SATURDAY 22 JUNE 2019
Il Chiostro, Via Fratelli Cervi, 14, 28921 Intra VB
7.00 PM
Contemporary dance
A PEACEFUL, PEACEFUL PLACE (WORK IN PROGRESS)
Davide Valrosso
➣ Visions
A Peaceful, peaceful place (work in progress) is born from the meeting between Davide Valrosso and the three Indian dancers of the Attakkalari company of Bangalore, thanks to the support of “Crossing the sea” internationalization project, thought in order to create and consolidate long-term collaborations between Italy and Asian countries and of the Middle East. The work is based on a series of choreographic actions born from the dialogue and encounter with different languages: from Kalari Payat, one of the most ancient fighting arts in existence, and elements of yoga (Asana and Pranayama) and gestures taken from ancient traditional Indian dances, decomposed and imbricated in a dance that is sometimes substantial and sometimes formal. The result is a compositional architecture with a highly original language, poised between the sacred and the profane, a space for reflection on the theme of the ONE, a principle that points out the unity of all things. A theme dealt with in one of the oldest sacred texts of the Hindu tradition, the Rig Veda, dating back to around the second millennium AC, and then taken up again in the West by Plato Plotinus and finally (controlla in italiano, c’é un errore ortografico nella parola Infine) by Hegel. A Peaceful (work in progress) is an opportunity for meeting and discovery, a physical space where the art of gesture and the study of form are practiced. A place of retreat for the warrior who performs the pujo, “rite of adoration”, before devoting himself to combat.
Choreography and concept: Davide Valrosso in collaboration with the dancers: Arathy A.R., Niharl Pash and Veer Nishad.
Music: Demdik Stare – Null Results / Ø – Hikari / Indian Flutes and Tibetan Bells
Davide Valrosso
Davide Valrosso, after graduating from English National Ballet, studied in numerous contemporary training centers. During five years he has been working permanently with the Virgilio Sieni company, both as a dancer and as a performer and trainer within the Accademia sull’Arte del Gesto (Academy of Art of Gesture), in Florence. He is author of the ‘Cosmopolitan Beauty’ project, produced by Cango_Centro di produzione sui linguaggi del corpo e della danza (Cango_Centro of production on body and dance languages) and supported by the Teatro Pubblico Pugliese (Anticorpi selection 2016), and in the ‘We_Pop ‘project, selected NID Platform 2017, produced by the Festival Oriente Occidente (East East Festival) . He has been involved in the ‘Prove D’autore XL’ project, 2017 edition, in which he has created “We are not alone” for the Triennium of the Ballet of Rome, under the direction of Roberto Casarotto. In 2018 he created “Biografia di un corpo”, produced by Kilowatt / Capotrave, as part of the European project BeSpectACTive and “Dream, a mid-summer night” commissioned by the Balletto di Roma. He has been also selected for the Resid’And project at the National Academy of Rome for which he has created “Bloom”. In 2018 he became the coordinator of the project “C.I.M.D Incubator for young choreography” supported by the Mibac, Milan. In January 2019 he presented “Bloom II” site-specific created in collaboration with the Cultural Center S. Chiara inside the Mart Museum of Rovereto. His work has been filmed in numerous I festivals and exhibitions, both in Italy and abroad: Spain, Korea, Romania, Croatia, India.