Artists

ND’T Autunno
18 NOVEMBER → 30 NOVEMBER 2017

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 Practices characterizes 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.

Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner

Scanner, stage name of the musician, writer, English artist and critic Robin Rimbaud, is synonymous with experimentation between the arts and a unique style in the international musical and artistic panorama. The musician crosses the experimental territories between sound, space, image and form creating a multi-level sound platform that exploits technology in an unconventional way. He is considered among the most important composers on the world electronic scene. In his first controversial works he used the scanner, a radio interception tool, to create his musical compositions. Excerpts from cell phone conversations of unsuspecting users, civil services such as ambulances or surveillance services are sampled and inserted into the artist's music as an integral part of a carpet of sounds. This path, who intended to discover the hidden sounds in modern metropolises, she has received the admiration of artists such as Bjork, Aphex Twin and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Scanner has collaborated with artists of different genres: dai Radiohead a Bryan Ferry e Laurie Anderson, from Rambert Dance to Random Dance Company, il Royal Ballet e Merce Cunningham, by musicians such as Michael Nyman and Luc Ferrari, to artists like Steve McQueen, Mike Kelley, Derek Jarman, Carsten Nicolai e Douglas Gordon. Dal 1991 is engaged in live concerts, compositions, installations and soundtracks: the albums Mass Observation (1994), Delivery (1997) e The Garden is Full of Metal (1998) they have been defined by critics as fundamental works for the contemporary electronic music scene. In the 1994 the work Sound Surface, made with Stephen Vitello, it was the first soundtrack commissioned by the prestigious Tate Modern Gallery in London. He has exhibited and created works in the most prestigious contemporary art spaces, including the SFMOMA in the United States, the Hayward Gallery in London, the Pompidou Center in Paris, la Tate Modern & Tate Britain in London, he Palais des Beaux-Arts di Lille, the Kunsthalle in Vienna, the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow and the Royal Opera House in London. His work has been featured throughout the United States, in South America, in Asia, in Australia e in Europa. Already a guest at Lenz Teatro in 2007 for the “As a Little Phoenix” exhibition and protagonist of the edition 2007 of the Natura Dèi Teatri Festival with the performance From the Head to the Hip, for the edition 2008 of the Festival he created the original music of Hand us over, girl, your eyes, creation of Lenz by The Ballad of Little Red Riding Hood by Federico García Lorca. For the edition 2009 of the Natura Dèi Teatri Festival created the performance Landscape & Memory. In the 2012 he created musical projects for the London Olympics. In the 2015 he created the opera for the Lenz Foundation and Festival Verdi Verdi Re Lear. He conducts seminars in the most prestigious electronic and contemporary music institutions.

Tim Spooner – artist in residence 2015-2017

The established English artist Tim Spooner, in international residency at Lenz Teatro for three years 2015-2017, acts in the fields of performance, del collage, of painting and sculpture. He uses materials and objects that reveal unexpected properties, in order to open perspectives beyond everyday perception, Human. Fundamentally interested in unpredictability, his work is a balancing act between control and lack of it, in the manipulation of the materials he works with.
Dal 2010 he is constantly dedicated to creating live works based on the revelation of life in matter. Closely linked to this project is the ongoing production of paintings and composite images. Il 2016 is marked by research and the creation of a series of "chapters": performances that will ultimately be superimposed together to give life to a great new work, THE Voice of Nature, which will be presented in Strasbourg in January 2017.
Other more recent works include The assembly of animals, a performance sculpture for children and adults presented in Europe and Asia, The telescope (Whitsable Biennale, Manchester Science Museum, Terni <festival, Nature of Theaters#19, MIMA Mirepoix), Subliming Furiously (Chinehale Dance London, TJP Strasbourg), The most extreme form of knowledge (b-side Festival 2014) Unfished Interior (Nature of Theaters#20) e The shambles (b-side Festival 2016) e Blindspot (Nature Gods Theatres #22). Tim Spooner is an associate artist at Artsadmin.

Adrian Engelbrecht

Adrian Engelbrecht < born in Germany in 1967 lives and works in Parma. Poet, artist, musician, actor, he published Gothic diptych for Cultura Duemila Editrice (1993), Along the vertebrate rib of the heart for the Quaderni del Battello Ebbro (2003), The Probatic Pool for Fedelo's Editrice (2006), Tristan for Happy Hill (2007). In December 2015 she went out, together with the poet Ilaria Drago, the latest poetic collection Location unknown, always for Fedelo's Editrice. Dal 1989 al 2003 he collaborates continuously as an actor, director, musician and trainer with Lenz Rifraczioni, participating as an interpreter in numerous shows of the ensemble including: Kirillov, the three drafts of The Death of Empedocles, Oedipus the Tyrant, Antigone, K***, The Marquise von O*, Amphitryon, Catherine in Heilbronn, La Famiglia Schroffenstein, Faust I, Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood and directing works including: Riccardo II e Sonnet. For many years he has been conducting a complex research path on the relationship between poetry, art and theater. The latest poetic production was also specified in the installation/exhibition and sound form, investigating the relationship between words, visual sign and musical composition. His work has been presented in numerous theaters, museums, galleries and festivals, both in Italy and abroad, including the Genoa International Poetry Festival, Parmapoesia Festival, Research of Reggio Emilia, Ermo Colle, Natura Dèi Teatri festival. In the 2014 he resumes his artistic collaboration with the Lenz Foundation which sees him engaged as an interpreter in the project dedicated toHyperion di Friedrich Hölderlin and in Rosa Winkel (Pink triangle) in the Resistance/Holocaust project.

Monica Bianchi – artist in residence 2017-2018

Monica Bianchi trained as a dancer with Giorgio Rossi and Raffaella Giordano from Sosta Palmizi with whom she has worked since 89 al ’94. She has always alternated her work as a dancer with that of an actress. He began his career at Lenz Rifrazioni Teatro and subsequently worked for Roberto Castello's Aldes company, Japigia Theatre, the Dough and the Teatro delle Briciole. In the 2004 forms the trio Ninachaos with Valentina Buldrini and Daniela De Angelis and debuts at the Santarcangelo festival with the show Inland. It is the only one from the following year Suit 101. Dal 2002 works with Annalisa D'Amato in shows I am the passerby e I'm not. In the 2011 returns to collaborate with Lenz Rifrazioni in The Isle of Dogs in M. Federica Maestri, in The Betrothed e Bruno Longhi. Create the show for Natura Dèi Teatri Woo with Giorgio Vecchi who takes care of writing and music. E’ in residence at the Rift Theater in London for an original version of Bruno Longhi. Always from 2011 collaborates with Michela Lucenti's Balletto Civile.

Fiorella Iacono – artist in residence 2016-2018

Fiorella Iacono, artist in residence at Lenz Foundation, she was born in Modena where she lives. She graduated in Philosophy with a thesis on the poetics of William Burroughs. He collaborated with the newspaper The poster dealing with contemporary art. 
He cataloged Cesare Leonardi's photos for the Atlas of Modena Cathedral (Panini, 1985) on the occasion of “When the cathedrals were white”. He has participated in important photographic exhibitions including, recently, European Photography in Reggio Emilia (Bearable lightness, 2011; Goli Otok, 2014; Primitive Forest, 2015, Earth Path, 2016) and group exhibitions (Lands, 2014, On/Off Space Parma; Heim, Home space; 2014; Contrasts, 2015, Villa Welcome, Modena). In the 2015 he presented Providence/ Video installation at the WoPa Contemporary Parma in the Natura Dèi Teatri Festival. In the 2016 presented his latest work in Genoa call at Studio Incantations in Genoa and created a photographic documentation project for the Lenz Foundation inside the Napoleonic Wing of the former San Francesco prison in Parma for the show site specific Auto-da-fé.

Jacopo Jenna

Jacopo Jenna is a choreographer, performer and filmmaker who creates works for the stage, video and for installations. His research investigates the perception of dance or choreography as an extended practice. Graduated in Sociology, he trained at Codarts (Rotterdam Dance Academy). He has collaborated in Europe with stable companies and choreographic research projects. His work is produced and supported by spazioK/Kinkale, in recent years he has presented his projects at festivals and institutions such as Centrale Fies, Cango/Production center on body languages ​​and dance, MART-museum of modern and contemporary art of Trento and Rovereto, Contemporary Festival, European incubators for young artists/Young Creation-Video Cinema, Palazzo Strozzi Foundation, Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Art, Factory Europe, LeMurate Contemporary Art Projects, CROSS International performance award.

ND’T Estate

LesItaliens
20 JUNE → 1 JULY 2017

Theater of the Moirai | Alessandro Bedosti

Interested in investigatingre new forms of language, the Teatro delle Moirai has frequented many areas and experiences of creation and representation, so that his productions cannot be ascribed to any specific category, if not insert them into a search dimension. The company's shows are characterized by a non-narrative dimension, which has its strong point in the creation of images and figures, presences that appear in a surprising way and that free themselves from the concept of interpretation. Another feature that characterizes the company's work is the taste for paradox and a surreal dimension. Dal 1999 Teatro delle Moire curates Danae Festival in Milan.

Alessandro Bedosti is an actor, dancer and performer. His artistic journey, started in the early 1990s, led him to collaborate with many of the protagonists of Italian and European theatrical research (Michele Abbondanza, Antonella Bertoni, Monica Francia, Paola Bianchi, Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio). In recent years, thanks to the intense study experience with the butoh dancer Masaki Iwana, he dedicated himself to the creation of short dance portraits as an author and dancer (Without title – 2009, When we see your dance? – 2010, Please open the curtains – 2012, The game – 2014).

Tihana Maravić

Tihana Maravić is a scholar of theater and performing arts, curator and cultural operator. In the 2008 obtained a PhD in Theater and Cinema Studies from the University of Bologna. His research focuses mainly on the relationship between art and spirituality, the comparative study between the history of religions and the anthropology and semiology of the actor-performer. She is the founder and artistic director of BLITZ. International performing arts festival in Rovinj, Croatia. Dal 2013 takes care of the planning and communication of the artistic production collective Ateliersi and of the multi-artistic center Atelier Sì in Bologna.

MK | Michele Di Stefano and Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch

MK has been dealing since 1999 of performance, choreography and sound research. Among the most recent productions: Robinson, Impressions from Africa e Hey, choreographic investigations poised between pure landscape and tormented reconstruction of the exotic; the group produces, in collaboration with several artists, environmental and installation formats, come SUB (Egg festival 2015), Frontier (Live Arts Week 2015), View (2016) and the Balinese Dance Platform (Santarcangelo International Festival 2014-15). In addition to the constant circulation in Italy and abroad (Europa, Asia and South America), MK carries out an intense training activity with collaborations such as the Paolo Grassi School in Milan, the Teatro Stabile of Turin and the Venice Biennale.

Ginevra Panzetti | Enrico Ticconi

Ginevra Panzetti and Enrico Ticconi live between Berlin and Turin and have worked together as an artistic duo since 2008. Their research develops in the field of dance, performance and visual art. Both graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and attended the Stoa, school of rhythmic movement and philosophy directed by Claudia Castellucci. In the 2010 they move to Germany and explore individual but mutually complementary paths: Enrico studies Dance and Choreography in Berlin at the Inter-University Center for Dance (HZT), Geneva Media Art at the Leipzig Academy of Fine Arts, University of Graphics and Book Arts (HGB). Parallel to their projects, Enrico works as a dancer for several choreographers including Kat Vàlastur, Dewey Dell, Lea Moro, Adam Linder while Ginevra deepens her study as a designer in the field of contemporary jewelery and is the author of the Tegumenti line.

Opera

Opera is an artistic research group founded in 2006 with the creation of the show of the same name. The direction and artistic responsibility are entrusted to Vincenzo Schino (director, visual artist) and Marta Bichisao (dancer, choreographer), companions in work and life. The structure of the group has changed over the years both for artistic needs and for biographical reasons. There are those who have shared every project and those who have gone through research for a short time or for some jobs. In the 10 years of activity the group has been hosted in the major Italian theater festivals and in contexts linked to contemporary art such as the Triennale di Milano and the Rocca Albornoz within the Festival dei 2 Worlds of Spoleto. In the 2010, with the show Sleep wins the Lia Lapini and Linea D'Ombra prize. In the 2011 is among the groups selected to represent Italian theater in Moscow. Many articles and insights have been written in national newspapers and specialized magazines. Some students in Italy and France have used Opera's work as a thesis topic. The group is based in Umbria.

Dom-

DOM- is a project born in 2014 from the collaboration between the artists Leonardo Delogu and Valerio Sirna. Investigates the language of performing arts, with particular attention to the relationship between body and landscape, and is committed to the transmission of particular housing practices, linked to the space and time of artistic creation and shared planning. DOM- constructs performative events, seminars, walk, written, gardens, installations, video, photo reports. The latest production, The walking man, is now on tour in Italy and Europe, while the cycle of urban explorations entitled Mother Rome the sixth edition is about to open. For the 2017 DOM- he is working on collective projects, where the heart of the work is collaborative practices. Choral it is a process of co-creation of a ritual for the areas of Umbria affected by the earthquake, and is supported by the Teatro Stabile dell'Umbria; Forest is a collective project of urban regeneration through artistic practices, supported by Terni International Festival of Contemporary Creation.

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