Date: December 13, 2024 - December 15, 2024
Location: Italy
About the show
Frammenti di Infinito is a dance performance in three acts. It was ignited by the encounter with the controversial figure of the Italian writer Pier Paolo Pasolini. Exploring his vast poetic corpus, Aristide Rontini chooses the image of the firefly, an intermittent presence in the author’s writings, to explore proximities and distances within Pasolini’s way of thinking. The faint presence of this nocturnal creature embodies a powerful force which differs from most contemporary approaches to the dimension of the experience as they are spread by our media and consumer oriented culture. In the first act, Lampyris Noctiluca, the vibrant yet strong dance of Rontini generates a flow of images and gestures aimed at deconstructing the dominant discourses regarding his disabled body. In the second act, Back Eye Black, the dazzling spotlights impact on the presence onstage of three performers who find themselves involved in a relational apocalypse. Finally, common people are the protagonists of the last act, “Corporale”, whose pulsating center is the possibility to experience the community as an act of acceptance and resistance.
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December 13, 2024 h19
December 14, 2024 h21:30
December 15, 2024 h18
Teatro Arena del Sole
Bologna, Italy
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Credits
Choreography and Direction: Aristide Rontini
Performer: Silvia Brazzale, Cristian Cucco, Orlando Izzo, Aristide Rontini and with the partecipation of people from the local community of Bologna
Original Music: Vittorio Giampietro
Dramaturg: Gaia Clotilde Chernetich
Light Designer: Giulia Pastore and Angelo Generali
Costume: Aristide Rontini and Orlando Izzo for “Back Eye Black”
Co-produced by: Emilia Romagna Teatro / Teatro Nazionale, Oriente Occidente within the European project Europe Beyond Access co-financed by Creative Europe and Nexus Factory
With the support of Masque Teatro, Versiliadanza, Onassis AiR within the European project Europe Beyond Access co-financed by Creative Europe, Progetto Residenze Artistiche 2022/2023 Area Cultura / Municipality of Imola (BO), Danza Urbana – Rete h(abita)t / Muvet and Northern School of Contemporary Dance
“Back Eye Black” was supported by Open Dialogo, a bilateral cultural exchange project managed by Stopgap Dance Company and commissioned by Arts Council England, the Italian Ministry of Culture (The Performing Arts department), the Italian Cultural Institute of London and the British Council.”
Aristide Rontini
Aristide Rontini is a performer, choreographer and community dance practitioner.
In 2010 he graduated from the Rotterdam Dance Academy where he danced in works by Conny Janssen, Micheal Schumacher and Georg Reischl.
As a freelance performer he danced in works by several italian coreographers and companies.
Since 2016 he has been taking part in several European projects aimed at supporting artists with disabilities and accessibility: “Moving Beyond Inclusion” “Impart” and “EBA – Europe Beyond Access.”
As a dance artist he is interested in questioning the dimension of identity and in the body both as an archive of cultural traces and as a generator of new perceptions. His artistic research investigates the body as a place where different social and cultural stratifications intersect and from which to start deconstructing dominant narratives.