ALLORO_VARIETÀ AUREA

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.”