REVIVAL RHAPSODY (2023/24)

Intergenerational Dance Workshop – 2023/24 Edition

A community that dances beyond conventions. Following the success of the Dal liscio al Rave experience in the 2022/2023 season, the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza/Aterballetto, in collaboration with the Municipality of Reggio Emilia, presents the city with a new edition of the workshop: Revival Rhapsody. This year, too, the course will be led by Lara Guidetti, choreographer, performer, and artistic director of the Sanpapié Company.

The intergenerational workshop aims to restore the ballroom as a free zone: a space for the intersection of generations, transmission, mutual understanding triggered by encounters, and shared practice. While  Dal Liscio al Rave was designed for citizens over 55 and under 25, this year’s new project is open to people of all ages (16 years and older). Participants, divided into two groups, will form a company of citizens working together for an entire season with the goal of connecting and comparing different times, stories, and ways of inhabiting a place through the language of dance.

Participation is free, and no prior experience in dance or ballroom is required. Registration is mandatory and open until November 6, 2023.

INFO AND REGISTRATION: lab@aterballetto.it

Last year, the proposal saw a group of citizen dancers itinerating through three social centers, following a dialogue path with places historically dedicated to dance, especially for older generations. This year, however, the place hosting the project is the Gattaglio neighborhood, as an expression of the city’s identity, with the aim of realizing a project in close dialogue with the city, featuring the voices and faces of a neighborhood that is currently experiencing significant development across different generations.

Popular dance, as a true form of social ritual, breaks the boundaries of traditional Emilian-Romagna dance halls and rave Temporary Autonomous Zones (TAZ) to include practices typical of historical moments, regions, and different places stored in collective memory—a tool for mutual understanding and narration. Revival means “to relive, rebirth, awaken”: a material deposited within bodies, memories, and imaginations that, depending on the life stage one is in, can be very different but is always present in each of us, constituting a source of intergenerational dialogue, creativity, and confrontation. The rhapsody evokes a free and varied composition, built from a combination of melodic ideas centered around a folk and communicable narrative.

This is the underlying structure of the project, which aims to bring together and give voice to ‘multiple uniqueness’ within a collective discourse, reflecting inclusion and listening.

Workshop Details:

The workshop is free of charge and is open to individuals aged 16 and above.

No prior experience in dance or ballroom is mandatory for participation.

Mandatory registration until November 6, 2023.

Workshop Start Date: November 14, 2023 Final Performance: May 18, 2024 Classes: Twice a month

The sessions will take place in two time slots, the first group from 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM, and the second group from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM, at the Gattaglio Social Center (via del Gattaglio, 30). The course will be held every two weeks on Tuesdays until April. From April onwards, the sessions will be held weekly in preparation for the final performance.

For all high school students, a participation certification will be provided for PCTO purposes.

Emiliana, after competitive studies in acrobatics and theatrical acting, graduated as a dancer and choreographer in 2006 from the Atelier of theater-dance at the Paolo Grassi School in Milan. She studied under renowned national and international masters such as Susanne Linke, Emio Greco, André Minvielle, Franco Brambilla, Luciana Melis, Reinhild Hoffman, Lucinda Childs, Susanna Beltrami, Yong Min Cho, and Sarah Taylor. She continued her education, delving into the realms of dance, performing arts, as well as various actor training and pedagogy methods, participating in workshops and productions with international artists like Rimas Tuminas, Cesar Brie, Paz Rojo, Carolina Bolouda, Joao Garcia Miguel, Virgilio Sieni, and many others.

In 2006, she founded the Sanpapié Company, where she serves as artistic director, choreographer, and performer. She has choreographed 40 works and performances for the company, showcased throughout Europe and China. In 2017, her production “Lei” won the Sonia Bonacina Award, dedicated to women in the theater. Alongside her work with Sanpapié, Emiliana collaborates as a choreographer and performer in theater, dance, and classical music, working with significant directors and composers. In addition to developing educational modules and permanent programs, she has built collaborations and conducts intensive and thematic workshops in various parts of Italy and Europe.

The project is in collaboration with

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 cofunded by the European Funds of Regione Emilia-Romagna

Revival Rhapsody is part of Over Dance, the cultural welfare project on longevity by the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto, in collaboration with the Fondazione Ravasi Garzanti of Milan (scientific partner) and the Farmacie Municipali Riunite of Reggio Emilia (institutional partner).

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