Category / Edizione 2022

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DAMIEN JALET | KOHEI NAWA France/Belgium/Japan In his four-handed collaboration with Japanese visual artist Kohei Nawa, Vessel uses plastic forms to explore the world of nature and its changes: abstract creatures pass through the primary elements that transition between solid and liquid states. A hymn to the end of the world, a howl of pain…

AMBRA SENATORE Italy/France To mark the opening of the Festival, Ambra Senatore calls us to join her in a performative walk, freely inspired by the history and tales of the Fonderie Limone in Moncalieri. PROGRAMME Fonderie Limone – Outdoor Space 9 September, 7 and 10.15 pm, 10 September, 7.30 and 10.15 pm 45 minutes (without…

(FROM A DREAM) SALIA SANOU Burkina Faso/France With D’un rêve (the title is openly inspired by Martin Luther King’s celebrated I Have a Dream), Salia Sanou, a Burkina Faso choreographer and dancer, pursues his exploration of themes linked to borders, exile, identity and otherness. An engaged artist and civil rights activist, he describes how African…

DAMIANO OTTAVIO BIGI | ALESSANDRA PAOLETTI Italy/Poland Damiano Ottavio Bigi (former dancer at the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch) and Lukasz Przytarski (a Krzysztof Warlikowski performer) met in Dimitris Papaioannou’s creation, Transverse Orientation. Here they star in a piece created by Bigi himself and by director and dramaturg Alessandra Paoletti: two figures enter into a relationship…

ADRIANO BOLOGNINO Italy A young artist from Campania, Adriano Bolognino, presents the premiere of his Rua da Saudade. The piece explores the rarefied concept of ‘saudade’, a word that cannot be translated within the finite horizon of human words, but that can be expressed through art, which, as always, reveals the boundless nature of human…

EMANUEL GAT Israel/France Emanuel Gat has been working for quite some time on the intersections where choreography and music meet, spaces steeped in references and counterpoints, where movement and sound interact to reveal the endless ways in which people meet, move apart, question themselves and just live. LoveTrain2020 is a truly contemporary musical, a choreographic…

GREGORY MAQOMA | THUTHUKA SIBISI South Africa Gregory Maqoma is a long-established, versatile South African artist. In creating Broken Chord, he drew on the history of the African Choir, a young African choral ensemble that achieved success in England at the end of the 19th century. Despite gaining popularity at the time, the Choir and…

CRISTINA KRISTAL RIZZO | MEGUMI EDA Italy/Japan The key concept of Cristina Kristal Rizzo’s new project is to restore identity to the language of contemporary bodies that the pandemic has so threatened: a rediscovery and re-evaluation of their ability to resist, a celebration of their individual and collective powers. The intensity of dance is a…

CHRISTIAN RIZZO France En Son Lieu is a solo piece in which Christian Rizzo, a French author making his first appearance in Turin, creates an atmospheric space where the dancer’s time decelerates and becomes suspended in an abstract place: a new form in which breakdancer Nicolas Fayol’s urban origins are extended across time and confined…

EUN-ME AHN Korea Korean choreographer Eun-Me Ahn focuses her new creation on the oriental myth of the dragon, whose forms and meanings have varied over time, reflecting the vagaries and generational shifts of human civilisation. Her dragon is brought to life by seven young dancers born in 2000, the so-called Generation Z: this is her…

AMALA DIANOR ALIOUNE DIAGNE | NOAMI FALL | LADJI KONÉ Senegal/Burkina Faso/Mali/France «Sometimes it is hard to know where we are going, but very often we know where we come from». Amala Dianor In Siguifin Amala Dianor combines three young choreographers and a group of dancers from Burkina Faso, Mali and Senegal, paying tribute to…

AMALA DIANOR Senegal/France «Sometimes it is hard to know where we are going, but very often we know where we come from». Amala Dianor Man Rec means “only me” in Wolof, the most commonly spoken language in Senegal. Amala Dianor himself performs this piece, a dialogue between his varied origins, from urban to contemporary and…

AMALA DIANOR Senegal/France «Sometimes it is hard to know where we are going, but very often we know where we come from». Amala Dianor If Wo-Man is the female rendering of Man Rec, the solo piece that brought Dianor to the attention of the French scene, Point Zéro is instead an invitation from three friends…

HOFESH SHECHTER Israel/UK HOFESH SHECHTER COMPANY Shechter II Every two years, Hofesh Shechter holds auditions and offers one-year placements to exceptionally talented young dancers who are particularly full of collective energy. These young artists, undoubtedly tomorrow’s stars, find themselves in their natural element because Contemporary dance 2.0. engages frenziedly with contemporary dance and the musical…

ALAN LUCIEN ØYEN Norway Norwegian artist Alan Lucien Øyen’s distinctive feature is his fusion of body and word. Story, Story, Die. is a generational portrayal in which desires, passions, fears, real and fantastic stories are recounted and brought to life by seven young performers. PROGRAMME Fonderie Limone – Great Hall 25 and 26 October, 8.45…