Written by Francesca Sangalli and performed by Camilla Parini, directed here by Alessio Maria Romano, these nine short poems take us into the folds of the human body.
In this production, Romano – recent winner of the Silver Lion at the Venice Theatre Biennale for his work as a choreographer and teacher – guides the young performer through various spaces within the LAC.
Drawing inspiration from the imagery evoked by the verses, the choreography reveals unfamiliar and evocative spaces, taking us to places we have never seen before and inviting us to explore the folds of the cultural centre’s architectural body.
Together with Camilla Parini, I simply read and reread Francesca Sangalli’s evocative poems. I asked myself some important questions: how could those words, in some way, relate to me and influence me? How can the signifier of a poem take on one meaning for the poet but a completely different one for the reader? This contrast and, at the same time, this symbiosis with certain specific words created images, impressions and memories within us. So, wandering through the LAC, we decided, after this long period of silence in live performance, to set our dreams within contexts often invisible to the spectator. Within these strange places, situated at the margins of the official view, we have surrendered our bodies to the spectator’s dream. Our videos, our poems are evocations in which a body—that of Camilla Parini—is lost in time, in its past and future, in its relationship with the very material from which the LAC is built, as if it were an alternative body to her own fragile anatomy, made of flesh and blood. We are beings embedded in contexts of concrete and metal. In the search for fragments of the self but above all for the other—who perhaps exists or who perhaps is simply oneself—Olmo Cerri and his colleagues at REC have masterfully translated our dream into images through their skill and technique.
Francesca Sangalli
She made her debut as a playwright at a very young age, winning prestigious awards and accolades in both theatre and film. She subsequently moved into fiction and is published by DeA Planeta (De Agostini group) and Fausto Lupetti Editore, whilst also collaborating with Salani and Mondadori. A versatile author, her writing ranges from themes of social and historical interest to sharp, dreamlike and poetic fiction, right through to comedy. For years she also worked in film and television, notably for Fulvio Lucisano (IIF) and for ITV Movie on the programme Crozza nel paese delle Meraviglie, and she has written screenplays for short films and animated series. She lives and works in Milan, where she teaches writing at the Bauer School.
Camilla Parini
Born and raised in Lugano, in 2004 she joined Teatro delle Radici, with whom she began a journey of training and work, taking part in various productions and performing in numerous theatres, festivals and events in Switzerland and abroad. After qualifying as a social worker, she completed the professional course in Dance Theatre at the Paolo Grassi Theatre School in Milan (2012). In 2013, she founded Collettivo Ingwer, with whom she produced STILL LEBEN, Princesses karaoke or something like that… (a semi-finalist at PREMIO Schweiz 2015 and selected by the performing arts network promoted by the partners of Viavai+), ADIOS and the private performance project Io sono un’altra.
In 2018, the collective joined forces with two other companies to form a new production entity: Collettivo Treppenwitz. From this union came the first production L’amore ist nicht une chose for everybody (Loving Kills) (a semi-finalist at PREMIO Schweiz 2018, winner of the Festival Opera Prima in Rovigo and the Festival 20 30 in Bologna, and selected for the 2020 Swiss Theatre Meeting). He is currently working on the creation of Collettivo Treppenwitz’s new production: KISS! (Loving Kills).
Alessio Maria Romano
Aged forty, artist and teacher, Romano combines his work as an actor with a constant study of contemporary dance, movement pedagogy and his own personal choreographic research. A Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analyst (C.M.A.), he has taught physical training and stage movement at the Scuola del Teatro Stabile in Turin, where he also served as educational coordinator. In 2015, he won the National Critics’ Award (ANCT) as a theatre educator and choreographer. A lecturer in expressive movement at the “Luca Ronconi” school of the Piccolo Teatro in Milan, he was among the teachers invited by Antonio Latella to the College of the Venice Theatre Biennale (2018).
In 2020, the Venice Theatre Biennale awarded him the Silver Lion for his work as a choreographer and teacher. He choreographed the Nuovo Balletto di Toscana for the opera “Fernando Cortez”, directed by Cecilia Ligorio at the Maggio Fiorentino.
In 2016, he founded the dance theatre company AMR, with which he directed the productions Dispersi, Chorós and Avida Dollars. Directed by Latella, he returned to the stage as a performer in L’isola dei Pappagalli con Bonaventura prigioniero degli antropofagi by S. Tofano, directed by Latella and produced by the Teatro Stabile di Torino (2019).
di
Francesca Sangalli
traduzione
Camilla Maccaferri
coreografia e regia
Alessio Maria Romano
regia filmica e montaggio
Olmo Cerri, REC
danzatrice
Camilla Parini
produzione
Vanessa Di Levrano, LAC
Maria Fico, LAC
delegato di produzione video
Adriano Schrade, REC
immagini e correzione colore
Giacomo Jaeggli, REC
focus puller
Mariangela Marletta, REC
direttore di scena
Mattia Gandini, LAC
realizzazione video
Associazione REC
materiale tecnico
Cine5k
Associazione REC
produzione
LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura
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