Mauro Astolfi presents three choreographies created for his company as part of Danza in Fonderia.
On the occasion of International Dance Day, Fonderia hosts three works by Mauro Astolfi for Spellbound Contemporary Ballet. On stage: Trust, If you were a man and Holy Shift—three pieces exploring relationships, listening and transformation through the language of dance.
6:00 PM – Open rehearsal
9:00 PM – Performance
Choreography and direction: Mauro Astolfi
Performers: Maria Cossu, Giuliana Mele
Music: Various artists
Trust is a short story about two women who do not really know how to behave toward one another. It is an attempt at a temporary agreement, based on the idea of mutual trust as a tool for getting to know each other a little more quickly. A game woven from different personalities, yet driven by a subtle need to understand what the other is thinking, how she might stay close to you, how you might live beside her.
Trust is an infantile, mature, adolescent yet aware duet—a brief narrative, a suggestion about certain decisions that sometimes must be made quickly and that can change the course of life. The two vibrate together, in unison they hide within one another, they protect each other… and, moving forward, they become friends; in the end, they discover that they can trust one another.
Choreography: Mauro Astolfi
Performers: Filippo Arlenghi, Roberto Pontieri, Alessandro Piergentili, Lorenzo Beneventano
Music: Various artists
Costumes: Anna Coluccia
A production by Spellbound
With the support of the Ministry of Culture
Co-production: Attraversamenti Multipli and Armonie d’Arte Festival
If you were a man is a study for four men on a profound reprogramming of listening. If the sounds produced by movement and breath could always be decoded in time, certain things might be avoided, might never happen, and one might learn to listen effectively to a body that does not speak.
The wonder of a silent dialogue carries unexpected results with it… even the smallest noises and the body’s strategies may reveal an imminent conflict in advance.
Rejection, suspicion, distrust, love, or fear are not always communicated in time for intervention, in time to receive precious information about others.
Choreography and direction: Mauro Astolfi
Performers: Maria Cossu, Marco Prete, Martina Staltari, Miriam Raffone, Filippo Arlenghi, Lorenzo Beneventano, Alessandro Piergentili, Anita Bonavida, Giuliana Mele
Lighting design: Marco Policastro
Original music: Davidson Jaconello
Costumes: Anna Coluccia
Choreography assistant: Elena Furlan
A production by Spellbound
With the support of the Ministry of Culture and Regione Lazio
In collaboration with Festival MilanOltre
Holy Shift is a rupture of the paradigm, the end of a linear dream.
A kind of “sacred” disorientation in which it is better to stop looking for answers in familiar models and instead cultivate a new openness to change.
Sometimes we can find the sacred in ruin, in disintegration, where a new version of the “sacred” may be hidden.
Holy Shift is an inner displacement toward a new orientation, not toward power, but toward presence.
I do not believe the future will be built like a project…
rather, it will reveal itself to those who are able to remain listening to the void,
to inhabit uncertainty without fleeing it,
to recognise in chaos the hidden grammar of another possibility.
Mauro Astolfi
Mauro Astolfi is one of the most representative authors on the European contemporary dance scene. Active internationally as both a choreographer and teacher, he has developed a distinctive and ever-evolving movement language, shaped by a personal reinterpretation of different forms of contemporary expression.
After a long period in the United States, he founded Spellbound Contemporary Ballet in 1994 together with Valentina Marini, a production project that is now a leading presence on the international contemporary dance market. Alongside his extensive work for the company, Astolfi has also been active in recent years as a freelance choreographer.
His creations include works for Kitonb Extreme Theatre Company, the Theatre School of Amsterdam (2004), Balletto di Roma (2009 and 2012), Szegedi Kortárs Balett in Hungary (2009)—the same year he also choreographed the musical I Promessi Sposi – Opera moderna directed by Michele Guardì—Leipziger Ballett (2011), and River North Chicago Dance Company (2011). In that same year, he co-created a project with Israeli artist Adi Salant, Associate Director of Batsheva Dance Company, for Danza e/è cultura, a cultural bridge between Italy and Israel promoted by MIUR, Fondazione Flavio Vespasiano, and the Municipality of Rieti.
In 2012, he was invited to create a new work for BalletX in Philadelphia and to develop Humanology – Site specific young project for Festival Oriente Occidente. In 2013, he was one of five choreographers selected for the MINUTEMADE project at Gärtnerplatztheater in Munich. In 2015, he created works in Canada for Arts Umbrella in Vancouver and ProArteDanza in Toronto.
Since October 2009, he has also been the Artistic Director of the modern-contemporary department at the Dance Arts Faculty (D.A.F.) in Rome.
TICKETS | PERFORMANCE
Full price: €10
Reduced (under 30, dance schools, Liceo Coreutico Matilde di Canossa, over 65, CRAL Comune di Reggio Emilia members): €6
Reduced (under 8): €3
TICKETS | OPEN REHEARSAL
€3 for all / free for children under 6
PURCHASE
Tickets can be purchased online at www.biglietteriafonderia39.it.
The box office at Fonderia opens one hour before the performance.
Seats are unassigned.
CONTACTS
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