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Fonderie Limone Moncalieri – 5 – 6 – 8 – 9
September 2011 | 9:00 pm – Italian première

LE CENTAURE ET L’ANIMAL

creation, mise en scène, set design Bartabas
choreography Ko Murobushi and Bartabas
with Bartabas, Ko Murobushi
Théâtre Equestre Zingaro
Co-production with the Théâtre National de Chaillot, Sadler’s Wells, Arts 276 / Automne en Normandie
with the support of  Odyssud – Blagnac and EPCC Le Volcan, Scène Nationale du Havre

Focus MITI opens with an extraordinary event,  Bartabas’ return to the Italian stage leading his multiethnic caravan of artists and horses. Le centaure et l’animal is a show that draws greatly from the encounter between Bartabas and Ko Morobushi, one of the greatest living Butô dancers. Following the success of  Liturgie équestre, Bartabas is now focused on understanding and exploring an essential part of his work: the poetic and musical languages of the East. The profound intensity of Murobushi’s dance and the Bartabas’ powerful equestrian gesture take one through the doors of an unexpected space leading the audience into a profoundly and  forcefully beautiful mythical time and setting. Bartabas (Clément Marty) – director, stage designer and equestrian master has been described  as a pioneer of unusual creativity, combining equestrian art, music, dance and theatre in an original and unique form: equestrian theatre.

Fonderie Limone Moncalieri 16 – 17 September 2011 | 9:00 pm | World première

LA COMMEDIA

Choreography, theatre direction Emio Greco, Pieter C. Scholten
with Victor Callens, Dereck Cayla, Vincent Colomes, Neda Hadji-Mirzaei,
Sawami Fukuoka, Suzan Tunca, a.o.
Compagnia Emio Greco | PC / ICKamsterdam

Emio Greco e Pieter C. Scholten have always combined dance and theatre in seeking to interpret the world and more. Their company, which draws its basics from a rigorous classical discipline, presents a new, revolutionary choreographic language which is both muscular and extreme.
Torinodanza Festival welcomes this new production from an ensemble that expresses in a truly radical way, the exploration of the forms of movement, broadening its focus on dance to include a diversity of languages and media: lighting, video, fiction, documentaries, music and texts. La Commedia is prefigured as a synthesis, an ideal end point, of the beguiling voyage led by Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten, and based on Dante’s Divine Comedy, through the trilogy of HELL, [purgatorio] POPOPERA and you PARA | DISO, three productions that Torinodanza audiences had already acclaimed between 2008 and 2010.

Fonderie Limone Moncalieri 21 – 22 – 23
September 2011 | 9:00 pm | Italian première

OCTOPUS

Extracts from the catalogue: jealousy, Shiva, alas tic, black box, skeletons, gothic art, high heels, bolero… and other choreographic poems
mise en scène and choreography Philippe Decouflé
original music performed live Labyala Nosfell, Pierre Le Bourgeois
with Flavien Bernezet, Alexandre Castres, Meritxell Checa Esteban, Ashley Chen, Clémence Galliard, Sean Patrick Mombruno, Alexandra Naudet, Alice Roland
Compagnie DCA – Philippe Decouflé
Co-production with Théâtre National de Bretagne – Rennes / Théâtre National de Chaillot / Movimentos Festwochen der Autostadt in Wolfsburg / La Coursive – Scène Nationale de La Rochelle / Torinodanza / Théâtre de Nimes

Theme: beauty. Real, pure beauty, without any artifice, so pure as to produce a sort of enchanted wonder. Octopus is a creation for eight dancers and two musicians, a tentacular ensemble of feet and tentacles thrust into the acting area. Decouflé uses the bodies of the artists to propel technological effects. In delivering his exploration of contrasts, the choreographer uses contrasting colours and shapes in a geometric choreography, bodies close-up declined in a solo, a duet, a trio, a quartet and a quintet. The show presents a seamless flow of vividly intense images, that mingle with and overlap the magnificence of the bodies with the virtual and visionary overlay of the projections. On understands why the dance world considers Philippe Decouflé to be a magician and illusionist.