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IVONA | PABLO GIROLAMI
ASSOCIATED ARTIST TILL 2021
Pablo Girolami, thanks to a meeting with dancer Giacomo Todeschi, founds IVONA in 2019.
Born from the desire to explore her own vision and deepen his creativity, Ivona debuts with her first creation the duet "Manbuhsa", with which he wins the Twain_DirezioniAltre Prize 2019, the audience prize at CortoinDanza 2019 in Cagliari, at 33, at Certamen Coreografico in Madrid. "Manbuhsa" is also selected for the Young Author Dance Showcase Anticorpi XL 2019 and the Redacielabierto, will then be a guest in Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Germany and Turkey. The company is named after Girolami's alter ego.
PABLO GIROLAMI
Born in Neuchâtel (Switzerland), he is of Italian and Spanish origin. He studied at the Tanz Akademie Zürich. In 2014, he began his professional career as a dancer in Wiesbaden/Darmstadt with the Hessisches Staatsballett, and in Italy with Spellbound Contemporary Ballet. Since 2017, he has created for the Hessisches Staatsballett, DeDa Production and Café Klatsch, EgriBianco Danza, Kseij Dance company, The LabCollective, TanzWerk101 Zürich, Ateneo della danza Siena. In 2020, Pablo Girolami is chosen by the AnticorpiXL Network for the action ResidanceXL.
By PABLO GIROLAMI
with PABLO GIROLAMII e GIACOMO TODESCHI
Duration 8' or 30'
"Manbuhsa" was created by imagining two young boys playing in a rice field. Encouraged by a fascination for foreign civilisations and forged on the rhythms of music, a relationship is created between the dancers. Through movements, one pushes the other to discover his natural instincts.
A vibrant journey of unconscious emotions, innocence and playfulness.
While the physicality of "Manbuhsa" reminds us of the cranes whose bodies react simultaneously to the impulses given to each other, the agitation and precision may make us think of the peacock spider. 'Manbuhsa' is in some ways a study and transposition of these peculiar animal dances onto the human body.
MANBUHSONA
By PABLO GIROLAMI
with IVONA Company: Clementine Herveux, Lou Thabart, Giacomo Todeschi, Pollet Kasza, Samuele Arisci
Duration 60'
WITH THE COLLABORATION
CID Rovereto - Festival Oriente Occidente,
Amis du MDC - Melinda Stampfli - Neuchâtel,
PRODUCTION
Centro Nazional di produzione della Danza DANCEHAUSpiù
TWAIN_Centro di Produzione Danza Regionale
PERIFERIE ARTISTICHE - Centro di Residenza Multidisciplinare della Regione Lazio
"Manbuhsona" is an evolution. A couple becomes a community, "Manbuhsa" becomes "Manbuhsona," a day trip becomes the journey of a lifetime. We will have to regain our instincts and search our past for our foundation to be strong and stable. A journey in time, in space, that will connect our roots to our future.
We will immerse ourselves in nature and be inspired by the beauty of our surroundings. In addition, the personal challenges faced and relationships created will aim to build a community that will operate symbiotically.
The piece is divided into two acts each consisting of three states.
Act 1: Confusion, Contemplation, Revelation
Act 2: Inspiration, Enlightenment, Discovery
Both acts are closely related and separated only by the interval. Since the end of Act 1 will be the beginning of Act 2, the audience will participate in the continuity of the journey. Each act can be interpreted independently allowing the audience to imagine the beginning or end of the journey.
GIANNI PASQUALE
By PABLO GIROLAMI
with GIACOMO TODESCHI
Duration 11'
// Winner of the award Roma Danza 2020 SmARTphone dance
Gianni-Pasquale, 46, sexually ambiguous, mama's boy, possibly moody, definitely disturbed. Desperately in love and lover of being desperate. Unfiltered, he, boundless in generosity, inflicts his lover with an infusion of his torment.
"Dear Maruzza,
I am writing you this letter because I really appreciate you.
The first time I saw you, my heart indelicately whispered 'it's her.'
The way you tickle my whiskers, the way you stare at me. You make me throb.
I would like, if you would let me, to give you my flower."
Gianni-Pasquale, a love letter to a blow-up doll.
T.R.I.P.O.F.O.B.I.A
By PABLO GIROLAMI
with VONA
Giacomo Todeschi, Pablo Girolami
// With the support of KOMM TANZ Teatro Cartiera Progetto residenza Compagnia Abbondanza/Bertoni in collaboration with Rovereto City Council.
PRODUCTION
Centro Nazionale di produzione della Danza DANCEHAUSpiù
The medium through which a tripophobic skeleton is given shape is geometry, which, however, only through the imaginative contribution of the human mind becomes an active gateway of fear, of anguish reflecting man's insecurities and paranoia. These are bottomless spaces where all awareness falls dizzyingly. Clarity is lost and eyes close.
Challenging a fear is not an easy game. In fact, it seems that playing the game rather involves accepting not to play at all.
With T.R.I.P.O.F.O.B.I.A we choose to accept the challenge and make fun of it, turning ourselves into real parasites that creep into its tunnels.
We are two Bodies that channel ourselves into the patterns to which this phobia refers. Moving in alternating and precise geometric shapes, we disentangle ourselves from the dark tunnels devoid of air and accompanied by elements "other" than ourselves.