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Traces on the theme of eternity

choreographic contemplations Francesca Cinalli
sound contemplations Paolo De Santis
performers Elena Pisu and Francesca Cinalli
accompaniment to the vision Nunzia Tirelli
with the participation of Ornella Bavaro, Salvo Cascione, Antonella Quitadamo, Andreea Crivoi, Chiara Cardona, Sabrina Boarino
with vision facilitation by Erica Pianalto
video art curated by Filippo Maria Pontiggia

Research trajectory The Ritual Body
Production Philosophical Technology
with the support of Lavanderia a Vapore, Cross Festival

In Alloro_varietà aurea, forms are elusive: they transform, feed on inner light, wander inside the palaces of memory, become living sculptures. They are idols, icons, totems and tabernacles shining in the darkness, trying to challenge eternity. This is why they are poetic objects, caskets to be consigned to the evocative power of sound: they hold stones that, molded and exposed to light, become spirit and remind us of that need of ours to mythologize the real and reappropriate the fantastic, in the intuition that “absence and presence are the two forms of eternity” (F.Mauriac).

Francesca Cinalli – dancer, choreographer – and Paolo De Santis – musician, percussionist – within the Turin-based collective Tecnologia Filosofica walk a personal research trajectory “Il Corpo Rituale.” Cinalli is a Diplomate of IAT-GONG Biennial School of Music Dance Theater of the Peoples of Genoa; De Santis composes original soundscapes for theater and dance ranging from electro-acoustic to field recording.
They have been collaborating with cultural institutions in Italy and abroad since 2008.
Since 2017 they have been collaborating with French-Japanese artist A. Atoyama Cie Atou of Lyon for the creations “Hydden Body” and “Limpid Sun/Triennale d’Arte Setouchi Japan 2019.” Collaborated with Iranian film director Milad Tangshir for the VR film Hydrocosmos with the support of Fondazione Piemonte dal Vivo and Museo del Cinema di Torino. Selected for Crossing The Sea 2019 call and Air 2019 call for creation “Sinfonia H2O,” Cura 2022 call for creation “Eco del Mondo.”

concept and direction Teodora Grano
with Teodora Grano
with the support of CollettivO CineticO
with the support of Lavanderia a Vapore, Armunia Teatro
project realized with the contribution of ResiDance – places and residency projects for choreographic creations – action of Network Rete Anticorpi XL

The research takes shape through an assemblage and copy-paste of horror film fragments to explore the concept of the horror genre as a dismembered body and to analyze, challenge, confront, overturn and reinvent the cultural mythology of femininity and gender in relation to monstrosity.
The dismembered and reassembled body becomes a new body: a landscape, no longer an “organic whole” but a monstrous form, creating a space of possible incorporation of desires, ambivalences, fears and pressures that come out into the open.
Mixing film criticism, fandom, feminist analysis, anecdotes of film productions, unsolicited opinions, biographical stories and news events, horror is evoked as a vital and ambiguous presence, as a power that constitutes a break with the everyday world, transgressing its boundaries and questioning the validity of rationality.

Performer and author, Teodora Grano is active in projects of the contemporary circus and dance scene. She has collaborated with Studio Matejka/Grotowski Institut in Conflict of apathy and HPP-Polska (Wroclaw), Katarina Brestovanska/Nowy Priestor in Kali un-suspended reality (Bratislava), Kai Evans/the KEE Ensemble in Use you head! (Berlin). She collaborated as author of texts and assistant director for Piergiorgio Milano in WHITE OUT. She currently works as a dancer for CollettivO CineticO. She leads movement training and aerial disciplines in Italy, Greece, Poland.

curated by Francesca Cinalli and Paolo De Santis
research trajectory Il Corpo Rituale 
with the participation of Elena Pisu and Nunzia Tirelli

Artist Residencies at School are creative processes that can nurture the artist’s own research on the one hand, and the creativity of the participating communities on the other. For this reason, Lavanderia a Vapore proposes a meeting between the school and the artistic sector, in which the work is shared and expanded from the very considerations of the students.  

First traces of a research on the theme of eternity, starting with the element Gold: symbol of a mythical time of abundance and prosperity and archetype of light and vision. The research ranges between art, myth, ritual and play. In the play of assonances, the word Laurel, an evergreen plant, emerges, moving from the mythology of Apollo and Daphne to a variety of creations of totemic objects and magical-sacred spaces. The artistic residency with the students of the First High School of Art in Turin will be an opportunity to share potions of glows, creative sparks and imaginary constellations that will expand and nourish the field of research entitled Alloro_varietà aurea.

Francesca Cinalli and Paolo De Santis Since 2015, the field of research on Il Corpo Rituale has expanded thanks to workshops in high school institutes in the City of Turin, Italy and abroad aimed at young people and adolescents. This time has facilitated, in 2016, the birth of the Campi Creativi project aimed at young people under 25: short artistic residencies in which to train themselves to be in the world through an important baggage of experiences and a curious look at contemporary languages.
Since 2023, as part of the Campi Creativi project, the idea of proposing at the Lavanderia a Vapore the Campi Gravitazionali path was born, realizing in collaboration with Lavanderia a cycle of micro-residencies aimed at young people interested in sharing a time of observation, exploration, and study of the unfolding processes of the artists and guest communities. The aim is to cultivate among young people an interest in contemporary languages by meeting artists in the study and creation phase, in order to rework in practice the themes and modes of expression encountered.
Since 2022, the artists have collaborated with Lavanderia for the Forever Young project within the Media Dance, School of Wish and School Artist Residency tracks.

Traces on the theme of eternity

choreographic contemplations Francesca Cinalli
sound contemplations Paolo De Santis
performers Elena Pisu and Francesca Cinalli
accompaniment to the vision Nunzia Tirelli
with the participation of Ornella Bavaro, Salvo Cascione, Antonella Quitadamo, Andreea Crivoi, Chiara Cardona, Sabrina Boarino
with vision facilitation by Erica Pianalto
video art curated by Filippo Maria Pontiggia

Research trajectory The Ritual Body
Production Philosophical Technology
with the support of Lavanderia a Vapore, Cross Festival

In Alloro_varietà aurea, forms are elusive: they transform, feed on inner light, wander inside the palaces of memory, become living sculptures. They are idols, icons, totems and tabernacles shining in the darkness, trying to challenge eternity. This is why they are poetic objects, caskets to be consigned to the evocative power of sound: they hold stones that, molded and exposed to light, become spirit and remind us of that need of ours to mythologize the real and reappropriate the fantastic, in the intuition that “absence and presence are the two forms of eternity” (F.Mauriac).

Francesca Cinalli – dancer, choreographer – and Paolo De Santis – musician, percussionist – within the Turin-based collective Tecnologia Filosofica walk a personal research trajectory “Il Corpo Rituale.” Cinalli is a Diplomate of IAT-GONG Biennial School of Music Dance Theater of the Peoples of Genoa; De Santis composes original soundscapes for theater and dance ranging from electro-acoustic to field recording.
They have been collaborating with cultural institutions in Italy and abroad since 2008.
Since 2017 they have been collaborating with French-Japanese artist A. Atoyama Cie Atou of Lyon for the creations “Hydden Body” and “Limpid Sun/Triennale d’Arte Setouchi Japan 2019.” Collaborated with Iranian film director Milad Tangshir for the VR film Hydrocosmos with the support of Fondazione Piemonte dal Vivo and Museo del Cinema di Torino. Selected for Crossing The Sea 2019 call and Air 2019 call for creation “Sinfonia H2O,” Cura 2022 call for creation “Eco del Mondo.”

Traces on the theme of eternity

choreographic contemplations Francesca Cinalli
sound contemplations Paolo De Santis
performers Elena Pisu and Francesca Cinalli
accompaniment to the vision Nunzia Tirelli
with the participation of Ornella Bavaro, Salvo Cascione, Antonella Quitadamo, Andreea Crivoi, Chiara Cardona, Sabrina Boarino
with vision facilitation by Erica Pianalto
video art curated by Filippo Maria Pontiggia

Research trajectory The Ritual Body
Production Philosophical Technology
with the support of Lavanderia a Vapore, Cross Festival

In Alloro_varietà aurea, forms are elusive: they transform, feed on inner light, wander inside the palaces of memory, become living sculptures. They are idols, icons, totems and tabernacles shining in the darkness, trying to challenge eternity. This is why they are poetic objects, caskets to be consigned to the evocative power of sound: they hold stones that, molded and exposed to light, become spirit and remind us of that need of ours to mythologize the real and reappropriate the fantastic, in the intuition that “absence and presence are the two forms of eternity” (F.Mauriac).

Francesca Cinalli – dancer, choreographer – and Paolo De Santis – musician, percussionist – within the Turin-based collective Tecnologia Filosofica walk a personal research trajectory “Il Corpo Rituale.” Cinalli is a Diplomate of IAT-GONG Biennial School of Music Dance Theater of the Peoples of Genoa; De Santis composes original soundscapes for theater and dance ranging from electro-acoustic to field recording.
They have been collaborating with cultural institutions in Italy and abroad since 2008.
Since 2017 they have been collaborating with French-Japanese artist A. Atoyama Cie Atou of Lyon for the creations “Hydden Body” and “Limpid Sun/Triennale d’Arte Setouchi Japan 2019.” Collaborated with Iranian film director Milad Tangshir for the VR film Hydrocosmos with the support of Fondazione Piemonte dal Vivo and Museo del Cinema di Torino. Selected for Crossing The Sea 2019 call and Air 2019 call for creation “Sinfonia H2O,” Cura 2022 call for creation “Eco del Mondo.”

in collaboration with Black History Month Torino and Unione Italiana Persone Cieche e Ipovedenti Torino
curated by associazione Donne Africa Subsahariana e II Generazione
with the support of Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo

Dark MatterS is a short-form festival that takes place at the turn of the winter season, connoting itself as a ritual that celebrates darkness as a space-time in which to learn to see the present and future with other lenses. Not a zone of fear then, but an opportunity to question the Enlightenment paradigm and decolonize the senses by subverting the primacy of vision and logic. The title alludes not only to dark matter, but also to the importance of darkness in revolutionizing the lenses through which we filter and narrate the world by interweaving in an intersectional sense, issues of blindness and blackness and thus mobilizing communities and artists often marginalized and invisibilized because of issues of race or access.

These reversals are not only thematized but translated into operational choices: in fact, the project is developed together with Black History Month Torino and Unione Italiana Persone Ciech e Ipovedenti and includes performances, workshops and moments of reflection that feature artists with disabilities and/or Afrodescendants. The program invites direct experience of darkness by translating the question into collective, experiential moments and aesthetic proposals that land in the body the change of vision intended to be generated with this event.

This edition in particular, inscribing itself in a season entitled Arcane Motions, insists on the dynamics of subtraction from vision, appearance and disappearance, which intersects the power of magical.

performance by Francesca Cinalli and Paolo De Santis – Compagnia Tecnologia Filosofica
with Elena Pisu
with the support of Lavanderia a Vapore and Cross Festival 

In Alloro_varietà aurea, forms are elusive: they transform, feed on inner light, wander inside the palaces of memory, become living sculptures. They are idols, icons, totems and tabernacles shining in the darkness, trying to challenge eternity. This is why they are poetic objects, caskets to be consigned to the evocative power of sound: they hold stones that, molded and exposed to light, become spirit and remind us of that need of ours to mythologize the real and reappropriate the fantastic, in the intuition that “absence and presence are the two forms of eternity” (F.Mauriac).

Francesca Cinalli – dancer, choreographer – and Paolo De Santis – musician, percussionist – within the Turin-based collective Tecnologia Filosofica walk a personal research trajectory “Il Corpo Rituale.” Cinalli is a Diplomate of IAT-GONG Biennial School of Music Dance Theater of the Peoples of Genoa; De Santis composes original soundscapes for theater and dance ranging from electro-acoustic to field recording.
They have been collaborating with cultural institutions in Italy and abroad since 2008.
Since 2017 they have been collaborating with French-Japanese artist A. Atoyama Cie Atou of Lyon for the creations “Hydden Body” and “Limpid Sun/Triennale d’Arte Setouchi Japan 2019.” Collaborated with Iranian film director Milad Tangshir for the VR film Hydrocosmos with the support of Fondazione Piemonte dal Vivo and Museo del Cinema di Torino. Selected for Crossing The Sea 2019 call and Air 2019 call for creation “Sinfonia H2O,” Cura 2022 call for creation “Eco del Mondo.”

Participatory installation curated by Eugenia Coscarella and Kadri Sirel

In the heart of the winter festival, a small corner made of powders, herbs, flowers, roots, liquid vapors and other mysterious ingredients, to be mixed into a fragrance, to create a liquid memory of our experience in the dark. What is the fragrance of Dark Matters?

In collaboration with Unione Italiana Ciechi e Ipovedenti Torino and Renken Association

To discover that sight is not everything, an apericena served in the dark, by blind and visually impaired people. To treat oneself to a break, to devote to oneself or to experience with one’s friends. To share – albeit in the space of a few minutes – the daily experience of people with visual impairments, sensing their struggles, but also their unsuspected resources. To explore the world also by relying on the other senses.

Concept, artistic direction, choreography, music and light design Dalila Belaza
Creation of the character-matter Jeanne Vicérial
Interpretation Dalila Belaza
Cover of character-matter Aragorn Boulanger
Light management Alexandre Barthélémy
Sound management Tristan Viscogliosi
Production hiya compagnie – Jour association and Fondation d’entreprise Hermès with New Settings program
Co-production La Briqueterie – CDCN du Val de Marne in open studio/the Ministry of Culture / DRAC IDF; Charleroi Danse – Centre chorégraphique de la Fédération Wallonie – Brussels; CCN – Ballet National de Marseille; Les SUBS – Lieu Vivant d’Expériences Artistiques, Lyon
With the support of DRAC Ile-de-France ; Région Ile-de-France; Département du Val-de-Marne
Residencies La Briqueterie – CDCN du Val de Marne; Montévidéo – Centre d’art; Charleroi Danse; Les Brigittines, Brussels

Tickets available on Vivaticket.com

The performance will be poetically audio-described live by Camilla Guarino and Giuseppe Comuniello

Performer and choreographer Dalila Belaza explores an intimate, mysterious and unchanging narrative in this solo. Developed at the same time as the group plays Au Cœur and Rive, Figures‘ solo project-an imaginary ceremony that interrogates the origins of contemporaneity-may represent as much the end result of a quest as its most essential component.
In an atmosphere where the intimate mingles with human history, a mysterious “character-matter” emerges that transcends space: body and dance emerge from the mists of time, from metaphorical storytelling to letting go, at the boundaries of materiality and without ever referring to a specific tradition. Fluid and seemingly abstract, dressed in a costume that seems borderless, transported by subliminal lights and soundscapes, this body given to the unconscious belongs to all communities of humanity.

Dalila Belaza began her movement research as a performer and artistic partner of her sister, choreographer Nacera Belaza. During a trip to the Aveyron region in 2019, she met the folk dance group Lous Castelous and decided to explore a new world as a choreographer and performer, creating a space for herself, hiya compagnie. The company’s first three productions – Au coeur, Figures and Rive – form a coherent path that extends from a deep intellectual exploration that Belaza began well before founding the company. His imagination, an inexhaustible well of meanings, imbues his works with the same underlying intention: to create meeting points between the memory of folk rituals and the vocabulary of contemporary dance, to bring forth a third territory, in which dance becomes a universal and timeless language.

performance by Francesca Cinalli and Paolo De Santis – Compagnia Tecnologia Filosofica
with Elena Pisu
with the support of Lavanderia a Vapore and Cross Festival 

In Alloro_varietà aurea, forms are elusive: they transform, feed on inner light, wander inside the palaces of memory, become living sculptures. They are idols, icons, totems and tabernacles shining in the darkness, trying to challenge eternity. This is why they are poetic objects, caskets to be consigned to the evocative power of sound: they hold stones that, molded and exposed to light, become spirit and remind us of that need of ours to mythologize the real and reappropriate the fantastic, in the intuition that “absence and presence are the two forms of eternity” (F.Mauriac).

Francesca Cinalli – dancer, choreographer – and Paolo De Santis – musician, percussionist – within the Turin-based collective Tecnologia Filosofica walk a personal research trajectory “Il Corpo Rituale.” Cinalli is a Diplomate of IAT-GONG Biennial School of Music Dance Theater of the Peoples of Genoa; De Santis composes original soundscapes for theater and dance ranging from electro-acoustic to field recording.
They have been collaborating with cultural institutions in Italy and abroad since 2008.
Since 2017 they have been collaborating with French-Japanese artist A. Atoyama Cie Atou of Lyon for the creations “Hydden Body” and “Limpid Sun/Triennale d’Arte Setouchi Japan 2019.” Collaborated with Iranian film director Milad Tangshir for the VR film Hydrocosmos with the support of Fondazione Piemonte dal Vivo and Museo del Cinema di Torino. Selected for Crossing The Sea 2019 call and Air 2019 call for creation “Sinfonia H2O,” Cura 2022 call for creation “Eco del Mondo.”

performance by Francesca Cinalli and Paolo De Santis – Compagnia Tecnologia Filosofica
with Elena Pisu
with the support of Lavanderia a Vapore and Cross Festival 

In Alloro_varietà aurea, forms are elusive: they transform, feed on inner light, wander inside the palaces of memory, become living sculptures. They are idols, icons, totems and tabernacles shining in the darkness, trying to challenge eternity. This is why they are poetic objects, caskets to be consigned to the evocative power of sound: they hold stones that, molded and exposed to light, become spirit and remind us of that need of ours to mythologize the real and reappropriate the fantastic, in the intuition that “absence and presence are the two forms of eternity” (F.Mauriac).

Francesca Cinalli – dancer, choreographer – and Paolo De Santis – musician, percussionist – within the Turin-based collective Tecnologia Filosofica walk a personal research trajectory “Il Corpo Rituale.” Cinalli is a Diplomate of IAT-GONG Biennial School of Music Dance Theater of the Peoples of Genoa; De Santis composes original soundscapes for theater and dance ranging from electro-acoustic to field recording.
They have been collaborating with cultural institutions in Italy and abroad since 2008.
Since 2017 they have been collaborating with French-Japanese artist A. Atoyama Cie Atou of Lyon for the creations “Hydden Body” and “Limpid Sun/Triennale d’Arte Setouchi Japan 2019.” Collaborated with Iranian film director Milad Tangshir for the VR film Hydrocosmos with the support of Fondazione Piemonte dal Vivo and Museo del Cinema di Torino. Selected for Crossing The Sea 2019 call and Air 2019 call for creation “Sinfonia H2O,” Cura 2022 call for creation “Eco del Mondo.”