Francesca Pennini – 10 Miniballetti

direction, choreography, dance Francesca Pennini
dramaturg, light design Angelo Pedroni
music J.S. Bach, B. Britten, Cher, G. Frescobaldi, G. Ligeti, H. Purcell, F. Romitelli, J. Strauss.
assistance Carmine Parise
artistic residences Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, AMAT, L’Arboreto Teatro Dimora di
Mondaino, TIR Danza
production CollettivO CineticO, Le Vie dei Festival, Danae Festival

An anthology of dances balancing between geometry and swirl where the aerial element is the paradigm for a reflection on the boundaries of control. Currents and storms, air fans and drones, birds and gran-jetés become allegories of the relationship between choreography and dance in an investigation that bounces from the repetition to improvvisation, from writing to interpretation. Score of this exploration is a notebook from the childhood of Francesca Pennini, where she wrote dozen of choreographies, invented but never performed. A time machine for an impossible archeology that is now declined on the stage in a series of outlandish possibilities. The body is tested borrowing the principles of thermodynamics, going from the plasticity of gymnastics to evanescence of inertia. Among contortions and asphyxiating efforts is triggered a respiratory exchange that mixes the volumes between body and space, audience and stage in a suspended and floating geography.