19 october 2024

DECISIONE CONSAPEVOLE
Roberto Tedesco
Körper
Centro Nazionale di Produzione della Danza (IT)

Saturday 19 October 2024, 5.30 P.M.
CORMONS, CITY THEATRE

DECISIONE CONSAPEVOLE

Roberto Tedesco
Körper | Centro Nazionale di Produzione della Danza (IT)


With: Mattias Amadori, Eleonora Dominici, Laila Luchetta Lovino,
Francesco Misceo
Coreography: Roberto Tedesco
Sound designer: Giuseppe Villarosa  
Lighting design: Giacomo Ungari
Costumes: Francesca Messori
Co-production: Centro Coreografico Nazionale Aterballetto (IT)
Supported by: Artefici. Residenze Creative FVG < ArtistiAssociati (IT)
Artistic residencies: ResiDance XL – Network Anticorpi XL (IT); Project finalist of DNA choreographic notes 2022; Creation selected for NID Platform Open Studios 2023 and NID Platform Programming section 2024
Duration: 50 min
Photo credit: Alice Vacondio

A concept map designed to guide improv sessions – that is what Decisione Consapevole has been so far... but what if we used the map as an actual diagram to create a choreographic work with four dancers dealing with their decisions? An empty space available to be filled and emptied through the awareness of each individual performer. Good taste plays a fundamental role in ensuring that the whole is homogenous and that the different personalities are dressed in a single suit. The suit dresses the performers with specific qualities and attitudes, rhythms and meticulously studied manners. A suit sets limits but includes infinite freedom. A suit is everything that urges decision.

Roberto Tedesco (1992) began studying dance at the age of eleven. He joined Scuola del Balletto di Toscana in 2009 and Aterballetto in 2011, where he stayed for ten years, working with great choreographers from the national and international scene. For them, he created Cemento for the In/Finito project and Turn the tide for the MicroDanze project. He joined ResiDance XL - Network Anticorpi XL, through which he began working on the project Conscious Decision. In 2023 he accessed the Open Studios of NID in Cagliari, nominated by Körper | Centro Nazionale di Produzione della Danza. He then created the duet Simbiosi with which he is selected for the project Vetrina Giovane Danza D'Autore. In January 2024, he was the recipient of the Danza&Danza Award as Emerging Italian Choreographer of 2023.

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

When I was still a dancer with the Aterballetto company we had a show in Gorizia. Fast forward several years, my choreography of Decisione Consapevole will be staged in October at the city theatre of Cormons, and I hope that my works will soon be performed for the audience of Gorizia, so that I can go back and see again a city of which I have such fond memories.

If you could give a piece of advice to yourself as a child, what would it be?
I would tell him: be strong, don’t care, go on, do what you love.

If you had the power to change the world you live in, what would you start with?
I would invite the inhabitants of a planet that is not as rotten as ours to visit our schools and teach our children to live in full respect of the nature in which we live in and of our fellow human beings. As if to say: at school with the aliens.

How did you first come across dance?
I loved hip hop in all its forms, the music, the dance, the outfits…. I dreamed of becoming as good as the dancers I saw in the videos of American singers or in films. In the end, I never studied hip hop, as I was immediately drawn to contemporary dance, but I owe my discovery of dance and my career to that first love.

Complete the sentences with only one word:
Dance can: live
Dance is: a cure
Dance will be: eternal

What was the spark that originated the idea for your performance?
In my performance “Decisione Consapevole”, the intention was to transform an exercise of movement in space into a choreographic work. I identified four keywords: Intimacy, Communication, Community, and Isolation which I used to create a conceptual map to guide improvisation sessions during my workshops. Then came the desire to turn everything into a performance, working with four dancers on the same four words.

And now, tell me why I should come and see your performance:
Decisione Consapevole is a pleasant, flowing show full of references to everyday life. It is suitable for audiences of all ages, the dancers are great, and the music is engaging. I believe it is a show that can really bring people together, so I recommend not to miss it.

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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