CollettivO CineticO was founded in 2007 by the choreographer Francesca Pennini and today it’s a network of more than 50 artists coming from different disciplines and backgrounds. Its main focus is the research on the nature of the performance and on the relationship with the audience through a rigorous but ironic approach within dance, theatre and visual arts. Based in Ferrara, until now the Company has produced 59 choreographies, winning many awards such as: Giovani Danz’Autori Prize 2008, Rete Critica Award as Best Italian Artist 2014, Jurislav Korenić Award / Best Young Director – Mess Festival Sarajevo 2014, Danza&Danza Award 2015, Hystrio Prize 2016, MESS Prize 2016 BE Festival – Birmingham, Prize of the National Association of Critics 2016; UBU Award - Best Dance Piece of 2017 for Sylphidarium; Grand-Prix Golden Laurel Wreath Award for Best Performance at 58° Festival MESS of Sarajevo 2018.
How long is one minute ? What are the limits of the body ? How much can it slow down to reach the most cosmic stillness or lose its definition and then turn into an ultra-fast wake? How to destroy your dance is a challenge against time with pulp tones and a ludic taste. A handbook for the boycott of every choreographic decorum through impossible accelerations and extreme slow-motions. A massacre game with no fiction and no sparing, where dancers become wrestlers of relativity and the show gets stripped down by the intimate rituals of the preparation and the destruction of any form of formal artifice.
Concept, direction, choreography: Francesca Pennini
Dramaturgy, technical management: Angelo Pedroni
Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart reloaded
Sound elaboration & musical re-composition: Simone Arganini
Organisation: Carmine Parise
Duration: 45’
“I think the work should be called In a landscape: I would like to steal this title from the homonym piece by John Cage ... and I would also like to use that track too. I think it holds the right atmosphere. Composed in 1948, for piano or harp to sober and quiet the mind, thus rendering it susceptible to divine influences. Now, with CollettivO CineticO, we are training a new practice. As in my other works, there is always something light and mysterious in the obstinacy of repetition, something that seems to have an opposite energy compared to patience, fatigue and to the obduracy of the action carried out by the artists. But this time I seem to be able to see more. They seem to me as figures tending towards what seems to resemble a feeling of serene determination inclined to disappear: a voluntary extinction of the subject. An act of extreme love. The choice of a definitive departure. But I admit that my gaze is not objective."
Alessandro Sciarroni
Choreography and direction: Alessandro Sciarroni
Lights: Alessandro Sciarroni
Music: John Cage, Stefano Sardi
Styling: Ettore Lombardi
Duration: 35’
Manifesto Cannibale is a strange organism. It starts from a reflection on the world of plants which calls on us to reconsider the place of the human kind, the fabric of time, the forms of perception and the nature of thought. Its creation was abandoned by the author, Francesca Pennini, who kept herself in a condition of “blindness“ and distance from the creation, communicating with the performers only through poetic clues: a ghost author who signs something she does not know nor see, who lives on the edge of the scene and who is only allowed to see what is absolutely still. On stage, Franz Schubert's 'Winterreise' cycle accompanies a perceptive rite of transformation towards conditions that cannot be experienced by human bodies, between microscopic dances, dangerous games and choreographic hieroglyphs. An invitation to a tactile gaze, to the immersion in high volume silences.
movement Emma Saba
movement, organization Carmine Parise
movement, technological inventions, sound curation Simone Arganini
movement Teodora Grano
movement, brainstorming, staging Angelo Pedroni
direction, voice, texts Francesca Pennini
piano, movement Davide Finotti
scenography, lighting Alberto Favretto
playlist Spectators
voice Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
music Franz Schubert
co-production CollettivO CineticO, Fondazione Romaeuropa, Fondazione Teatro Comunale di Ferrara
with the support of Fondazione I Teatri, Centrale Fies | Art Work Space and ATER Fondazione / Teatro Comunale Laura Betti
with the support of Regione Emilia Romagna, MIC
