Portici Festival – Heritage meets Creativity
Three workshops and three dance performances unite artists and city residents.
PON Metro Project 2014-2020
A special year
The works that were built together with the communities, Cosmo Panico, Crowded Bodies and HAMONIM, were much richer and more complex collective experiences than the shows that were staged. These are ongoing projects that consist of free workshops with people of all ages and backgrounds. When renowned choreographers and nonprofessionals met, a creative powerhouse was born that made those days of rehearsals, discussions and exchange special: a microcosm of communities united by the power of dance. The effects of this meetings linger to this day and can be seen in the relationships that were born.
The final workshops and performances crisscrossed the city and took over unusual places: museums, the Certosa Monumental Cemetery, and baseball fields. We treasure the experience of those months as a unique and precious gift that we hope to live again and we hope that it continues to grow.
Please find below the story, galleries and videos of the three performances staged in 2023:
Cosmo Panico – May 27 and 28, 2023 – Medieval Civic Museum of Bologna
Crowded Bodies – June 18, 2023 – Certosa Monumental Cemetery of Bologna
Hamonim – September 29 and 30, 2023 – Pilastro’s Baseball Field, Bologna
Cosmo Panico
A performance by the Igor x Moreno company and workshop participants
The energy of a ritual that connects performers and audiences
Cosmo Panico is a dance performance resulting from a collaboration between Gender Bender and the Igor x Moreno company. It is the result of a series of workshops in which the choreographers were engaged for two months in a process of artistic collaborative creation together with the community of Bologna, consisting of 22 participants of all ages, with and without dance experience. During the course of the work, which started with the company’s suggestions, the group was actively involved in creating a choreography and also contributed to an extensive dialogue in order to provide original solutions that were useful for the performance.
The performance is inspired by Sardinian dances and other celebrations related to seasonal cycles such as the carnival or orgiastic rites. The idea was to create a staged ritual. Just like in a ceremony related to the regeneration of the earth, the body occupies the most important place through the repetition of a circular movement and the voice: the energy released by these elements creates a collective action that comes out of the group of performers and reaches the audience, involving them in the ritual and turning them into active spectators. The actions on stage, consisting of individual moments and shared parts, create a chorus of voices that restores the richness of individuality and highlights the multiplicity of bodies and differences. The energy and rhythm engage performers and audiences in an ancestral universe that celebrates togetherness and creates a harmony between order and chaos, life and cosmos.
Cosmo Panico is part of the Bologna Portici Festival – Heritage meets Creativity, the event promoted and coordinated by the Municipality of Bologna to celebrate the UNESCO World Heritage Porticoes of Bologna as part of the Bologna Estate events program. The project was funded by the European Union – European Structural and Investment Funds, as part of the Operational Programme on Metropolitan Cities 2014-2020 and the EU’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic
In collaboration with: S’ALA+ e MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna
Credits
Directed and conducted by:
Igor x Moreno
Performers:
Alessandro Berardi; Greta Bimonte; Eria Bottazzi; Claudia Carini; Giulia Castellazzi; Micol Cau; Laura Chieffo; Laura Cossignani; Chiara D’Emilio; Riccardo De Simone; Francesco Ferran; Giovanni Frasconi; Raffaele Gatto; Vanessa Gregorin; Greta Kohne; Piera Loffredo; Veronica Mastrogiovanni; Emma Paganotto; Ilaria Linda Principe; Angelica Ruggiero; Tosca Valente; Simone Veronesi.
The Company:
Igor x Moreno è una compagnia internazionale formata dai coreografi Moreno Solinas e Igor Urzelai Hernando in collaborazione con un gruppo esteso di performer e altre professionalità. Le loro opere indagano la natura degli esseri umani utilizzando lo strumento dell’ironia e del gioco. Dopo 15 anni a Londra, la compagnia ha attualmente sede in Sardegna; i loro spettacoli hanno girato in Europa, America, Africa e Asia.
Video Story
The video story of the workshop and performance experience has been documented and edited by Fabio Fiandrini
Workshop Gallery
Performance Gallery
Crowded Bodies
A show by Daniele Ninarello and the community of Performing Gender – Dancing In Your Shoes
A collective body expressing the need for intimacy, trust, closeness, and tenderness
Uno spettacolo di danza frutto di un percorso laboratoriale di creazione condivisa tra il coreografo Daniele Ninarello e la comunità bolognese del progetto europeo Performing Gender – Dancing In Your Shoes, composta da persone di diverse età, con e senza esperienza di danza.
A dance performance resulting from a collaborative creation workshop between choreographer Daniele Ninarello and the Bologna community of the European project Performing Gender – Dancing In Your Shoes, composed of people of different ages, with and without dance experience.
A live-collage in which each performer generously expresses his or her individuality and shares it with the group by using movement. It is an intimate journey with the aim of connecting one’s self to those around us, moved by mutual trust and a desire for closeness, acceptance, unity, and understanding. In this way, the individual stories told by the moving bodies become shared heritage, and a set of evolving portraits appears before the eyes of the audience.
The Performing Gender – Dancing In Your Shoes community has been created over three years through a periodic series of workshops involving over one hundred participants in Bologna. The project is led by choreographers Aristide Rontini, Daniele Ninarello and Simona Bertozzi.
The show debuts on June 18, 2023 at the Certosa Monumental Cemetery (Bologna), as part of Portici Festival – Heritage meets Creativity.
Crowded Bodies is part of the Bologna Portici Festival – Heritage meets Creativity, the event promoted and coordinated by the Municipality of Bologna to celebrate the UNESCO World Heritage Porticoes of Bologna as part of the Bologna Estate events program. The project was funded by the European Union – European Structural and Investment Funds, as part of the Operational Programme on Metropolitan Cities 2014-2020 and the EU’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic
Crowded Bodies is a performance of the European project Performing Gender – Dancing In Your Shoes.
Credits
Directed and conducted by:
Daniele Ninarello
Performers:
Giulia Amadori, Denise Ania, Agave Barone, Silvia Brazzale, Daniele Chieppa, Annamaria D’Adamo, Giuditta de Concini, Miriana Erario, Helena Falabino, Sara Giordani, Giulia Guadagnoli, Chiara Mannucci, Mauro Meneghelli, Anna Rolfi, Alessandro Tampieri, Pietro Tomasi, Emanuele Tontini, Davide Uccellari, Maria Stella Zangirolami
The Artist:
Daniele Ninarello, è un artista attivo nel campo delle arti performative. Il suo linguaggio coreografico si concentra sul “corpo vivo” come luogo di mediazione, dove i corpi sono spesso orientati da una coscienza collettiva. Dopo aver frequentato la Rotterdam Dance Academy, lavora con coreografi, musicisti e compositori di fama internazionale e presenta le sue creazioni in diversi festival in Italia e all’estero.
Video Story
The video story of the workshop and performance experience has been documented and edited by Fabio Fiandrini
Workshop Gallery
Performance Gallery
HAMONIM
A performance by Patricia Carolin Mai and the group of workshop participants
Existing and persisting in a group: a community explores the concept of being part of the masses and togetherness
HAMONIM (Hebrew for “that which moves the masses”) is a project resulting from a collaboration between Gender Bender, Hamburg-based choreographer Patricia Carolin Mai and a group of people of all ages, with and without dance experience, who will be involved in a 2-week intensive workshop in Bologna in September 2023. The work is expected to be completed by the end of September 2023 with the production of a final performance.
HAMONIM is the third part of Patricia Carolin Mai’s trilogy on bodies in a state of emergency, which was created together with a large group of dance enthusiasts from the local area. In her work, she uses physical conversational techniques that explore the way in which our bodies express protective mechanisms. Through contact improvisation, shiatsu and martial arts, she explores how the contrast between normality and exceptionality affects groups of people. Furthermore, she tries to understand whether the feeling of being overwhelmed and powerless can serve as a starting point for reshaping our communities.
Up to 50 people will form a powerful stage community that analyzes the parameters of togetherness and takes a critical stance against the masses, starting with the questions: what does it take to exist and persist in a group? Are we at risk or protected?
HAMONIM is part of the Bologna Portici Festival – Heritage meets Creativity, the event promoted and coordinated by the Municipality of Bologna to celebrate the UNESCO World Heritage Porticoes of Bologna as part of the Bologna Estate events program. The project was funded by the European Union – European Structural and Investment Funds, as part of the Operational Programme on Metropolitan Cities 2014-2020 and the EU’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic
Credits
Directed and conducted by:
Patricia Carolin Mai
Performers:
Andrea Righini, Britta Lübke, Chiara D’Amico,Claudia Carini, Cristina Rositano, Edoardo Figaia, Elena Sophia Correale, Emma Paganotto, Francesco Grammatico, Francesco Pascarella, Giorgia Amelia Ferrari, Giulia Amadori, Giulia Salvemini, Greta Bimonte, Ilaria Principe, Laura Panico, Letizia Faglioni, Lisa Lotte Giebel, Marcello Coccioli, Marco Lupo, Massimiliano Bonatto, Micol Cau, Piera Loffredo, Sabrina Totaro, Sun Elmi, Tania Lentini, Tosca Valente, Veronica Mastrogiovanni, Volha Iotchanka.
Hosted by DOM la cupola del Pilastro in collaboration with Laminarie
The Artist:
Patricia Carolin Mai is a German artist. Her main works are produced in Hamburg by Kampnagel and the Choreographic Center K3| Tanzplan. Her research focuses in the investigation of memories of the body and the body as an archive. She has presented her productions in several countries including Israel, Italy, Belgium and Korea.
Video Story
The video story of the workshop and performance experience has been documented and edited by Fabio Fiandrini
Performance Gallery
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