Courtesy mk
Show
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Michele Di Stefano / mk
October 18 – 20, 2024
PREMIERE
Running time 60'
The new production by mk – one of the most interesting companies on the international artistic scene – is a kaleidoscope of dance and images immersed in a medley of sounds. The choreographer Michele Di Stefano has created a vibrant show that takes us on an exploration of new territories, suspended between the euphoria of the unknown and the desire to return to the wildness of nature. A future world is sketched out on stage, in which chaos is the normal state and the surroundings are murky and pulsating. It is a primordial call that brings out our wildest, deepest dimension.
Michele Di Stefano, choreographer and founder of the mk group, has received numerous awards for his activities (Premio Ubu 2019 and Premio Danza&Danza 2018 for Bermudas, Premio speciale Danza&Danza 2020 for Eden, Premio Speciale Ubu 2021 for the co-production of the Radio India project) as well as choreographic commissions from Aterballetto, the Korean National Contemporary Dance Company, Nuovo Balletto di Toscana and a new work commissioned by Ballet de Lorraine in 2023. He was the dance program consultant (GRANDI PIANURE 2018-22) at Teatro di Roma, co-curator with Francesca Corona of the project Giacimenta per Matera 2019 and he created the performance cycles TROPICI (Angelo Mai Roma) and BUFFALO (Palazzo delle Esposizioni, MACRO Roma and the Museo Nazionale Romano). In 2018 he curated the Outdoor section of the BolzanoDanza-Tanz Bozen Festival. Along with the performance circuit, he is involved in an intense activity of seminars, workshops and experimental projects, including the Piattaforma della Danza Balinese at the Santarcangelo Festival (2014 and 2015), projects for the Venice Dance Biennale 2013-14-15 and Venice Theater Biennale 2019, as well as being in constant dialogue with the Scuola Paolo Grassi School in Milan and the Anghiari Dance Hub, and organizing training and research workshops for the Teatro Stabile School in Turin, the ISIA in Urbino and IUAV University. He was awarded the Silver Lion for innovation in dance at the 2014 Venice Biennale and the Premio Nico Garrone in 2018.
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Credits
with: Biagio Caravano, Sebastiano Geronimo, Luciano Ariel Lanza, Flora Orciari, Laura Scarpini, Francesca Ugolini
choreography and atmosphere: Michele Di Stefano
modular system live: Biagio Caravano
music: The Creatures, My Bloody Valentine
lights: Giulia Broggi
video: Lorenzo Basili
management: Carlotta Garlanda with Silvia Parlani
distribution: Jean François Mathieu
a co-production: mk/KLm, LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura (CH), Triennale Milano Teatro, Théâtre du Briançonnais (FR), Bassano OperaEstate
with the support of Italian Institute of Culture Bucharest (RO)
in collaboration with: USI Academy of Architecture Mendrisio (CH) - course coordinated by arch. Riccardo Blumer - and CNDB National Dance Center Bucharest (RO)
with the support of: KOMM TANZ/PASSO NORD residency project Compagnia Abbondanza/Bertoni in collaboration with Comune di Rovereto, ORBITA /Spellbound Centro Nazionale di Produzione Danza in collaboration with ATCL Circuito multidisciplinare del Lazio - Spazio Rossellini
with the contribution MIC
