concept and choreography Michele Di Stefano
mk
The mk group has been dealing with choreography and performances since 1999 and has a core group of artists who have been promoting exchanges with other performers and cross-sectional projects.
In addition to distributing the performances of the group, they also organize conferences, workshops and experimental projects such as: the Platform of Balinese Dance at the Santarcangelo Festival (2014 and 2015); some projects for the Venice Dance Biennale in 2013-2014-2015; collaboration with the Scuola Paolo Grassi in Milan; and organization of the performances of Angelo Mai Italia Tropici in Rome among others. The choreographer Michele Di Stefano has worked with the Festival Bolzano Danza/Tanz Bozen, Festival Internazionale Terni, Teatro di Roma, Aterballetto and Korean National Contemporary Dance Company. He has also participated in the Artists Summit of PACT Zollverein in Essen.
performers (changeable) Philippe Barbut, Biagio Caravano, Marta Ciappina, Andrea Dionisi, Sebastiano Geronimo, Luciano Ariel Lanza, Giovanni Leone, Flora Orciani, Annalì Rainoldi, Laura Scarpini, Loredana Tarnovschi, Alice Cheophe Turati, Francesca Ugolini
live set Bunny Dakota (Industria Indipendente)
lighting Giulia Broggi
costumes designers Marco Mazzoni, Michele Di Stefano
organization Carlotta Garlanda
distribution Jean Francois Mathieu
production mk 2019
co-organization KLm (Kinkaleri/Le supplici/mk)
in cooperation with Santarcangelo Festival
supported by MiBAC (Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities)
UBU prize 2019 as best dance performance
Bermudas is a coproduction between mk-klm and Bolzano Danza/Tanz Bozen
in cooperation with AMAT Civitanova Casa della Danza, Residance/Dance Haus Milano, Dialoghi – residenze delle arti performative a Villa Manin Udine, Una diversa geografia/Villa Pravernara Valenza, AngeloMai Roma, L’Arboreto di Mondaino
supported by MiBAC and Lazio Region
Bermudas is a choreographic system based on simple and strict rules generating a perpetual motion, each performer can adopt it as a condition to exist next to the others and build a world whose rhythm can be shared. The piece takes inspiration from the theories of chaos, generation of complex systems starting from undemanding conditions and developmental systems of physics and meteorology.
Due to the restrictions caused by Covid-19 sanitary emergency, Bermudas_Forever is delayed. We invite you to attend Bermudas instead.
Bermudas_Forever is a three-hour version that has been devised to test the choreography’s permeability to the outside world and the effectiveness of the bodily information the performers put in common. It takes place in close and complementary spaces. In the first one they stage the choreographic mechanism which is open to everyone to participate and experience it from the inside; the second one is open to people who are willing to be actively involved. They are briefed about the basic, necessary rules to be followed to immediately start communicating with the performers and contributing to the development and duration of what is happening in the adjacent space. The space is open to everyone and there is no ‘dress-code’.
The Bermudas choreographic system deals with turbulences and unplanned events by welcoming and shaping the different contributions from unforeseeable and unknown bodies, which add to the show the risk and excitement of the encounter. Language is not mere language but something that can transform the world and put us in contact with others.