Aterballetto in Tunisia with the “In/Finito” project
Following an invitation by the Italian Cultural Institute in Tunis, Aterballetto is back in the Tunisian capital after eighteen years since its last performance, dating back to 2004.
Tunis hosts the final stage of In/Finito, a dance and photography project for urban, natural or historical spaces born in 2018 from an idea of Fondazione Nazionale della Danza director Gigi Cristoforetti, in collaboration with Fotografia Europea and in partnership with Fondazione Palazzo Magnani.
The project has this approach: six young choreographers (Saul Daniele Ardillo, Damiano Artale, Hektor Budlla, Philippe Kratz, Roberto Tedesco, Diego Tortelli) created micro-performances of about 6-minute duration for single dancer. The performances are “captured” by different photographers and an exhibition comes from their pictures, in which the dancers’ bodies are portraited in an urban or natural set.
The idea is to give complete freedom and autonomy to dance and artistic (in this case, photographic) creation, reaching a synthesis only at the end of the creative process. The photographer freely focuses his glance on the city (landscape or monuments, suburbs or natural spaces), placing the dancer as a detonator of emotions and perceptions. But the dance performance is shown to the public only at the end, juxtaposed with the photographs already organized on display.
The dimension of the danced movement –ephemeral by definition– is thus confronted with the photographic representation, that captures a single instant forever. Two different ways of thinking about the body, of putting it in dialogue not only with space and time, but also with the viewer's eye. From this perspective, a single dance frame has a resonance that is both finite and infinite.
After Reggio Emilia, Capri, Bologna, Milan, Athens, and Paris, Tunis will represent the artistic conclusion of the In/Finito site specific project. On this occasion, artist of Greek-Tunisian origin Marianne Catzaras will photograph the six performances set in significant places in the city chosen by the Italian Cultural Institute in Tunis.
The performance will take place on May 26 at the Ennejma Ezzahra. Centre des Musiques Arabes et Méditerranéennes.
Moreover, on May 27 and 28, choreographer Saul Daniele Ardillo will be guest of the Digital Dance Days festival, organized by the Centre Chorégraphique Tunisien, for a masterclass.