Cauma Meridie: free dance workshop by Dewey Dell

The call for the dance workshop led by Dewey Dell is online: it is open to anyone, with or without dance experience

Do you want to be on stage?

With Dewey Dell’s free workshop you can be part of a group experience that is open to all ages and body types, regardless of your experience performing. This is an opportunity to explore your creativity and participate in the construction of a final performance in a public space.

The workshop

The Dewey Dell company intends to focus on the figure of Pan with the group that will participate in the workshop, seeking to recreate the physical, gestural and psychic complexity of the god of instincts. The workshop consists of different group activities in which the participants will create individual gestures with the intention of establishing a form of instinctive freedom to compose. Through a series of individual actions, a collective choreography that will consist of gestures will be created with the aim of visually restoring the extraordinary, imaginative and powerful figure of Pan.

The workshop’s final performance

After the conclusion of the workshops there will be a final performance on stage as part of the Gender Bender festival on the following dates: October 26 (Saturday) and October 27 (Sunday), 2024. Admission is free subject to availability of seats.

The topic

We are faced with an exposed body in the hour of the zenith. At that moment of the sun’s culmination at noon, the highest point of natural power and solar heat, Pan’s fury spreads terror: he appears and energizes the force of the vital and its counterpart in a dizzying vertical line that crushes the shadow to the ground and makes it meet his own person. Pan lives in these extremes.

Come partecipare al laboratorio?

The workshop is free and has a limited number of participants.
It is open to any age and body type, and no dance experience is necessary.
For info and registration: laboratori@genderbender.it

The calendar

Sunday, September 22: DAS | 11 AM to 7 PM | workshop

Saturday, September 28: DAS | 11 AM to 7 PM | workshop

Sunday, September 29: DAS | 11 AM to 7 PM | workshop

Saturday, September 12: DAS | 11 AM to 7 PM | workshop

Sunday, October 13: DAS | 11 AM to 7 PM | workshop

Sunday, October 20: Teatro Testoni | 2 PM to 7 PM | workshop

Friday, October 25: Teatro Testoni | 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM | general rehearsal

Saturday, October 26 and Sunday, October 27: DAS | final public performance as part of the Gender Bender Festival. (Rehearsal and performance schedule to be determined)

DAS – Dispositivo Arti Sperimentali: Via del Porto 1/2, Bologna

Teatro Testoni: Via Giacomo Matteotti 16, Bologna

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The company

Dewey Dell is a dance company composed of Teodora Castellucci, Agata Castellucci, Vito Matera and musician Demetrio Castellucci. The choreographic research is inspired by images from art history, behaviors of the animal kingdom and anthropological themes. The works, presented nationally and internationally, are based on the mix of different art forms.

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The event is part of Fuoco Fauno, a special project that has been created in collaboration between the Gender Bender Festival, the Piemonte dal Vivo Foundation / Lavanderia a Vapore, and Umbria’s Teatro Stabile. The project explores and presents on stage once again the figure of the FAUN as part of a choreography, starting from its first appearance in 1912 with Vaclav Nižinsky’s “Après-midi d’un faune”. Today, the Faun is still an inexhaustible source of ideas and images that can be used to raise questions about our present: from identity and gender issues to the relationship between humans and animals, from our relationship with the nature and the environment (issues that are very urgent for us) to the possible exchange between a classical repertoire and the possibility to experience new artistic languages.