

Project
gruppo nanou, Alfredo Pirri, Bruno Dorella
Choreography
Marco Valerio Amico, Rhuena Bracci
Spazio scenico
Music
Lights
Marco Valerio Amico
Colors
Marco Valerio Amico, Alfredo Pirri
Costumes
Rhuena Bracci
With
Carolina Amoretti, Marina Bertoni, Vera Borghini, Rhuena Bracci, Francesca Dibiase, Andrea Dionisi, Agnese Gabrielli, Marco Maretti, Emanuel Santos, Sofia Pazzocco, Michele Scappa
And the graduates (2019) of the Post Diploma – Dance Course of the Civica Scuola di Teatro "Paolo Grassi" of Milan: Livia Bartolucci, Alessandra Cozzi, Elisabetta Da Rold, Agnese Gabrielli, Nicolò Giorgini, Simone Mazzanti, Camilla Neri, Francesca Rinaldi, Pablo Ezequiel Rizzo, Bruna Romano
Production
Nanou Associazione Culturale, Ravenna Festival
Contribution
MIC, Regione Emilia-Romagna, Comune di Ravenna, Fondazione del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna
Collaboration
Support
Centro di Residenza della Toscana (Armunia-CapoTrave/Kilowatt), E Production, ATCL Circuito Multidisciplinare del Lazio per Spazio Rossellini Polo Culturale Multidisciplinare della Regione Lazio, C.U.R.A. Centro Umbro Residenze Artistiche, Spazio ZUT!, Indisciplinarte, La Mama Umbria International,
Acknowledgements
Finalist for the 2022 UBU Awards in the categories of "best dance performance" and "best set design"
"In the sky that more of its light takes
Was I, and I saw things that laughing
Neither knows nor can who from thence descends;"
Dante, Divine Comedy, Paradiso, Canto I
Paradiso is a place, a meeting, a chance for discussion and an opportunity for community, even before it is a show.
Paradiso is inhabited by the intervention of artist Alfredo Pirri, the choreographic activity of gruppo nanou, with 8 dancers, music by Bruno Dorella and a bar.
The choreography is a succession of actions and images that follow one another without a linear narrative: the visions, the characters inspired by Dante's cantica, act the space welcoming the spectators; the reflective materials chosen by Pirri, the floating lights by Marco Valerio Amico, sounds by Dorella, immerse the observer in a dreamy place.
The space, open for at least three hours a day, is designed as an active place in which to immerse oneself, creating an impromptu community that enters Paradiso as in a museum exhibition, and freely chooses how to move, how long to stay and what to observe.
The guest is immersed in a scenic space in which the interaction between light and mirror surfaces, and proximity to bodies create a sensation of loss of contact with the ground, amplifying the impression of moving in a perception of reality. which acts as a springboard to the void.
While acting the space with other people, each guest experiences a unique and unrepeatable event, building their own point of view: each Paradise is necessarily different because it relates to the space and every day the choreography is enriched with different details and alliances. The memory of the performance is therefore unique for each spectator, in the same place the events are composed and broken down through an imagined principle to continuously create a unique experience. Difficult to tell.
Born following a reflection by the authors on a series of key issues related to the possibilities of live entertainment in post-pandemic times, the project re-discusses the relationship with the space of the stage and the relationship with the viewer.
In more than a year and through a series of appointments, residencies and sketches - intended as the progressive deepening and development of research and experimentation - the collective work of the nanou, Pirri and Dorella group has led to the construction of a performative process that removes the concept of the beginning and end of a performance, as well as its fruition
With Paradiso, the authors respond to the need for new formulas for cultural participation that identify the need to become a live community again. From these premises comes the research of Paradiso, which aspires to the construction not only of a "show" but of a real "other" place, artistically connoted, capable of returning an idea and a possibility of cultural aggregation: a live work that is first of all a meeting place.
Photos
Video
Paradiso [Video bozzetto] - video: Giulio Boato / 313 film production
Paradiso [Title track] - video: Lele Marcojanni
Press
12/24/2022 - Maria Paola Zedda, Laura Bevione, Chiara Pirri, Artribune
10/2022 - Laura Bevione, Hystrio
26/08/2022 - Maria Paola Zedda, Artribune
07/18/2022 - Walter Porcedda, The States General
15/07/2022 - Stefano Tomassini, Teatro e Critica
14/07/2022 - Giuseppe Distefano, Exibart
10/11/2021 - Carolina Balucani, SediciGiugno