Come Neve
choreography: Adriano Bolognino
music: For Now I Am Winter - Òlafur Arnalds, Nils Frahm, The Bottom Line - Òlafur Arnalds, Josim Costumes by Club dell’Uncinetto, Napoli
dancers: Rosaria Di Maro and Noemi Caricchia
duration: 28’
premiere: Festival Danza in Rete - Teatro Comunale di Vicenza, 2022
production: Körper, with the support of Orsolina 28, IIC in Oslo, Italian Embassy in Norway
The starting image is one of snow falling outside the window when you are a child. The feeling of comfort that comes from the sense of protection and warmth inside, combined with the magic of contemplating the whiteness outside. Before beginning the work on the bodies in movement, Bolognino identified the expressive quality in the costumes, involving a group of women who gathered in a "Crochet Club" during the pandemic. This ancient art served as an opportunity not only for collaboration and connection for these women, but also an opportunity for renaissance after a moment of deep darkness. It is said that crochet was born from the ability and imagination of a woman who, fascinated by the beauty and perfection of the snowflakes, decided to reproduce their wonder with a simple hooked needle and a cotton thread. So do the dancers, craftsmen themselves, who with their bodies and movement give life to something new, creative and original as a snowflake. Interweaving these elements and suggestions, Bolognino wants the spectator to be invaded with a sudden snowfall of bodies in movement, causing time to pause in a state of serene contemplation. This choreography was composed as if it were a crochet work: an intricate yet sophisticated plot, a conscious weaving that generates new forms.
Rua da Suadade
choreography, concept: Adriano Bolognino
costumes: Tns Brand
dramaturgy: Gregor Acuna-Pohl
light designer: Gianni Staropoli
dancers: Rosaria Di Maro, Giorgia Longo, Roberta Fanzini, Noemi Caricchia
duration: 55’
premiere: Torino Danza Festival, 2022
co-production: Körper - National Center of Dance Production, Torino Danza Festival, Teatro Stabile Torino, Teatro Nazionale Fondazione - Teatri Reggio Emilia, Festival Aperto, Orsolina28
Teatro Pubblico Campano, NID Platform, Mic Italy
Creation selected by NID Platform Open Studios 2021, DNA Appunti Coreografici 2021, Certamen Coreografico Sabadell 2021, Call for Creation Orsolina28 2021, Twain Direzioni Altre 2021. Winner of Cortoindanza 2021.
…a transparent capsule, which seals and at the same time offers vision of what cannot be seen, what has been left behind, but is kept in one's heart.
Gilberto Gil
Saudade is a tightly wound knot in the past, a branch of the present. Saudade is to look forward to everything that does not exist yet or that will probably never exist. It is like feeling the life in every pore of your skin, learning to give the right value to everything that surrounds you. Saudade is a swing. An atmosphere, a state of mind... Studying how this feeling found expression, I investigated Fernando Pessoa’s poetics and his great aesthetic creation: the invention of heteronyms. The four main literary personalities of the Portuguese writer inspired me to stage four dancers who will represent different heteronyms of autonomous personalities. With this work my aim was to experiment a particular feeling, which one can experience with others or on his own. It is a creation based on both absence and desire. Agony and tenderness.
Adriano Bolognino
Born in 1995 in Naples, Adriano Bolognino won the Danza&Danza Award 2022 as Emergent Choreographer. His new project “Samia” is the winner of the Rüm for dans co-production’s call. He creates new works for the Ballet Opera of Rome, Zfin National Company Malta, MM Contemporary Dance Company, Opus Ballet, Kayzer Ballet... He collaborated with etoiles Eleonora Abbagnato and Jacopo Tissi for the opening of Laura Biagiotti Fashion Show 2023 in Milan. In 2022 the Nitja Center in Oslo commissioned him a new work, “Come Neve”, in collaboration with Orsolina28, the Italian Embassy in Norway and the IIC Oslo. His works are selected for different platforms as: Aerowaves, Danza Urbana XL, Crossing the sea, Big Pulse Visiting Artists, MAS Danza. The project “Rua da Saudade” is one of the winners of “Call for Creations” 2021 by Orsolina28 and is also selected for NID Platform. In 2020 the Venice Biennale commissioned him a new work “Your body is a battleground/solo version” for the festival. With “RM94978 from Paris to Tenerife”, he won in 2019 the Award, Premio Prospettiva Danza Padova.
Everything works wonderfully, you can only admire so much scenic intelligence, interpretative care and compositional knowledge.
© Teatro e Critica
The Naples choreographer is absolutely one of the true protagonists of contemporary dance, in his magnificent design on technique and grace, continuously elaborated.
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