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Project Stefania Tansini
With the support of Mosaico Danza, Lavanderia a Vapore

Moving through different spaces is part of our everyday life, we do it effortlessly and we let places influence our being. Stefania Tansini wants to investigate the relationship between places and the human figure: how the body, in its dancing state, relates to the places it inhabits and in turn is influenced by them in postures and dynamics.
Studies for M, are preliminary experiments of this research path. Workshops, interventions in nature or urban places, moments of working in the room, rehearsals with professional dancers or dancers, and periods of theoretical study. Within these initial activities resides the choreographic project, a dance production contaminated and influenced by the rich store of encounters, stimuli, research and experience.

Stefania Tansini – Ubu Award 2022 as best actress/performer under35 – is a graduate of the Paolo Grassi Academy. She has worked as a dancer for Romeo Castellucci, Cindy Van Acker, Simona Bertozzi, Luca Veggetti, Enzo Cosimi, Ariella Vidach. She also collaborates with Motus. She has embarked on an authorial path of research on the body, which she pursues through choreographic projects and collaboration with other artists.

Photo Giulia Lenzi

Concept and performance Angela Rabaglio et Micaël Florentz
Sound composition Micaël Florentz and Daniel Bleikolm
Light design & stage design Arnaud Gerniers | Costume design: Catherine Somers
Technical direction Yorrick Detroy | Sound engineer: (in progress)
Outside eyes (in progress) Marion Sage, Garance Maillot (internship)
Production Tumbleweed
Administration Camille Collard
Distribution and Communication Quentin Legrand (Rue Branly)
Residency partners Charleroi Danse – La Raffinierie (BE), Grand Studio (BE), STAMM (CH), Villa Cléa (IT), Théâtre Varia (BE), Studio Thor (BE), Tanzhaus Zuerich (CH), Lavanderia a Vapore (IT), Dansomètre (CH), Châteauvallon-Liberté (FR), Dampfzentrale Bern (CH)
Co-production Charleroi Danse (BE), Théatre les Tanneurs (BE), Le Triangle Rennes (FR)
This project is supported by the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles – contrat de création 2024-2026

THRESHOLD is thought as a choreographic duet, scattered in time, where two performers will take turns on stage without ever physically meeting each other. Like two detached phases of the same signal. In this process, they interact between two distinct scores, linked to each other by a residual effect. The relationship between the two no longer embodies a center but is revealed only by the cutting line that separates them, and by the echoes of space and time. THRESHOLD is a piece stretched into the void, a reminder of the essential role of the environment in the emergence of any form of relationship.

Founded in 2017 by the Franco-Swiss artist and choreographer duo Angela Rabaglio and Micaël Florentz, Tumbleweed is a movement company based in Brussels and Zurich. The confluence of their very different artistic backgrounds is first and foremost a way for them to confront each other in a different way, to question their own realities, and to explore new territories for artistic research. Through constant dialoguing, inspired as much by their travels, science and philosophy as by their physical, technical and artistic curiosities, they develop their own understanding of movement, the body and its language.
Alongside Tumbleweed’s own projects, Angela Rabaglio and Micaël Florentz also work as outside eyes for other companies involved in research/creation, and have been giving workshops for professionals, amateurs and young audiences since the start of their activities.

Traces on the theme of eternity

By Francesca Cinalli and Paolo De Santis
Research trajectory “The ritual body ”
with Elena Pisu, Francesca Cinalli, Paolo De Santis
accompaniment to the vision Nunzia Tirelli
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.”

The τέχνη – téchne project is a shared and collaborative training course led by light designer Gianni Staropoli. The participants, starting from their own artistic project in the making, will have the opportunity to plumb visions and practical notions related to the components of light and space, in order to read and understand light not as a technical datum to be configured in the final stage of the artistic product, but as an alphabetic element and signifying dimension to be thought of in nuce in the phase of the creative process, as a layering of the dramaturgy of the project.

Giulia Cannas | No caption needed
“No caption needed” is an investigation of the body and its ability to express meanings that transcend the barriers of language. The research moves from the themes of marginality and suburbs, places that often generate urgent, authentic and powerful identities. Dance becomes a form of cultural and social protest, it is a poetic and political act moved by a generative anger typical of* young people in revolt raised in disadvantaged environments, transforming it into vital energy and driving force for change. The proposed fragment represents a moment in which body language opens up to a more pronounced contamination, recalling elements of street dance. This segment is accompanied by two sound tracks by queer artist Iceboy Violet, which amplify the emotional intensity and narrative force of the scene. An anger emerges in the body that is expressed through strong gestures and slashes, as if to break in and break the surrounding space.

Vincent Giampino | Schau
In “umlaut,” the theater is the re-choreography of the embedded symbolic, a press for self-demolition. One of the choreographic tools used is quoting, a means of reassembly that places the performer out of chronological time and operates as a dieresis on the bodily genealogy, since the origin is a continuous discard or, better said, the body is a continuous referencing of discards in asynchrony. Schau ( exhibition, exposition, performance) is one of the two derivations of the umlaut project and places an umlaut on ‘bowing, an act of bending to someone, a gesture that enshrines the beginning and the end of a moment, the welcoming and the parting, the thanksgiving and the forgiveness, the request for grace and the surrender to condemnation.

The training project Annotazioni Superficiali, curated by Enrico Malatesta – percussionist, researcher and sound artist – is aimed at investigating sound and the dynamics of listening, applied to the field of performing, sound and visual arts, dance and theater.

The residency course, scheduled from Jan. 27 to Jan. 31, is based on the study of the relationship between body, sound and space and adopts as its field of investigation the building, the configuration of Lavanderia a Vapore‘s large spaces (exterior and interior) and its urban graft. The residency will be an intensive space-time and will include a theoretical part – based on the proposal of stimuli that open the dialogue to the sociocultural, artistic and ecological implications of the use of sound in public and scenic space – and a practical part of active listening exercises that invite participants to investigate the relationship between sound, space and body.

The artists selected for the 2025 call are Giulia Bocciero, Giorgia Briguglio, Alessandra Cocorullo, Michela Depetris, Teodora Grano, Chiara Maria Lucisano, Marica Mastromarino, Chiara Maria Pagano, Lucia Paulis, Giuditta Re, Agostino Rocca and Ornella Trespidi.

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.

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.

Traces on the theme of eternity

By Francesca Cinalli and Paolo De Santis
Research trajectory “The ritual body ”
with Elena Pisu, Francesca Cinalli, Paolo De Santis
accompaniment to the vision Nunzia Tirelli
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

By Francesca Cinalli and Paolo De Santis
Research trajectory “The ritual body ”
with Elena Pisu, Francesca Cinalli, Paolo De Santis
accompaniment to the vision Nunzia Tirelli
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.”

by Aristide Rontini 

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

The original inspiration for the research is the image of the firefly evoked in “L’articolo delle lucciole”, contained in Pierpaolo Pasolini’s “Scritti Corsari.” The organic body of the firefly is a source of faint, intermittent glow in the night. By metaphor, people can also “light up” if placed in the condition of having access to their sensations and emotions. The bodily practice at the center of the research becomes a means of entering one’s personal archive of postures, relational dynamics, gestures and positioning, sometimes unconscious, to investigate what facilitates or hinders the formation of a community in which bodies are no longer hierarchical. We ask: How is it possible to activate this perceptual dimension of listening and relating in the group? How to facilitate the creation of a choreographic score capable of generating a more equitable, sustainable, accessible, authentic and vibrant community imaginary?

Aristide Rontini is a choreographer, performer and community dance artist based in Imola, Italy. He graduated from Codarts – Rotterdam Dance Academy. His works have been programmed by Italian and international festivals and theaters such as Oriente Ovest, ERT – Emilia Romagna Teatro, Holland Dance Festival and Gender Bender. He has been commissioned works by Introdans and Skånes Dansteater. He has been involved with and received support from international institutions and projects focused on the development of performing arts created by artists with disabilities such as Europe Beyond Access. As a dancer, he has collaborated with Simona Bertozzi, Michela Lucenti/Balletto Civile, Candoco Dance Company, Alessandro Schialarella/BewegGrund, Angélica Liddell, Carl Olof Berg/Spinn, Varna Badalyan, and Diego Tortelli/Aterballetto. In 2020, together with other Italian artists with disabilities, he founded Al.di.Qua. Artisti, the first association to defend the autonomy and rights of artists with disabilities in Italy.

Project Stefania Tansini
With the support of Mosaico Danza, Lavanderia a Vapore

Moving through different spaces is part of our everyday life, we do it effortlessly and we let places influence our being. Stefania Tansini wants to investigate the relationship between places and the human figure: how the body, in its dancing state, relates to the places it inhabits and in turn is influenced by them in postures and dynamics.
Studies for M, are preliminary experiments of this research path. Workshops, interventions in nature or urban places, moments of working in the room, rehearsals with professional dancers or dancers, and periods of theoretical study. Within these initial activities resides the choreographic project, a dance production contaminated and influenced by the rich store of encounters, stimuli, research and experience.

Stefania Tansini – Ubu Award 2022 as best actress/performer under35 – is a graduate of the Paolo Grassi Academy. She has worked as a dancer for Romeo Castellucci, Cindy Van Acker, Simona Bertozzi, Luca Veggetti, Enzo Cosimi, Ariella Vidach. She also collaborates with Motus. She has embarked on an authorial path of research on the body, which she pursues through choreographic projects and collaboration with other artists.

Photo Giulia Lenzi

Project Stefania Tansini
With the support of Mosaico Danza, Lavanderia a Vapore

Moving through different spaces is part of our everyday life, we do it effortlessly and we let places influence our being. Stefania Tansini wants to investigate the relationship between places and the human figure: how the body, in its dancing state, relates to the places it inhabits and in turn is influenced by them in postures and dynamics.
Studies for M, are preliminary experiments of this research path. Workshops, interventions in nature or urban places, moments of working in the room, rehearsals with professional dancers or dancers, and periods of theoretical study. Within these initial activities resides the choreographic project, a dance production contaminated and influenced by the rich store of encounters, stimuli, research and experience.

Stefania Tansini – Ubu Award 2022 as best actress/performer under35 – is a graduate of the Paolo Grassi Academy. She has worked as a dancer for Romeo Castellucci, Cindy Van Acker, Simona Bertozzi, Luca Veggetti, Enzo Cosimi, Ariella Vidach. She also collaborates with Motus. She has embarked on an authorial path of research on the body, which she pursues through choreographic projects and collaboration with other artists.

Photo Giulia Lenzi