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Stones
“Il suono delle pietre” - "The sound of the stones"
with Beat Weyeneth and Luciano Zampar
Two dancers in dialogue with stones
Choreography and direction Tiziana Arnaboldi
Dancers Pierre-Yves Diacon, Claudia Rossi Valli
Production Teatro San Materno
Choreographic notes Beat Weyeneth
The space is opened by sounds coming from his special lithophones: stone plates, tuned and arranged
as a keyboard, which he built with the so-called "sasso serpentino". Luciano Zampar joins him and
combines electronic modulation to sounds produced with rough river stones. The dancers act dancing
on a floor strewn with stones collected on the shore of the Maggia river. Their bodies are rediscovering
the value of the fragility as a driving force for new postures, looking for stable points on which to stand
in apparent tranquility as if suspended, perhaps to bring thoughts alive. It is a dance of sensitive steps,
light, in which the feet, hands and other body parts seek caresses, hugs between stones’ roughness; a
celebration from human to earth, gravity, weight and space. The dancing body is looking for accuracy,
refinement, to give meaning to the dance. The body speaks to the earth in a sensual dialogue, loving
and fruitful source of energy, of distant imaginary. The beauty of the gesture is in a constant search for
balance, leaving unique traces on the stones and on the body, giving rise to new sounds of rock and to
a new dance. With their stone instruments these two composers remind us that music is real alchemy:
making music means to bend the elements to create a sound that did not exist before, and that
through natural means we can raise our existence to new levels of consciousness and knowledge. The
show was presented January 10th, 2016 to the new experimental theater of Arlesheim, in Dornach,
near Basel.
Photo Cesare De Vita
Dialogues, steps, walkways impregnated dancing gestures of sound, poetry and architecture, traveling
in search of different spaces for new challenges, wishing to meet one day in a big theater space for a
single act.
Video Edoardo Oppliger
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video
Stones
“Il suono delle pietre” -
"The sound of the stones"
with Beat Weyeneth and Luciano Zampar
Two dancers in dialogue with stones
Choreography and direction Tiziana Arnaboldi
Dancers Pierre-Yves Diacon, Claudia Rossi Valli
Production Teatro San Materno
Choreographic notes Beat Weyeneth
The space is opened by sounds coming from his special
lithophones: stone plates, tuned and arranged as a
keyboard, which he built with the so-called "sasso
serpentino". Luciano Zampar joins him and combines
electronic modulation to sounds produced with rough river
stones. The dancers act dancing on a floor strewn with
stones collected on the shore of the Maggia river. Their
bodies are rediscovering the value of the fragility as a
driving force for new postures, looking for stable points on
which to stand in apparent tranquility as if suspended,
perhaps to bring thoughts alive. It is a dance of sensitive
steps, light, in which the feet, hands and other body parts
seek caresses, hugs between stones’ roughness; a
celebration from human to earth, gravity, weight and
space. The dancing body is looking for accuracy,
refinement, to give meaning to the dance. The body speaks
to the earth in a sensual dialogue, loving and fruitful
source of energy, of distant imaginary. The beauty of the
gesture is in a constant search for balance, leaving unique
traces on the stones and on the body, giving rise to new
sounds of rock and to a new dance. With their stone
instruments these two composers remind us that music is
real alchemy: making music means to bend the elements
to create a sound that did not exist before, and that
through natural means we can raise our existence to new
levels of consciousness and knowledge. The show was
presented January 10th, 2016 to the new experimental
theater of Arlesheim, in Dornach, near Basel.
Photo Cesare De Vita
Dialogues, steps, walkways impregnated dancing gestures
of sound, poetry and architecture, traveling in search of
different spaces for new challenges, wishing to meet one
day in a big theater space for a single act.
Video Edoardo Oppliger
