SOPRA DI ME IL DILUVIO – COMPAGNIA ENZO COSIMI

SOPRA DI ME IL DILUVIO

COMPAGNIA ENZO COSIMI (IT)


28 May 2020 21.00 live on youtube

Teatro Astra Via Rosolino Pilo, 6 Torino

A lean, bony dance writing, an empty perceptual field in which you live in an unreal, visionary state. Score of gestures, movements, apparently simple but which bring back to the complexity of the work on the ‘presence’, on the performative act, on the perception of the nervous system at the expense of the muscular one. Amplify in choreographic writing natural phenomena that we tend to take for granted and make them visually as fields that border on a secular spirituality, a metaphysics of the body, a meditation pilgrimage. After the creation of Welcome to my world, dedicated to the idea of ​​the end of the world, the occurrence of a new Apocalypse, I again take inspiration from the painful relationship of Man with Nature in contemporary society. Rethinking the work as a place of magic and loss of certainties. Giving space to an art of choreography that contains a rigorous, experimental technical component, through which to direct a reflection on the world in which we live. Once the paradigm of postmodernity is exhausted, the appearance of a New Man is assumed, facing an archaic, tribal landscape of which the African continent is the emblem. A screamed, violated Africa which, despite the endless massacres to which it has always been subjected, manages to give us back a vision of hope“. Enzo Cosimi

Enzo Cosimi is among the most authoritative artists of contemporary Italian choreography. Choreographer guest of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan and of Teatro Comunale in Florence, he signs over time with his company productions for the most prestigious international festivals and theaters, touring 4 continents and collaborating with artists of Italian and international excellence. In 2006 he signed the direction and choreography of the opening ceremony of the XX Winter Olympic Games in Turin 2006, starring the étoile Roberto Bolle and 250 performers. In his career he scores around 50 productions with his company, including Sopra di me il diluvio, presented at the Venice Biennale in 2014 which won the 2014 Dance & Dance Award for Best Italian Production of the Year and the Tersicore Award 2015 for Paola Lattanzi as best contemporary interpreter.
Over time, his artistic creations have seen important collaborations, including Fabrizio Plessi, Luigi Veronesi, Miuccia Prada, Daniela Dal Cin, Aldo Busi, Stefano Galanti, Aldo Tilocca, Richie Hawtin. In 2012, for the RIC.CI project conceived by Marinella Guatterini, he redesigned his first show Calore. In recent years he has created the two trilogies: Sulle passioni dell’anima which addresses the themes of collective fear, desire and pain; Ode alla bellezza, 3 creazioni sulla diversità, designed for non-theatrical spaces and non-professional performers, which investigate the reality of homeless people, elderly homosexuality, transsexuality, defined by Artribune as one of the best ten works of 2018. Cosimi wins the national award of criticism ANCT 2018.
Paola Lattanzi: performer, choreographer, graduated from the Amsterdam University of the Arts (SNDO). Since 2002 she has collaborated with Enzo Cosimi Company, in 2014 the solo Sopra di me il diluvio, presented at the Venice Biennale Danza, won the Danza & Danza Award for Best Italian Show. In 2015 she won the Tersicore Award for Best Contemporary Interpreter. Since 2014 she has been a teacher of improvisation, technique and composition at the Paolo Grassi School in Milan. From 2019 she collaborates with the artist Marinella Senatore, in the same year her solo Crying out loud debuts at the Exister festival (Milan).

Direction, choreography, scenes, costumes Enzo Cosimi
Collaboration in choreography Paola Lattanzi
With Paola Lattanzi
Video Stefano Galanti
Music Chris Watson, Petro Loa, Jon Wheeler
Shamanic whips Cristian Dorigatti
Light design Gianni Staropoli
Organization Anita Bartolini
Curated by Maria Paola Zedda
Production Compagnia Enzo Cosimi e MIBACT
In cooperation with Biennale di Venezia 2014
With support for the residences of Fondazione Teatro Comunale Città di Vicenza, Arteven, Milano Teatro, Scuola Paolo Grassi, Abruzzo Circuito Spettacolo

Danza&Danza Award 2014 as Best Italian Production
Tersicore Award 2015 to Paola Lattanzi as Best Contemporary Performer

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