2008 edition - english version
Torinodanza Festival d'Autunno
6 September - 8 November
PERFORMANCES
Saturday September 6th - Teatro Regio, 9 p.m.
ARENA - choreography and dance: Israel Galván
Arena is an approach to the feria de los toros, a classic of the repertoire and of choreographic flamenco production that Galván has radically revised. It is as a dancer that Israel Galvan descends into the bullring. There, erect in centre stage, the choreographer does not try to illustrate the fight of the toreador, but observes the assaults between man and animal in order to obtain new material for his dance, being as much a bull fighter as a bull.
It is the performance character of what happens during a bull fight that interests him, the relationship between art and death, death and the spectators, violence, danger, courage, pain…
Leading figures in the world of flamenco collaborate in this show that is structured in six choreographies named after bulls that are famous for having killed famous bull fighters.
Tuesday 9, Wednesday 10 and Thursday 11 September - Teatro Astra, 9 p.m.
FENÊTRES - by and with Mathurin Bolze
In Fenêtres, Mathurin Bolze creates a totally three-dimensional vital space. Soaring from a trampoline used as a springboard, he climbs the walls, jumps up to the ceiling and remains suspended at the windows. The walls become the ground and there is always an aerial line uniting two points. The perspectives are modified, and gravity is less heavy, less present. In short, it is a new look at perception, a reinvention of the interactions with others and with the world. The "moral" of the force of gravity is turned upside-down.
The acrobatics on the trampoline are thus transformed into something that, with great freedom, crosses the territories of the different theatrical arts, creating a show that mixes the purity of movement with moments of strong visual drama and thrilling narration.
Thursday 18 September - Piccolo Regio Puccini, 9 p.m.
GAMAKA - Shantala Shivalingappa
Italian première
Shantala Shivalingappa, a great interpreter along with Maurice Béjart, Peter Brook, Bartabas and Pina Bausch, presents her Kuchipudi solo with four musicians from India. Kuchipudi is a classical Indian dance that combines pure, rhythmic, abstract dance with narrative dance that illustrates a song, using a refined technique of facial expressions and hand gestures. Kuchipudi dance is accompanied by a classic Indian orchestra: singers, percussion, flute and Vina.
Movement, rhythm, sound, melody and poetry fuse into the dance to create an infinite number of images, emotions and forms that represent the divinities of Indian mythology: Ganesh, Krishna, Shiva, Kamakshi and Sita.
Thursday 25 e Friday 26 September - Limone Fonderie Teatrali, 9 p.m.
pitié! - Les Ballets C. de la B. Alain Platel/Fabrizio Cassol
Italian première
Platel and Cassol, co-creators of the superb vspr, return with their new show inspired by the St. Matthew Passion by J. S. Bach. This masterpiece, the sublime musical transposition of the Passion of Christ, is one of those compositions that cannot and must not be manipulated. Therefore, Fabrizio Cassol does not "adapt" Bach's work, but instead writes a new story, pitié!, which neither follows the evangelical account nor the poetic version created by the author of Bach's texts.
In this show, Platel re-proposes and integrates the extraordinary group of diverse interpreters with which he intends to continue to develop the "bastard dance", which he has made his trademark.
The musical trio Aka Moon, enriched by the contribution of other instrumentalists and singers, accompanies the show.
Friday 10 e Saturday 11 October - Teatro Astra, 9 p.m.
HELL - Emio Greco | Pieter C. Scholten
Italian première
In Hell, Greco and Scholten explore in depth the relationships between the specific body language of dance and theatre, opera and contemporary music. It is a study of ways to extend the edges of our physical identity and unleash the unpredictability of the body.
Many of the prescribed connotations and usual references associated with the idea of "hell" are broken and deconstructed.
Inspired by painting, performing arts, literature and music (especially Dante's Inferno and the Allegro con brio from Beethoven's Fifth Symphony) , the authors overturn the traditional point of view about these works and look for new meanings that evoke fundamental existential questions: the relationship between the body and the soul, their mutual disappearance or survival.
Tuesday 14 and Wednesday 15 October - Teatro Astra, 9 p.m.
[purgatorio] POPOPERA - Emio Greco | Pieter C. Scholten
Italian première
After Hell, Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten continue their journey through Dante's Devine Comedy with a diptych dedicated to Purgatory. In [purgatorio] POPOPERA, the composer Michael Gordon enriches the classic study of EG/PC on the relationships between dance and music by turning to the structural elements of rock music. Therefore, we have the bodies of seven dancers that tie themselves to shiny black electric guitars. The raging guitars change into vulnerable physical bodies and bloody harness bells. Fettered by their ropes, a small crowd of dancers tries to find purification with a redeeming rhapsody.
[purgatorio] POPOPERA combines course musicality with refined physical virtuosity, dissolving in this way the boundaries between dance and sound.
Friday 17 and Saturday 18 October - Teatro Astra, 9 p.m.
ORIGINE - choreography Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Italian première
An intimate atmosphere, only four dancers - the Icelander Valgerdur Rúnarsdóttir (Vala), the South African Shawn Mothupi, the American Daisy Phillips and the Japanese Kazutomi Kozuki (Tsuki) - chosen both to represent the four cardinal points and to symbolise the major cultural currants: North as opposed to South and East as opposed to West. Icelandic tales, Japanese robotics, the American consumer spirit, African land. These four elements are combined with two female voices, an Arabian and a Scandinavian that interpret the mystical lyric poems of, among others, Hildegard Von Bingen and Rabi'a van Basra.
Tuesday 4th and Wednesday 5th November - Teatro Astra, 9 p.m.
PATCHAGONIA - Les Ballets C. de la B. - Lisi Estarás
Italian première
Patchagonia. The last landscape. The end of the world. If you find yourself down there, it's because you have nothing left to lose. Because you are seeking the impossible and have no more illusions. To find yourself down there is to err, or to get stuck in the mud.
"Patagonia has become an obsession for me: a vast land, deserted and windy, that compels introspection. Being in Patagonia means to love the wind, to know it and accept it." It is beginning from these considerations that Lisi Estarás, after working for years with Alain Platel, has put together her first big production: Patchagonia. An imaginary place where the dancers meet and attempt to communicate and understand each other to the sound of the music created by Tcha Limberger, inspired by the traditional rhythms, in particular chacarera and malambo, of Northern Argentina.
Friday 7 and Saturday 8 November - Teatro Astra, 9 p.m.
APHASIADISIAC - Les Ballets C. de la B. - Ted Stoffer
Italian première
Aphasiadisiac: the title is the crasis between Aphasia and Aphrodisiac. It is with the union of these two words that the choreographer wants to narrate love, hope, delusions and misunderstandings after the end of romantic ideals.
Aphasiadisiac speaks about the private languages that we understand and use with the people with whom we are intimate. About something beyond the explicit and individual nature of words or the implicit and universal nature of movement and that forms in itself the specific language of each individual. For the aphasiadisiac, in fact, there do not exist common words capable of communicating what one desperately wants to express.
The music deserves special mention: there will be five artists who create and perform it on stage, in the auditorium and in the foyer.
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