Giulio d’Anna

What do two bodies narrate, one representing the future and the other one the past at the same time? In Parkin’Son the performers are a 65 years old therapist, with no dance background and a 33 years old choreographer: two generations confronting each other, a father and a son who tell their story through their bodies.

Father and son D’Anna, as in one of the stories of Vite di uomini non illustri (Lives of non eminent men) by Giuseppe Pontiggia, explore their relation on stage: a collection of personal events, shown and shared through the lines of the skin and the shapes of two bodies tied by blood and their intimate stories.

The interpreters’ Curriculum Vitae entwines with the motion, creating a score that flows between theatre and abstract where the disease defines limits to cross. The project comes from the desire to use “the limit” as an opportunity and to tell the two stories following the chronology typically used to narrate the lives of eminent people, highlighting moments and facts that, from a stranger’s point of view, could seem not important; but those are the events that make existence memorable.

Parkin’Son is at the same time a journal and a manifesto, almost “exorcising” the future, where the perceptions of past, present and future itself meet through personal and scientific notions.

“One of my first memories, as a child, is my father driving the car and singing “Il mondo” (The world)…”

Giulio D’Anna is based in Amsterdam where has graduated in Choreography in 2009 at SNDO (School for New Dance Development). He has trained as Ballet dancer with the Royal Academy of Dancing for 12 years. Beside dance studies Giulio is graduated as alternative medicine therapist and Theta healer. As choreographer he is interested in the fusion of different theatre languages with “dramatic bodies”. In his works he seeks for translation of drama as genre into a contemporary theatre language. Drama, desire and humour are key words for his productions. He works as independent maker in between The Netherlands and Italy and, as performer, he works regularly with NB/projects (Amsterdam). In the last years his dance productions have been shown in The Netherlands, Italy, Spain and Germany. In 2011 Giulio won the Equilibrio dance festival; the production prize supported the creation of Parkin’son. At the moment Giulio is produced by Dansateliers in Rotterdam and working at the European project for elder performers “Transparent Boundaries”.

Concept and direction Giulio D’Anna
Creation and performance Giulio e Stefano D’Anna
Production and direction assistance Agnese Rosati
Original soundtrack Maarten Bokslag
Light and set design Theresia Knevel and Daniel Caballero

Produced by Fondazione Musica per Roma
In collaboration with Officina Concordia and Civitanova Casa delle Danza
With the support of Versiliadanza, Danceworks of Luana Bondi-Ciutti, Anna Maria Quinzi

Winning project of 2011 Premio Equilibrio Roma
Dioraphte Dansprijs 2012
Danza&Danza prize emerging author 2012

On January 27th after the show will be a meeting with Giulio D’Anna in PB venue

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