ALCE
Fabrizio Favale
- Friday 11th October 5pm
- Teatro Astra (Contrà Barche, 53)
choreography Fabrizio Favale
with Daniele Bianco, Daniel Cantero, Vincenzo Cappuccio, Giuseppe Catalfamo, Matteo Di Ciommo, Martina Di Giacomo, Alessandro Girardi, Alicia Ianeselli, Valentina Varini, Po-Nien Wang
music Christian Fennesz, James Holden, Dark Morph, Nathan Fake, Team Ghost, Jónsi & Alex
set, lighting design, costumes First Rose
coproduction Festival MILANoLTRE, KLM – Kinkaleri, Le Supplici, mk
with the support of MiC, Regione Emilia-Romagna, with the support of ATER, h(abita)t – Rete di Spazi per la Danza, Sementerie Artistiche, Crevalcore; Regione Lombardia & Fondazione Cariplo for Next project, thanks to Teatro Duse Bologna and DAS Bologna.
- duration: 45 min
Fabrizio Favale’s signature style features a strong connection with the rhythms and shapes of nature. In Alce moose he and his group Le Supplici further explore a theme he has long been investigating that has led to the creation of various works: the presence of animals and our relationship with them.
Strangely closer to us as we gradually let go of the world, the presence of animals is subtle, evanescent, almost ghostly, and yet so full of sounds and unintelligible languages, of new senses of space and time, new possible relationships between all creatures. Starting from these assumptions this work moves towards abstractions of an indefinite elsewhere. It invents movements as if they were beings from other worlds, like of imaginary animals, or odd populations that are now extinct or that have never existed.
The dancers paint an unknown, alien landscape, and inhabit it as its creatures, in a choral dance that is sometimes rhythmic and tribal, sometimes rarefied and evanescent.
In Alce zoomorphic figures (some inspired by archaic popular tradition, others invented) punctuate the passing of the choreography, like in a mysterious dialogue from afar.
Biografia
Since 1999 Fabrizio Favale has created over 30 choreographies and has been invited to many internationally renowned festivals and theatres such as the Chaillot Théâtre national de la Danse, Biennale de la Danse de Lyon, the Venice Biennale, SIDance Seoul, Varna International Festival and many others. He has received prestigious choreography awards in Spain, Germany, Italy and Serbia.
His dance is centred on abstraction, typical of the American techniques he was taught. The choreographic landscapes he draws in his works seem each time to recall distant, unknown worlds, in which dance is presented as a horizon free from interpretations and classifications.
He has invented a series of experimental programming formats for Italian Festivals and Theatres. The main ones are: The Balinese Dance Platform (2014-2015) for the Santarcangelo Festival and Circo Massimo (2016-2017) for the Duse Theatre in Bologna.
His outdoor project, Le Stagioni invisibili – Ciclo Coreografico Infinito, has received the 2019 PerChiCrea Production Award by SIAE and the Italian Ministry of Culture and was among the 8 best European outdoor projects of 2021 of the Big Pulse Dance Alliance in the Open Air Commissions programme. Between 2022 and 2024 he was Italian Associate Artist of MILANoLTRE.
