spaces, languages and directions – is a turbulent but also enriching place.

At a time in history when the concept of ‘world home’ echoes in our global consciousness, choreography, sound and video frames are reflected on stage to give some thought to how fragile is the present state of things and to open up a question: in the ever-changing contemporary world we live in, what is ‘home’?

HOME

a project by and with Daniele Albanese
curated by Francesca Divano
video and technical assistance Salvatore Insana
sound Daniela Cattivelli

co-production Associazione Gruppo Nanou e DanceME (Perypezye Urbane) with the support ofi MiBACT, Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali e del Turismo/Direzione generale per lo spettacolo dal vivo, Regione Emilia Romagna, ResiDance XL – luoghi e progetti di residenza per creazioni coreografiche

anno di produzione production 2019
cover cover ph Salvatore Insana

HOME is a choreographic/performing art project aimed to produce modular practices, actions and interactions starting from the idea that the inner working of any performance act can be considered as a ‘home’ in terms of a personal, functional or emotional archive. Home as the place in which human identity relates to our ever-changing contemporary world, where floating forms of language (José Gil) flow within a living, heterogeneous environment and the limit – between spaces, languages, directions – is a turbulent place (Stefano Levi della Torre).

In practical terms HOME consists of encounters/exchanges declined in context-specific performance acts, videos, workshops, interactions with local communities, dialogs and actions. Each format is conceived as a self-standing, autonomous object and at the same time as part of the overall creative process of the project that is thus constantly redefining its identity.

DOSSIER HOME (ENG)

ELSEWHERE

research, movement scores and dance
Daniele Albanese, Eva Karczag
original music Luca Nasciuti
light design Fabio Sajiz
promotion Francesca Divano

production Nanou Associazione Culturale
Performance created within the context of Birds Flocking Project
with the support of MIBACT, Regione Emilia Romagna, Fondazione Teatro Due – Parma, Petrella ’18 ’19 – Longiano, ResiDance XL 2018/Anticorpi XL, ATER – Circuito Regionale Multidisciplinare dell’Emilia Romagna, Europa Teatri – Parma

anno di produzione production 2019
cover cover ph Andrea Macchia

Elsewhere is a performance, but also a frame in which to reflect upon a space that is somewhere else and yet here. It’s an inquiry into the invisible communication between the dancers, between dancers and space, between organization and freedom. The duet represents an evolution of Birds Flocking Project that condenses shared researches and creative processes that have emerged from the fascination with the complex trajectories that flocks of birds create. The choreography confronts the opposite polarities of structure and freedom to define each action, while the intricacies of movement collide with the impossibility of a precise notation. The concepts of flying and migration are a starting point to unveil the mingled imagery of our contemporary world made of different languages and contexts, where liquid borders foster exchange.

Daniele Albanese and Eva Karczag’s first encounter dates back to 1993, when he started attending the European Dance Development Center in Arnhem, where she was a member of the permanent teaching staff. After more than twenty years they decided to embark on a shared path of creation and research that led to Birds Flocking Project in 2017 and subsequently evolved into the duet Elsewhere.

For the past four decades Eva Karczag practices, teaches, and advocates for explorative methods of dance making. Her performance work and her teaching are informed by dance improvisation and mindful body practices which engender trust in the body’s innate capacity for ease, efficiency and integrated openness, including Alexander Technique (certified teacher), Ideokinesis, Taiji / Qigong. Teaches at major colleges and studios throughout the USA, Europe and Australia, including a period of sustained teaching at the European Dance Development Center (EDDC), Arnhem (1990- 2002). Has a Master of Fine Arts degree (Dance Research Fellow) from Bennington College, VT, USA. A member of the Trisha Brown Dance Company (1979-85), since the mid-1980s, functions as an independent dance artist, performing solo and collaborative work internationally. Recent performances include Promenade, a durational performance/installation with visual artist, Chris Crickmay and composer, Sylvia Hallett; Vapour Sketches with Bettina Neuhaus; Stephanie Skura’s Surreptitious Preparations for an Impossible Total Act. The profound influence of the New York post-modern dance movement of the 1960’s and 70’s has given her current dance practice a foundation of respect for the moving body, and a passion for creative process and experimentation.

VON solo

By and with Daniele Albanese
Light Design Alessio Guerra
Music Luca Nasciuti
Artistic assistant Yele Canali
Technical assistant Jan Ollieslagers

anno di produzione production 2017
durata duration 55'
cover cover ph Andrea Macchia

‘The Event Horizon’ of a Black Hole defines an imaginary surface of time and space.
The points placed on one side of this surface emit signals that can still escape from the black hole.
The signals of the points placed on the other side can no longer escape and therefore can not be observed’.

VON solo is set in this imaginary border where what is clear and legible encounters what is dark and mysterious.
Natural forces, physical forces and political forces, transform, distort and move the body of the performer.
A reflection on dance meant as a continuous mutation and transformation. The performance is conceived as a choreography of the three elements of movement, light and sound.

This Solo is originally set at the end of a larger show with two other performers on stage- it is performed both separately and within the context of the entire piece. It has been developed in its final structure, as an indipendent piece, in September 2017.

VON

By Daniele Albanese
Dance Daniele Albanese Marta Ciappina Giulio Petrucci
Light Design Alessio Guerra
Music Lorenzo Donadei – Luca Nasciuti
Text Daniele Albanese
Voice Giulio Santolini
Artistic assistant Yele Canali
Technical assistant Deborah Penzo

Von premiered in Avignon – Festival Les Hivernales – on 24th February 2017

anno di produzione production 2017
durata duration 55'
cover cover ph Andrea Macchia

“The Event Horizon” of a Black Hole defines an imaginary surface of time and space.
The points placed on one side of this surface emit signals that can still escape from the black hole.
The signals of the points placed on the other side can no longer escape and therefore can not be observed’.

A reflection on dance meant as a continuous mutation and transformation. The performance is conceived as a choreography of the three elements of movement, light and sound.

Drumming Solo

by and with Daniele Albanese
music Steve Reich – Drumming Part I
percussions Riccardo Balbinutti, Niccolò Chisci, Lorenzo Guidolin, Cristina Pedroli

A solo performance based on the idea of intensity.

anno di produzione production 2015
durata duration 19'
cover cover ph Andrea Macchia

The relationship between dance and music takes place within a circumscribed geometrical space, while forms and transformations would relentlessly repeat.

Limit and boundary are the key concepts of the piece. The contrast between them and a continuous flow of movements become the starting point for seeking an “elsewhere”

Drumming solo has been presented for the first time, with live music, on April 18th 2015 in Turin /Teatro Vittoria as part of Red Blue Works (produced by Unione Musicale onlus for Confluenze di Atelier Giovani in collaboration with Festival Torinodanza / Fondazione Teatro Stabile Torino).

Digitale Purpurea

Conceived by Daniele Albanese
Live Music Patrizia Mattioli
Light design and live Yannick de Sousa Mendes, Deborah Penzo
Dance Daniele Albanese, Francesca Burzacchini, Elisa dal Corso, Pietro Pireddu

Artistic residencies and rehearsals Europa Teatri (Parma), AMAT & Comune di Pesaro, Spazio 84 (Parma), Fonderia-Fondazione Nazionale della Danza/AterBalletto
production Stalk 2014

Experimental version of a live concert/performance.

anno di produzione production 2014
durata duration 35'
cover cover ph Andrea Macchia

Digitale Purpurea I is the research of a continuous dance among movement, lights and sound , non-stop changing of dynamics and presence.
The dance develops as a result of a study on the movement in terms of speed, time and meeting with live music and lights.
The choreography is designed as a counterpoint of physical score, sound and light, and as a concert of these elements .
The movement is a flow, a continuous scroll and its obligated deal with the form to engage the viewer in a common field of ​​great power .
Conceived as a modular project that can vary format and number of perfomers depending on the context .
The forces of nature and its dynamics are the main engine of reference for the dance, its textures and contrasts.

Digitalis Purpurea (Common Foxglove): herbaceous plant whose flowers are arranged in terminal clusters, pendants, tubular, with a color ranging from purple to pink, yellow or white . The essence of Digitalis can be used as a drug to cure heart failure. In wrong doses, the plant is highly toxic up to be lethal to humans.