SUNDAY, Sept 14 / 19:00 / THE NATIONAL CENTER OF DANCE BUCHAREST
Concept, choreography, video, direction: Jacopo Jenna
Dance and collaboration: Ramona Caia, Andrea Dionisi, Francesco Ferrari, Sofia Galvan
Artistic collaboration and texts: Roberto Fassone
Sound: Alberto Ricca - Bienoise
Lights and technical direction: Mattia Bagnoli
Costumes: Eva di Franco
Shooting video: Matteo Maffesanti
Organization: Luisa Zuffo
Management: Valeria Cosi - TINA Agency
Production: Klm - Kinkaleri
Co-production: Tanzhaus nrw Düsseldorf
Winner of the CollaborAction #6 Award
CollaborAction XL | azione Network Anticorpi XL supporto per la danza d’autore
Project realized with the contribution of:
EFFEA – European Festivals Fund for Emerging Artists, co-founded by the European Union
Étape Danse, supported by Mosaico Danza/ Festival Interplay with Fondazione Piemonte dal Vivo and Festival Torino Danza, DanzaBureau du Théâtre et de la Danse à Berlin, Fabrik Potsdam, La Maison centre de développement chorégraphique national Uzès Gard Occitanie, Théâtre de Nîmes
Italian Institute of Culture of Cologne, MiC – General Direction of Performing Arts
MAD – Murate Art District, Centrale Fies IntercettAzioni-Centro di Residenza Artistica della Lombardia, ResiDance XL, Santarcangelo dei Teatri, Fuorimargine – Centro di produzione di danza e arti performative della Sardegna
Dance of death refers to the general idea that the movements of the stars, the gods, the spirits and nature are also a dance.
Danse Macabre! is an invitation to dance to this unknown beyond, making connections to today's world through a mix of films, electronic music and light. The figures mirror and double themselves, penetrate their own image and become not only performers but also embodiments of movement on stage. Through the inclusion of a film as the third element of the scenic construction, the performance seeks an experience of perceptive displacement of the spectator, probing the dark matter of the imagination. Imagining means creating internal images, without fixed rules, and connecting them to each other to create fantasies or stories that exist within us and not in reality.
Part of the visual materials were designed together with artist Roberto Fassone, creating another entity through texts that reflect together with the public on the concept of the afterlife. Dance manifests itself in changing forms, attempting to free itself from the violence of representation, oscillating between different poles, making the invisible visible in a hyper-conscious tension between life and death.