• GALIT LISS – 19 to 21 September 2023/ 12 November 2023
  Freelance choreographer and lecturer, Galit Liss founded and consolidated an artistic and social project involving creation with older women non-dancers. Her works focus on the physiological aesthetics of the mature body in contemporary dance and have been performed at festivals in Israel and abroad. Galit is the creator and artistic director of the Gila movement and performing arts workshop for older women. Here she brings her unique methodology for working with the elderly body. Her latest show ‘Blue Zone’ premiered at the Israel Festival 2020. In addition to her artistic work, Galit gives lectures and workshops all over the world. Her lectures cover creative processes and the connection between art and society, emphasising her experience working with older women.
  https://en.galitliss.com/

• MICHELA LUCENTI – 12 to 15 October 2023
  Michela Lucenti founded Balletto Civile in 2003, a nomadic artistic project driven by a strong ethical tension. Balletto Civile’s performances have multiple inspirations ranging from the often irreverent reinterpretation of the great classics of Dance Theatre and Music. Since 2015, Balletto Civile has undertaken an important artistic renewal, activating a “widespread” Ligurian residency divided between the collaboration with the Teatro della Tosse in Genoa, which, in addition to supporting and co-producing part of the artistic creation, has entrusted Michela Lucenti with the Artistic Direction of the Festival Resistere e Creare and the direction of the Festival Fisiko! in S.Stefano di Magra. from 2022 Michela Lucenti/ Balletto Civile is an ERT associated artist.
  For Ert, SINCE 2022 Michela directs the physical theatre festival CARNE. Michela Lucenti/ Compagnia Balletto Civile collaborated with Nanni Garella/ Compagnia Arte e Salute in the creation of Pasolini’s play Porcile.
  Among her numerous creative experiences, Michela Lucenti tackled the theme of ageing in 2012 in “Tentativo # 1” (performed by Bolzanopeople/ Balletto Civile) and in 2013 with the project “How long is now”.
  http://www.ballettocivile.org/it/

• SILVIA GRIBAUDI – – From 09 to 11 November 2023
  An Italian choreographer active in the performing arts, since 2004 she has focused her artistic research on the social impact of the body, placing comedy and the relationship between spectator and performer at the centre of the choreographic language. Her shows have been presented in numerous national and international festivals and are realised in creative processes at the centre of which is the dialogue and poetic encounter with other artists, companies and communities. The performative body outside the traditional canons of dance is central to Silvia Gribaudi’s work: in addition to the well-known “R.OSA”(2017) and “GRACES” (2019), both awarded by critics and the public, Gribaudi has undertaken artistic research projects including ACT YOUR AGE (2014), a European project on active ageing through the art of dance, from which the performance WHAT AGE ARE YOU ACTING? and the territorial project OVER 60 were born.
  https://www.silviagribaudi.com/

• LARA GUIDETTI – From 14 to 17 December 2023
  Graduated as a dancer and choreographer at the Atelier di teatro-danza of the Scuola Paolo Grassi in Milan, she studied with great national and international masters and continued her training in the world of dance and performing-art. In 2006, she founded the company Sanpapié, of which she is artistic director, choreographer, director and performer. In addition to numerous creations for the company’s dancers, she works as a choreographer and performer in the world of theatre and as choreographer, co-director and dancer with the JGM company in Lisbon. Parallel to her choreographic activity, over the years she has developed skills as a trainer and realised workshops for young dancers and amateurs, also working on fragility with mixed groups of dancers and the physically and psychiatrically disabled and with people over 60. As part of a collaboration with Fondazione Nazionale della Danza/Aterballetto, she has recently realised the project “Dal liscio al rave” (From ballroom dancing to raves), involving 40 citizens over 55 in a workshop path centred on the crossing of popular dance cultures and distant musical universes.
  https://www.sanpapie.com/

• ARTURO CANNISTRÀ – From 12 to 14 January 2024
  A director and choreographer, he gained extensive experience as a dancer with the Corps de Ballet of the Teatro Comunale in Florence. After collaborating with the Contemporary Dance Collective directed by Cristina Bozzolini, in 1984 he joined the Aterballetto Company, under the direction of A. Amodio and then M. Bigonzetti from 1998. In 2003, she became head of the Educational sector of the National Dance Foundation – Compagnia Aterballetto and was responsible for the planning and realisation of programmes in which dance became an expressive medium integrated with educational and didactic processes. In this sphere, she has collaborated with important educational and training institutions such as Officina Educativa (Municipality of Reggio Emilia) and the “Peri-Merulo” Higher Institute of Musical Studies, coordinating and signing the choreographic parts in projects such as “Confini di Luce” and “Corpi Sonanti”. Since 2021 he has been collaborating as a teacher within the training path of the “Iolanda Gazzero” School of Theatre linked to ERT. With the aim of bringing people closer to the language of dance at all ages, he also designs and realises a course dedicated to adults over 50, specifically conceived for the Free University of the Crostolo of Reggio Emilia, and now in its third edition. Finally, it collaborates in the activities of the National Dance Foundation within the Over Dance project dedicated to the theme of longevity.

IN-PRESENCE LESSONS:

The in-presence activities will be realised by artists, choreographers or dancers who have been able to create their own models of relationship with people in fragile conditions. The active way in which they will narrate and simulate the topics of the modules enables participants to acquire skills in an experiential way.

SIMULATIONS:

The simulations allow users to experience contexts, actions, processes, made available by the trainers and to grasp their potentialities of use and limitations and to be able to compare themselves with the group of participants and with the trainers themselves, creating conditions for constructive confrontation.

ROLE PLAYING:

The methodology allows operators to live as protagonists in situations involving people of an age to grasp, through the eyes of the group and the trainer, elements for improving their own practice.

TESTIMONIES:

These are moments of confrontation with professionals from different areas of the professional and academic world who, in various ways, reflect on the theme of longevity. The testimonies will take place mainly via video-call.

SARA UBOLDI (Phd. Humanities, research fellow at ISPC-CNR in Naples)
– 19 September 2023 – Fonderia
“Cultural welfare and inclusive dance paths. Dance as an embodied dimension of learning”.
– 24 February 2024 – Fonderia
Final return and sharing of the training experience.

ELISABETTA DONATI (Sociologist, Head of Scientific Secretariat Fondazione Ravasi Garzanti)
– 15 October 2023 – Fonderia
“Ageing, or rather a perennial birthrate!”

PIERLUIGI SACCO (Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Chieti-Pescara, Senior Advisor ‘OECD, Research Affiliate at metaLAB (at) Harvard and ISPC-CNR Naples)
– 1 December 2023 – online
“Cultural Welfare: behavioural change and social sides. The European perspective.”

FARMACIE COMUNALI RIUNITE/CONSORZIO OSCAR ROMERO – LA POLVERIERA
– 15 January 2024 – Fonderia
“Contexts and services: a system dedicated to fragility between public and private.”

NICOLA PALMARINI ((Director UK’s National Innovation Centre for Ageing)
– 2 February 2024 – Fonderia
“Ageing, longevity, opportunities.”