Animal Science
by Sayoko Onishi
Site-specific Butoh performance by worldwide known choreographer and performer Sayoko Onishi, music by Tony Lloyd.
Mesh
The work of Matteo Levaggi combines the double influence of Balanchine and Cunningham and adds an astute topical touch to this solid theoretical/esthetic base. Like his contemporaries Benjamin Millepied, Christopher Wheeldon, Wayne MacGregor, and before them Angelin Preljocaj, he bears the legacy of these masters in his genes. Mesh, a show specially created for the Centro Pecci of Prato, captures both movement, film projections, sound effects, and scenic elements. The choreography creates a link between the dancing body and nature, which is represented here by objects/junk, creating an atmospheric, visionary landscape. With these emotionally-charged elements, we meet again on stage the “artistic couple” Matteo Levaggi and Elisabetta Guttuso, who made their debut at the 21st Milan Triennale at the Pirelli Hangar Bicocca in the piece Yvonne, with the Ensemble Sentieri Selvaggi.
role. head of programming - theatre and dance
sector. performing arts workshop and performance
date. 2017
venue. Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Art, Prato (Italy)
The Ultimate Gesture #2
The event is a series of site-specific performances in dialogue with the exhibition The End of the World. The performance involved local, but well known, contemporary dance companies as a tribute to local art production.
role. head of programming - theatre and dance
sector. performing arts
date. 2016
venue. Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Art, Prato (Italy)

Performances:
Talk to You
by Kinkaleri
with Marco Mazzoni
Opening and meeting are the keywords of Kinkaleri's speech. Meeting an audience of visitors in an active, non-verbal relationship, dictated by the invention of a gestural code that transforms the letters of the alphabet into simple acts, words in choreographic movement. The encounter becomes a direct experience of a word that is a body in motion, allowing itself to be in the immediacy of a dynamic, in the power of intensity.
Ikea - site-specific
by and with: Cristina Kristal Rizzo
produced by: CAB 008
The sight of certain animals is said to be more powerful, sharper, even crueler than that of man. A blindfolded figure shares a space with the public, the space of vision, amplifying the obliquity of the gaze, creating a vision that knows how to retain memory as a natural reserve, without history, without tragedy, without events as in a continuous and hypnotic flow.
Verso la Luce
by and with: Leonardo Diana
produced by: Versiliadanza
Diana analyzes the human condition, the bewildered man and his obsessive search for an identity. The spirit, constantly subjected to the new, thus unable to construct an existential horizon, seems to have left the problem of identity to the body, to its simple appearance.
Storing Something fo Future Use
by and with: Marina Giovannini
produced by: CAB 008
A perpetual accumulation of variations in the overlying structure, sparse corrections and distortions of physical memory and the general atmosphere.
Actions bearing impressed memories that explore the temporal nature of life and claim their existence as such, as processes of mineral stratification and calcification.
Vanishing Act
by and with: Samuele Cardini
Dance for a moment, an unrepeatable moment, like life, like death. Inspired by the work of the artist Robert Kusmirowski, a dark presence in a white space, a dreamlike performance, a strong but inevitable contrast, the borderline between what was and what will no longer be, if not in memory.

















