< age >
CollettivO CineticO
23/05/2013
, 
19:00
24/05/2013
, 21:00
direction and choreography Francesca Pennini
dramaturgy and didactics assistant Angelo Pedroni
action and creation Luca Cecere, Carolina Fanti, Gloria Minelli, Chiara Minoccheri, Andrea La Motta, Carmine Parise, Angelo Pedroni, Giulio Santolini, Demetrio Villani, Fabio Zangara
organization Elisa Tolomio
CollettivO CineticO, Romaeuropa Festival, Armunia / Festival Inequilibrio, L’Arboreto, CSC Centro per la Scena Contemporanea / Operaestate Festival, Festival miXXer / Conservatorio di Ferrara
artistic residencies and rehearsal space Scarlattine Teatro / Il Giardino delle Esperidi, Armunia / Festival Inequilibrio, L’Arboreto, CSC Centro per la Scena Contemporanea / Operaestate Festival, Teatro Comunale di Ferrara
Winner of "Progetto Speciale Performance 2012. Ripensando Cage"
Running time 1 h
The project < age > continues the research on the uncertainty priciple and the systems of rules through a reflection on the work of the composer John Cage. The performers are non-professional teen-agers, just before or immediately after the threshold of 18 years old. In this particular and ephemeral time span the relationship with the concept of rule (both socially and legally) is extremely specific and constantly shifting. A teen-ager is biologically and chemically programmed to be a risk-taker and therefore it’s the ideal candidate to be a performer in the ludic, uncertain and regulated evironment of a theatre stage. The cast has been chosen through an articulated audition and selected in order to be heterogeneous in personality, physicality and experiences. The group has then followed a cicle of workshops where being spectators and working as “mimetic
kamikaze” in the urban spaces where the main strategies to be prepared for the stage.
The piece is structured as a “human atlas”, a live taxonomy of the performers and the characteristics of each specific event. The movement has been composed working with the peculiarity of each person and through the method “codice cinetico”. Each choreographic material has a specific nomenclature in order to be identified by the performers. At the same time has been collected a questionnaire of more than 500 questions proposed by the performers and by people that took part to phases of the work. Those questions, together with ones that are a total
surprise, become a filter of selection in categories.
The performers don’t know which parameters (questions) will be asked during the performance and which movement material will be called. The answers of the teen-age group are based on their own opinion on themself and their presence fully expose their choices as individuals.
Each performative event is different from the others, it cannot be rehearsed and it constantly presents unpredictable reactions generating an atmosphere of high intensity and subtle irony.
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CollettivO CineticO
CollettivO CineticO
is an experimental performing arts group founded in 2007 by Francesca Pennini and working in the interstices between choreography, theater and visual arts. Shaped as a flexible net of multidisciplinary artists the collective mainly investigates the format and the status of the performative event, discussing its mechanisms and rules. Cornerstone of the reformatting approach is the C/o Project, a choreographic “architecture” lasting a decade, born from the
Foucault’s concept of heterotopias and composed by performances scattered in different spaces and times. EYE WAS EAR, a fragment of the C/o Project, developed through a research on the virtual reality platform Second Life, won the Prize “Giovani Danz’Autori E-R 2008” for young authors and choreographers. In 2010 the research project The Uncertain Scene has been co-produced by the European project Focus on Art and Science in the Performing Arts. In 2011 CollettivO CineticO was selected as Italian representative company in the
European Network IYME – International Young Makers Exchange. The following year the company won the call “Special Project Performance 2012: Rethinking
Cage”, with a piece named
CollettivO CineticO performed in national and international venues with a wide range of locations that goes from the traditional theatre to the private house,
from public toilets to web streaming.
Francesca Pennini
starts off as a gymnast and then devoted herself to contemporary dance. She
studies at Balletto di Toscana and Laban Centre in London, experiencing a broad range of eterogeneous disciplines: from butoh to free diving, from martial arts to disco-dance competitions.
Her research focuses on perspectives and definitions of the body in the contemporary society through a multimediality of languages that goes from videodance to performance, from photography to graphics and body installations. In 2007 she founds the research company CollettivO CineticO. Since then she
is artistic director and choreographer of the company for all the productions. In 2009 she is a choreographer in the Choreoroam Project. She teaches to professionists and students giving research workshops and contemporary dance classes. She works as a freelance dancer for Sasha Waltz & Guests.
