The festival directed by Saverio La Ruina, Dario De Luca and Settimio Pisano, presents over 55 events including theatre, dance, music, performances, workshop residencies and exhibitions
All the appointments of May 26th and 27th in the “Prima” section.
Is in progress the 24th edition of Primavera dei Teatri. The festival dedicated to the new languages of the contemporary scene – directed by Saverio La Ruina, Dario De Luca and Settimio Pisano – to Castrovillari up to to June 2, 2024. An “outpost” in the South of contemporary dramaturgy and new creativity, a laboratory for meetings and comparisons between artists of different backgrounds and generations. Over 55 events including theatre, dance, music, performances, prestigious artistic residencies, workshops, book presentations, conferences and exhibitions. New to this edition is BEFOREan international platform experiment with the aim of contributing to the creative path of young artists working in the field of dance and performance.
Here is the calendar with the appointments for the next two days, May 26th and 27th.
Sunday 26 May
12.00 Protoconvent
Marco Da Silva Ferreira – Minor Fantasies (30′) Italian premiere
All terrain executive production by the Center Chorégraphique National de Caen en Normandie
Starring Anka Postic and Chloé Robidoux
Above all, two dancers who take possession of the stage as if they were conquering an empty space. With all their heaviness they take note of their contradictions in response to the suggestions of the twirling notes of the music: with a bad boy attitude, curved backs, wide legs… You don’t mess with these bodies. However, it doesn’t take long before Schubert’s Fantasy in F minor becomes the playground of these two expert urban dance performers. Following the rhythm with snappy shoulders and legs, but also launching into pas de deux that are both fraternal and competitive at the same time, in grips, glissés, piqués and distorted pointes…
4.00pm Protoconvent
Mauro Lamanna / Aguilera Giustiniano – Real Heroes (70′)
written and directed by_Mauro Lamanna and Aguilera Justiniano
sound project_Samuele Cestola
project curator_Corrado Russo
creative producer_Mauro Lamanna
producer and general organizer_Pietro Monteverdi
an obscene_production
in co-production with_Sardegna Teatro
Two true stories.
Two fathers distant in space and time are linked by the same destiny. One is located in southern Chile, Sebastian, during the Pinochet dictatorship; the other in southern Italy, Gianluca, in the early 2000s, yet both are forced to do what no parent would ever want to do: separate from their children. Thus, while one is persecuted by Pinochet’s dictatorship and the other by unjust laws and abuses of power, their bodies become protests, shields of flesh and blood that have the sole objective of protecting the future of their children, seized by the police secret and jeopardized by criminal actions. Two fathers fighting for love and resistance.
6.00pm Varcasia Room
Leonardo Schifino – Until our words coincide again: never (20′)
Creation, performance Leo Schifino
Dramaturg Giulia Manili
Extragarbo production
Administration, edited by Giusy Guadagno
“Until our words coincide again: never” is a composition of a body that moves ambiguously between choice, error and the unexpected. The ambiguity shows and conceals at the same time, alternating moments of brief revelation with enchanting tangles. Like a lenticular map, a double reflection image, the figure changes depending on the perspective. She discovers herself in transit between one form and another, between one genre and another. The body calls us to look at the invisible alterations of the presence and the possible of space: it layers out-of-phase vocal and gestural fragments; eludes the end of actions with truncation and suspensions; it makes room for the halo, for the unexpected, for the unwritten; in that space between, in the dark, when things pick up speed.
7.30pm The Shed
Roberta Racis – White Act (40′) first ever
project, choreography, dance dance choreography project: Roberta Racis
sound and music performed live sound and music performed live: Samuele Cestola
dramaturgical collaborationdramaturgical collaboration: Martina Badiluzzi
dramaturgical advicedramaturgical advice: Dea Merlini
lighting design: Giulia Pastore
general productiongeneral production: Pietro Monteverdi
promotion, curationpromotion, care: Jean-François Mathieu
productionproduction: Obscene
in co-production with: Primavera dei Teatri, Fabbrica EuropaRoberta Racis composes a tribute to the maternal which is also a study on the white act of romantic ballet. The color white evokes conceptual refractions that the choreographer drew on for this work in which dance, voice and singing structure the action. The white act is generally the second act of shows whose libretto narrates events between the world of the living and an otherworldly dimension. These are acts in which, after the death of a character, usually female, the afterlife manifests itself. Precursor of an objectification of bodies, the white act is preparing today for an investigation like that of Roberta Racis, who reflects on the feminine by deflating the personal vision of fragility and mourning into a wider range of possibilities.
9.00pm Sybaris Theatre
Elena Antoniu – Landscape (50′)
Designed, Choreographed and Performed by Elena Antoniou
Music and Sound Design: Stavros Gasparatos
Artistic Direction: Christos Kyriakides
Dramaturgy: Odysseas I. Konstantinou
Lighting Design: Vasilis Petinaris – Production Coordination: Alex Papasimakopoulou
Technical director of the tour: Stavros Kariotoglou (Onassis Stegi) – Head of the “Outward Turn” touring program: Christina Liata (Onassis Stegi) – The presentation at Primavera dei Teatri is supported by the “Outward Turn” program of Onassis Stegi.
The poet Charles Wright claimed that “all landscapes are autobiographical”. In “Landscape” Elena Antoniou treats her body like a landscape. In his director’s notes, playwright Odysseas I. Konstantinou writes: “You push your butt out, make your most erotic moves, breathe, get tired. You are seen and observed. And you want to be seen. And you want to be watched. You show off. And you asked to be shown off. So you give what you have, your body, primarily as something sexual. You conceived this performance, you carry it through to the end. You think you’re the one putting it in place, but that’s not the case.” The gaze of each spectator/observer and, respectively, the proximity or distance with which they decide to observe Elena Antoniou’s body/spectacle are certainly the elements that complete this work. The artist offers herself without hesitation, willing to reveal her personal experience as if she were a collective landscape. She joyfully exposes the female body and challenges our external limits in terms of spectacle, masterfully provoking the viewer’s gaze. She investigates the space for the body politic to show itself as deeply traumatized but also brazenly sexual.
11.00 pm Protoconvent
DJ sets
Monday 27 May
10.00 Protoconvent
Meeting with Laura Gemini: Gradients of Liveness. Live performance and communication in media contexts
12.00 Protoconvent
Pitch & Drink – Aperitif with the artists in residence
Dario Rea / Maher Msaddek – Leonardo Schifino
4.00 pm Protoconvent – Room 8
Dario Rea / Maher Msaddek – Hide and seek (15′)
Dramaturgy Maher Msadak, Dario Rea
Directed by Dario Rea
With Maher Msadak
There is a study by the psychiatrist Kübler Ross, written in 1970, which analyzes the “five phases” of mourning and which are: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. In psychoanalysis, mourning is the elaboration of the process set in motion by the loss of a loved object, so we could also define it as the absence or disappearance of what we love and which suddenly, suddenly, without warning, disappears. The show is the story of an adopted boy who decides to go in search of his missing family. The journey, which will see him crossing multiple countries and nations, will lead him to discover something he would never have suspected.
6.00pm Varcasia Room
Panzetti Ticconi – Cry Violet (30′)
choreography, performance, costumes – Ginevra Panzetti / Enrico Ticconi
sound composition – Teho Teardo
video – Sergio Salomone
Graphic illustration – Ginevra Panzetti
originally created within – Explorations a Triennale Milano project in collaboration with Volvo Car Italia
with the support of – Lavanderia a Vapore / Piemonte dal Vivo (it); RAMPS (de)
CRY VIOLET was born as a performative intervention created on the sound composition proposed by the musician Teho Teardo. The generative idea comes from a reflection on today’s environmental condition and the phenomenon of greenwashing. Actions, such as cleaning, merge with crying. It is in this limbo between a real or superficial attempt to recover from the damage caused that Cry Violet takes shape, in a changing complicity between the aestheticisation of a fault and the act of resolving or concealing it, to the point of transforming itself into captivating matter, winking, advertising.
7.30pm The Shed
Giovanfrancesco Giannini – Vanitas (study) – (30′)
a project by G. Giannini, F. Novembrini, R. Racis
production Körper National Dance Production Center in co-production with Santarcangelo Festival
Vanitas is a collective project by artists Giovanfrancesco Giannini, Roberta Racis and Fabio Novembrini. Starting from a reflection on vanitas as a pictorial genre, the creative process reflects on how the iconography of vanity is expressed in the contemporary world. The work is conceived as a multimedia score involving three performers, who create a series of videos live with a video camera which are projected. The filmed actions interact with the live action, composing and dismantling a series of images in which echoes of forms and iconographies of the past interact with the mechanisms of auto-fiction and identity construction of social networks.
9.00pm Victoria Theatre
Arkadi Zaides – Necropolis (50′)
Concept and direction: Arkadi Zaides | Dramaturgy, text and voice: Igor Dobricic | Research assistant: Emma Gioia | Performers: Arkadi Zaides, Emma Gioia | Sculpture: Moran Sanderovich | 3D Modeling: Mark Florquin | Avatar Animation: Jean Hubert | Animation assistant: Thibaut Rostagnat | Lights: Jan Mergaert | Sound design: Asli Kobaner | Technical director: Etienne Exbrayat | Administration and production: Simge Gücük / Institut des Croisements | Co-production: Théâtre de la Ville (FR), Montpellier Danse 40 Bis (FR), Charleroi Danse (BE), CCN2 Center Chorégraphique National de Grenoble (FR), les ballets C de la B (BE), Tanz im August / HAU Hebbel am Ufer (DE), La Filature – Scène nationale de Mulhouse (FR) | Residency support: CCN – Ballet de Lorraine (FR), STUK (BE), PACT Zollverein (DE), WP Zimmer (BE), Workspacebrussels (BE), Cie THOR (BE), RAMDAM, an art center (FR )
NECROPOLIS is based on a list recording the deaths of refugees and migrants who have tried to reach Europe. The list was drawn up by UNITED for Intercultural Action and is constantly updated thanks to the commitment of a network made up of hundreds of anti-racist organizations from all over Europe. Arkadi Zaides and his team delve into forensic practice to create a new virtual repository that documents the remains of the numerous people whose deaths remain unrecognized to this day. Freedom of movement must be restored to the bodies that are admitted to Europe as remains. And even if there is no one left to dance in the City of the Dead, it is exactly this no one, this body of bodies – the body of NECROPOLIS – that Zaides intends to bring back to life.
11.30pm Protoconvent
Closing party – Makkine with Samovar
