Playground
performative outcome of the workshop led by OPERABIANCO with the Bologna community
duration: 40’
Playground, the performance outcome of an intergenerational workshop, features children and people over 60 from Bologna who interact with the urban and natural landscape of the city through play and dance.
The shared movement practices are inspired by Pieter Bruegel’s painting “Children’s Games” and are suitable for all bodies, with or without experience. Their goal is to build a common physical language among the participants and create a “landscape within the landscape” to which everyone can contribute with their own uniqueness.
Bodies with different rhythms, dynamics, and postures intersect in an aesthetic and ritualistic experience, constructing an ecosystem of forms in close relationship with the surrounding environment.
The dance develops through training in that collective intelligence that knows how to dialogue with the unexpected. “Playground is our playground!”
Dates for this appointment:
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free entrance
place: Nicholas Green Park (entrance on Via Niccolò dell’Abate) Bologna
* Try to arrive a little early: the show will start promptly at 6 p.m.!
To fully enjoy the performance, we invite you to bring a blanket to spread on the ground and sun glasses 🙂
CREDITS
concept, choreography, and direction: Marta Bichisao and Vincenzo Schino
with: Marta Bichisao, C.L.Grugher, Sabrina Rigoni/ Beatrice Leonardi,
Luca Piomponi, Simone Scibilia
and with a group of elderly people and a group of children
production: PinDoc, OPERA BIANCO
co-production: Festival Danza Estate, Teatro Stabile dell’Umbria
with the support of: Home Futuro Presente, LaMama Umbria
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
OPERABIANCO is an artistic research group founded by Marta Bichisao,
dancer and choreographer, and Vincenzo Schino, director and visual artist.
Since 2006, it has chosen the theatrical universe to explore dance, performing arts,
visual arts, and video, activating processes of community involvement.
The multiplicity of languages it draws on creates immersive performative experiences,
in which the challenge to the traditional form of enjoyment
offers the audience alternative postures, visions, and points of view.
Among the themes on which she focuses her artistic investigation is the dialectic
between the comic and the tragic in the relationship between performer
and stage and between human and universe.
Her greatest inspiration comes from the world of painting and cinema,
used as a gateway to choreographic research to question
the boundary between composition and reality, between foreground and landscape.
Playground is part of Bologna Estate 2025, the program of activities
promoted and coordinated by the Municipality and Metropolitan City of Bologna
Bologna-Modena Tourist Area, and is supported under the program agreement
between the Municipality of Bologna and MiC Direzione Generale Spettacolo
for live entertainment activities in suburban areas.
Playground is part of Teatro Arcobaleno.
Playground is part of Fair Play, a series of events organized by Gender Bender
in the Bologna metropolitan area from May 2025 to January 2026,
with the support of Fondazione del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna.
