The fourth edition of the SIRENE Festival will host this year a free dance-theatre workshop led by choreographer Riccardo Fusiello of the Sonenalé company. The choreographer will lead an intensive four-day course in Bisceglie starting on July 15, which will end with the performance “Della fragilità dei corpi”, which will be presented on Friday 19 as part of the festival program.
The workshop is dedicated to bodies of any age and characteristics, who have training and stage experience of movement as professional and non-professional dancers/performers/actors/circus performers. To apply for the workshop, you must send your CV and two photos (full-length and close-up) by July 8th to the address [email protected] indicating in the subject: “CALL Riccardo Fusiello”.
“The fragility of bodies questions how the limits and limitations of the human body act in the lives of all of us. I’m not just referring to physical limitations, but I mean any type of limit (social, political…) that forces us to readjust the discovery and knowledge of others and the world around us”, explains the choreographer. “Our body is the shell that takes us around the world, the one we use to realize our thoughts, our desires, which allows us to do well, to do badly, to make people suffer, to make mistakes, to give joy: but what do I do with this body? How do I use it? What do I need it for? We become aware that our thoughts, our desires, our possibility of knowledge and relationships with others, our actions are linked, subjugated and limited to a material body. The limit becomes knowledge and inevitable discovery of the body we have and of what we are, of its grace and its beauty”, writes Fusiello in the description of what will be the main theme of his activity with the workshop participants.
Fusiello’s path favors contamination as artistic research: an attitude that investigates different declinations of art each time. The last stage of this research journey was at the University of Turin for the European project “Controversial bodies”.
The workshop, which will take place in the Spazio Sonenalé in via degli Aragonesi 30 in Bisceglie, will be held on the following days: Monday 15 July (2:00 pm – 6:00 pm), Tuesday 16 July (9:30 am – 2:00 pm), Thursday 18 July (9:30 am – 2:00 pm), Friday 19 July (9:30 am – 2:00 pm + afternoon/evening).
SIRENE is a project by Sonenalé with the artistic direction of Agostino Riola, supported by the Municipality of Bisceglie and promoted by the Teatro Pubblico Pugliese.
Riccardo Fusiello He graduated in modern literature, in 2005 he obtained the diploma of choreographer and dancer from the Paolo Grassi Dramatic Art School in Milan. He improved with the historic choreographers of German dance theatre Susanne Linke and Reinhild Hoffman, studied in Berlin and with masters of contemporary dance including Lloyd Newson of DV8 and Carolyn Carlson. He was assistant to the Catalan choreographer Cesc Gelabert. He is a choreographer and artistic director of Sonenalé, a dance and performing arts company. Founded in 2012, over the years the company has obtained prestigious awards in Italy and Europe: Scenekunst (Aarhus, Denmark), Centro Danza Canal (Madrid), Anticorpi XL – network giovane danza d’autore, Fondazione Campania dei Festival, Movin’ Up – GAI and MIBAC. His performances are presented in important festivals and theaters. In 2015 he moved the company headquarters to Bisceglie, in Puglia, where in 2022 he opened the Spazio Sonenalé, the company headquarters and a place of study and training for dance and performing arts. In recent years he has collaborated, among others, with Compagnia EgriBiancodanza, the University of Turin, the National Academy of Dance in Rome for research projects and creations.
