Italian Performance Platform

Guest companies by Silvia Mei – 17 may 5.30pm

Artistic professionals and groups are invited to seize the opportunity of meeting international professionals at the festival. The aim is to provide a further opportunity to deepen understanding and knowledge of Italian artists despite not having sufficient space to show all their works. As such, each group will have 20 minutes to describe themselves in a video, using words or short performances. Anyone interested in such experiences is welcome, not only professionals.

Claudio Angelini

The pulverisation of genre and operational transversality are distinguishing features of the
Italian contemporary scene. The companies invited to this, the second edition, not only produce performances, they combine their formal research experiences with social and educational activities. This composite and transversal language, with particular attention to installation and site specifics, challenges the so-called post dramatic register and conquers new territorialities belonging to other imaginary, fantastical worlds, where spectators can finally lose and regenerate themselves.
Silvia Mei

ANAGOOR is a collective group born in Veneto in 2000. His work proposes a refined iconographic aesthetics living different formats and video devices in connection with performers and singers on scene. The main subject is about relationship Men-Nature between Culture and History like in Tempesta (2009, special mention at Premio Scenario), Fortuny (2011), Et manchi pietà (film), Lingua Imperii (2012), and opera Il Palazzo di Atlante di L. Rossi (premio HYSTRIO to direction), performed at several important festivals (Biennale di Venezia, Festival MESS/Sarajevo, Sagra Musicale Malatestiana/Rimini).

PROGETTO BROCKENHAUS is a swiss-italian dance-theatre company, takes part at Artisti Associati Sosta Palmizi. It’s a collective of six artists who create shows and site specific performances, mixing dance, theatre and circus to form moving pictures which swing between reality and dream. Shows: SAGRA; La menta sul pavimento; PASOLINIANA (Prize “opera appartamento”, AltoFest 2013/Napoli); Bruno (Jury Prize FIT 2013/Lugano); …di Giulietta e del suo Romeo; Una opera da tre soldi (in production). Has participated at BE-Festival 2012 (Birmingham) and will be on tour at TanzPlanOst 2014 (CH).

TEATRINGESTAZIONE born in 2006, based in Naples. Our creative process aims to release the performing act from the exhibition context, re-defining the concept of scene as the space of an experimental sociality. Our aesthetics is based on accuracy of presence, simplicity of elements and an essential use of space. We are responsible for cross projects (altofest.net and altofragile.eu). Our work has been hosted at the Institut für Theater-Film-und Medienwissenschaft-Goethe Universität, in Frankfurt am Main, and in several national and international contexts.

TEATRO DEI VENTI was born in Modena in 2005. It operates in three different related areas: shows production, social-cultural planning, training. The company has developed its own research between rhythm and physical action (Common Sense, Scenario Award finalist 2011, and InCertiCorpi, Present Future Prize winner 2013) and at the same time it works on Street Theatre (Malaparata and Il Draaago). It also promotes projects in the social sphere for International Cooperation (Mozambique, Serbia), in correctional institutions and in the field of mental health. Since 2012 it organizes Trasparenze, perfoming arts festival in Modena.