Artists
NATURE OF THEATRES #24
International Performing Arts Festival
TOUCH 2018-2020
ND’T 2019
SMOOTH//STRIATE
31 October – 30 November
LENZ FOUNDATION | Maria Federica Masters | Francesco Pititto
Büchner, Hölderlin, Lenz, Kleist, Rilke, Dostoevsky, Mayakovsky, Shakespeare, Goethe, Grimm, Andersen, Calderón de la Barca, Genet, Lorca, Bacchini, Ovidio, Virgilio, Manzoni, d'Annunzio, Ariosto, Verdi, Dante: these are the authors who have marked Lenz's monographic and multi-year projects, from 1985. The recent contemporary performative creation projects are the artistic result of in-depth visual research, filmic, space, dramaturgical and sound. In an aesthetic convergence between exegetical fidelity to the word of the text, visual radicality of film creation, originality and conceptual extremism of the artistic installation, Lenz's work rewrites the philosophical tensions and aesthetic anxieties of contemporaneity in visionary signs. Translation, dramaturgical rewriting, imagoturgy of the works are by Francesco Pititto, who directs it together with Maria Federica Maestri. The scenic installations and costumes are created by Maria Federica Maestri, noted by critics for her work of "dramaturgy of matter", for the system of visual signs that constitute his very personal "design-acted". Dal 1996 Maria Federica Maestri and Francesco Pititto take care of the artistic direction of the International Festival of Contemporary Creations Nature Gods Theatres. A complex project, named Theater Practicescharacterizes Lenz in the field of theatrical and visual training. Social Theater Practices instead it activates theatrical awareness courses, visual, musical which involve the design of integrated laboratories aimed at intellectually and mentally disabled people.
The group formed in Sheffield in 1981 composed of brothers Klive and Nigel Humberstone with the addition of guitarist Anthony Bennett. At the beginning their style was influenced by Joy Division and they were cataloged among the groups of English industrial music. After the first EPs published for Sweatbox, on the first album Twins of the 1986 the group superimposed theatrical atmospheres on industrial musical bases. Subsequently, the multilingual singer Lores Marguerite C and the drummer Q joined the group, which contributed to making the sound less rough, contributing to the creation of the album Stormhorse of the 1987, soundtrack to a fictional film that became a point of reference for subsequent recordings. In the next Meat of the 1988 the transition towards classical instrumentation was completed and where sounds produced by a sequencer were used. The albums Sense e Duality they were intermediate steps that pushed the group to create soundtracks, concretized in 1993 with the one for the film An Ambush of Ghosts. Their fame grew and their music was used in successful films such as Interview with vampiro e The Rain Man. In the 1994 they published Anatomy of a Poet, concept album on the figure of the poet Colin Wilson, where they recite some poems by the English author. They followed Deco (1996) concept album dedicated to Art deco and the experimental Lingua (1997) where they use languages from many parts of the world. In the 1996 inaugurated the series Optical Music Series, published for his own label (ITN Corporation), with the publication of the soundtrack of the silent film The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari. So far they have been published 7 silent film soundtracks. On the last album Blind Sound of the 2011, darker than the previous ones, they introduce parts with real percussion. Under the pseudonym of The Twinsx they have released some dance music records.
Lillevan is an electronic composer and video artist from Berlin, co-founder of the audiovisual group Rechenzentrum (1997-2008), which had a pioneering role in proposing the union between music and moving images. The group's performances and Lillevan's collaborations with some of the most important musicians in electronic music (You're up, Vladislav Delay just to name a few) have been acclaimed by audiences and critics around the world, from Brazil to Siberia, from Canada to Korea, from Cuba to Belgrade and Detroit for their ability to convey the image, music and animation towards new and unprecedented levels of experimentation. Parallel to the work with the Rechenzentrum, Lillevan has collaborated with many artists of different genres, from the work to the installations, from minimalist electronics to dance and classical music. He has created performances and exhibitions all over the world, participating in major international festivals. After studying cinema, writing and staging several films in the 1980s and early 1990s, he gradually abandoned this discipline, disappointed by the limited possibilities for experimentation with cinematographic language. New impulses, together with the accessibility of new technologies, they bring him back into the world of moving images, with a new perspective and motivation: searches for moving images, which he believes have disappeared in cinema, in world art and popular culture. Lillevan recontextualizes and combines images and fragments of existing films. Interferences and interrupted images constitute a central dramaturgical element in creation and performance. Images produce music, and push the viewer into a psycho-visual composition. For Lillevan the creative process starts from a research modeled on that of Jean-Luc Godard for the relationship between images, intensity and consistency. Lillevan sees his work as a multi-layered process that gives each viewer the opportunity to focus on different details of the performance. Human perception remains the final interactive element of live video composition, while the images return to their original ambiguity, moving away from the imperative nature of traditional editing. Lillevan delivered, among others, i DVD Silence, Director’s Cut (con Mille Plateaux), Emperor Remixed Beethoven’s 5th Piano Concert (commissioned by the Goethe Institut in Tokyo), IBM (made with Rechenzentrum), Bioskop installations, multiple projection that explores the conventions of early cinema (1900-1917), Sound X Vision. He took care of the artistic direction of Expo2000 Video-Robot installation. He cooperated, among others, con Tetsuo Furudate (in Berlin and Tokyo), Ueli Wiget of the Ensemble Modern, Christian Fennesz (in Berlin, Hong Kong e Canada), Vladislav Delay, Christine Hill. Inside Natura Dèi Teatri 2009 he presented, for the first time, the audio-visual performance Fixation Fields, accomplished to this for the Festival, collaborating again with Lenz in 2011 in composing the music for the project Aeneas. #1 The wild boar race. The artist's last presence in Parma dates back to 2016, once again guest of the Natura Dèi Teatri Festival.
Aristide Rontini began his artistic career in the theatrical field. In the 2010 si diploma alla Rotterdam Dance Academy. Danza by Conny Janssen Danst, Micheal Schumacher, Georgh Reischl, Candoco Dance Company, Alessandro Carboni, Simona Bertozzi, Civil Ballet, Angelica Liddell, Carl Olof Berg, Alessandro Schiattarella and Vahan Badalyan. Crea “It moves me”, “Young Nocturne” and “Alexis”. In the 2016 It is in the 2018 is selected for the "Showcase of Young Author's Dance". In the 2016 completes her studies on community dance practices. Creates community dance shows “Dancing like Yves”, “At the edge of the heart”. Takes part in the European inclusive dance projects “Impart” and “Moving beyond inclusion”.
HIDDEN PARTS
The Hidden Parts group was born in 2008 from the experience of previous PARTS training (industrial rock), in business since 1992 al 2001. The group has developed an original compositional technique based on the strong interaction between elements of the rhythm section (bass and drums). The music embraces different musical genres while maintaining a strong rock imprint. The training originates from the experiences of musicians who in the past played in bands like TAC, Parts, Monophon, Psy-Phon, Pale TV, realities that they have made of experimentation, in the field of rock, their main goal.
The Akropolis Theater company, founded in 2001 and directed by Clemente Tafuri and David Beronio, conducts research on the pre-literary origins of theatre, bringing the role of the choir back to its original function and understanding the theater as an expression of unrepresentable wisdom, an art form that makes a direct comparison with myth and its metamorphic essence possible. The Trilogy about Friedrich Nietzsche (2013), Death of Zarathustra (2016) e Pragma. Study on the myth of Demeter (2018) are the on-scene results of this investigation, accompanied by studies and publications on the same topics. The research activity has been the subject of various degree theses. The shows are hosted in spaces and theaters throughout Italy and abroad. The company manages the Akropolis Theater in Genoa, a place designed to welcome and promote research in the performing arts, through the organization of festivals, artistic residencies, workshops and various cultural activities. In the 2017 the editorial activity of Teatro Akropolis, created under the AkropolisLibri brand, received the Ubu Award in the "special projects" category.
Filippo Michelangelo Ceredi was born in Locarno in 1982. He grew up and studied in Milan, where he graduated in philosophy with a thesis on the "Function of passions and violence in Greek tragedy". He works as Marco Bechis' assistant director on the film The boss's smile (2011), in collaboration with Istituto Luce, and in the web series The noise of memory (2014). He assists Iacopo Patierno in the creation of the web series for the Italian-Mozambican project Theater is good (2016) and directs videomaker works. Dal 2012 he began his theatrical training following the workshops of the Teatro delle Moire and working as a technician for theatrical projects. In the 2016 debuts at Danae Festival with Between Me and P., subsequently presented at Santarcangelo Festival 2017, Short Theatre 2018, Parallèle Festival and Turin Hills Festival 2019. In June 2016 carries out the performance Psalming for the Exile Library by Edmund de Waal at the Ateneo Veneto in Venice.
Marcello Sambati, poet, director and playwright, founder of real and utopian theatrical places; protagonist of the Italian research theater of the last thirty years. Creator in 1980 of Dark Camera and the Furio Camillo theater in Rome, he has collaborated with artists on the national and international contemporary scene. He has published and staged theatrical texts and poetic anthologies including Eros, Love (Dark Camera 1991), Chart of breaths and Apulian tablets (The Quaderni del Battello Ebbro 1996 e 1998), Prometheus e The Butterfly Opera (Flora & Wildlife 1998 e 2000), Nature rests from the darkness (The Green Room 2009 e 2010). Hesitations (Empirical 2016). To appear, To be (Obscene Space 2017) Of the 2018 Margin, Wonder: the body scene by Marcello Sambati (Publishing & Show).
BORIS KADIN
Boris Kadin was born in Croatia in 1980. Versatile artist and very active internationally, in his independent projects he often radicalizes the position of the performer himself. Kadin creates performances, media art e film. Studying the processes of semiotics, Kadin creates works that generate layered meanings, triggering synesthesia between the various elements of the scene, where space becomes time and language becomes image. Boris is a philosopher, free human being, activist and artist. And father. He has performed at many international festivals and venues in Marseille, New York, Athens, Barcelona, Liked, White City, Prague, Parma, Dusseldorf, ecc….. Member of HDLU (Croatian visual art ass.), Via Negativa (Liked, Slovenia), Vasistas (Athens/Marseille based company) and Happy Gorilla Dance Company of Bergen, Norway. Historical collaborator of the Lenz Foundation, he is an artist in residence within the Orestea project of which, a ND’T #24, presents the second chapter.
JAN VOXEL DIGITAL ART
Jan Voxel Digital Art is a recently formed collective, composed by the director, performer and digital artist Cinzia Pietribiasi and physicist and software developer Lorenzo Belardinelli.
Cinzia Pietribiasi was born in 1979, digital artist and performer, trainer and expert in empowerment & wellbeing, through body languages and multimedia, in contexts of mental distress and in a school environment. She is currently enrolled in the two-year specialist course in New Art Technologies, address Interactive and performative multimedia arts at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts (Milano). She is interested in new technologies applied to the analysis and capture of movement in the artistic and installation fields, to human-machine interaction, alla digital performance, to the creation of immersive and "sensitive" environments through virtual and augmented reality works.
Lorenzo Belardinelli was born in 1969, theoretical physicist and computer scientist, has over 20 years of experience in the field of software development using different technologies and for different purposes (numerical simulations in physics, commercial software for companies, data presentation, generative art). For ten years he was artistic director of a civilian theater festival. He is currently a member of the jury of the "Resistance Theater Festival" – Deer Museum.
Tim Spooner works in various artistic fields: performance, collage, painting and sculpture. His work reveals unprecedented properties of materials and objects, with the aim of opening up perspectives not contemplated by our common perception. Fundamentally interested in’unpredictability, his work is a balancing act between control and lack of control in the manipulation of the materials he works with. Dal 2010 Tim has created a series of increasingly complex live works, focused on the revelation of “vita” in the matter. Recent projects include The Voice of Nature, an interconnected system of fragile sculptures; The Assembly of Animals, created for a young audience interested in the abstraction of an animal form; e The Telescope, which uses a microscope camera to reveal a universe of miniature objects manipulated with magnets, electricity and chemical reactions. Next to, and in relation to these projects, he produced a continuous flow of paintings and collages. Tim's work has been featured widely in the UK, in Europa e in Asia, including Battersea Arts Centre, Cambridge Junction, Mayfest Bristol, MAC Belfast e DCA Dundee (per Hayward Touring), Whitstable Biennale, Terni Festival (Italia), TJP Strasbourg (France), Marseille Actor Festival (France), International Puppet Theater Festival Erlangen (Germania), Piece of Leuven (Belgium), Maria Matos Theater (Portugal), Culture Station Seoul (South Korea), Festival Puppet Party (Indonesia) e Macau Arts Festival (Chinese). Already a guest of ND'T in several editions, this year he consolidates his collaboration with the Lenz Foundation with a video work centered on THE GREAT THEATER THEATER OF THE WORLD_Momentary Plush produced by Lenz Fondazione in the last edition of the festival.
