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Performance
Op.22 No.2
Running time: 20'
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Op.22 No.2 is a solo piece by choreographer Alessandro Sciarroni – winner of a Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale and an associate artist of Triennale Milano Teatro in 2022-2024 – created for ballerina Marta Ciappina, who has collaborated with the choreographer for a number of years. Based on Finnish composer Jean Sibelius' symphonic poem The Swan of Tuonela, itself inspired by Kalevala, an epic poem of Finnish mythology, the work uses autobiographic sequences tracing the gestures and movements that contributed to Marta Ciappina's development as a performer to reflect on the friendship necessary for any process of composition, as highlighted by the moving dialogue between the performer and the audience.
Alessandro Sciarroni is an Italian artist active in the field of Performing Arts with several years of experience in visual arts and theater research. His work starts from a conceptual Duchamp- like matrix using a theatrical framework and they are featured in festivals, museums and unconventional spaces, in whole Europe, South and North America and Asia. In his creations he involves professionals from different disciplines and uses some techniques and experiences from dance, as well as circus or sports. His work tries to uncover obsessions, fears and fragilities of the act of performing, through the repetition of a practice to the limits of the physical endurance of the interpreters, looking at a different dimension of time, and to an empathic relationship between the audience and the performers. In 2019 he was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in Dance by the Venice Biennial. Alessandro Scarroni is associate artist of MARCHE TEATRO.
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In collaboration with: PAC Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea
Credits
By: Alessandro Sciarroni
With: Marta Ciappina
Music: Jean Sibelius (Op. 22 No. 2, “Tuonelan joutsen”)
Costumes: Ettore Lombardi
Promotion and development: Lisa Gilardino
Executive production: Chiara Fava
Technical direction: Valeria Foti
Commission: Festival Bolzano Danza | Tanz Bozen
Production: MARCHE TEATRO, Corpoceleste_C.C.00# in co-production with Festival Bolzano Danza | Tanz Bozen
With the support of: NOI Techpark Südtirol / Alto Adige
Creation concept: Emanuele Masi, as part of “Swans never die” network – a project by Lavanderia a Vapore – Centro di Residenza per la Danza (Piemonte dal Vivo – Circuito Multidisciplinare dello Spettacolo, Coorpi, Didee Arti e Comunicazione, Mosaico Danza, Zerogrammi); Operaestate Festival Veneto and Centro per la Scena Contemporanea CSC Bassano del Grappa; Triennale Milano Teatro; Fondazione Teatro Grande di Brescia; Festival Bolzano Danza – Fondazione Haydn; Gender Bender Festival; “Memory in Motion. Re-Membering Dance History (Mnemedance)” – Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia; DAMS – Università degli Studi di Torino.
Alessandro Sciarroni is Associate artist of MARCHE TEATRO
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