Autumn 2023
“There is no memory of the future. We always act in the dark.”
Rebecca Solnit
Wall Dialogue Resistance came to an end last June with a three-day meeting at Sa Manifattura, Cagliari during the Respiro Festival that brought together the entire network: Sardegna Teatro Il Cantiere Noau Les têtes de l’Art Colectivo Noray Hacendera Balleteatro Spaziodanza Pares Sueltos with all the involved artists.
The project has been ambitious, complex, intense, but we are very happy that it made it possible to create many great artistic works and as many connections and meetings. As at each stage, a work in progress performance was presented to the public, a sort of restitution in performative language of the guiding intention of the project. The theme of the wall was realised as an experience of darkness through a black box and a blindfolded walk in the open air.
Elements that characterised this open process shared with the talented dancer Giulia Cannas from Fuorimargine and realized with the support of the Sardegna Teatro’s technical staff. The audience was invited to see the dance through an exploration of darkness: a symbolic and physical environment that helps to expand our perceptions, suspending the usual hierarchies of the senses and questioning the most recognised ways of sharing signs and meanings. Finally bringing to the fore the Space itself inhabited by our bodies with their tactile and kinetic qualities.
A special thank to Real_Pelagio company and Giulia Marasso
all photos @LauraFarneti_Fuorimargine
Many original works were presented during the Wall Dialogue Resistance project’s final event:
In addition to the premiere of Stefano Odoardi’s Film, which poetically reworked in the form of images and words the whole experience of journey and the residencies, the large hall of Sa Manifattura hosted a multimedia set up that included: Nicolas Lange’s Podcast, the CD with original music by Stefano Risso and Lalli and a collection of photographs to be listened to by Stefano Risso, Miriam Tello‘s original drawings in the form of the project’s Storytelling, and Rossana Mendes Fonseca’s video, part of the Portuguese performance. Special collaboration on the performance was offered by dancers Violeta Fatas, Cyril Limousin and Carlos Silva, while Stefano Risso and Sims Simone Longo collaborated on the original sound design.
Click HERE to download, listen to or view the works of the artists involved.
Watch HERE THE TEASER of the multimedia installation & immersive performance
Festival Respiro2023
News !! 16 September 2023 9:30 pm at the Confraternita in Robilante, CN Italy presentation of the film Wall Dialogue Resistance by Stefano Odoardi director of photography Michele Garau for Festival Imaginè Free entrance with reservation, click on the film link to reserve a place.
“And how much nostalgia we will have for the human. As we now have of the infinite.
But we will not have hands.
We will not be able to make caresses with our hands.
Nor cheeks to touch lightly.
A nostalgia of imperfect will swell our shining photons…”
( from a poem written by Mariangela Gualtieri/ freely transl.)
SUMMER 2023
summer is just around the corner…
and after 16 months since the beginning of the European cooperation project Wall Dialogue Resistance, which has seen us engaged in several residencies, we are about to meet again all, partners and artists involved,
for the final event in Cagliari from 25 to 27 June
to share, after a period of time apart, stories and new explorations, echo and treasure of an intense and very dense experience, through thematic meetings and an installation that will gather all the elaborated artistic products: storytelling, podcasts, films, music, videos plus an itinerant and immersive performance around the experience of darkness.
An opportunity to give space to sensitive actions through the languages of performance arts that highlights all the vulnerability and necessity of our bodies in presence and connection. Let’s the irreplaceable experience of the encounter make us surprised, as a rare and precious thing, a perfect conclusion of a project born during and in response to the pandemic.
©️Laura Farneti / Sa Manifattura 2022
MAY / JUNE 2023
for the preparation for this final event, we have to thanks Real Pelágio company in Lisbon, which opened the doors of its headquarters, the historic TEATRO da VOZ. It has been a precious place and time, allowing Sara to put ideas about performance into movement in collaboration with choreographer and dancer Violeta Fatas from Pares Sueltos company, dancer and author Giulia Cannas from FuoriMargine, and thanks to the close relationship with Stefano Risso’s sound research, through long-distance meetings between Lisbon, Zaragoza, Cagliari and Turin.
a special thanks to Sílvia Real and Susanna, Rodolfo and all the staff for the availability and care!
Soon we will be back in person!
June 21-25 a short residency, as part of the closing event of Wall Dialogue Resistance, will allow, on the 25th the dancer and choreographer Violeta Fatas from Zaragoza, the sound designer Simone Sims Longo from Cuneo and the dancers Cyril Limousin, Marseille and Carlos Silva, Porto to join us!
Ready for the final public event, here is the program:
WALL DIALOGUE RESISTANCE
25-27 June 2023
Sa Manifattura – Cagliari
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Wall Dialogue Resistance Installation
Sa Manifattura
An installation that brings together materials produced as part of the two-year project:
Nicholas Lange’s podcast, Miriam Tello’s graphic storytelling, Sara Marasso’s performance format, Stefano Risso’s music and Rossana Fonseca’s video.
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A work in progress performance:
A body-sound-movement immersive performance for a darkened site and an open space to be connected through a walk
27 JUNE h 6:30 pm
Sa Manifattura
Public opening at the end of the Cagliari residency (June 21 – 24) for 25 people available for an experience that crosses light/dark, individual/group dimensions and includes a blindfolded walk (reservation required).
The central themes of the project – the wall as limitation and opportunity in close relation and connection with the body in presence, public space, and a playful approach to creation – have brought to light a new research engine: darkness. An intimate and frightening context will guide this last phase, inviting the exploration of darkness as a symbolic and physical environment, so as to question perceptions, hierarchies of the senses and the usual way of sharing signs and meanings. The residency will process materials to communicate primarily through sound and kinesthetic rather than visual channels, with the aim of producing a hybrid narrative around a silent element with liquid qualities not immediately associated with force, as is water, connected to a feminine and relational principle.
credits
Concept, corpography, dance: Sara Marasso
Original compositions and live music: Stefano Risso
Dramaturgical assistance: Violeta Fatas (Noray/Pares Sueltos)
In collaboration with the dancer Giulia Cannas (FuoriMagine), Simone Sims Longo (Noau) for live sound, with Carlos Silva (Balleteatro) and Cyril Limousin (Les Têtes de l’Art/Wrong Time) for the blindfolded walk and with Sardegna Teatro staff: Loïc Hamelin (light design), Serena Trevisi Marceddu (setting up) Giorgia Mascia (sound design).
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Wall – The Film
26 JUNE h 9 pm
Sa Manifattura
As well, all project partners together with the participating artists will meet to share and give back in presence thoughts and considerations on the project themes. We share a few photos of dinners and chats we had together during last year’s trip, looking forward to seeing each other again soon!
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SPRING 2023
Cucù everyone! happy spring to all,
and may ideas and new sensitivities flourish, may creativity be with us all and sustain change.
In these months we have found ourselves exploring connections between darkness, water, writing and the body. We have used the walls as pages and the water graffito has become an opportunity to reflect on languages, visibility and writing as bodily action.
So a virtual space is just born to share some insights from our research, because the work that emerges is always a piece of what moves underneath:
CLICK HERE for the new section RESEARCH
NEWS
MAY / JUNE 2023
New project residency
Stare ad occhi aperti nel buio (working title)
we will be in residency at TEATRO da VOZ company headquarters of
Going on…
WALL DIALOGUE RESISTANCE
It’s ready! The GRAPHIC STORYTELLING by Miriam Tello
To download the map and concept CLICK HERE
To download the graphic storytelling of the residencies CLICK HERE
Stefano Risso‘s record is in progress: it’s going to rework and transform into music the voices and fragments of melodies collected during the journey + Nicolas Lange‘s podcast made in collaboration with Patricia Lowe (pictured) and Lalli, whom we thank!
In February
While Stefano’s double bass lessons at Potenza Conservatoire are going on, Sara has been invited as a guest teacher for the two-year training course for dancers at FOR – Olga Roriz Company in Lisbon for a month of yoga classes.
FOR – training Olga Roriz
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