Artemis Danza on tour in the United States
Artemis Danza dance company returns to the United States, and presents the new artistic project dedicated to Pier Paolo Pasolini. The tour taking place from October 18 to 25 includes Los Angeles, Chicago, Minneapolis.
Monica Casadei wanted to pay homage to the exceptional versatility of one of the greatest Italian artists and intellectuals with dance, in the belief that dance, "made of body and soul", is a powerful tool to revive the complexity of his thought.
“Pasolini’s research would begin from the body: his own, lean and athletic, and from his hunger for bodies, which emerges from all of his work in its lights and shadows. Through the characters, words and images that populate his work, the Emilian author manifested his thought and made it into a work of art open to different interpretations”.
In PASOLINI - Secret Fires, texts and visions are crossed, giving life to a homage made of tension and redemption, dreams and utopias. It is a fresco of humanity and its paradoxes, but in which we could also feel the sun of Roma’s “borgate”, where life pulsates, children play, and the young dream and fight for their rights.
Monica Casadei’s artistic project dedicated to Pasolini is multidisciplinary. The show Secret Fires is accompanied by Visioni Pasoliniane, two performances inspired by his figure in which dance and video making meet: Frame 1 is set in an indefinite suburb, between dead tracks, uncultivated fields, and abandoned farmhouses; Frame 2 takes us on a nocturnal journey through the Pasolini’s places in Bologna.
Visioni Pasoliniane – Fuochi segreti is staged in Los Angeles on October 18 (Theatre Raymond Kabbaz, 8 pm), presented by the Italian Cultural Institute on the occasion of 22nd Week of the Italian Language in the World.
On October 20 it will be in Chicago (Athenaeum Center, 7:30 pm) and on October 22 in Minneapolis (Theatre in the Round, 7:30 pm), presented by the Italian Cultural Institute in Chicago as part of the centenary of Pasolini's birth celebration. In Chicago, Artemis Danza will also hold a masterclass.
Lastly, on October 25, it will be staged in San Francisco (Brava Theater Center, 6:30 pm), where it is presented by the Italian Cultural Institute within its Pasolini 100 programme of events. Also on this occasion, the company will conduct a workshop.
Besides the precious contribution by the Italian Cultural Institutes, Artemis Danza company's tour has the support of Emilia-Romagna Region and ATER Fondazione.
