Tecnologia Filosofica: Francesca Cinalli e Paolo De Santis (IT)

Alloro_Varietà Aurea

Atelier Casa Ceretti, Verbania
Spring 2025

Alloro_Varietà aurea is a work of elusive forms: they transform, feed on inner light, wander through the palaces of memory, and become living sculptures. This performance by Tecnologia Filosofica comes at the end of an artistic residency in which the study of forms and shadows allows us to recognise idols, totems and tabernacles shining in the darkness. The scene comes alive with poetic objects, treasures to be consigned to the evocative power of sound: they hold stones that become spirit when modelled and exposed to light, then taking us back to our need of transforming what we experience into mythology, to desire a more fantastic reality. This work accompanies us towards an intuition: ‘absence and presence are the two forms of eternity’ (F. Mauriac). Between discoveries and losses, there is nothing left for us but gather golden dust; to you contemplators the invitation is to enter.

Conception and Creation: Francesca Cinalli and Paolo De Santis | Choreography: Francesca Cinalli | Composition and Live sound: Paolo De Santis | Performers: Francesca Cinalli, Elena Pisu, Paolo De Santis | Accompaniment to the creation process: Nunzia Tirelli | Video art: Filippo Maria Pontiggia | Production: Tecnologia Filosofica | Research Trajectory Il Corpo Rituale| Supported by: Lavanderia a Vapore/Residenze Coreografiche 2025, Fondazione Piemonte dal Vivo, Fondazione CROSS Residence

Francesca Cinalli, dancer and choreographer, and Paolo De Santis, musician and percussionist, are pursuing a personal research trajectory, Il Corpo Rituale within the collective Tecnologia Filosofica. Francesca Cinalli is a graduate of IAT-GONG Scuola Biennale di Musica Danza Teatro dei Popoli in Genoa, where she practices and studies with masters from five continents: Tapa Sudana, Tadashi Endo, Karun Karan, Cecile Gordon, and Al Sheikh Nail Kesova. Paolo De Santis composes original soundscapes ranging from electroacoustic music to field recordings. He performed live the soundtrack for Solitudo at Torino Jazz Festival 2019. He collaborated with noise musician K. Haino for Hidden Body at Fabbrica Europa 2018; with Luca Morino and Pier Luigi Pusole for 13600Hz, a concert for sewing machines by Sara Conforti at Artissima. With Phone Regis, he won the Non Solo Rock festival. With Onda Sonora, he won the Piceno Rock Festival, performing as a backing band for Planet Funk, Morgan, and Linea 77.
For years they have been collaborating with national and international cultural institutions: CROSS Project; Italian Cultural Institute of Jakarta, Indonesia; IIC of Los Angeles; IIC of Seoul, Korea; Cie Atou of Lyon for the creations Hydden Body and Limpid Sun, Triennale d’Arte Setouchi in Japan; with Iranian director Milad Tangshir for the VR film Hydrocosmos with the support of Fondazione Piemonte dal Vivo and Coorpi, Museo del Cinema di Torino. In 2019 they are selected for the call Crossing The Sea, Marche Teatro, in collaboration with Shanghai International Dance Center; in 2019 for the call Air Residenze Coreografiche Lavanderia a Vapore; in 2022 for the call Cura for the production Eco del Mondo. Since 2016 they have been realising the project CAMPI CREATIVI and since 2024 CAMPI GRAVITAZIONALI with people under 25 in synergy with Lavanderia a Vapore.

Nunzia Tirelli has extensive experience in dance and theatre as a dancer, actress, and teacher. Her deep interest in movement and artistic expression led her to complete training in Dance Movement Therapy (ATI) while also becoming a Certified Movement Analyst (CMA). Since 2013, she has been organizing and promoting Laban Event in Monte Verità. From 2018 to 2023, she was a member of the federal dance jury. She is also an instructor of integral shamanic yoga.

Ph. Credits: Alessandra Lai

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