FRIDAY, 11th SEPTEMBER 2015 | 22.45 | 50′
LA PELANDA | FOYER 1
In double bill with e-ink by mk
dance
Bolero effect
concept and coreography Cristina Rizzo
performance Annamaria Ajmone, Cristina Rizzo, Simone Bertuzzi
sound processing and djing Simone Bertuzzi aka PALM WINE
light design and technical supervision Giulia Pastore
distribution Chiara Trezzani
production CAB008 con il sostegno di Regione Toscana e MiBACT
coproduction La Biennale Danza, Venezia
www.cristinarizzo.it
Written in 1928, when Maurice Ravel was 53 years old and suffering the first symptoms of FTD (frontotemporal dementia), the Bolero somehow represents a “compulsive exercise”. The whole piece is built on a single melody – divided in two phrases – that is repeated nine times.
But what is a Bolero, really? It’s like a desert island. A place to begin anew, far from the continents. It is a tunnel of sound in which we are meant to find luminous crevices, create physical turbulences and let the body erotic break through the frame of rigid composure and arise into new dimensions.
The project is musically structured on border-crossing dance rhythms: the sonorous environment
in which the original choreographic score takes place is built on decreasing energy flows and expansions. It is a bit like a post-global dancehall.
BoleroEffect thus attempts to create a place of co-habitation, a sort of scenic utopia where figure and backdrop lose their physical limits. A utopia where the body can undergo a transformation by activating an internal luminescent flame and rapidly transiting through states of disappearance, phosphorescence and dust.
But is it possible to give up on one’s mental habits?
BIOGRAPHY
Dancer, performer and choreographer living in Florence, Cristina Rizzo studied at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance in New York and she attended the studios of Merce Cunningham and Trisha Brown. She also collaborated with various artistic Italian realities such as Teatro Valdoca, Roberto Castello, Stoa/Claudia Castellucci, Mk, Virgilio Sieni Danza, Santasangre. Founder of Kinkaleri, with whom she worked intensely until 2007 receiving numerous international awards, since 2008 she has embarked into a personal journey of production and experimental choreography, addressing her creations towards theory research studies with a strong dynamic impact.