Hamlet

“That Francesca Pennini is one of the most brilliant and original among young Italian choreography was established long ago. The first expression of her genius is in the choice to do, now, not real choreographies but bizzarre experiences somewhere between the fantastic anthropology, the happening, the laboratory experiment, the behavioral investigation. Her atypical talent brings her to work not only with professional dancers, but with teenagers, improvised performers, ordinary citizens. And what, than, could be her approach to Hamlet if not a talent-show? It may look like extemporaneous tricks but it’s in fact her technique and her peculiar strategy of displacement meant to expand the concept of theatrical action itself, to contaminate it with different matters apparently unrelated to the logic of the scene. In this way, she undermines all representational conventions, eluding and overriding them, she experiments styles and languages that seem far away from expressive purposes. She deviates and wanders taking detours but never losing sight of the matter where she started, where at the end she comes back with relentless precision.”
[ Renato Palazzi - Del Teatro ]

“A dramaturgically perfect text: brilliant, intelligent, enjoyable from the beginning to the end. Here the work of CollettivO CineticO is expressed in all its brightness giving the audience one hour of genial laughs. An absolutely original choreographic work, which reflects the research carried out for years by Pennini, an excellent choreographer that succeeds where too many continue to fail: reinterpreting Shakespeare in an interesting way.”
[ Fabiana Dantinelli - Fermata Spettacolo ]

“Are you ready for the weirdest Hamlet in the history of theater? CollettivO CineticO’s Hamlet is something else from the “sacred” tragedy, here savaged and sectioned to create a dancetheater performance that may sounds like a monstrous betrayal. Yet, as sometimes happens, this betrayal is actually a formidable tribute and reactualization of the original.”
[ Michele Weiss - La Stampa ]

“CollettivO CineticO with Hamlet hit right in the spot: they succeeded reformulating the roles, transforming the spectator into the main character of Shakespeare’s tragedy. Queen of the stage is the choreography, It’s impressive the strong movement of the half-naked body of the dancers (Carmine Parise, Angelo Pedroni, Stefano Sardi) bound to each other through strong elastic bands and of the four candidates, all, rigorously, with their faces covered.”
[ Elvira Sessa - Quarta Parete Press ]

“The first principle is the movement. Around it the director and choreographer Francesca Pennini synthesizes with creative wisdom the famous tragedy of existence, articulating it in images of flesh and bones, whose motion is a ritual, exhausting and bleak as the loop that forces to continue. But there is even more. What we are witnessing is in fact, is a “kinetic” survey that meets the ludic formats of entertainment with an experimental kind of interactive live art. Stripping off all the “already done” CollettivO CineticO’s Hamlet is a sharing experience that, even maintaining (self-)irony, doesn’t forget the pungent existential question.”
[ Laura Marano - Paperstreet ]