DECISIONE CONSAPEVOLE

DECISIONE CONSAPEVOLE

ROBERTO TEDESCO / KÖRPER | CENTRO NAZIONALE DI PRODUZIONE DELLA DANZA (IT)

30 May 2025 21:00 Theme - Identity / Complexity Of The Individual

Casa del Teatro Corso Galileo Ferraris, 266 Torino

Four dancers confront their choices in an empty choreographic space, to be filled and liberated through their awareness and the potential of their decisions. An experiment that becomes representation. Four key words: Isolation, Intimacy, Communication, Community guide four bodies in a field of action so dense and defined that it leaves space only for the self and the encounter with the other. Born out of a workshop exercise, Conscious Decision becomes a conceptual map capable of tracing the essential elements of choreography. Tedesco produces a structure that highlights the dancers’ artistic awareness and individual research, allowing for improvisation while defining a common framework, creating boundaries that spark homogeneous reflection and give life to an undefinable but structured choreography—reinterpretable and adaptable, resilient in the face of time and changes. Far from being vague or instinctive.

The choreographer’s and dancers’ work focused on mutual understanding, leveling the hierarchy, diluting time, discovering a common expressive language coherent with Tedesco’s style, who is adept at always adding something new to the stage. The sound blends everything into a form that astonishes and captivates the viewer’s eye, drawing them into its escape routes and connecting them with the rest: that which is hard to achieve.

ROBERTO TEDESCO. ROBERTO TEDESCO. One of the most promising choreographers in the Italian scene, born in 1992, he began studying dance at the age of eleven in Calabria. In 2009, he entered the Ballet School of Tuscany and immediately danced for the youth company Junior Bdt. In 2011, he joined Aterballetto, where he stayed for ten years. He won the Critic’s Award at the International Choreographic Competition in Hannover. In Germany, he choreographed at the National Theater Mannheim, created works for Ballett Vorpommern, and was selected for the Think Big project at the Staatsoper in Hannover. In Italy, he was selected twice for the Vetrina Giovane Danza D’Autore and participated in the Residance XL and SupportER programs of the Anticorpi network. With the project Conscious Decision, he was a finalist at DNA appunti coreografici 2022, participated in the Open Studios of NID Cagliari in 2023, and was part of the Programming section at NID Vicenza in 2024. In Italy, he has created works for Aterballetto, MMcontemporarydancecompany, Opus Ballet, and XLdancecompany. He received the Danza&Danza Award as Emerging Choreographer of 2023 and the International Award Città di Foligno as Revelation Choreographer of 2024.

KÖRPER. Founded in 2003 by Gennaro Cimmino, Körper is a Production Center focused on exploring all expressive languages related to dance, theater, music, and contemporary art. The Center’s activity focuses on the production and promotion of dance as an art of the body, a privileged and universal language of communication, in an exchange and comparison with other European and international artistic realities. The recognition from the MIC in June 2022 as the National Dance Production Center came after 20 years of activity and motivates the Center to further support young choreographers nationwide.

By Roberto Tedesco
with Mattias Amadori, Eleonora Dominici, Laila Lovino, Francesco Misceo
Sound Design Giuseppe Villarosa
Lighting Design Giacomo Ungari
Costume Design Francesca Messori
Production Körper | Centro Nazionale di Produzione della Danza
Co-production National Choreographic Centre Aterballetto
in collaboration with ArtistiAssociati, ARTEFICI. Creative Residencies FVG

Artist awarded the Danza&Danza Best Emerging Choreographer Prize of the year 2024. Show selected for the NID Platform 2024

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durata 55’

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