Per artistə

By and with Vittorio Pagani
Original texts Vittorio Pagani
Dramaturgy assistant Pietro Angelini
Lighting design Stefano Moriondo
Executive production Equilibrio Dinamico 
With the support of the ResiDance action of the Network Anticorpi XL, with artistic residencies at Fondazione Armunia, Teatro Comunale di Vicenza and Lavanderia a Vapore

What does it mean to create dance nowadays? Can the creative act ignore personal experience? Vittorio Pagani questions the
being on stage, on the importance of icons and their destruction, and on the encounter between idealization and reality. SUPERSTELLA crystallizes a moment in the performer’s career that, looking at the road already traveled and the future path yet to be chart, reflects on the impact his profession has on his ife. This personal narrative has a broader dimension, however: being perceived by others during a journey of maturation opens the door to common frailties, moments of latent irony and paves the way for reflections on today’s world. Drawing inspiration from the stories of the great stars who have made art history and the myth of fame and celebrity, this performance combines text and dance in conversation with the poetics of Fellini, the icon reproduction studies of Richard Dyer and the world of Italian songwriting.

Vittorio Pagani, performer and choreographer, in his works investigates themes such as performativity and subversion. In 2018 he joined the Ballet Junior de Genève, while in 2021 he created the pas de deux “Around 5:65.” selected for the RIDCC2022 platform. He holds a Master’s degree in Expanded Dance Practice, earned in 2023 from the University of Arts London. At The Place London she creates “A Solo in the Spotlights.” a creation selected for Resolution2023, the Showcase of Young Dance d’auteur 2023 and Aerowaves 2024 and danced in numerous festivals Italy and Europe.

First research residency
A project by Anna Basti
Dramaturgical support Ariadne Mikou

An event that involves the whole community with whom it relates, a great celebration of people reclaiming their bodies and doing so by
do so by dancing in the folds of the cities, using a repertoire exclusionary and carrier of toxic narratives and practices, as a point
of departure to rewrite another possible real. An action of healing collective through the classical technique that excludes bodies or relegates them in the position of having to be more or less harassed in order to get as close as close as possible to a defined aesthetic model, triggering dynamics far removed from the understanding and discovery of the possibilities that each body in its diversity expresses.

Anna Basti begins the study of ballet at a very early age, until landing in Rome, where she graduated from the dance school of the Opera House. After working in the corps de ballet for a few months, she discovered contemporary dance and began working in Italy and abroad in several contemporary dance and physical theater companies.

by and with Elisa D’Amico, Francesco Dalmasso
sound Bikini Party | Alberto Papotto
with the support of Centro Nazionale di Produzione della Danza Virgilio Sieni e Fondazione CR Firenze – Bando Abitante 2021, ACS Abruzzo – Res Apolide 
residency support Officine Caos/Stalker Teatro, Lavanderia a Vapore/Fondazione Piemonte dal Vivo, Motore592, ALDES/SPAM! Rete per le arti contemporanee
executive production Zerogrammi

Towards is a project that investigates the concept, intention and action of going toward through photographic imagery, shared writings, bodies in action and moving sounds. What does it mean to go toward?What posture is necessary to allow us this movement? What positions of departure to consider? What movements, directions, paths to go toward? And what temporary landings to imagine? Sinking in this perspective, situates us in the motion, not necessarily linear, of how things transit into one another, of how things go towards one another.

Elisa D’Amico and Francesco Dalmasso met during their studies at ArtEZ Hogeschool voor de Kunsten (NL). With a background and core work as dancers and performers, their collaborative artistic practice also intertwines and questions research, making and curatorship. Starting from a specific object of interest they articulate thoughts, choreographic scores, relational bodies, dances. They are part of the platform shared training torino and co-curate the project Workspace Ricerca X_research & dramaturgy.

By Alexandrina Hemsley
In collaboration with Nancy Mae Roberts
As part of the Open Dialogo program, commissioned by Arts Council England, the Italian Ministry of Culture (The Performing Arts department), the Italian Cultural Institute of London and the British Council, to promote a bilateral cultural exchange through sharing of knowledge and experiences between Disabled and non-disabled artists and influencers working in England and Italy

How can dance and dance institutions repair a damaged personal and social body in times of supremacism and oppression? Yewande 103’s creative journey questions how to make the work of reparation-performed by artistic practitioners-valuable, sustainable, and meaningful, how to become organism-repairing, and what narratives need to be repaired, with and by whom.

Yewande 103 is one of the only black, disabled and neurodiverse dance organizations in the United Kingdom. The theme of repair is present in all of Yewande103’s live, film and participatory works. The team has significant experience in the arts and health; Yewande is the Yoruba middle name of Alexandrina Hemsley, handed down from her great-great-grandmother who escaped from slave traders.It means “mother has returned.” Intergenerational nurturing and survival are the ways in which Y103 upholds the values of care and connection.

Research path of Salvo Lombardo
Organisation Chiasma

The iceberg is an iridescent mass, solid and vulnerable at the same time; structurally compact but fluid. The iceberg is also the unravelling of a prejudicial deception: that is, it lends itself to recognisable emergencies in that display of its emerged part, of its expendable peaks; however, it is usually more its ‘deep’ nature that substantially characterises its bulk and power; this mass – beyond the visible – is an intricate relational warp.

Through a series of long recurring residencies over the course of 2024, Salvo Lombardo – associate artist of Lavanderia a Vapore – starts from the figure of the iceberg to articulate a discourse on the dramaturgy of dance and, in general, on the prototyping of an institutional dramaturgy. How can an artist and a space construct a network of visible and invisible interweavings, reciprocally crossing discourses, words, practices that inhabit the Lavanderia in order to affect the vision and future design trajectories of a possible institution.

Research path of Salvo Lombardo
Organisation Chiasma

The iceberg is an iridescent mass, solid and vulnerable at the same time; structurally compact but fluid. The iceberg is also the unravelling of a prejudicial deception: that is, it lends itself to recognisable emergencies in that display of its emerged part, of its expendable peaks; however, it is usually more its ‘deep’ nature that substantially characterises its bulk and power; this mass – beyond the visible – is an intricate relational warp.

Through a series of long recurring residencies over the course of 2024, Salvo Lombardo – associate artist of Lavanderia a Vapore – starts from the figure of the iceberg to articulate a discourse on the dramaturgy of dance and, in general, on the prototyping of an institutional dramaturgy. How can an artist and a space construct a network of visible and invisible interweavings, reciprocally crossing discourses, words, practices that inhabit the Lavanderia in order to affect the vision and future design trajectories of a possible institution.

Production partners ZA | DanceWorks, Ass. Art Garage – Naples, Ass. Cinqueminuti – Reggio Emilia
With the support of the Ministry of Culture and Emilia-Romagna Region
Support Anghiari Dance Hub – Anghiari (AR), Permutazioni – Zerogrammi/Casa Luft and Fondazione Piemonte dal Vivo – Turin, Performing Lands – Cuneo, PARC Performing Arts and Research Centre – Florence, Teatro Gioco Vita – Piacenza, Lavanderia a Vapore and Fondazione Piemonte dal Vivo

Subversive Bodies explores the dimension of clubbing and rituals of the night in LGBT+ culture and queer communities to understand the transformation of sociality and the role of the body today from three perspectives: socio-anthropological, performative, and dialogical. Theoretical research and artistic practice are focused on the role of the body in its political dimension in shaping identities and social processes, within a context in which, on the one hand, nightlife and gathering in entertainment spaces are increasingly restricted and in which, on the other hand, Gender Studies invest sociality with new issues.

Andrea Zardi has danced with Lyric Dance Company Daniele Albanese,Nicoletta Cabassi/Lubber Das, Artemis Danza, Daniele Ninarello, CIE Willy Dorner, Lyric Dance Company, Teatro Regio Torino, teatroComunale di Bologna, Teatro La Scala di Milano. He is also projectmanager of cultural actions in social and scientific research, has a PhD in interdisciplinary studies of dance and neuroaesthetics and currently collaborates with the University of Bologna. In 2023 Andrea joined the Creative Europe Program “Dancing Together, Again!” of the National Institute of Music and Dance(Poland), the Arts Research Institute (Georgia), Movimento Danza(Italy) and TRAFIK Dance/Theatre Company in Rijeka.

By Marine Nouvel
Accompanied by Géraldine Tatard and Morgane Brien-Hamdane
As part of the Nouveau Grand Tour program – in collaboration with Institut Français Italie and the Embassy of France in Italy

The human body as a shell that disintegrates to crawl on the ground, to merge with the environment, to find its place in the world. This sensitive magma becomes a ground and a cloak, a second skin for a group of dancers who choreograph this flesh in the form of a hybrid work.

Marine Nouvel, a multidisciplinary artist, through her performances, installations and sculptures, makes the body both a subject and an instrument. She explores bodily hybridization through art residencies and exhibitions around the world.

Géraldine Tatard is a choreographer, performer and photographer. She studied Tahitian dance, house dance and urban dance and over the years has developed a multidisciplinary practice applied to the performative act in its totality.

Morgane Brien-Hamdane is a dance artist-researcher, writer, and activist of French-Moroccan origin who theorizes and stages an intimate, amateur dance practice she calls “La Danse de Chambre.”

Concept and direction Silvia Rampelli
Dance Alessandra Cristiani, Eleonora Chiocchini, Valerio Sirna, Stefania Tansini
Production Tir Danza 2024/25
In collaboration with Lavanderia a Vapore, Armunia/Festival Inequilibrio

Investigating the perceptual dimension by triggering tensions in the concrete conditions of experience, in the transition from sensation to perception, from the given to the representation of the given. The residency constitutes the first nucleus of research for a short action, conceived as a single episode for Buffalo 2024 and a new creation for four figures, which identifies in the mode of action, time, space and theatrical light the possible vehicle for a critical movement of the fruition set-up, questioning the relationship with the real.

Silvia Rampelli has a degree in Philosophy and is a lecturer of the Master in Artiterapies at the University “La Sapienza” in Rome. Active in the performance scene and in theoretical and educational fields, with her works she has been produced by La Biennale di Venezia and invited to major festivals.

Resident Artists Marko Gutić Mižimakov, Hannah Krebs, Heike Langsdorf, Alice MacKenzie
Guest Silvia Bottiroli
Curating artists Francesco Dalmasso, Elisa D’Amico, Ambra Pittoni
With the support of Culture Moves Europe – a project funded by the European Union and implemented by the Goethe Institut

With making more room for critical thinking, Workspace Research X activates and cultivates a research environment as a space in which to collectively ignite and practice critical thinking. The circulation of knowledge, methods, formats, practices and materials is what continues to distinguish this environment, in which walls are forced open to further open space for discursive reflection and critical confrontation among peers, to bring out frictions, to establish new confidences with unthought-of thoughts.
The project, aimed until now mainly at Italian artists, takes on a dimension of exclusively international participation this year, in a mixture of approaches to research that shape and redefine a dedicated space outside the academic context.

Workspace Research X – Research & Dramaturgy is a platform for the development and support of artistic research and dramaturgy in the field of choreography and performance. Established in 2016 with the aim of opening avenues for the development and legitimization of artistic research in the Italian context, it is positioned in dialogue with Northern European models and is aimed at professionals in the field of dance and performing arts.

Concept and direction Masako Matsushita
Dramaturgical collaboration and external eye Gaia Clotilde Chernetich
Performer Aurelio Di Virgilio
Creative producer Stefania Mangano
Bando AiR 2024

An inquiry into the political significance of textiles and those who dress in them, in light of the current instrumental debate about the female body. Dressing up and stripping off the same clothes to reappropriate a human identity – hybrid and natural – in which to find oneself free to embody one’s life force beyond stereotypes. In this new version of the work, Aurelio Di Virgilio is the dancer: the naked male body in front of the power of the image rediscovers wonder and beauty, reconstructs the frame and the canvas, of which it once again becomes a conscious protagonist.

Masako Matsushita, an Italian-Japanese artist, works on movement analysis through research processes, choreographic projects, performance installations and community interaction. She crosses borders and cultures with her works, actively collaborating in choreographic and authorial direction within European projects.