17,18 october 2024

Visavì Workshop
DANCING OUTDOOR

Valerio Longo
Balletto di Roma

Thursday 17 October 2024, 4.30 P.M.
Friday 18 October 2024, 4.30 P.M.
GORIZIA, KULTURNI CENTER LOJZE BRATUŽ

Visavì Workshop
DANCING OUTDOOR

Valerio Longo
Balletto di Roma (IT)


Max. 20 participants.
Minimum age 16+.
Basic training required.

Following the success of previous editions, this year the Visavì workshop with Valerio Longo offers a two-day meeting-seminar. The aim is to create a short choreography, which will then be transformed into a site-specific format: the young participants will perform in front of an audience in an unprecedented location and will therefore receive immediate feedback on their performances. Through personal research into the use of space and choreographic management in unconventional locations, the young dancers will be able to establish a direct and sensory experience with an audience.
The workshop will be considered as an audition for the CAP - Professional Introduction Course of the Balletto di Roma.

Valerio Longo, dancer, choreographer and trainer, joined the Aterballetto company in2001, where he performed the main roles of the company’s entire repertoire. Parallel to his activity as a dancer, in 2004 he started his own choreographic research, creating works for important Italian and international companies. He collaborates with the Reggio Children Foundation (RE) as a representative of the movement area. Since 2020, he has been deputy artistic director of Balletto di Roma and coordinator of CAP–Corso di Avviamento Professionale, a training course created within the same Rome-based company.

intervista

Have you been to Gorizia before?
If yes: one thing you look forward to doing again
If not: one thing you hope to find
I’ve been taking part in this event for several years now, and the first thing I am definitely looking forward to is seeing the festival staff again. I can’t wait to get back on stage to meet the artists and the young people that are participating in its  manifold events, including my workshop.

If you could give a piece of advice to yourself as a child, what would it be?
Don’t ever be too sad because you are disappointed, everything flows, so keep going on!

If you had the power to change the world you live in, what would you start with?
By never stop believing and nourishing its strength!

How did you first come across dance?
In a very natural way, because movement has always played a big role in my family, my mother was a dancer and my father has always been an art-loving sportsman!

Complete the sentences with only one word:
Dance can:
cross over
Dance is: life
Dance will be:  forever

What was the spark that originated the idea for your latest project?
To create my latest work, a full-length performance, I thought deeply about the theme of WATER in all its most intimate connections with life.

And now, tell me why I should come and participate in your workshop
Let me ask you a question... Why shouldn't you come if you like the theatre, movement... and dance??? We are waiting for you!

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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