7:00pm, repeat 9:30pm
invented by Alessandro Sciarroni / with Gianmaria Borzillo and Giovanfrancesco Giannini / artistic collaboration Giancarlo Stagni / music Aurora Bauzà and Pere Jou (Telemann Rec.) / costumes Ettore Lombardi / technical direction Valeria Foti / promotion, advice, development Lisa Gilardino / management, executive production Chiara Fava / communication Damien Modolo
a corpoceleste_C.C.00#, MARCHE TEATRO Teatro di Rilevante Interesse Culturale production Santarcangelo Festival, B.Motion, Festival Danza Urbana co-production
In Save the last dance for me Alessandro Sciarroni works with dancers Gianmaria Borzillo and Giovanfrancesco Giannini on the steps of a Bolognese dance known as the Polka Chinata, a courting dance dating back to the early 20th century and originally performed by men alone. In this physically demanding, almost acrobatic dance, the dancers embrace one another, whirling dizzily as they bend their knees almost to the ground. The project is the child of a collaboration with Giancarlo Stagni, a master of Filuzziani dancing who has breathed new life into this ancient tradition thanks to his rediscovery and study of certain documentary videos dating back to the 1960s. Sciarroni discovered this dance in December 2018, at a time when it was practised in Italy by only five people. That is why the project consists of a performance executed by the two dancers and of a cycle of workshops designed to disseminate and to breathe new life into this dying popular tradition.
Alessandro Sciarroni is an Italian artist who works in the performing arts environment but who trained in the sphere of the visual arts and theatrical research. His work transcends formal definition and is hosted at festivals, in museums and in unconventional spaces throughout Europe, the United States, Canada, Brasil, Uruguay and Asia. He involves artists from different disciplines in his creations, embracing the techniques of dance, the circus and sport. His work uses the repetition of a practice taken to the outer limits of physical resistance in order to unveil the obsessions, the fears and the fragility of the performative act, in a search for an empathetic relationship between audience and actors. He won the Golden Lion for his career in dancing in 2019.
www.alessandrosciarroni.it
The exhibition is part of the new cultural palimpsest of Roma Capitale Romarama
