4 May 2022 from 18.30 to 20.30
SPOLETO, Creative Hub Cantiere Oberdan
WORKSHOP-LAB Free of charge
CONVERSATIONS WITH THE PARADISE – nanou group
led by: Marco Valerio Amico
with the resident artists: – Andrea Dionisi, Agnese Gabrielli, Emanuel Santos
The nanou group, in artistic residency in Spoleto, offers a free Lab workshop, aimed in particular at young people from Spoleto, to experiment with new languages and choreographic images that are produced “accidentally”. Starting with their new project PARADISO from the Third Canto of Dante Alighieri’s Comedy; like Paradise, it is another space, inhabited by light and evanescent figures
8 May 2022 @18.30 La MaMa RE_MAIN
SPOLETO, Creative Hub Cantiere Oberdan
Public Performance – Open rehearsal:
CONVERSATIONS WITH PARADISE
PROJECT Marco Valerio Amico, Alfredo Pirri, Bruno Dorella
CHOREOGRAPHY Marco Valerio Amico, Rhuena Bracci
WITH Andrea Dionisi, Agnese Gabrielli, Emanuel Santos
PRODUCTION Nanou Cultural Association, Ravenna Festival
Paradise is the beginning of a common path starting from the Third Canticle of Dante Alighieri’s Comedy; like Paradise, it is another space, inhabited by light and evanescent figures; a cinematographic long field in which to immerse oneself thanks to Bruno Dorella’s music – for a choreography in synergy with visual art.
The gestures lose every trace of naturalism to become an abstract choreography, whose meaning lies in the desire to bridge the distance between the gaze (of the spectator) and the bodies in action. The limit of the backgrounds is forced, torn, deteriorated by the body that attacks it with its choreographic action.
The choreographic images are produced “accidentally”, and the bodies are immediately pulverised thanks to the process of abstraction that produces a pure plasticity that surpasses all other instances.
21 MAY @ 21.30 La MaMa RE_MAIN
SPOLETO, Creative Hub Cantiere Oberdan
VENUS IN FUR
Director: Luca Biancalana
Acting voices: Alessio Ragni – Federica Pieravanti – Giulio Alunni Brozzetti – Anna Corvo – Paolo Polvanesi – Francesca Pesci – Pietro Oliva Fonteni – Marina Sozi
Musicians: Saverio Mariani (keyboards) Mauro Moscati (guitar) Lorenzo Fiori (bass) Andrea Sensidoni (percussion)
Assistant director: Giorgio Neri
Costumes and props: Maria Pia Silveri – Marina Sozi Lighting design: Marco Andreoli
Thomas is a director and playwright desperately looking for an actress to play Wanda, the protagonist of his latest play, a theatrical adaptation of the novel written in 1870 by Leopold van Sacher-Masoch: “Venus in Fur”. At the end of a day of disappointing auditions, a vulgar, foul-mouthed and too ignorant woman enters the theatre to play such a sophisticated role. Yet little by little, working together on the text, Thomas and Wanda, through a witty and malicious duel, will cross the border between reality and fiction in an increasingly disturbing game. An irresistible text pays tribute to the classic of erotic literature, from which, in 2013, David Ives and Roman Polanski based the screenplay for the film of the same name, presented in competition at the Cannes Film Festival.
Tickets on Eventbrite; https://www.eventbrite.it/e/venere-in-pelliccia-tickets-331458610627