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With STORMO® we create the conditions to let collective intelligence emerge in groups of people. In 2014 we won the call for art&science projects by La Diagonale Paris-Saclay (France), in collaboration with the internationally renowned physicist Hugues Chaté.

In 2015 we developed a scientific session with a team of French scientists at the National Museum of Science and Technology “Leonardo da Vinci” to measure the harmony that the project creates in groups. In 2016 we won the call by the city of Milan for innovative educational projects.

STORMO®  is a long-standing project based on the development of harmony within groups of people. Its core is an open workshop, during which the conditions created let collective intelligence emerge. In a short time participants find themselves spontaneously applying the same movement rules used by flocks of birds to migrate, by preys to survive and by large groups to organize. This process triggers a surprising physical joy in the participants and, as a consequence, wonder and involvement in the observers. The project tangibly develops active listening through nonverbal communication: a simple relationship mode, physical, immediate, that allows to look beyond the boundaries associated to roles, social classes, culture, language and nationality. STORMO® reveals resources buried in the memory of the body, allowing not only the individuals to discover themselves as part of a group, but also the group to perceive itself as a single self-regulated entity. we realized dozens of sessions in different countries: participation is open to all, no prior experience is required.

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In collaboration with St. Paul’s Missionary College

In collaboration with the Mdina Knights FC

What if you discovered nowadays that your life is revealing an ancient myth? Galatea is a visionary journey into the myth of Galatea, a map for the consciousness, and at the end you will discover that you are the revelation, and your body is the revelation and you accept it.

2003–Everything begins with a vision: the skin of a body dipped in a milky swimming pool, becoming a screen where it is possible to reveal what otherwise would be misty. It is our own body offering itself as the medium for the Revelation.
6th January 2008 -The deep texture between my life and Galatea’s Greek myth appears for the first time. September 2014 -During Alto Fest, the relationship between that first vision and the myth becomes clearer. I talk about it with Bassem, whom I met at the festival three years ago, and he agrees to help me and work with me to realize that vision through the myth now deeply mixed with my life. Luglio 2015 – AKIS CALENDAR

The transformation of matter into the ceramics production cycle will guide the dancing body into a mantra in which the shape is molded and destroyed continuously.

Reminiscences of movements, as archaic as the working of clay, combined with the real experience of the artist Sue Mifsud (www.suemifsud.com), will be explored and customized for a dance that dialogues between fluidity and static, between echoes of deeds and uninhabitable entities.

A sound journey. Seven unexplored landscapes… and return. Entirely created in two sessions in January 2018 with nothing written or tried before.

Played like in a single stream o consciousness with glimpses of the beautiful Malta in mind. Mandolins and all noises have been added in overdubs without editing the original tracks of the two acoustic guitars not to affect their spontaneity. Landscapes without Boundaries is the first step toward the composition of the musical dramaturgy of the site specific show Sentieri that will be played at the Majjistral Park in the frame of Altofest Malta.

Lady Shakespeare is a project focused on female figures in W.Shakespeare’s work and more precisely on the relationship between women and power: the power exercised, the power suffered, the power coveted and the power fought.

HO(ME) it’s a dance-theatre and music based project in dialogue with local communities. Focus of HO(ME) is the concept of casa (home) not only in a physical, but also and mostly in a symbolic, iconic and intimate meaning. Referring to the casa’s concept, because of its complexity, we prefer to speak of ‘LOCUS’ that means a PLACE not only physical but also conceptual, literary or imaginary.

After two years of research around the M² performance, Dynamis realizes a wider work developing the themes and the stage structure of the project The work wonders in a pragmatic way about the unit of measure from which it takes its name, the square meter.

Through the scenic device, it explores the border between human and inhumane that space assumes with respect to a context. The audience is the very essence of performance, the matrix of action that is orchestrated in a collaborative game between strangers.

It is the darkness, the death before the rebirth, the unexpected, the profound, the problem and the difficulty, that we aim not to see, to deny and to avoid. The project deals with a suggestion coming out from an ancient Inuit myth, the Skeleton Woman. the performance proposes a vision and reflection about the path that a soul has to face in moments of crack, what happens when it drowns into an abyss.

Sparks of light emerge from the darkness, a body regains life after a dull thud, a chant regains voice at the awakening from a choked dream. Two women revoke passages of life, of maturation, of death and rebirth. Two bodies live in one place, they make way for each other, they go along, they loose and they meet again, as if it was one woman finding herself.

The work is inspired by the mediterranean legend of Colapesce, that narrates the difficult choice of a young person with an extraordinary nature of inhabiting the deep sea. The show is conceived in the form of an underwater ballad and investigates, through visual and sound fascinations, the abyssal zones of being. The depth reveals to Cola the way to realize his own authenticity through the conflict with nature, authority and human being.

Cosaltro Esperimenti is a matrix that generates a different musical experiment each time, according to the location, relationships, and sound possibilities. A ritual sound-inspired by “yellow face” (San Gennaro patron of Naples), whose blood is owned by the Neapolitan people. Lava music. Scenery and costume by Federica Terracina. Historical and literary consultant, Francesco Andoli (journalist, “Identitá Insorgenti”).

Three crucial moments of one’s own existence, complementary one to each other, as the colors black, white and red which represent them, told in the outermost practices originated from an ancestral and mysterious land, as Sardinia is.

The project “Trilogia dei riti” (Trilogy of the rituals), was born in 2011, exploring the cycle life-death-rebirth through the feminine world. An experience that leads us back to the theatre.

“Accabai” is inspired by the figure of Femina Accabadora, the one that, until a few decades ago, when requested from the family, used to practice euthanasia to the dying person.

“Matrici” (Matrices) is inspired by the most sacred and common act of all, the act of birth.

The very last ritual, “Sabi”, is inspired by ancient treatments, either enchanted either of faith, where sickness is exorcised through a shared act of rebirth”. (quoting Nicole Jallin – http://bit.ly/2GrDnm0)

In 2011, Alessandra Asuni began an artistic journey with ACCABAI, a rite which gets her involved in an explorative project dealing with the cycle of life, death and rebirth portrayed by a female perspective. After the Antonio Landieri Award in 2013, her art grew stronger with the second rite, “MATRICI” ( the life), and the last one, SABI ( the rebirth).

This artistic wander evokes a ritualistic theatrical performance, with every rite holding each other while also being divisible and indivisible for the audience.
This work has both experimental and satirical characteristics: by acting it is possible to live, to bring an end to an experience and to think about the experience itself.

Asuni’s theatrical performance is closely linked with anthropology: her work touches ancestral feelings and develops into shapes and suggestions more “lived” compared to the simple act of staging.
The scene itself goes beyond the conventional space to envelop the surroundings: the “fourth wall” isn’t pulled down, it’s nullified “ex ante”.

This performance is part of the “UrbanDig_Ushakova” Project (2018) of OP inspired by prostitute Gabriella Ushakova (1916-1991) and current urban attitudes towards personal time in the city.

UrbanDig_Ushakova is a research/ artistic/ community project at Strefi Hill, in Exarchia – Athens. The project is inspired by the life of Gabriella Ushakova, an emblematic sex-worker, who used to live and work in Exarchia until the 90’s. «I have plenty of time», repeats Gabriella, suggesting a unique denial of the dichotomy between free time and work, towards the production of common time. The conception of common time lies in the heart of the project, while seeking its spatial expression. Strefi Hill is chosen as the terrain, where both space and time manifest certain discontinuities and cracks. Within these cracks UrbanDig_Ushakova explores and enhances the production of common time and space.

Hydropanic: a liquid journey through the Panic, a specific feeling of intense participation with the surrounding nature.

Credits

Domain: Eukaryota

Kingdom: Plantae

Division: Bryophyta

Class: Bryopsida

Order: Rhizogoniales

Family: Altofest

Genera: Sonic Performance

Species: Giulio Escalona

Nomenclature: Hydropanic

Four roped sides. Three-minute rounds. Two men fighting – one winner. Raymond Beck would do anything for his family; or what’s left of it anyway. He returns to the ring in search of cash and glory. But his real aim?

To challenge Dyson “Tosa Inu” Cumbo for the ultimate Maltese Middleweight Championship. While training for the big fight in the confines of the ring, Raymond realises that there are other battles that exist beyond it and its four roped sides. Hooks and jabs can come from anywhere, better stay alert! Raymond must beat the count or prepare to throw in the towel. Written by talented young writer André Mangion, Raymond “Fight” Beck is a straight punch tale of what one is ready to give up; for those he loves – and for the sweet science that crowns him Champion.

The base of creative process is the relation with the a domestic place: its concrete and architectural structure and the contact with its memories and spirit.

The registration of it’s reality in acoustical and physical sense produced some feedbacks and resonance in form of fragments that are selected, elaborated and transformed through the principe of repetition, loop, deformation, translation. Our aim is to allow the spectator to be an active part of a domestic landscape creating instability and estrangement, a trip of fades between the reality and the imaginary plane generated by living the space.

To Suit is an exploration into animal courtship rituals, drawing comparisons between humans and birds. Developed through an investigation into communication, To Suit comments on the social formalities of interaction through the use of body, voice and sound.

Her days are marked by ritual.
She showers twice,
once in the morning and once in the evening,
and brushes her teeth whilst washing her hair.

She likes the way the shower tickles her tongue when she washes her mouth out.

She drinks two cups of coffee,
one cup of tea,
and one glass of wine
coffee for the morning,
tea for the afternoon
and wine for the evening.

But tonight, tonight is different.

Omertà is a code of honor that places importance on silence, non-cooperation with authorities, and non-interference in the illegal actions of others. The performance “Omertà” is danced by a female cast, inspired by testimony of women’s experiences of living and dealing with South Italian mafia society.

Omertà is a work which brings awareness to the position and jobs of the female figure in South Italian mafia organisations and explores a route towards an unreachable freedom which some of those women look for all their life and sadly realising there might not be one.

My interest to create this work was to investigate deeper into the role of those women which is always characterised by its ambiguity and unclearness, and usually not acknowledged by the general public or the mafia organisation itself, but also to give them a platform to be heard and their stories to be told.

“It is a role that is always been characterised by its ambiguity and confusion, trapped in a tangled spider web of feelings and emotions”,  Alessandra Dino (expert and researcher of mafia criminal organisations)

ph. Mark Douet

Secret Sound Stories will explore the secrets behind the fading layers and the walled doors which once belonged to the glamorous days of Strait Street. Based on events which are told in George Cini’s “Strait Street, secrets and stories from behind closed doors”, local Maltese actors will present a a one-to-one performances of 10 minutes each on the glories, excesses and tragedies of “The Gut”, the most famous street in Valletta.

Secret Sound Stories is a interactive, intimate and personal journey for individual listeners. Our company writes stories inspired by images and works of art belonging to an exhibition space: they are told live by hidden actors who follow and observe the listeners without being seen. The actor’s voices are transmitted live into wireless headphones giving life to a unique story, a delicate fusion between poetry and sound which for a brief moment transforms the space into a parallel world of imagination.

In dialogue with:
George Cini

With author-actors:
Angele Galea, Bernard Satariano, Diandra Anne Mamo.

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HYPE is a performance born from the desire to investigate one’s own behaviors, the relationship between the mind and the surrounding environment in solitude and company.
The human body has gone through many changes during the story of time. In the Greek philosophy Aristophanes talked about what and whom we are nowadays and how this transformation happened.
In a body where our brain autonomously performs 90% of the actions in an unconscious mode and only 10% of our actions are taken in a conscious way, how would we reason if we managed to take more than 10% of our decisions consciously?”Are we aware of our self-conscious hero or our own hero  is our conscious ?

Who is in charge and when?

It is a revelation, a trial against the audacity to request an explanation, and a dance with life and death. A tribute to The Trial of Joan of Arc, by Robert Bresson, taken as an ethical and aesthetical reference for the scene. A contemporary heroine is judged for questioning from love the order of nature.

The premature death of a mother is an unfair event.

It makes us think about time logic,

The order of nature

And the luck of those who are still alive.

Why does somebody die without having to die yet?

Why hasn’t one died already if it was meant to?

Where is the mistake?

Where lies the fault that has inverted the natural order of things?

Who is to ask for explanations?

Who can fix this injustice?

I WILL LIVE HERE

Finding Malta is a live performance show that combines the language of the environment and the one of technology. Finding Malta is a project featuring archival cycling process as well as audiovisual performance. During pre-production period, Ng Chor Guan the artist spend a minimum 5 days cycle through specific areas collecting audio-visual footages.

All footage collected will then be artistically processed through his professional attempt. The final presentation of the art piece shall include (but not limited to) an audio-visual stage performance featuring bicycle as a musical instrument. Audiences are invited to immerse themselves into this trasformative performance providing new and exciting sensory experiences enjoying their daily living area from a brand new perspective.