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MATTEO BITTANTE
Matteo Bittante, who trained in the mid-1990s as a dancer at the Fondazione Teatro Nuovo in Turin and the Hamburg Ballettschule 'J. Neumeier', at the age of 18 already had the opportunity to work with great ballet dancers at the Ballet National de Marseille Roland Petit, the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Aenaon Daniel Lommel. He has danced alongside étoiles Myrna Kamara, Oriella Dorella, Carotta Zamparo, Luciana Savignano.
LAST CREATIONS
REPERTOIRE
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OVER UNDER
BY MATTEO BITTANTE
with DANCEHAUS COMPANY JUNIOR
COSTUMES | TOM REBL
PRODUCTION DANCEHAUSpiù
Most men are like a dry leaf, hovering in the air and swaying down to the ground. But others, a few, are like the fixed stars, going by their own definite course, and there is no wind to touch them; they have in themselves their own law and their own path.
Hermann Hesse
With OVER/UNDER, the resident choreographer of the National Dance Production Center DANCEHAUSpiù, Matteo Bittante, returns to reflect on the themes he holds dear, of nature and creation, human and artistic, and of the great wager of living, today, creatively.
As in his other creations, the choreographer chooses to play and have his performers play with the objects on stage, mixing meanings and signifiers. And it is a game made of metamorphoses, an arcane "roundabout" capable of suggesting visual landscapes that are never static but in continuous becoming as in continuous becoming are the landscapes of the soul drawn by the performers' bodies in their relationship with objects. Transitional spaces, in psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott's definition, whose essence lies in their precariousness, in their straddling between objective and subjective reality. It is only by accepting the rules of the game that we will be able to see in a ball made of rags a dry leaf swaying in space, then become a mountain as high as to rip through the sky and finally become a bright, fixed star. Is this not the condition of every creative act, on stage but also in everyday life, "to see a world in a grain of sand and a paradise in a wild flower" as the English poet William Blake wrote? And is it not this creative perception that more than anything else makes the individual feel that life is truly worth living?
I WANDERED
LONELY
AS A CLOUD
BY MATTEO BITTANTE
with DANCEHAUS COMPANY | Alice Carrino, Cristian Cucco, Giovanni Leone
MUSICS | VARIOUS AUTHORS
PRODUCTION | DANCEHAUSpiù
“I wandered lonely as a cloud” is the incipit of one of the most famous poems of English romance written at the beginning of ’800 by William Wordsworth. In this new creation by choreographer Matteo Bittante, co-director and resident artist of the National Dance Production Centre, DANCEHAUSpiù, the poet’s verses form the background to the bucolic rite of the three dancers in which the life force and the idyllic stillness of nature are opposed to the turmoil and confusion of the city. In poetry, as in the show, the real protagonists are not men but the elements of nature such as the lake, the daffodils or the clouds with which the bodies of dancers attempt a possible metamorphosis.
Notes of the choreographer
I lived my childhood on a hill, in the middle of nature, running from one meadow to another; Climbing on trees, I was always in constant contact, almost symbiotic with her. Since antiquity the countryside, and rural life have served as a source of inspiration to many artists. An idyllic place of escape, a refuge from the shops of life, once for the exploration of the self. A landscape of the soul, today to be defended and protected against the ideologies of a period that contaminate and desert Mother Earth.
-Matteo Bittante
ANATOMY
OF INSPIRATION
BY MATTEO BITTANTE
with DANCEHAUS COMPANY | Matteo Bittante, Alice Carrino, Cristian Cucco, Giovanni Leone, Fabio Calvisi
MUSIC | CHRIS COSTA
COSTUMES | TOM REBL
PRODUCTION DANCEHAUSpiù
“Anatomy of Inspiration” comes from the multiple creative collaboration of the choreographer Matteo Bittante with the multi-instrumentalist singer and composer, Chris Costa and with the german rock-styled designer, Tom Rebl. Through the succession of the ten scenes that make up the show, the audience is led to reflect on the condition in which each individual lives within society, and on the relationship that art has with the power.
Power and Art, a combination that is sometimes imperceptible, an underground bond, yet rooted for centuries. Paraphrasing Dostoevsky’s famous statement “beauty will save the word” we know that, unfortunately, beauty has failed to save the word.
The hypercommodification, the spectacularization without precedents, associated with hypercommunication have upset and distorted the profound meaning of art and of experiencing art, whose expressive truth requires measure, rhythm, formal quality...
On stage the dancers, who accompany the choreographer, answer with their body to a drawing of styles and original sounds that range from electronic to rap, taking the viewer in a hypnotic whirl of strong and energetic suggestion and rhythms. In search of inspiration, in search of a saving beauty, even if just temporary.
AZIONI
SITE
SPECIFIC
ARTISTIC DIRECTION I MATTEO BITTANTE
with DANCEHAUS COMPANY
MUSIC | VARIOUS AUTHORS
COSTUMES | TOM REBL
PRODUCTION | DANCEHAUSpiù
DANCEHAUSpiù proposes original site-specific performative paths within architectural spaces, museums, prestigious palaces, or magical places. Making use of artists of different backgrounds, through their gesture, the 'encounter between tradition, classicism and contemporaneity takes place.
INSIDE
CREAZIONE
PER VIDEO E CORPO
BY MATTEO BITTANTE
with DANCEHAUS COMPANY
COSTUMES | TOM REBL
MUSIC CONSULTING | CHRIS COSTA and M. ALESSANDRO LUPO PASINI
PRODUCTION ASSOCIAZIONE ContART/ ArtedanzaE20 with the contribution of Next 2015
“Inside” is the story of a universe wounded by the violence of men the uncontrollable fury of Mother Nature. A genesis of the human race, from its first steps on the earth to the evo- lution in the modern individual. Music accompanies this development in any phase with acoustic environments that recall tribal and primordial sounds and that change in the frenetic and destructive rhythm of contemporary tecno music. The origin of the world begins with the tumults of the earth, the birth of the mountains, represented by installations made up of tubes and video projections. The tubes represent “the hand” of the man, they are everywhere, from the city to the boundaries of forests... it is the trail of mankind.
Still governed by animal instincts, men gather in the first tribes and experience gestures, habits and rituals. With the beginning of social dynamics, the struggle for the affirmation of authority, at the expense of the freedoms of others, quickly arises.
The thirst for power ghost the course of history, till nowadays. The modern individual has no other way out of the infernal existence that he leads. He can only follow its frenetic rhy- thm, without the possibility of salvation. The only winner of this eternal cycle of suffering seems to be Mother Nature, able to breathe new life into the world and give hope to a lost human race.
BROTHERHOOD
DUET BY MATTEO BITTANTE
with DANCEHAUS COMPANY | GIOVANNI LEONE - FABIO CALVISI
COSTUMES | TOM REBL
MUSICS | VARIOUS AUTHORS
duration 15'
PRODUCTION DANCEHAUSpiù
Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow,
don’t walk behind me,
I may not lead,
walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus
Two men, maybe two strangers, maybe brothers, maybe friends, maybe lovers. A two-way game in which the body of one draws on the body of the other the incipit of a new direction, of new gestures, of new rhythms. It is an invitation to unite fraternally, to walk together to find oneself hand in hand, no longer only “my”, no longer only “yours”, but relentlessly “one”.