2013 Programme
EVENT #36
Virgilio Sieni
Before other people’s eyes
The choreographer and dancer Virgilio Sieni has designed this performance to invite the audience to reflect on the Resistance. The dancer meets some former freedom fighters a few minutes before going on stage, and together they conduct a dance structured as a “game of touch”. The dance is meant as a recollection of their life experiences in the painful struggle for freedom, as well as to the beauty and dignity of bodily gestures. With Naomi Berrill (cello). A production of Compagnia Virgilio Sieni, Théâtre du Merlan scène nationale à Marseille.
is an Italian dancer and choreographer. After studying ballet and contemporary dance in Amsterdam, New York e Tokyo, in 1983 he started his own dance company, Parco Butterfly, renamed Compagnia Virgilio Sieni 1992. The company has gained international renown as one of Europe’s best. It cooperates with Europe’s leading theaters and festivals, and in addition to designing dance performances it conducts a program of research, study and dissemination of contemporary choreography. Sieni has authored choreographies for Italy’s best theaters, including La natura delle cose (2008), and Tristes Tropiques (2010), inspired by Claude Lévi-Strauss. Since 2003, Sieni has headed CANGO-Cantieri Goldonetta, a space in Florence for body practices and for research on the languages of contemporary art. In 2007, he founded the Academy of gesture art. He is Director of the Biennale di Venezia Dancing Sector for the years 2013, 2014, 2015.
EVENT #18
Stefano Bartezzaghi, Massimo Recalcati
To inherit or to be creative? Art in the time of disoriented generations
