Luciano Padovani brings the dance of the Years of Lead to Fonderia.
Rome, Saturday 18 March 1978.
An orange commercial envelope is found in an underpass at Largo di Torre Argentina, containing a Polaroid photograph: the portrait of a man in shirtsleeves, a flag with a five-pointed star… and communiqué no. 1 of the Red Brigades.
The years of desire and lead, in a danced fragment of republican Italy.
The lived experience of choreographer Luciano Padovani becomes, in STELLA, material shaped through the bodies and voices of the two performers: Roberta Piazza and Andrea Rizzo.
With them, we enter a brigatist hideout—that hideout… an interior scene inhabited and stirred by intense emotions and moments of great humanity and poetry. A warm atmosphere made of illusions and projections, masterfully suggested by costume designer Lucia Lapolla.
Elisabetta Calvi
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Choreography and direction: Luciano Padovani
By and with Luciano Padovani, Roberta Piazza, Andrea Rizzo
Critical eye: Mauro Zocchetta
Lighting: Thomas Heuger
Costumes: Lucia Lapolla
A production by Compagnia Naturalis Labor
Co-production: Festival AbanoDanza 2024
With the support of: MIC – Ministry of Culture, Regione Veneto, Arco Danza, Comune di Vicenza
He came to dance relatively late, during his university studies. A decisive encounter was with Carolyn Carlson, who encouraged him to move abroad. He chose Paris, where he spent two intense years in the heart of the nouvelle danse française. He then returned to Italy and moved to Milan, where he worked with Susanna Beltrami’s company and at Teatro alla Scala. Eventually, he returned to Vicenza and founded Compagnia Naturalis Labor. It was then that he realised that being a choreographer was truly his calling. He describes himself as a “craftsman of the body.”
With the company, he has created dozens of works. He has collaborated on numerous opera productions, in theatre, for events, and has created choreographies for various Italian dance companies. He is the artistic director of Festival AbanoDanza and Visioni di Danza. He lives in Vicenza.
TICKETS
Full price: €10
Reduced price (under 30, dance schools, Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa, over 65, CRAL Comune di Reggio Emilia members): €6
Reduced price (under 8): €3
TICKET PURCHASE
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The box office at Fonderia opens one hour before the start of the performance.
Tickets are unnumbered.
CONTACTS
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