Companies from 9 European countries and 3 ExtraEU countries will be hosted at the 12th edition of INTERPLAY International Contemporary Dance Festival‚ the crossroads of the most innovative contemporary dance shows that are representative of the new national and international performance scene with groups‚ choreographers and performers‚ participants in the most important series and festivals of new contemporary dance scene.
The festival program is divided into a number of events that includes 31 events‚ with 15 National Debuts‚ 3 Premieres and 2 coproductions.
27 companies will perform in both urban dance events in different areas of the city and in three major theaters: Teatro Astra‚ Cavallerizza Reale and Fonderie Teatrali Limone (Theatrical Foundries)... and in some of these‚ making use of both the IN and the OUT spaces.
The festival bears witness‚ strong and up close‚ to the new languages that interdependently use video‚ speech and the dancing body in a totally atypical way‚ with the strong presence or the total absence of music‚ through the use of different and sometimes contradictory poetics. INTERPLAY brings us to the boundaries of perception‚ to the boundaries of traditional aesthetics.
The artists participating in the festival are those who have excelled in the contemporary geography for the meaningful‚ courageous and personal use of the choreographic language - extremely contemporary and at times abrasive - which is almost always putting the rules‚ aesthetic codes and lifestyles into question.
Wednesday May 16
9.00 p.m. / Teatro Astra
Storm End Come
Yasmeen Godder (IL)
In Storm End Come the performers embark on a journey of fluid and unpredictable mental states that lead them to encounters and interactions in changing environments. In this volatile atmosphere‚ the work reveals a world that looks at the assumption of the “self” as if it were challenged by a basic fear of not existing...
Thursday May 17
Blitz Metropolitani 12.00 a.m. / Università degli Studi di Torino - Palazzo Nuovo
Feature
Joona Halonen (FIN)
Feature arises from thorough field research: collecting impressions‚ testimonials and photographs‚ the dancer explores the movement both through symbolic and abstract thinking and through concrete experience.
“The mind-body-motion we perceive has its own identity and and its own rhythm”.
Thursday May 17
Blitz Metropolitani 12.00 a.m. / Università degli Studi di Torino - Palazzo Nuovo
Saturday May 19
Blitz Metropolitani 5.30 p.m. / Via Teofilo Rossi‚ 3
Effetto Serra
Tecnologia Filosofica (I)
“You are so close that I cannot breathe‚ you’re nearly suffocating me. I need air...
Friday May 18
9.00 p.m. / Teatro Astra
Score
Yuval Pick (F/IL)
“The three figures I put on-stage represent archetypes‚ the concretions of humanity. Through movement I’ve tried to make a dynamic of behavior visible. SCORE has been composed as a mosaic‚ like playing with building-blocks‚ a partition of alternate images‚ with the need to express the longing for another reality”.
Saturday May 19
Blitz Metropolitani 5.30 p.m. / Via Teofilo Rossi‚ 3
Tuesday May 22
7.00 p.m. / Fonderie Teatrali Limone OUT
Concept Round
G.A.P. (I)
Four parallel lines intersect violently‚ at random‚ for a moment losing their direction...
Saturday May 19
Blitz Metropolitani 5.30 p.m. / Via Teofilo Rossi‚ 3
Monday May 21
7.00 p.m. / Fonderie Teatrali Limone OUT
Grafismos / Variação 4
Staccato / Paulo Caldas (BR)
Grafismos is a multi-and interdisciplinary project that involves variations composed as urban intersections...
Saturday May 19
Blitz Metropolitani 6.45 p.m. / Piazza Vittorio Veneto
L’uomo uccello
Rachael Mossom (UK)
Birdman (Claudio Montuori) is a wonderful and bizarre character who lives on the streets of the Trastevere district in Rome [...] As soon as Rachael saw him busking‚ she immediately thought that somehow she'd like to bring him on stage and dance to his music...
Saturday May 19
Blitz Metropolitani 6.45 p.m. / Piazza Vittorio Veneto
Monday May 21
7.00 p.m. / Fonderie Teatrali Limone OUT
Ven
La Macana (E)
VEN captured the audience from the start and kept the pressure up until the last movement. Flawless execution...
Saturday May 19
Blitz Metropolitani 6.45 p.m. / Piazza Vittorio Veneto
Valse en trois temps (solo)
Compagnie CFB 451 / Christian & François Ben Aïm (F)
The choreographers explore the contrast between the choreographic movement and classical music‚ looking for the abstraction and the fluidity of the body in space. The performance will take place in the the urban setting of Piazza Vittorio Veneto‚ the cultural and commercial nerve center of Turin...
Saturday May 19
Blitz Metropolitani 6.45 p.m. / Piazza Vittorio Veneto
Add Up Streetscapes
Senza Confini di Pelle (I)
“In our work we assume postures‚ the road itself becomes posture‚ the bodies adhere to it‚ they add up‚ it is the life of the street which is reflected in the body code. In the privacy of a rehearsal room the‚ data collected enter into the process of creation‚ discarding the superfluous‚ only what has setlled in the body remains”...
Saturday May 19
9.00 p.m. / Cavallerizza Reale - Manica Corta
Joseph
Alessandro Sciarroni (I)
Bodies exposed and ready for exhibition‚ out there‚ somewhere‚ on the other side of the world‚ at the same instant. Fiat lux: like the conjurer’s top hat conferred with the authority to generate white rabbits...
Saturday May 19
9.00 p.m. / Cavallerizza Reale - Manica Corta
Duet for two dancers
Tabea Martin (CH/NL)
Duet for Two Dancers explores the anxiety of not living up to one’s expectations or those of one’s profession or what society in general imposes on us. A look at the fear of losing oneself and what is left when the skills vanish...
Monday May 21
8.00 p.m. / Fonderie Teatrali Limone - Sala Piccola
Occhi
Andrea Gallo Rosso (I)
... we’re used to a certain detachment...
Monday May 21
8.00 p.m. / Fonderie Teatrali Limone - Sala Piccola
Cantando sulle ossa
Francesca Foscarini (I)
... performance exudes pure physicality‚ mixed with latent soul imploding to its chest. It is emblematic of the transformation required of the human creature‚ of constant change and at any cost‚ the right sense of trying assiduously to inhabit the new space that creeps into our path...
Monday May 21
9.00 p.m. / Fonderie Teatrali Limone - Sala Grande
Waiting for Suite-Hope
Chiara Frigo (I)
The project arose from a discussion and some questions related to the theme of hope and its relevance in contemporary reality...
Monday May 21
9.00 p.m. / Fonderie Teatrali Limone - Sala Grande
The Fifteen Project
Arno Schuitemaker (NL)
... The economic‚ social and political changes are superimposed and constantly in flux. Natural coherence seems to vanish. The trio in The Fifteen Project is like a mirror of the changing chaos of reality...
Monday May 21
9.00 p.m. / Fonderie Teatrali Limone - Sala Grande
Le syndrome de l’exilé
Babacar Cissé (F)
... the trains make the memories and the future destinations of my life real. They lead us away from a place of ourselves to bring us to another place that often becomes the exile of research...
Tuesday May 22
8.30 p.m. / Fonderie Teatrali Limone - Sala Piccola
Verso la luce
Leonardo Diana (I)
“The solution of modern drama lies in renouncing comparison‚ in being in contrast with the other self‚ and dissolve into the vague and deep layer of reality”...
Tuesday May 22
9.00 p.m. / Fonderie Teatrali Limone - Sala Grande
Unattaching
Tania Råman + Dbini Industries (UK)
... Unattaching explores our personal experiences: the desire for something outside‚ the despair and freedom you feel when a relationship ends...
Tuesday May 22
9.00 p.m. / Fonderie Teatrali Limone - Sala Grande
CORPS.RELATIONS
Maria Kefirova (CDN)
CORPS.RELATIONS s a duo between a body and a head. The work explores the gap between the logical representation of reality and the immediate embodiment of the impulses...
Tuesday May 22
9.00 p.m. / Fonderie Teatrali Limone - Sala Grande
Bianconido
Daniele Ninarello (I)
Bianconido (Whitenest) is that place of latency between thought and action‚ between intention and direction‚ it’s that space in which the sensation becomes a reality‚ the intangible becomes tangible‚ and the whole body becomes “present instant impregnated future”...
Wednesday May 23
9.00 p.m. / Fonderie Teatrali Limone - Sala Grande
Under green Ground
MOUVOIR / Stephanie Thiersch (D)
The world as an image and concept: the era of the media is no longer a future in and of itself. Role models determine our identity and our thinking. However‚ the wide variety of potential roles creates a new and special sense of freedom...
Wednesday May 23
10.00 p.m. / Fonderie Teatrali Limone - Sala Piccola
Casa de Abelha
Compagnia Tapiás (BR)
... A sewing thread of quiet time...
Thursday May 24
9.00 p.m. / Fonderie Teatrali Limone - Sala Grande
Passo
Ambra Senatore (I)
... A woman lives in a household...
Friday May 25
8.30 p.m. / Fonderie Teatrali Limone - Sala Grande
3D-ANCE
Barbara Bujakowska (PL)
... Images‚ sound and movement to investigate perception...
Friday May 25
8.30 p.m. / Fonderie Teatrali Limone - Sala Grande
When I dance‚ I dance. When I sleep‚ I sleep.
Sara Marasso (I)
I’m not trying to convince you‚
to translate thoughts.
If anything‚ to fight emphasis
and I try to breathe calmly with awareness...
Friday May 25
8.30 p.m. / Fonderie Teatrali Limone - Sala Grande
Impar
Focus Cia De Dança (BR)
... How long does a moment last? A moment is the sum of a fraction of time...
Friday May 25
10.30 p.m. / Fonderie Teatrali Limone - OUT
passEnger + xluve
Final Party INTERPLAY/12
