2 focus ITALIAN DANCE PLATFORM

Four days, sixteen choreographers and seven theatres: Torino presents the official showcase of Italian dance with both emerging and well-known artists. With the collaboration of Interplay Festival 011 and the Centro coreografico Lavanderia a Vapore in Collegno.

STUDIO PER LE VERGINI

Lavanderia a Vapore – Centro di eccellenza per la danza (Collegno) – 13 October 2011 9.00 pm
running time 7’ – Coreografi torinesi evening
choreography Matteo Levaggi / stage design, set and costumes CORPICRUDI / music Pëtr Il’ic? C? ajkovskij (extract from The Sleeping Beauty) by Hildur Guðnadóttir / texts Claudia Attimonelli (from the book Le Vergini by CORPICRUDI and Claudia Attimonelli) / sound design Alessandro Negro with Kristin Furnes, Alvaro Dule
Balletto Teatro di Torino / Matteo Levaggi / Corpicrudi

[…] Beauty only dies if it is condemned to death. Massimo Tantardini
The solo was created as a study for Matteo Levaggi’s new work, the transposition into dance of the Le Vergini project by the visual artists CORPICRUDI. After its debut at the 2011 Miami International Ballet FEST, and the MILANOLTRE international Festival, the work, which blends electronic and orchestral music and the video work of the artistic duo Corpicrudi, is now performed at the Lavanderia a Vapore. Levaggi is now thirty-four and can no longer be included in the group of “emerging artists”, having gained international choreographic acclaim with important commissions from the Lyon Dance Biennale and from the Joyce Theatre in New York. After training at the school of the Balletto Teatro di Torino (BTT), Levaggi became part of the company and in 1997 joined Aterballetto. He worked with Giorgio Albertazzi in Memoirs of Hadrian dancing the role of Antinoüs. He has created ballets for the BTT drawing inspiration from artists like Andy Warhol and Caravaggio. His eclectic choices have led him to work with contemporary artists like Giovanni Sollima (who wrote the music for Caravaggio in 2004), Heiner Goebbels, Béla Bartók, Gyorgy Ligeti, and electronic composers like Scanner, Autechre, Pan Sonic, Bochumwelt, Bluvertigo’s Andy. He has created choreographies for the Arena di Verona ballet and his duet, Largo, with music by Šostakovic? has been included in the Geneva Grand Théâtre’s repertory. In 2006 he was invited to the Venezia Danza Biennale with a creation for the BTT, in 2007 to the Zagreb Music Biennale, in 2008 to the Lyon Biennale de la Danse, in October 2009 to the Joyce Theatre in New York and in 2010 to BolzanoDanza.

EMBRACE – Creation 2011

Lavanderia a Vapore – Centro di eccellenza per la danza (Collegno) – 13 October 2011 9.10 pm
running time 40’ – Coreografi torinesi evening
choreography and interpretation Edmond Russo, Shlomi Tuizer / musical creation Oren Bloedow / poet Christina Clark / light design Laurence Halloy / assistant Ariane Guitton
Affari Esteri co-produced with the  Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble Centre chorégraphique national Ballet de Lorraine Art Danse CDC Bourgogne  CDC Paris-Réseau production and distribution ARCADI with the support of the Centre National de la Danse de Pantin Atelier de Paris – Carolyn Carlson Danse à Lille CDC/Roubaix Nord Pas de Calais Théâtre de la Bastille Studio Michel Kelemenis (Prêts de Studios) Espace Dérives à Champigny-Sur-Marne dans le cadre des Plateaux Solidaires d’Arcadi
The Compagnia Affari Esteri is awarded creation grants by the Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication Drac Île-de-France

«Embrace: embrace, contain, enclose… a symbolic vessel, a convergence of essences that project this choreographic voyage as it moves unceasingly and creates relationships. A reflection upon existence as seen through the eyes of another»: this is how the Compagnia Affari Esteri (Edmond Russo and Shlomi Tuizer) present a project based on the sensitive and changeable relationship between two men, driven by and partners in their quest for identity. The word “embrace” leads to modelling poetic intentions: from a symbolic tale to a relationship between twins, from the social to the feeling body, from a perception of otherness as both a witness and a mirror, as both support and companionship, with elements such as unison, symmetry, repetition acting as echoing formal references. Two American artists are part of the creation process: Christina Clark, a poet, and Oren Bloedow, a musician.
Ever since 2004, Edmond Russo (Italian) and Shlomi Tuizer (Israeli) have respectively danced with the Lyon National Opera Ballet and the Batscheva Dance Company, developing a joint artistic project in France: Affari Esteri. The Company made its début in 2005 and has performed in some of the leading venues for choreographic creation (International Dance Festival in Cannes, Pantin National Dance Centre during the Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis, CRR in Parigi), and was been awarded the prestigious Beaumarchais-SACD writing bursary for its group project Lings.