age di Collettivo Cinetico
Photo © Bruno Leggieri
Performance
<age> by Collettivo Cinetico
Sunday, July 5, 9:30 PM
Duration: 80 minutes
Lazzaretto Estate | Piazzale Goisis 6
On stage, nine young people aged between 15 and 18 stand on the threshold of adulthood. They introduce themselves as “human specimens” and are classified according to the most diverse—and often amusing—parameters.
The performance unfolds in chapters. The young performers step into a stage-ring and are invited to respond to a series of questions exploring self-definition through personal traits, opinions, tastes, and experiences. They share a set of rules and an inventory of possible behaviours to react to the questions, but they never know in advance which questions they will be asked. Since the prompts change every time, each performance is unique.
The title pays tribute to composer John Cage: as in Cage’s music, chance, indeterminacy, and surprise take centre stage, creating a delicate balance between structure and play.
The audience witnesses a genuine and ever-changing narrative, in which each adolescent defines themselves in the moment, moving between seriousness and lightness, emotion and irony.
The event is presented as part of the Lazzaretto Estate programme and is curated by Festival ORLANDO and Festival Danza Estate.
Full price: €20
Reduced price: €12 (under 25s)
Tickets can be purchased online at ticketone.it
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CREDITS
Direction and Choreography: Francesca Pennini
Dramaturgy: Angelo Pedroni, Francesca Pennini
Performance and Creation: Nicola Cipriano, Piero Cocca, Francesco Gelli, Giulio Mano, Beatrice Monesi, Alice Ada Petrini, Nicole Raisa, Sofia Russo, Adele Verri
Production Management and Organisation: Matilde Buzzoni, Carmine Parise
COLLETTIVO CINETICO was founded in 2007 by choreographer Francesca Pennini and involves over 50 artists from diverse disciplines. The collective’s research explores the nature of the performative event through formats that are both playful and rigorous, moving within the interstices of dance, theatre, and visual arts. A key feature is the development of methods for composing and organizing movement capable of engaging highly diverse bodies, as well as devising systems that explore the relationship with the audience and perception, ranging from the stage to urban spaces, from mimetic actions in everyday life to virtual platforms. CollettivO CineticO has produced 64 creations and received numerous awards, including: Jurislav Korenić Award for Best Young Theatre Director; Rete Critica Award 2014 for Best Artist; Danza & Danza Award 2015 to Francesca Pennini as Best Choreographer and Performer; UBU Awards nomination for Best Performer under 35; Hystrio Iceberg Award 2016; MESS Award at the BE Festival in Birmingham 2016; National Theatre Critics Award for Dance Theatre 2016; UBU Award 2017 for Best Dance Performance; Grand-Prix Golden Laurel Wreath Award for Best Performance at the 58th MESS Festival in Sarajevo for Sylphidarium Maria Taglioni on the Ground, also nominated for UBU Best Sound Design. In subsequent years, CollettivO CineticO was again nominated for the UBU Awards in the “Best Dance Performance” category: in 2021 for Dialogo Terzo: In a Landscape (also nominated for “Best Costume”) and in 2022 for Manifesto Cannibale. In 2023, Francesca Pennini received the Ada D’Adamo Award for research and inclusivity. Since 2013, the company has been supported by the Italian Ministry of Culture, by the Emilia-Romagna Region since 2015, and is currently part of the international project Crossing the Sea. Their works have been presented in Austria, Belgium, Bosnia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Peru, Poland, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, and via live streaming in the USA and Korea.
FRANCESCA PENNINI (Ferrara, 1984) – Choreographer, director, and dancer – trained through a diverse and unconventional path, ranging from gymnastics and freediving to butoh and disco dance. She later studied at Balletto di Toscana and the Laban Centre in London and worked as a dancer with Sasha Waltz & Guests. Since 2007, she has been the artistic director of CollettivO CineticO, founding the company and creating over 60 works. She has also choreographed for Balletto di Roma and the National Company of Malta and collaborated with artists including Mustafa Sabbagh, Vasco Brondi, Quentin Jones, Pamela Z, and Ramón Oliveras. Passionate about education, she has taught at Biennale College Danza, Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Hochschule Hannover University of Applied Science and Arts, DAMS Bologna, and is currently a faculty member of the Theatre and Performing Arts program at IUAV University of Venice. In 2022, she co-curated part of the Centrale Fies program with B. Boninsegna. Her new project, Abracadabra, began with an extended residency in Montréal (NID Platform – MIBACT) and involves an action of disappearance.