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LA MAMA SPOLETO OPEN 2015
spettacolo di danza urbana
There is a moment for everyone to from which one learns to to look within oneself. There is also a constant we call T, for which that moment is intimate and individual, referring to the individual.
The constant T is a transcendent number.
toPRAY does not talk about the constant T, but tells about the point of view from which it is observed.
_toPRAY _is a corridor: to times to get to the human soul the path is long and narrow; other times contemporary man does not find time to choose the complex roads; the time it takes to cross them corresponds to the constant T.
We are said to "possess a soul." We go through the symbols we have ascribed in history to what we cannot to see, to give life a different value, to recognize beyond the form a different level.
What does it mean to "pray"?
We look for an answer in every action. Perhaps action itself is an act of worship: contemporary man acts on the body by "drawing" worship from it.
What if what we hold most sacred is the imagination that will allow us to identify the soul throughout life?
Useful information:
Since there are no parking facilities, it is recommended to use the free shuttle bus made to available on the three days of the performance.
Shuttle schedule:
departure from Carducci Square/Viale Matteotti at at 8:00 p.m./8:10 p.m.
1st stop at the new Posterna parking lot at at 8:20 p.m.
II stop in Victory Square in front of the Bloody Bridge at at 20.40
arrival at La MaMa Umbria International to Santa Maria Reggiana (Bazzano, Spoleto)
return by shuttle to end of show
(outdoor performance)
choreography and artistic direction** Afshin Varjavandi**
Inc Company InnprogressCollective
performers Luca Calderini, Mattia Maiotti, Jenny Mattaioli, Elia Pangaro
sound design Angelo Benedetti
lighting design Fabio Galeotti
It is an independent group dealing with urban dances, visual art and performance. It was born in 2006 to following the creation HEIM, winner of the choreography prize at the International Dance Week in Spoleto. from there the idea of establishing a stable group of young artists, promoters of new forms of contemporary street art, urban dances and trends. Characterized by surprising youth and from a strong artistic fellowship, they are the advocates of an alliance, where talents and skills are shared, blended and re-composed toward collective goals. They dance Afshin Varjavandi's productions and together to he invents styling and concepts for performances, installations, videos, fashion shows and events. In June 2013 they present the show Oceania to LaMaMa experimental theater in New York in two performances, getting a review in the art and culture section of the New York Times.
He began the study of dance to 14 years old, approaching hip hop technique and urban styles in the beginning, with the greatest international masters including Omid Ighani, Marisa Ragazzo, Dominique Lesdema, Bruce Ikhanji, Archie Burnett, Christopher Huggins, Khosro Adibi, Baba Israel. His multicultural family heritage along with his instinctive and multifaceted curiosity lead him to approach dance and body movement in all its forms, accompanied from an increasingly keen attention to choreography and the architecture of the stage space. In 2007 he created the choreography HEIM, with which he is the sole overall winner of the Spoleto International Dance Week. He is guest choreographer of the biggest Italian festivals, including Amores (Bologna), Cross Roads (Florence), Giffoni Film Festival (Giffoni). Productions follow: _Departure _(2007), Underskin (2008, winner of Spoleto International Dance Week), Disorder Apparent (2008, as guest choreographer for Duncan Ballet), Protest! (2009-2010, winner S.I.D. Spoleto, LatinArte, UISP award, Positano Leonide Massine award), Oceania (2012, in production with LaMaMa Umbria, LaMaMa experimental theater New York). He teaches urban dances throughout Italy, is artistic director of important centers in the modern-urban sector (CentroDanza Perugia, Nuovo Spazio Danza Jesi), creator of seminars and workshops (Urbane Contaminazioni), installations (Siah il Nero) and trainer to professional courses (Opus Ballet, Florence). He dances in DaCru Dance Company, dancer of video clips ("Solo" by Marco Mengoni, produced from Sony 2011).