Fuoco Fauno

The stages of the project

The three project partners have organized activities with the local communities, involving dance professionals and non-professionals in a workshop structured in different sessions.

Lavanderia a Vapore (Turin)

The work on the image of the Faun completed a first stage in April 2024. There were several sessions with dance schools, the Dance Well community, and a dialogue between Catalan choreographer Quim Bigas Bassart and local

companies.

The work was resumed on Oct. 12 and 13, 2024 inside the Gardens of the Royal Palace in Turin, as part of a project to valorize the Savoy Residences of which Piemonte dal Vivo is the lead partner.

Gender Bender (Bologna)

Gender Bender organized a choreographic composition and co-creation workshop curated by the Dewey Dell company together with 30 people from the Bologna community, composed of people with and without dance experience. At the end of the seven intensive sessions, held between September and October 2024, 2 performances of the final production open for the audience were organized at the preview event of the 22nd Gender Bender Festival.

Teatro Stabile dell’Umbria (Terni)

From October 2024 to December 2024, workshops and meetings on the theme of the Faun were organized at Caos in Terni aimed at the city community and with Dance Well dancers in Terni. The meetings were coordinated by choreographers Marta Bichisao, Teresa Rospetti, Emma Tramontana and choreographer Luca Guarino, with the collaboration of Mela Boev. 

A public presentation is scheduled for Jan. 4, 2025 at 8:45 p.m., at the Secci Theater in Terni.

On Oct. 26 and 27, 2024, at the end of an intensive workshop, the Dewey Dell company, together with a group of 30 people with and without dance experience, staged a reinterpretation of the figure of Pan, recreating the physical, gestural and psychic complexity of this God of Instinct. We stand before an exposed body in the hour of the zenith. At that moment of meridian culmination, the highest point of natural power, of solar heat, Pan’s fury manifests itself by disseminating terror: he appears and unleashes the force of the vital and its opposite in a dizzying vertical line that crushes the shadow to the ground and makes it coincide with his own person. Pan lives in these extremes.

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 fusion of different art forms.