Un ricamo fatto sul nulla

"Second Prize for Best Choreography" at the 15MASDANZA the International Contemporary Dance Festival of the Canary Islands in October 2010 , "Special Mention Prize" at the National Theatre of Belgrade on May 2010, "Medal of the President of Italian Republic to the Italian choreographic talent 2011" during the presentation of the work at the Gran Theater of National Academy of Dance in Rome on July 2011. It's been presented also in Shanghai Expo 2010, China in the 8th October 2010.

Is composed by a Fabrizio Favale's dance Solo, a Trio danced by Marta Capaccioli, Samuele Cardini and Martina Danieli and a Cartoon-film realized by Fabrizio Favale. In the first part of the work the dancer introduces the public in a fairy-tale ambient, in wich appear  a man and the ruins of a house on fire. This brief tale tells of the man who takes care of those charred walls. After appears a semi-wild figure that presents his existence in closely relation with an hypothetical forest elements, in which he moves through like in an aerial needlework. At the end of the piece the dancer becomes a kind of shaman that evokes a rain-tempest in the forest. The work on Cartoon amplifies this vision of forest ambient, where all the trees are transformed continuously in the drowned shadows of the dancer and vice versa, in spatiality and timing closely related to the choreographic-movements. In the second part of the work on the stage appears the Trio that modulates its movements on the wave of what remain after a tempest, like little and sudden gusts of wind. This choreographic piece is done in a line of three dancers. Every movement, every articulation, every dynamic done by one dancer is the wire of the movement that runs trough the empty space and the time, and this wire-movement is articulated, is twisted, is thinned, is rarefied, is thickened, is bifurcated, is tangled and is left disappear into the folds of the movements of the other dancers: as a needlework done on nothingness.

choreography and cartoon-designer Fabrizio Favale

dancers Marta Cappaccioli, Samuele Cardini, Martina Danieli and Fabrizio Favale

set Le Supplici

Supported by Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Regione Emilia Romagna and Gammarad Italia

Thanks to Cango - Cantieri Goldonetta Firenze, Raum – Bologna, Ferrara Dance Motive, Fienile Fluò – Bologna, Spazio Danza – Bologna, Centro Coreografico De La Gomera – Canary Island for the courtesy of artistic residences and the space in which this work was done.

Review

"Le Supplici Fabrizio Favale, with Un ricamo fatto sul nulla, has embroidered in a trio the impermanence that is the dance, with tapered arms, bodies out of phase, dislocated, reassembled, in the long shot of Piazza Maggiore (Bologna). Are aligned, the three very good dancers, in control and ready to hyperbolic transformation of a gesture, a bend, an imbalance, a interlacement. They go together. They discompose. They capture, cling, protect themselves, they detach. The three performers, Marta Cappaccioli, Samuele Cardini, Martina Danieli, now insinuate, make soft sculpture groups that immediately they wriggle, they pivot, they meet, they triplicate, they melt like planets, like moths, and again they support themselfs (in a fain stellar music). A gesture. Another. A fire, a flame made of bodies, of hands and arms, a sacred form (an idol), a slight suspension of time that grinds and transform the presence of the body, the design in progress, in the flow and disappears. A wind that carries away and holds. A look inside by a poet-choreographer capable of giving a philosophical and internal voice to the technic. The sun set heats the dome of Santa Maria della Vita little away, the building of benches Vignola, cut the culmination of San Petronio. The trio goes to the end with one dancer in dash, captured, stuck, slow, inevitable, and the withdrawal of the other two dancers, slowly: lift to the essence. " Massimo Marino

video of the complete work

video of the Trio

images    

click on the images to download in high quality