Alessandro Sciarroni

Alessandro Sciarroni

Performing Artist, Choreographer, Director, CORPOCELESTE, Rome/San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy

DON’T BE FRIGHTENED OF TURNING THE PAGE

During the experience of the project ‘Migrant Bodies’, between 2014 and 2015, the artist develops an idea for a new performative practice that is deeply germinal. Starting from the observation of the migration flows of some animals that at the end of their life return to spawn and die in their natal territory, the artist began working on the concept of “turning.” The English term is translated and represented on stage in a literal sense, through the action of the body rotating around its axis: the action develops into an emotional psychophysical journey, a dance of duration, in the same way “turning” also means to evolve, to change.

The TURNING project is divided into different presentations and events that the artist calls “versions.” Each “version” involves different performers, as well as visual artists, musicians, and designers, called by the artist to interpret the same action according to their own sensitivity. Dramaturgically consistent with the title of the project, the materials and the physical scores are subject to a change, an evolution, a transformation, within each individual event.

DON’T BE FRIGHTENED OF TURNING THE PAGE premiered in 2017 as a solo by and with Alessandro Sciarroni, for non theatrical spaces with natural light.

At CIMAM, for the first time, the piece will be performed by Marco Bertani.

Invention: Alessandro Sciarroni

Performance at the première: Alessandro Sciarroni

Performance: Marco Bertani

Music: Paolo Persia

Styling: Ettore Lombardi

Dramaturgy: Alessandro Sciarroni, Su-Feh Lee

Promotion, advice, development: Lisa Gilardino

Administration, executive production: Chiara Fava

Technical director: Valeria Foti

Communication: Pierpaolo Ferlaino

Production: corpoceleste_C.C.00#, MARCHE TEATRO coproduction CENTQUATRE-Paris, CCN2 – Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble, Les Halles de Schaerbeek

Biography:

Alessandro Sciarroni is an Italian artist active in the field of the performing arts with several years’ experience in the visual arts and theater research. His works start from a conceptual Duchamp-like matrix using a theatrical framework and have been featured in festivals, museums, and unconventional spaces throughout Europe, South and North America, and Asia.

His creations involve professionals from different disciplines and use some techniques and experiences from dance, the circus, and sports. His work tries to uncover obsessions, fears, and fragilities of the act of performing, through the repetition of a practice to the physical endurance limits of the interpreters, looking at a different dimension of time, and to an empathic relationship between the audience and the performers. In 2019 he was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in Dance by the Venice Biennial.

Alessandro Scarroni is an associate artist of MARCHE TEATRO and CENTQUATRE - PARIS.