The wall as a fracture that divides space and interrupts our daily routine it’s a way of talking about all of us
, the isolation we live in, the possibilities of imagining and acting a future in a such complex and challenging time.

The wall as a state of non-comfort, an inability to see and move, can become an opportunity to stop, pause, slow down, reflect, wonder on one hand and to return to sensitivity, touching, imagining on the other.

What’s beyond the wall?

Wall Dialogue Resistance: a CREATIVE EUROPE project

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Wall Dialogue Resistance

THE CONCEPT

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The project uses the image of the wall, both a physical and mental limit, as a practical and symbolic guide to an open creative process with the aim to develop a participatory and interdisciplinary performance-format that can creatively elaborate the encounter with a territory and its inhabitants. At the basis of the project there is a question that connects it to the present: what’s beyond the wall? what’s beyond a limit? Limit as a state of interruption of everyday time and space, which we all had experienced during the pandemic as separation and isolation.

Like a vision or an act of imagination needed, in order to go beyond something, the wall could also be interpreted as an opportunity: a condition not sufficient but necessary to let a different perspective emerge supporting a real change. And the project aims to explore this perspective through artistic research that involves our moving-sensing bodies.

The participatory character of the project is realized during a residence time through serious-ludic actions: 1_ a movement-sound workshop revealing that the strongest limitation are the invisibles and embodied ones: space position, postures, ways of speaking and gestures where pre-judges and values are hidden (stay right as a self-made man!) 2_ an open-air appointment to play a game in a public space (1,2,3 Stella) 3_ a final performance.

All these activities are followed by different audio-visual project outputs to let a resonance of the occurred encounters appear and to reinforce an ongoing connection between different territories and people beyond any kind of walls and limits.

The history of the project can be found here

THE PROJECT DESIGN

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The project WALL DIALOGUE RESISTANCE, co-funded by the European Union within the Creative Europe programme, led by Teatro di Sardegna as main partner and with the artistic direction of Il Cantiere, aims to recreate a different way of experiencing public space through direct and indirect involvement of the audience in the creative process, describing a landscape and a community through a contemporary interdisciplinary narrative. The project wants to stimulate the dialogue / participation / interaction of European citizens through a human site-specific participatory approach to the creation in performing arts, to apply the creative process for overcoming separations from each other, and to disseminate a methodological creative format to make culture more inclusive.

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The structure unfolds through five artistic residencies hosted by the partners involved and realized through a single journey linking them all, which takes place from August 21st to October 1st 2022. The residencies will use action tools such as workshops, thinking laboratories and the popular crossnational game.

Each residence will end with a PERFORMANCE as a collective emotional experience of a common space. After this, a period of reworking and post-production of the multimedia and textual contents produced will follow, and it will include a FILM, a PODCAST, a GRAPHIC STORYTELLING and a PERFORMANCE FORMAT.

The project focuses on the open process, emphasizing the work of questioning and research, on the eco-sustainability and the human impact that will resonate with the people of the four Mediterranean countries involved: Italy, France, Spain and Portugal.

2nd residency in Marseille ©️StefanoRisso

RESIDENCIES

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VERMENAGNA VALLEY_Italy

Robilante | August 21st – 26th

MARSEILLE_France

Le Comptoir de la Victorine | August 30th – September 4th

NOVIERCAS/ZARAGOZA_Spain

Noviercas + Etopia Center | September 6th – 11th

PORTO/MATOSINHOS_Portugal

Casa da Arquitectura | September 13th – 22nd

CAGLIARI_Italy

Sa Manifattura | September 24th – 30th

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ARTISTIC DIRECTION

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Photos taken during Wall Dialogue Resistance residencies

SARA MARASSO

Director, choreographer and dancer

STEFANO RISSO

Composer, bassist and videomaker

ARTISTS

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Photos taken during Wall Dialogue Resistance residencies

STEFANO ODOARDI

Director, screenwriter and producer

NICOLAS LANGE

Writer, theatre director and performer

MIRIAM TELLO

Interdisciplinary artist, designer and activist

SIMONE SIMS LONGO

Sound and visual designer

JULIE YOUSEF

WRONG TIME COLLECTIVE

Dancer and videomaker

CYRIL LIMOUSIN

WRONG TIME COLLECTIVE

Dancer and videomaker

CARLOS SILVA

Dancer and dance teacher

ROSSANA FONSECA

Photographer

VIOLETA FATAS

PARES SUELTOS DANZA

Dancer and choreographer

SILVIA URBANI

Assistant

PROJECT OUTPUTS

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GRAPHIC STORYTELLING BY MIRIAM TELLO

To download the map and project concept CLICK HERE

To download the graphic storytelling of the residencies CLICK HERE

NETWORK

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partners

Sardegna Teatro | Il Cantiere | Associazione noau | Les têtes de l’ArtColectivo Noray | Asociación Hacendera | Balleteatro

associated partners 

Spaziodanza | Pares Sueltos

WALL DIALOGUE RESISTANCE | co-funded by CREA-CULT-2021-COOP n. 101055870

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