Agorà 2010 _ Roots & Routes Follow Up

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Fabbrica Europa has organised the first Roots&Routes Follow Up dance and music workshops and performances from February to October 2010 in the rural areas of Valdisieve and Valdarno to the East of Florence, where 10 municipalities of the “network for contemporary culture” are promoting since 2008 the project Agorà, focused on the piazza as a space of intercultural and intergenerational encounter and exchange.

Together with the dance and music masters and junior coaches of Centro Coreografico Opus Ballet and CAM - Centro Attività Musicali Firenze, two well-established dance and music schools operating on the Florentine territory within the network of private non-formal vocational arts education and two of Fabbrica Europa’s most close partner organisations, the Agorà 2010 workshops have developed a research work based on the dialogue and contamination of diverse styles, techniques and assets related to sound, voice, gesture and movement. The workshops have allowed the young talents from the involved territories to experience directly the Roots&Routes philosophy and training methods, to work for one day side by side with masters and talents of the international network in the masterclass held in Pontassieve on May 16th by Nabil Ouelhadj, and to achieve a new artistic and intercultural awareness.

Between July 10th and October 9th, 2010, the results of the workshops have been presented in the piazze of the 10 participating municipalities, in the frame of popular fairs and arts and handicrafts events. This presentation phase was also an important part of the training: especially for the dancers, who didn’t perform on stage, it meant adapting every time to the specificities of a different context and perform side by side with the multiform community of the different piazze. All participants were motivated on questioning themselves about their relations with the stage and public: what does it mean to be on stage or between the people, and what to dance on the edge of a contemporary fountain or on the staircase of a Romanesque abbey?

10/07 _ Rufina, piazza Umberto I and piazza 1° Maggio
21/07 _ Figline, piazza Marsilio Ficino
26/08 _ Rignano sull'Arno, piazza XXV Aprile
04/09 _ Pelago, piazza Ghiberti
05/09 _ San Godenzo, piazza Dante
11/09 _ Londa, @ the lake
12/09 _ Reggello, piazza Potente
18/09 _ Pontassieve, piazza Vittorio Emanuele
19/09 _ Incisa, piazza Santa Lucia
09/10 _ Dicomano, piazza della Repubblica

Credits

artistic direction Lorenzo Pallini
general coordination Marina Bistolfi

Dance

coordination Lisa Brasile, Giacomo Quarta, Rebecca “Realz” Turini
with Andrea Barbieri, Giuditta Braccini, Noemi De Crescenzo, Sara Esposito, Alice Fiesoli, Giulia Guerrini, Carlotta Lelli, Giada Picci, Tammaro Russo, Emanuele Saulino
other participants Vittoria Faini, Martina Meccia, Camille Panza, Damiano Puliti

Music

coordination Alessandro Di Puccio, Ferdinando Olivieri
with Michele Andriola, Maurizio Bugli, Francesca Campigli, Fabio Corcione, Nicola Maccianti, Luca Magrini, Marco Magrini, Resi “Neglizi” Nakaj, Alessio Pangos, Fulvio Ponzio
other participants Lorenzo Angeletti, Riccardo Bargilli, Alessandro Canu, Nicola Cellai, Saverio De Fazio, Leandro Ndoja

organisation Marika Errigo, O.R.A.

sound Jolly Roger Records

video Lorenzo Ciacciavicca, Lucio Di Cicco

(photo: Maria Grazia Lenzini, Reggello)

Date:

23.01.2010 - 09.10.2010

Place:

Toscana

Contact person: Marina > Italy

Countries

| Italy

Projects

| R&R FOLLOW-UP

Participants | Agorà 2010 _ Roots & Routes Follow Up

Marika	Emanuele	Giada
Giuditta	Giulia	Noemi
SaraSlayd	Tammaro	FraCampigli

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Workshop Roots&Routes International _ Masterclass by choreographer Nabil Ouelhadj _ may 16th 2010, Pontassieve (Florence)

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In the frame of the XVII edition of the Festival Fabbrica Europa “Europa Mediterraneo Oriente”, an important moment of encounter took place between the Agorà 2010 workshops and Roots&Routes International: on May 16th, 2010, in the masterclass of choreographer Nabil Ouelhadj, the youngsters of the Val di Sieve and Valdarno had the opportunity to meet a group of 30 young talents who gathered in Florence from all over Europe for the Workshop Roots&Routes International. The masterclass took place in Pontassieve, at 51% Danza, finishing with an open air action in progress in the roads and squares of the city.