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How to destroy your dance
ph: Camilla Caselli
ph: Marco Caselli Nirmal
ph: Camilla Caselli
ph: Camilla Caselli
concept, direction, choreography:
Francesca Pennini
dramaturgy, technical management:
Angelo Pedroni
music:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart reloaded
sound elaboration & musical re-composition:
Simone Arganini
action & creation: 9 interpreters rotating between
Simone Arganini
Niccolò Catani
Margherita Elliot,
Carolina Fanti
Teodora Grano
Orlando Izzo
Fabio Novembrini
Carmine Parise
Angelo Pedroni,
Francesca Pennini
Ilaria Quaglia
Giulio Santolini
Stefano Sardi
Giulia Sposito
organisation:
Carmine Parise
with the support of:
Inteatro Festival / MARCHE TEATRO
art residencies:
Teatro Comunale di Ferrara
Inteatro Festival / MARCHE TEATRO
Ttanks to:
La Biennale di Venezia
piece per theatre stages and public spaces
year 2018
duration: 90 minuti + 50 minuti + ∞
technical rider
Of the permeability of the bodies.
Of bodies that become sites.
Of geographies that move signs.
Of bending towards the east.
Of that perceptual deviation that makes it seem all symmetrical, but then it is not.
Of that excess of visibility that moves you a diopter away (here the two shoulders are different).
Of that foot just a tad narrower in the shoe.
Of a certain cardinal order that remains the same
when everything changes.
Of being just slightly uncomfortable.
Of accelerated inhabitants in a jungle of gestures.
Of a potential summer storm.
We will discuss all of this.
Then everything will depend on everything.
How long is one minute?
What are the limits of the body?
How much can it slow down to reach the most cosmic
stillness or lose its definition and then turn into an ultra-fast
wake?
How to destroy your dance is a challenge against time with pulp tones and a ludic taste.
A handbook for the boycott of every choreographic decorum through impossible accelerations and extreme
slow-motions.
A massacre game with no fiction and no sparing, where dancers become wrestlers of relativity and the show gets stripped down by the intimate rituals of the preparation and the destruction of any form of formal artifice.
"A challenge against time and one’s own limits: this is How To Destroy Your Dance by CollettivO CineticO in which Francesca Pennini and her performers let us know about their creativity and expressive talents. It's a game, a game to be, a game to challenge and to put to test one's own abilities and resistance: whether it is about holding an eighty kilos man on your shoulders whilst reciting the Latin version of the Ave Maria, or about running a certain amount of laps in a certain amount of time, or doing more than sixty pirouette in a row, or even about shouting all the times tables. CollettivO CineticO plays putting itself to the test and doing it with a sadistic but lightweight taste that captivates the viewer. There is a desire to see to what extent you can resist, until which point the synchrony of the bodies retains an immutable beauty, how much can the rhythmic variation influence the harmony of the bodies that move in the space as one single element. With the risk of repeating themselves, one can not avoid observing how the Francesca Pennini’s group has to its side a capacity and a will to put itself to the test with unique traits, knowing how to inflect with lightness and irony its expressive abilities, not taking itself too seriously, but acting with an executive seriousness that does not save neither those on stage nor to who witnesses, asking for the same commitment and involvement, emotional and intellectual. In How To Destroy Your Dance CollettivO CineticO confirms itself not only as an harmonious ensemble, not only well-arranged, not only cohesive, but above all as a war machine that can make of dance a new language every time, an unpredictable experience for the professional spectator as for who comes across it knowing nothing about Francesca Pennini and her crew. This is also the beauty of a festival that asks you to enter the heart of that strange and every time new and unrepeatable alchemy that is the theatre. "
[ Nicola Arrigoni - Sipario 07/07/2018 ]
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