Da.Re - Dance Research is a three-year programme for formative enhancement and research – national and international in scope – for dancers and performers aged 18 and over, under the artistic direction of Adriana Borriello.
As of last year Short Theatre, a partner in the project, has decided to share its spaces and events with Da.Re., expanding the forms of cooperation forged at the last edition of the festival. Thanks to an agreement with the Azienda Speciale Palaexpo, this year Short Theatre and Da.Re. will be coming together as early as this summer, cohabiting in the Mattatoio from July, well before the festival kicks off in September. Da.Re's educational activities will be held in the space of the Pelanda, and students will be able to alternate lessons with moments for sharing their own dance practices, also freely offered to an outside audience at Da.Re.
The Pelanda will also host the cycle of summer events devoted to Tai-Chi, also held by Adriana Borriello, free of charge and open to anyone wishing to take part.
In the ten days in September when Short Theatre 2019 is held, Da.Re. students will be able to embark on a path of vision in order to expand their knowledge and to take stock of work by artists of international renown, pursuing their own educational activities in the spaces of the Teatro India, the home of Tempo Libero (Free Time), the section of the festival that Short Teatre devotes to training and education.
PROGRAMME - Da.Re students
A year and half on from the start of Da.Re.'s first three-year programme, students now have the opportunity to take their measure of their own projects and to rely on the support of some of the teachers encountered along the way, sharing their dance practice with other dancers and/or enthusiasts in a cycle of open sharing, free of charge.
18 July, 5.30 pm - 7.30 pm
Marina Donatone
Look Ma, no hands
For dancers and for anyone comfortable with working on and with the body
Description: The research developed for LOOK MA, NO HANDS was spawned by an attempt to study the function of choice in relation to the generation of movement. Starting by listening to one's inner weight as a driving force, the dancing body is questioned on those processes of negotiation between control and abandon that prompt it to say 'yes' to one movement rather than to another. Like on a surfboard, where reception of the moving wave is at one with the ability to govern it, dancers play with a certain "physical power of doing or not doing, of yes or no", modulating the legacy of a movement that precedes them and yet that would not exist without them.
23 July, 6.30 pm - 7.30 pm
Teodora Grano
HACK PRAKTIK
For Movers. Dancers. Actors. Circus performers. People interested in the practice of movement.
Description: The Hack action requires careful planning, organisation and finesse, as well as being based on a healthy dose of wit and imagination. The unwritten rule is that each Hack must be amusing, non-destructive and that it must not damage anyone or anything. In fact, hackers themselves occasionally help to dismantle their own creations.
25 July, 6.30 pm - 7.30 pm
Valentina Buffone
Movements of the Code
Open to all
Description: Practising research to explore the dynamics of thought. The practice explores the genesis of materials of movement and its transformation through the code.
30 July
Aurora Pica, 5.30 pm - 7.30 pm
The wall score
For whoever wishes to take part: children, teens or seniors with disabilities.
Description: The workshop presents itself as a crossing, as an act designed to embody and to materialise existential paths. Topics for investigation: the wall, the walk, the fall. The wall as a point of arrival, as a support or a boundary, refuge or deception, life's mockery, a border or a beginning. The walk, captured in its biomechanical function: an action designed to embody and to materialise existential paths, encounters, dialogues, movements. The walk as a child's first independent move in relation to space and time; the walk as a form of independence, of liberation, as an experience of research generating dynamics. The fall as a cathartic moment, the epiphany of a corporal experience, the acme of life acting on our daily paths. The work proposed will be guided towards the search for an authentic body language and sound language of an intuitive nature fuelled with images, sounds and words, of which the body will become at once guardian and interpreter. Mind and body will thus be steered within a collective journey in which individuality opens up towards a sensitivity not focused on its own navel but extending outside the self.
01 August
Valentina Buffone, 5.30 pm - 7.30 pm
Movements of the Code
For dancers and anyone comfortable working with and on the body
Description: Practising research to explore the dynamics of thought. The practice explores the genesis of materials of movement and its transformation through the code.
06 August
Chiara Lucisano, 5.30 pm - 7.30 pm
Who's afraid of acrobatics?!
For anyone willing to put themselves to test at every level, both physically and mentally.
Description: Who is afraid of acrobatics, in other words the ABC of bodies to the power of tightrope-walking? In the two hours of sharing after a warmup and an empowerment functional to the technique of acrobatics, the basic figures and their developments are presented. The Sharing is built in such a way that each participant can enrich their own knowledge and expertise.
07 August
Giulia Manili - What there is
For people who do not work with or on the body (enthusiasts - citizens - the curious)
Realising what there is
Inside/outside
And being with,
08 August
Verdiana Gelao, 5.30 pm - 7.30 pm
Transmissions
For dancers and performers
Description: The practice proposed is built on the basic principles of transmission and connection that naturally steer the mechanics of the body. We explore the whole body and its principal articulations to discover how impulses travel around our body and how they are transmitted outside us, in space and with other bodies.