Fidippide
BAROKTHEGREAT (Veneto - Emilia Romagna)
dance and choreography Sonia Brunelli
observation to choreography Marco Villari
live music Leila Gharib
dressing Biscuit and Ball
sound engineer Martina Zanetti
production and diffusion DADAprod
in collaboration with Santarcangelo dei Teatri
Regional debut
Monday May 23, 2011
7.00 p.m.
space > Fonderie Limone / IN
Fidippide (Pheidippides) is far away, softly leaning against the humid, velvet-lined space of our collective imagination. He is the emblem of the Attic warrior, a witness of the bloody battle of Marathon and herald who bore the news of victory during the long run only then to exhale it with his last breath. When Barokthegreat and I thought of the title of the piece, at one point the term “gimlet” came up. A “gimlet” is a medieval craft tool used to drill holes in wood. This is how we worked: there are no evocative images piling up in this work, there is nothing visionary; instead there is a patient and exhausting movement turning on a specific point, wearing it out until it makes a hole, the beginning of every vision.
(Marco Villari)
Sonia Brunelli
Dancer and choreographer, since 2008 Sonia Brunelli has directed, along with the musician Leila Gharib, the performing arts group BAROKTHEGREAT, acting within the vast basin of the performing arts, with particular attention paid to the physicality of sound, the mental root of the movement and the visual architecture.
In 2009, they received a commission from Xing for the FISCo.09 Wrestling - intuitions about the world awaiting to become an accomplished construction. In 2010, the group won the prestigious World Award (Premio Mondo) with The Origin, a performance created in collaboration with the London-based director for Simon Vincenzi for Sujet à Vif / Festival d'Avignon 2008, and Fidippide was chosen for the Marathon of the Unexpected, a new section dedicated to experimental forms of the 7th Contemporary Dance sector of the Venice Biennial. At Netmage 2011, the group will present Russian Mountains, created with the Dutch musician Michiel Klein.