ORLANDO 2024 is back with a new Artistic Direction!
03 /12 May 2024
Bergamo 2024
Photo Mauro Danesi & Elisabetta Consonni, 2023
ORLANDO Festival is ready to come back with a new edition and a new Artistic Direction!
In the 2023 occured the 10th edition of Festival ORLANDO. During this 10 year journey, the context has deeply changed. Festival ORLANDO, which embrace transformation as essential principle, has to change as well. Born as an answer to the need for more representation and legitimation of all the identities and always active in expanding the horizon of imagination and possibilities,the Festival has been a revolution in and for Bergamo and it was able gather a community able to face social and cultural challenges, thanks to the care of the Artistic Direction of Mauro Danesi.
Choosing, as Festival’s name, ORLANDO from Virginia Woolf’s novel, meant to draw a path made of “continuous changes, which may never stop”. ORLANDO made us responsible toward the transformation that we want to see in the society and in the Festival itself.
That’ s the reason why the Artistic Direction goes from Mauro Danesi to Elisabetta Consonni, well known to the audience since 2021 when she produced, together with ORLANDO, Ti voglio un bene pubblico a city game which invites to think about how divisions prevent the creation of relationships and cause exclusion. The sharing of values and the affection between the artist and the Festival delivered to Elisabetta Consonni the responsability to sign the next edition’s program, happening in Bergamo from 3rd to 12th May 2024.
We are therefore changing with the promise to always improve in being a safe space for those who are brave enough to invent their own identity and for those who are marginalized. We will do everything we can to get where we couldn’t get yet, to make sure that everyone can feel seen, welcomed, awaited, wanted.
We will preserve our original mission to widen the horizon of possibilities, keeping on multiplying perspectives, directions and the following intersections.
We will keep on looking for a high quality cultural offer as a way to understand issues and needs of the present. We will try to find words to explain ourselves, and if we won’t find them we will create new ones to make ourselves understandable.
We will keep on caring about all the relationships with groups, institutions and people that have been building our ten years history.
We will preserve our original mission to widen the horizon of possibilities, keeping on multiplying perspectives, directions and the following intersections.
We will keep on looking for a high quality cultural offer as a way to understand issues and needs of the present. We will try to find words to explain ourselves, and if we won’t find them we will create new ones to make ourselves understandable.
We will keep on caring about all the relationships with groups, institutions and people that have been building our ten years history.
As we did during the past ten years we will come back same same but changed. With the resolute step of the ones who welcomes the vertigo of keeping on walking fast on high heels, with fun and foolish determination. We will be back, and in the transformation, we will continue to be ORLANDO!
ELISABETTA CONSONNI
She choreographs everything, human and inhuman beings, mobile and immobile objects, maps, interstices and spatial holiday groups. She weaves networks of relationships, subtle and strong, like sugar glass.
Graduated in Communication with a final thesis on the social construction of the body in dance and graduated at The Place-London, she then deepened her research in performing art living in Holland (2004-2009) and Poland (2013-2015). Her works aim to expand the practice of choreography seeking for performative devices to incorporate social dynamics and issues. Her activism in the social and civic sphere, takes the artistic form of a research process that since 2013 investigates the use and social meaning of urban space and the declination of choreographic skills in community practices. Her works have been produced in Italy, Europe and Canada by, for example, Teatro Grande di Brescia (IT), Centro Nazionale della Danza Virgilio Sieni (IT), Ariella Vidach AiEP (IT), Konfrontacje Teatralne (PL), Biennale Danza Venice (IT), Festival Orlando (IT), Pergine Festival (IT), Lavanderia a Vapore (IT) , Cantieri Culturali Isolotto (IT), Zona K (IT), Indisciplinarte Terni (IT), Fog Festival (IT), Danae Festival (IT), Le Alleanze dei Corpi (IT) Farout (IT), Festival Periferico (IT), Museo Mare Memoria Viva (IT), Openart (SE), Passage Insolites (Quebec City), OGR (IT). She is associate artist at Base Milano during the three-year period 2022-2024. www.elisabettaconsonni.com