PAETHOS
A project of production and cultural exchange
May 8 – 9 maggio, h 21:00 Teatro Era – Pontedera
choreography: Sang Jijia
composer and live music: Dickson Dee
live video artists: Luca Brinchi e Roberta Zanardo / santasangre
dancers of the third course of Dancetheatre
Fondazione Milano Teatro Scuola Paolo Grassi
Francesca Bugelli, Pierluigi Castellini, Donato Demita, Liber Dorizzi, Elena Fontana Paganini, Giovanfrancesco Giannini, Helena Mannella, Sara Paternesi, Filippo Porro
(first part, 20m)
dancers of the Company
Spellbound Contemporary Ballet
Maria Cossu, Mario Laterza, Giuliana Mele, Claudia Mezzolla, Giovanni La Rocca, Cosmo Sancilio, Sofia Barbiero, Alessandra Chirulli, Fabio Cavallo
(second part, 40m)
PaEthos is made up of two words, Pathos and Ethos, borrowed from Aristotle’s Art of Rhetoric.
The choreographer Sang Jijia uses them to signify two approaches to speech. One underlines precision. The other evokes passion and feeling.
In the first approach, each movement in space is well measured and carefully executed. In the second approach, emotions are translated into physical expressions.
When an individual act is pushed to a certain limit, the lines of the two modes of speech may vanish, leaving bare a naked soul that speaks.
The poetics of Sang Jijia rests on the depth of Eastern thought and is enriched by the most important experiences of the European research in dance and contemporary theatre. A precise and original meeting between the accuracy and the expressiveness that become the ingredients from which arises PaEthos.
The project includes the music of the composer Dickson Dee, known internationally for his powerful technique and extraordinary talent, and the virtual set of Luca Brinchi and Roberta Zanardo.
A project of production and cultural exchange between
Fabbrica Europa per le arti contemporanee
Fondazione Milano Civica Scuola di Teatro Paolo Grassi
Spellbound Contemporary Ballet
Marche Teatro – Danza alle Muse
Bejing Dance Festival
Guangdong Dance Festival
Partner for the creation residency
Fondazione Teatro della Toscana
Centro per la Sperimentazione e la Ricerca Teatrale di Pontedera