JARDIN SANPAPIÉ
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conducted by
Lara Guidetti and Matteo Sacco
“I am deeply convinced that everything is learned with practice and experience, and this principle is true both in dance and in life. You learn to dance by dancing and you learn to live by living. In both cases it is a question of carrying out a precise series of actions, physical or mental, aimed at a purpose, from which derives a sense of fulfilment, identity, satisfaction of spirit. It’s like being an athlete playing for God’s team.
Marta Graham
INFO:
write to info@sanpapie.com
INFO
WHERE
Milan
DURATION
From October to May
SYNOPSIS
IDENTITY 2.0
This workshop is Sanpapié’s longest-running in-house training project, founded on a group of people who have been studying together for four years, going beyond the entire pandemic. The desire is to work as a real company on the collective writing of a play, mixing languages with a definite performative and theatrical slant that focuses on the development of authorship and interpretation. The dramaturgical direction that is chosen at the beginning of the year partly determines specific meetings and experiences that can develop and support the creative choices that are undertaken, integrating the use of the voice, the relationship with the text and the image with dance. The workshop is intended to be a real space for research and development of one’s own specific qualities, but always in a strong relationship with a common composition of which each one is a fundamental piece. The theme of the performance will be chosen together with the group in the first part of the year.
The workshop from October will consist of a weekly day dedicated to the study of technique, training and choreographic composition, and of intensive weekend workshops on a monthly basis.
Those interested are asked to send a cv with their previous experience and, if desired, a motivational letter towards the course to info@sanpapie.com, in order to be invited to a workshop/selection day where they can get to know each other and work together. The teachers will be Lara Guidetti, who will direct the show, Fabrizio Calanna and Lara Viscuso, with interventions by Francesca Lastella, Gioele Cosentino, the dramaturgical support of Saverio Bari and the musical advice of Marcello Gori.
For costs and schedule write to info@sanpapie.com.
TEACHERS
LARA GUIDETTI
Born in Emilia in 1983, after studying acrobatics at a competitive level and theatrical acting, in 2006 she graduated as a dancer and choreographer at the dance-theatre Atelier of the Paolo Grassi School of Milan, studying with great national and international masters such as Susanne Linke, Emio Greco, and the musician André Minvielle, and participating in projects by Franco Brambilla and Luciana Melis (Tristan, 2005, A-ronne, 2006), Reinhild Hoffman (Der Aufbruch, 2004), Lucinda Childs, Susanna Beltrami (Glass, bouquet, guitar and bottle, 2006); Yong Min Cho and Sarah Taylor (Bridging lines Milan, 2005); again Luciana Melis (Suite for guitars and dancers, 2005; In-stall-action. At the end of the wood, 2006). She continues her training, both linked to the world of dance and to the one of performing art and to other kinds of pedagogy and actor training following both workshops and productions of international artists such as Rimas Tuminas, Cesar Brie, Paz Rojo, Carolina Bolouda, Joao Garcia Miguel, Virgilio Sieni and many others. In 2006 she founds Sanpapié of which she is artistic director, choreographer, and interpreter. Working for the company she signs the choreographies of 20 works and more than 40 performances presented throughout Europe and China. In 2017, her show Lei won the Sonia Bonacina Award, dedicated to the women of theater. Parallel to working with Sanpapié, she works as a choreographer and interpreter in the field of theatre, dance, and music collaborating with important directors such as Massimo Navone, Franco Branciaroli, Valter Malosti, Bob Wilson, Giampiero Solari, Marianna Kavalleratos, Jona Boeker. She regularly collaborates as a choreographer, co-director, and dancer with the JGM company of Lisbon. She has been collaborating for years with the composer Carlo Boccadoro and has a strong relationship with the world of operatic music that led her, in 2016, to sign the choreographies for the opera “Joan of Arc” by Giuseppe Verdi directed by Peter Greenway and Saskia Boddeke and in 2019 to be choreographer and interpreter of the opera “Aida” by Giuseppe Verdi directed by Cristina Mazzavillani Muti at the Ravenna Festival and collaborator in the movements of “Carmen” under the direction by Luca Micheletti. She has worked with La Scala in Milan as a dancer and acrobat. Together with her authorial and artistic path, she carries out a study on the formation and contamination of stylistic and didactic methods of theatre and contemporary dance. In the last ten years, she has collaborated as a teacher, with recognized professional training schools such as Paolo Grassi, the Dancehaus Academy, and the school of the Teatro Stabile of Turin as well as numerous centers of training in Milan.
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FABRIZIO CALANNA
Born in Catania in 1982, he began with Latin dances and flamenco and in 2008 he graduated from Susanna Beltrami’s Pier Lombardo Academy in Milan in contemporary technique and choreography. In 2022 he attended and completed the Next Generation choreography and direction course at Aterballetto (Reggio Emilia). Freelance dancer in various contexts including: Teatro Antico Taormina, Teatro Cassanese, TdC Milan, Arena Di Verona, Teatro Piscator Catania, Nuova Danza Palermo di C. Cona, Studio Festi Group Varese. TV and fashion: Rai, Mediaset and Sky, World Music Awards Montecarlo and for the brands Marni, Frankie Morello, Swarovski. In 2009 she joined the Compagnia Susanna Beltrami, of which she will be a permanent member until 2019. In 2010, together with Lara Viscuso, she founded the Compagnia VuotoPerPieno, for which she created and danced several shows, including: Gamelan; AmeName; Idioti Ipertrofici, L’ultimo Bohemien e la Lumaca; Rido_N_danza; La Pragmatica del #ciaoinvisibile; La Banalità del Cilindro, San Ti Melisses. In 2017 he creates, directs and produces Impronte_D’artista (San G. Piacentino Cultural Review), in 2018 Rassegna_Dimissioni_Danza at DanceHaus Milano. A contemporary dance teacher, he continues his research by teaching at professional academies and courses for amateurs throughout Italy. Since 2017 he has been a stable dancer with the Sanpapié company in Milan, covering different roles.
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LARA VISCUSO
Born in ’83, freelance dancer and performer, she has taken part in numerous productions in major Sicilian theatres since a very young age.
In 2006, she moved to Milan to perfect her studies thanks to a scholarship at the PierLombardo Academy, directed by Susanna Beltrami, with whom she collaborated, then for ten years, as a dancer and performer in all the productions of her Company (Compagnia Susanna Beltrami), and as assistant to choreography.
She collaborated as a dancer with the Compagnia EgriBiancoDanza of Turin in productions in the years 2009\2010, in Italy and abroad.
With Japanese percussionist Leonard Eto at the Teatro dell’Arte Triennale Milano, the Festival dei due mondi di Spoleto and the Festival delle Orestiadi di Gibellina.
As a performer for Marni, Marras, Gucci and various designers during Milan FashionWeek.
Solo dancer for the opera “Aida” at the Ravenna Festival 2019 directed by Cristina Mazzavillani Muti.
She collaborates as a dancer and performer with the Compagnia Sanpapiè.
Together with Fabrizio Calanna, she founded the Compagnia VuotoPerPieno in which she is a dancer and assistant choreographer.
She currently collaborates as an aerial dancer with Compagnia StudioFesti and MolecoleShow for events in Italy and abroad.
From 2016 to 2019 and from 2023 she is teacher of Contemporary Technique at Accademia Kataklo’ directed by Giulia Staccioli, currently teacher of Classical, Modern and Contemporary Technique at various schools in Milan including DanceGroup at Susanna Beltrami’s DanceHaus, responsible for Sanpapiè training and choreographer for the rhythmic gymnastics team (A1 series) Forza e Coraggio in Milan.
Since 2022, she has been artistic director of the professional start-up course DANCEgroup LAB.
She holds internships throughout Italy.
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FRANCESCA LASTELLA
Born in Milan, she trained at the Balletto Teatro in Turin and Art Factory International in Bologna, where she won a scholarship to attend the Duncan Centre (CZ) dance conservatory, deepening her training with international masters (from Forsythe Dance Company, Sasha Waltz & Guest, Lenka Vagnerová Company etc.). In 2013/14 she worked in numerous projects with Lara Russo, Anna Albertarelli, Alexis Blake and Stefan Dreher. For Artemis she dances in the productions Traviata, Doppia Notte and Tosca. In 2015 she collaborated with Iris Erez and Collettivo Cinetico. Since 2019 she has been a lecturer at Artemente, a centre for advanced dance training. In recent years she has collaborated with Déjà Donné (IT), Compagnia Balafori (IT) and Veicolo Danza (CH). She currently dances for Sanpapié, Lost Movement and Luna Cenere.
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GIOELE COSENTINO
