19 october 2024

AMATEUR SMUGGLERS
Silvia Gribaudi, Andrea Rampazzo
EN-KNAP Productions

Saturday 19 October 2024, 7.30 P.M.
GORIZIA, KULTURNI DOM

AMATEUR SMUGGLERS

National Premiere
Silvia Gribaudi, Andrea Rampazzo
EN-KNAP Productions (SI)


By: Silvia Gribaudi, Andrea Rampazzo
With: En–Knap Group (Nika Zidar, Mattia Cason, Tina Habun, Davide Lafabiana, Tamás Tuza, Carolina Alessandra Valentini)
Rehearsals director: Ana Štefanec Knez (En–Knap Group)
Music: Luca Scapellato
Lighting design: Jaka Šimenc
Costumes: Katarina Markov (Atelje d.o.o.)
Editor: Dražen Dragojević
Co-production: ArtistiAssociati (IT)
With the collaboration of SSG - Slovenian Repertory Theatre of Trieste
Duration: 60 min
Amateur Smugglers are a part of GO!2025 Official Programme.
Project Amateur Smugglers / ASMUG is funded by the European Union through the Small Project Fund GO!2025 of the Interreg VI-A Italy-Slovenia 2021-2027 Programme, managed by GECT GO / EZTS GO.
www.ita-slo.eu / www.euro-go.eu/spf

Amateur Smugglers smuggles across the confines of the fourth wall a moving performance of belonging to and longing for community. Desire will set you free, or so populations and generations imagined. A case has been made for the role of denim in bringing down borders – and systems. This is the choice for freedom, not the freedom of choice, in going beyond, transcending or surpassing borders, migrating, smuggling. Imbued with a genuine, raw, disarming wit – a Silvia Gribaudi and Andrea Rampazzo signature – the choreography is a negotiation and mediation between personal boundary, stage convention and collective desire, through which a common and communal body is moving and is moved. 

Silvia Gribaudi is an award-winning Italian choreographer who specialises in performing arts. She has focused her research on the social impact of bodies, having centred her choreographic language around the comical element, and the relationship between the audience and performers. She has been questioning gender stereotypes, female and male identities, and the concept of virtuosity in dance and daily life, transgressing clichés, and appearances. Andrea Rampazzo is a dancer and choreographer. As dancer, he collaborated with dance companies, such as Compagnia Virgilio Sieni, Francesca Selva, Artemis Danza/Monica Casadei. As a choreographer, his works have been presented at various festivals (Caffeine, Tendance, Corpi in Movimento). In 2017, he co-founded Dance Makers: a heterogeneous group of dancers working on choreographic itineraries in site specific performances and creative interventions.

interview

Have you been to Gorizia before?
If yes: one thing you look forward to doing again
If not: one thing you hope to find

Yes, I've been to Gorizia more times than I can count, especially for the Gusti di Frontiera food festival. One thing I look forward to doing again? Probably eating my weight in delicious food and pretending it's for cultural enrichment.

If you could give a piece of advice to yourself as a child what would it be?
If I could give a piece of advice to my younger self, it would be this: You are on the right track, so keep marching to the beat of your own drum. Don’t be afraid to be yourself, everyone else is already taken and boring by comparison.

If you had the power to change the world you live in, what would you start with?
If I had the power to change the world, I would start with erasing the borders that divide us. Imagine a world where empathy rules and people see each other as humans first. Radical, I know.

How did you first come across dance?
I first came across dance inside my mother’s belly. She attended seven weddings during her pregnancy, so I guess you could say I was dancing before I even took my first breath. The rhythm and joy of those celebrations sneaked into my very being.

Complete the sentences with only one word:
Dance can: transcend
Dance is: freedom
Dance will be: eternal

What was the spark that originated the idea for your performance?
The spark for our performance ignited from the stories of real people living on the border between Yugoslavia and Italy. These narratives of resilience, conflict, and unity demanded to be brought to life through movement. It’s a poetic journey, not just a routine.

And now, tell me why I should come and see your performance:
You should come and see our performance to experience more than just steps and music. It’s an emotional rollercoaster wrapped in rhythm and movement, crafted to make you reflect on your own personal borders. Plus, where else can you find a story told with such grace and sass? Come see for yourself and discover the boundaries you didn't know you had.

A project by:

In partnership with:
SNG Teatro Nazionale Sloveno di Nova Gorica

With the support of:
Ministero della Cultura / Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia / Io sono FVG
Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Gorizia

In collaboration with:
Comune di Gorizia / Comune di Cormons / Comune di Gradisca d’Isonzo / ERPAC / APT / Ente Regionale Teatrale del FVG / Fondazione Palazzo Coronini Cronberg onlus Goriški Muzej / Confcommercio Imprese per l'Italia Gorizia Kulturni Dom Gorica / Kulturni Center Lojze Bratuž Palazzo del Cinema-Hiša Filma di Gorizia / PAN ADRIA network / TIARE Shopping

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