NEXUS/SIMONA BERTOZZI + NEXT New Ensemble Xenia Turin

Tra le linee

choreography Simona Bertozzi

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SIMONA BERTOZZI

«A choreographer, dancer and performer based in Bologna, Simona Bertozzi is one of the most interesting and active artists on the Italian independent contemporary dance scene. For many years her projects which have been based on the body, its dynamics and transformation into a living symbol have been touring and increasingly addressed to a major audience.

Since 2005, she has carried on a research in composition and choreography creating some solo pieces and also group ones with other dancers and performers. In 2008 Bertozzi founded Compagnia Simona Bertozzi/Nexus.

At the Venice Dance Biennale in 2014 she presented Guardare ad altezza d’erba, a piece for six dancers aged from 10 to 12 co-produced by the Venice Biennale and Teatro Stabile dell’Umbria. In the same year, Animali senza favola had its premiere. In the years 2015/2016, her production work focused on the Progetto Prometeo based on some episodes like paintings from a choreography of different duration. Each has its own distinctive theme and choreographic mark and also a specific group of performers».

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NEXT – NEW ENSEMBLE XENIA TURIN

This is the obvious landing place for one of the best-known companies focusing works on the Italian contemporary repertoire, a story that started more than twenty year ago. The Xenia Ensemble has worked with some of the most prestigious contemporary composers and many extraordinary musicians such as: Arvo Pärt, Sofia Gubaidulina, Frangis Ali-Zadeh, Alexander Balanescu, Hilliard Ensemble, Rohan De Saram, Lorna Windsor, Giya Kancheli, James Macmillan, Gerald Barry and Alexander Raskatov.

The quartet has participated in many of the most prominent international festivals and presented their work at important institutions such as: Ravenna Festival, Cité de la Musique Paris, Holland Festival Amsterdam, Art Square Festival San Petersburg, Asiagofestival, Icebreaker Festival Seattle, Festival Mito Settembre Musica and Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon.

Foto di Sara Meliti

project Simona Bertozzi e Claudio Pasceri

music:

L.v. Beethoven, Die Grosse Fuge op 133 for string quartet

Riccardo Perugini, Ad Io for cello and electronics*

Wolfgang Rihm, Zwischen den Zeilen for string quartet**

*World première

**Italian première

libretto Leonardo De Santis

performers Giulio Petrucci, Manolo Perazzi, Sara Sguotti, Oihana Vesga, Simona Bertozzi

music NEXT, New Ensemble Xenia Turin

Adrian Pinzaru, violin

Eilis Cranitch, violin

Enrico Carraro, viola

Claudio Pasceri, cello

lighting and space design Giuseppe Filipponio

costumes Katia Kuo

organization e promotion Monica Aranzi, Irene Bertolina e Beatrice Capitani

coproduction Torinodanza Festival / Teatro Stabile Di Torino – Teatro Nazionale – Nell’ambito del progetto “Corpo Links Cluster”, sostenuto dal programma di cooperazione Pc Interreg V A – Italia – Francia (Alcotra 2014-2020), EstOvest Festival, Nexus e MilanOltre

with the contribution of MiBACT, Regione Emilia Romagna, Compagnia di San Paolo, Regione Piemonte, Comune di Bologna in collaboration with Lavanderia a Vapore – Centro di Residenza Coreografica, Ateliersi Bologna

Tra le linee aims at proclaiming the power of an encounter where choreography and music develop a conversation between density and emptiness, apparitions and escapes. On stage five dancers and a string quartet form a material architecture through dance and sound which unfolds in a limited dimension.

In the development of the choreography and musical structure, which starting from Beethoveen’s Die Grosse Fuge, weaving through Perugini and arriving at Rihm’s intermittent rhythms, limits appear as an experience of trespassing, of liberty but also of vulnerability. These experiences mobilize the possibilities of creating harmony and establishing relationships between bodies evoking disturbance and reconfiguration in relationships between individuals and community.

On the changing and contrasting weavings of actions, between emerging and fluctuating scenarios spring opportunities for listening and reawakening distance, to underline their similar energy which changes its shape while becoming shared breath.

Each gesture is repeated and continuously changed by highlighting mixed origins and projections which find in the contrasted pace of Beethoven’s score the highest degree of presence and interpenetration. Dancers look for a common vocabulary that testifies to the different degrees of presence and diversity.

This encounter requires them to be precise to achieve a precision which surprises you an instant before it is understood. It seems to emerge from what is invisible… exactly between the lines.

Foto di Sara Meliti

Foto di Luca Del Pia