Mauro Astolfi presents three choreographies created for his company at Danza in Fonderia.
On the occasion of International Dance Day, Fonderia hosts three choreographies by Mauro Astolfi for his company Spellbound Contemporary Ballet. On stage are Trust, If you were a man, and Holy Shift—three works that explore relationships, listening, and transformation through the language of dance.
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 towards one another. It is an attempt at a temporary agreement, based on the idea of mutual trust as a way of 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 by 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 where it becomes better to stop searching 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 of the contemporary European dance scene. Active internationally as both choreographer and teacher, Astolfi has developed a distinctive and constantly evolving gestural language, the result of a personal reworking of different expressive forms within contemporary movement.
After a long stay in the United States, in 1994 he founded Spellbound Contemporary Ballet, a production project shared with Valentina Marini (Executive Director), today a leading presence on the international contemporary dance market.
In addition to the numerous productions created for Spellbound Contemporary Ballet, Astolfi has also been active in recent years as a freelance choreographer. Among his works are creations for Kitonb Extreme Theatre Company, the Theatre School Amsterdam (2004), Balletto di Roma (2009 and 2012), Szegedi Kortárs Balett in Hungary in 2009, and in the same year the choreography for the musical I Promessi Sposi – Opera moderna, directed by Michele Guardì. He also created works for Leipziger Ballett and River North Chicago Dance Company in 2011.
Also in 2011, he collaborated as choreographer with Israeli author Adi Salant, Associate Director of the Batsheva Dance Company, for the project Danza e/è cultura. Un ponte tra Italia e Israele, promoted and supported by the MIUR, Fondazione Flavio Vespasiano, and the Comune di Rieti.
In 2012 he was invited to create a new work for BalletX and a choreographic project titled Humanology – Site Specific Young Project, produced by the Oriente Occidente Festival. In 2013 he was one of five choreographers invited to create for the project MINUTEMADE at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich.
In 2015 he created two works in Canada for Arts Umbrella in Vancouver and ProArteDanza in Toronto.
Since October 2009, he has also been Artistic Director of the modern-contemporary department at the Dance Arts Faculty (D.A.F. – International Project for Dance and Performing Arts) in Rome.
TICKETS | PERFORMANCE
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
TICKETS | OPEN REHEARSAL
€3 for everyone / free for children under 6
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.
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