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10 Miniballetti
ph: Marco Davolio
ph: Salvatore Laurenzana
ph: Angelo Pedroni
ph: Marco Davolio
direction, choreography, dance:
Francesca Pennini
dramaturg, light design:
Angelo Pedroni
organization:
Carmine Parise
co-production:
CollettivO CineticO
Le Vie dei Festival
Danae Festival
artistic residencies:
Teatro Comunale di Ferrara
AMAT
L'Arboreto Teatro Dimora di Mondaino
TIR Danza
piece for theatrical stages
year 2015
duration: 45 minutes
Aerowaves selection 2016
Danza & Danza award 2015 for best choreography and best dancer
nomination UBU award 2015 best performer Under 35
Hystrio Iceberg award 2016
ANCT Award 2016
An anthology of dances balancing between geometry and swirl where the aerial element is the paradigm for a reflection on the boundaries of control.
Currents and storms, air fans and drones, birds and grand-jetés become allegories of the relationship between choreography and dance.
Score of this exploration is a notebook from the childhood of Francesca Pennini, where she wrote dozen of choreographies, invented but never performed.
A time machine for an impossible archeology that triggers a respiratory exchange, mixing the volumes between body and space, past and present, audience and stage and creating a mobile, suspended, deposited geography.
“A piece brimful of nostalgia and irony that does nothing but consacrate Francesca Pennini in the olympus of Italian choreography”
[ Valeria Loprieno ]
"The brilliant Collettivo CineticO presented a demonstration of the mathematics of the gesture that turns in its poetic transfiguration through a dance that seems to bring the calculations to fractals, to chance, to the imponderable beauty and complexity of the human. Thrilling."
[ Massimo Marino - doppiozero.com ]
"There is a joyful irony in this piece of CollettivO CineticO. The human body that performs with the precision of a machine - Francesca Pennini shows the skills of a contortionist as well as of a charismatic dancer - while the technical device aims to human intelligence rising up into the air and dancing on symphonic notes. It is a sort of semi-serious lesson this precious piece that leaves the viewer amused and amazed.”
[ Andrea Pocosgnich - Teatro e Critica ]
“10 miniballetti is a show about dance, but for everyone. Because the grace of the choreographic gesture of Francesca Pennini is universally enjoyable, because it keeps the irony and disenchantment of childhood and carries on a constant and inclusive dialogue with the audience, involving it in a personal tribute to her dance: a love for something greater than oneself, domabile with technique, but always fleeting. She invites everyone to seek their own.”
[ Sarah Curati - paperstreet.it ]
"The mastery of the body and the gesture, especially at times when the movement is faster and swirling, shows an attractive and uncommon physicality: such as the eyes, the facial features of Francesca, her
physique and her androgynous look. She is an athlete of the scene and together a dancer-actress of great, undeniable expressivity, as well as dancer of solid and impeccable technique.”
[ Francesco Tei - Aurora International Journal ]
“The perfect key is here in a clarity of intent that is not frozen in the pure experimental need but grabs the spectators and pulls them inside, baring the movement and leaving visible the only necessary bone: the one that covers the heart.”
[ Sergio Lo Gatto - Teatro e Critica ]
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