Aristide Rontini

Aristide Rontini is an Italian dancer and choreographer supported by Europe Beyond Access. He is a founding member of the Italian disabled artists-activists group Al Di Qua who are leading the way in advocating for the autonomy and rights of disabled artists in Italy. Rontini’s research questions the dimension of identity, the relationships between individuals and society and of nature and human beings. He graduated as a dancer from Codarts Rotterdam in 2010 and has worked with Simona Bertozzi (IT), the Candoco Dance Company (UK), Alessandro Carboni (IT), Alessandro Schiattarella/BewegGrund (CH), Teatro Della Tosse (IT), Michela Lucenti/Balletto Civile (IT), Angelica Liddell (SP), Carl Olof Berg/Spinn (SV), Vahan Badalyan (Armenia) and Diego Tortelli/Aterballetto (IT). In the past few years he has developed his own artistic projects, such as “It moves me”, “Giovane Notturno”, “Talitha Kumi”, “Alexis” and “Alexis 2.0”.

Feeling Good

Duration: 15"

Description: A circle, a square and, in the centre, an emblematic figure of a man. These are the starting points of Feeling Good a duet about the ability to “be” and “feel”, a skill of contemporary dance that does not reign in a canonical form of perfection, but that finds its “being” in the acceptance of oneself, of one’s own strength and fragility.

Extra information: Choreography Diego Tortelli
Music AAVV
Lighting design Carlo Cerri
Video graphic design Michele Innocente

A co-production Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto (I) and Oriente Occidente Dance Festival (I)
Within EBA Europe Beyond Access, co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union

Feeling Good is part of the evening Mixed Doubles, together with other three duets produced by Onassis Cultural Centre (GR), Holland Dance Festival (NL), Skånes Dansteater (SE).

Feeling Good is within “Danza e Fragilità”, a project of the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto “Danza e Fragilità”, supported by Gruppo Credem in partnership with Reggio Emilia Città senza Barriere and Consorzio Oscar Romero.

Giovane Notturno

Description: A night full of grace as a female figure is enabled to see the world no longer with her eyes but with her heart. It is desirable darkness that gives her the power to be a warrior in the world.

Extra information: Concept and Choreography Aristide Rontini

Dance Miriam Cinieri

Lights Antonio Rinaldi

Music by Fryderyk Chopin, Alva Noto, LCD Soundsystem

Co-production with Nexus Cultural Association and Other Ballets

Promoted by the Municipality of Imola, Department of Culture and the Promotion of the City , Civic Museums of Imola and Municipal Theater of Imola Ebe-Stignani

In collaboration with Emilia Romagna Teatro for the residence at Villa Pini

It moves me

Description: A piece inspired by water, how human begins are mainly made of it, its ability to change physical state and the studies by Masaru Emoto about its capability to register vibrations around it. How can this information be embodied to reflect metaphorically on society?

Extra information: Supported by Rete Anticorpi dell’Emilia Romagna. Produced by Compagnia Simona Bertozzi/Nexus

Talitha Kumi

Description: Talitha Kumi investigates the relationship between humans and their natural environment. How do people perceive nature today, what is our relationship with it, how do we represent it?

Extra information: Concept and general composition: Aristide Rontini

Sound Composition: Glauco Salvo

Video composition: Dimitri Montanari

Choreography: Aristide Rontini with the contributions of Miriam Cinieri and Stefania Tansini

Performers: Miriam Cinieri and Stefania Tansini and the citizens of the Castelvetro community

Production: Kinetic Dance Management Performances

Institutional partner: Municipality of Castelvetro di Modena

In collaboration with Auser Castelvetro

Video and scenography: children of the classes ……. Of Castelvetro

With the contribution of ERT Emilia Romagna Teatro Foundation and the Emilia Romagna Region

Winning project of the call for proposals Support for the production and distribution of theatrical and performing arts creations by artists and companies under 40 in Emilia-Romagna