FRI JUNE16 h 8.30 PM

TEATRO STUDIO

PAOLA BIANCHI / VALENTINA BRAVETTI
 
BRAVE

BRAVE is the result of a long research work on the theme of the co-presence of two bodies with different abilities and perceptions, of an in-depth investigation on the relationship, on mutual support, on the acceptance of insurmountable limits while at the same time aiming to overcome them. BRAVE is born from a strong desire that does not put into action only the bodies on stage but a small community that welcomes and protects. There is no bravura, no bravery. There is determination and desire.
Begun in May 2019 with a long-distance dialogue between the choreographer and the dancer and continued in presence since 2021, BRAVE is part of Paola Bianchi's ELP choreographic research project, an investigation into the relationship between descriptive word and dance through the audio transmission of posture archives.
After eight years of absence from the stage Valentina is now the protagonist of a performance. Valentina's body has not lost the intelligence of the scene. She cannot walk, she cannot eat or drink on her own, she has no autonomy of movement and yet her body on stage has acquired a potential it did not have before. Her presence is powerful, as is her body that crosses the space investigating entirely personal forms and rhythms.

Paola Bianchi, belongs to a generation of authors of contemporary dance that is placed between the so-called "pioneers" of the eighties and the palingenetic exponents of the nineties. Probably for this reason, since the beginning, the absence of the renunciation of movement and the iconoclasm of the end of the Millennium coexist in her corporeity and in her research in an artistically relevant way.

Valentina Bravetti was born in 1980 and studied ballet for eight years. In 2004 she founded the Città di Ebla company with Claudio Angelini, taking part in stage productions as a dancer. Since 2014, Valentina has had paraneoplastic neurological syndrome which kept her away from the scene until 2021, the year in which her collaboration with the choreographer Paola Bianchi began.

duration  50‘

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