Alessandro Sciarroni
DREAM
DREAM, Alessandro Sciarroni © Alessandro Sciarroni ©
DREAM, Alessandro Sciarroni © Alessandro Sciarroni ©
DREAM, Alessandro Sciarroni © Alessandro Sciarroni ©
DREAM, Alessandro Sciarroni © Alessandro Sciarroni ©
Design and choreography, Alessandro Sciarroni
Featuring Marta Ciappina, Matteo Ramponi, Elena Giannotti, Valerio Sirna, Edoardo Mozzanega, Pere Jou
Piano, Davide Finotti
Dramaturgical advice, Salvo Lombardo
Soundscape, Aurora Bauzà, Pere Jou
Costumes, Ettore Lombardi
Lighting design and technical care, Valeria Foti
Care, advice and development, Lisa Gilardino
Administration and executive production, Chiara Fava
Press relations and communication, Pierpaolo Ferlaino
Social media, Giulia Traversi
For the novel DREAM by Alessandro Sciarroni
Care, Alessandro Iachino
French translation, Nicolas Aude, Gaia Clotilde Chernetich
Layout, Alice Butera
Coordination, Pierpaolo Ferlaino
Produced by Associazione cultural corpoceleste
Co-produced by MARCHE TEATRO Teatro di Rilevante Interesse Culturale; Corpoceleste_C.C.00 # Dance; Le CENTQUATRE-PARIS; Triennale Milano Teatro; Centrale Fies; Snaporazverein; Azienda Speciale Palaexpo – Mattatoio | Progetto Prendersi Cura; La Contrada Teatro Stabile di Trieste; Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels; Festival d’Automne à Paris
Co-directed by Le CENTQUATRE-PARIS; Festival d’Automne à Paris
With support from King’s Fountain
With support from Azienda Speciale Palaexpo – Mattatoio Progetto Prendersi Cura, La Contrada – Teatro Stabile di Trieste
Alessandro Sciarroni is an international associate artist at CENTQUATRE-PARIS and at Triennale Milano Teatro 2022-2024
With support from Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels
Alessandro Sciarroni’s exhibition, on the frontier between dream and reality, is performative, choreographic and musical all at once. Visitors are free to mingle with the enigmatic, semi-conscious figures they encounter. In doing so, they are transported from the here and now to an imaginary elsewhere.
As part of a novel yet to be published, Alessandro Sciarroni summons up a form of humanity which agrees, in a serene manner, to relinquish its dominance of nature. Alternating between sensuality and the thirst for innocence, he uses this philosophical vision as the basis for a performative scenario which pushes the six dancers to their limits. The latter are free to perceive their own presences as well as those of the visitors, or simply to allow their minds to wander off to other universes. Visitors encounter them as if they were exhibits in a gallery or a museum, and their respective presences have an effect on the state of mind and body of these enigmatic figures in their search for a new light. With the clock ticking, the visit lasts for as long the visitor wants it to, enabling performers and audience members alike to detach themselves from all notions of time. This in turn sets up the possibility of encounters.... A work of great lucidity, a pianist performs a repertory of works going from the XVIIIth century to the XXth century, transforming the digression that DREAM offers us into a dreamlike one. Sciarroni’s literary endeavours come to fruition via the description of this performance which opens up the gateway to our imaginations.
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