© Andrea Macchia
Show
U. (un canto)
Alessandro Sciarroni
November 22 – 24, 2024
Running time 60'
After the great success of Voci dal Mondo Reale, a project commissioned in 2022 by Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in collaboration with Triennale Milano, Alessandro Sciarroni has continued his research in singing and choirs. Together with the composers and performers Aurora Bauzà and Pere Jou, Sciarroni presents a performance of choral songs taken from the Italian folklore repertoire, composed between the mid-20th century and our own times. Seven singers, with different training and vocal experiences, create a choreography of voices and silences. A hymn of hope and love that evokes the mystery of existence and the wonder of life.
Alessandro Sciarroni is active in the performing arts and trained in the fields of visual arts and theater studies. His works start from a Duchamp-style conceptual approach, drawing on a theatrical framework, and have been performed at festivals, museums and unconventional spaces throughout Europe, North America, South America and Asia. His creations involve artists from different disciplines, and make use of techniques from dance, the circus or sport. His works seek to reveal, through the repetition of an activity to the limits of physical endurance, the obsessions, fears and fragility of the act of performing, trying to establish an empathetic relationship between spectators and performers. In 2019 he was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in Dance at the Venice Biennale.
Aurora Bauzà is a composer, performer and scenic artist based in Barcelona. Along with Pere Jou, she has created scenic pieces that explore human voice and its relation with body, space, acoustics or light: I AM (T)HERE (2019), WE ARE (T)HERE (2021), AQUÍ I NO ALLÀ (2021) are some of them. She has recently premiered the scenic and musical piece for 5 singers A BEGINNING #16161D, co-produced by L’Auditori of Barcelona and the Centre Coreographique National d’Orleans (France). Bauzà combines her role as scenic creator with collaborations with other artists such as Alessandro Sciarroni, Ça Marche, Pere Faura, etc., the work of whom influence her work and scenic investigation.
Pere Jou is a composer who works with the body. The main focus of his research is the human voice and its relation to the body and the choreographic composition. He focuses on finding new ways of embodying music, of making it visible, mobile, tangible. He approaches music with a choreographic thought, and the choreography with an acoustic and musical perspective. Conceptually, he is very interested in the processes of meaning creation, particularly those related to identity, both individual and collective. Jean Baudrillard, baroque and electronic music and an uninhibited love for the mainstream culture have influenced his ideas and thoughts. He is also indebted to the work of artists like Alessandro Sciarroni, Maud le Pladec or Sonia Gómez, with whom he has worked as composer and/ or performers.
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Credits
by: Alessandro Sciarroni
with: Raissa Avilés, Alessandro Bandini, Margherita D’Adamo, Nicola Fadda, Diego Finazzi, Lucia Limonta, Annapaola Trevenzuoli
casting, musical direction, vocal training: Aurora Bauzà & Pere Jou
vocal training collaborator: Oussama Mhanna
casting, dramaturgical advice, physical training: Elena Giannotti
styling: Ettore Lombardi
lighting design and technical care: Valeria Foti
care, advice and development: Lisa Gilardino
administration and executive production: Chiara Fava
casting, press relations and communication: Pierpaolo Ferlaino
social media: Giulia Traversi
production: Corpoceleste_C.C.00#, MARCHE TEATRO Teatro di Rilevante Interesse Culturale – co-production Progetto RING (Festival Aperto – Fondazione I Teatri Reggio Emilia, Bolzano Danza – Fondazione Haydn, Triennale Milano Teatro, Torinodanza Festival, Teatro Stabile di Torino – Teatro Nazionale), CENTQUATRE – PARIS, Festival D’Automne à Paris, Snaporazverein, Maison de la Musique de Nanterre – in collaboration with Centro per la Scena Contemporanea di Bassano del Grappa. With the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels.
