Dimitri Chamblas and Kim Gordon: takemehome in Italian premiere at the Festival dei Due Mondi

One more great dance performance for the Festival dei Due Mondi playbill in Spoleto: on Saturday, July 13, the Teatro Romano hosts the Italian premiere of takemehome, the new to four-handed creation by Dimitri Chamblas, one of the most recognized choreographers to internationally, and Kim Gordon, bassist, guitarist and vocalist of the alternative-rock band Sonic Youth - "one of the most daring women in rock" the New Yorker calls her. For the show, Dimitri Chamblas was inspired by the long at nights on the Los Angeles freeways, a world populated by shadows, ghosts and silhouettes, that he used to walk through on his way back from classes in the city jail. Dancers emerge and disappear, elusive but familiar, intertwined and interdependent in the created world of Kim Gordon's electric guitars and amplifiers. On stage are nine performers from from different continents and each with a distinctive artistic background: Marion Barbeau, Marissa Brown, Eli Cohen, Bryana Fritz, Eva Galmel, François Malbranque, Jobel Medina, Salia Sanou, and Kensaku Shinohara act and move through the performance space as shadows in the play of light created from Yves Godin, ending in a suspended inflatable light-generating zeppelin (conceived in collaboration with Virginie Mira), much like to a control and surveillance device. Five electric guitars and five amplifiers moved across the stage flood the space of this nocturnal otherness with frantic looping sounds and noises that flesh out the darkness.

"The show was born to Los Angeles," says choreographer Dimitri Chamblas, "from the long at I spent driving at night back from a maximum security prison located outside Hollywood, where I teach. As in the world's major metropolises, foot traffic has been eliminated and with it the misery and underworld that accompanied it. to times, at night, this barely lit world of asphalt lets ghosts and silhouettes emerge. I imagined a whole universe of human forms based on these absences." Dimitri Chamblas' career reflects an interest and curiosity that never ceases to develop. He created the 3e Scène at the Operà National de Paris, then became Dean of the Faculty of Dance at the California Institute of the Arta in Los Angeles. Chamblas defined his own cartography of creation by moving dance to unconventional places, such as inside maximum security prisons, as evidenced by Manuela Dalle's documentary Dancing in to -Yard. Today it is through his Studio that he develops his projects: Takemehome, the staging of Crowd Out, and Slow Show.