Duration 50 minutes

Choreography Fabrizio Favale
Set First Rose
Dancers Daniele Bianco, Daniel Cantero, Pietro Conti Milani, Giacomo De Luca, Claudia Gesmundo, Mirko Paparusso, Andrea Rizzo, Daniel Tosseghini, Po-Nien Wang
Music Fennesz, James Holden, Dark Morph, Nathan Fake, Team Ghost, Jónsi & Alex
Co-production Festival MilanOltre, KLm – Kinkaleri / Le Supplici / mk
Supported by MIBAC / Regione Emilia-Romagna / Regione Lombardia and Fondazione Cariplo for the project Next
In collaboration with h(abita)t – Rete di Spazi per la Danza / Sementerie Artistiche, Crevalcore / Teatro Consorziale di Budrio
Created at DAS Bologna / Teatro Duse Bologna
Thanks to Teatro Duse Bologna, for the kind concession of the spaces

Work selected by NID – Platform 2024

With this work the group delves into a theme that has long been investigated and is the source of invention of several works: the animal presence and our relationship with it.
The animal presence has always ignited the human imagination and seems to mysteriously relate to dreams. But it also seems to suggest new senses of space and time, new languages, impossible intelligences of forms and movement.
From these assumptions this work moves in search of abstractions of movement that seem to belong to worlds other than the human one.
The enigmatic aerial rotation of a super-light aluminum backdrop moved by the performers at the beginning of the performance, introduces us to vast horizons of unknown landscapes. Here a succession of dances appears and disappears from a foggy distance, set on fire by a light in the background.
Often the dancers work closely gathered in a plot made of interweavings, condensing atmospheres that are sometimes rhythmic and tribal, sometimes rarefied and ethereal.
In Alce zoomorphic figures (some inspired by archaic popular tradition, others invented) punctuate the flow of the choreography, as in an enigmatic dialogue from afar.