Ginevra Panzetti and Enrico Ticconi have been working as a duo since 2008. Their artistic research interlaces dance, performance and visual art. Deepening themes related to the historical union between communication, violence and power, they draw on ancient imaginaries, creating hybrid figures or images between history and contemporaneity.
In 2019 they won the 13th Arte Laguna Prize in the performance and art video section, the first edition of the Hermès Danza Triennale Milano Award, the Danza&Danza Prize as emerging choreographers and were nominated “Promising Talent of the Year'' by the Jahrbuch Tanz - Zeitschrift für Ballet Tanz und Performance.
With the work HARLEKING they have been selected by the European platform AEROWAVES Twenty 19, by the New Italian Dance (NID) Platform and by Tanzplatform Deutschland 2020.
A E R E A is the first part of a diptych that focuses on an object which has always functioned in principle to express ideas of belonging and separation: the flag.
The title takes two words that can be graphically overlapped and merged into a single term: ARA - AEREA. The first one, ARA, alludes to the place that in ancient times was dedicated to the sacrifice, here understood as a death-generating mechanism, inflicted as a gift on those invested with the highest power. The second term, AEREA (adj. air), indicates the physical quality of the flag, which achieves its greatest expression of power once hoisted, billowing in the air.
In constant proximity, as part of a single anatomy, humans and flags emerge from a thick darkness, becoming the only propulsive motor of images. As if belonging to a near or remote past, spectral figures take form through a score of unveilings, evoking a close and ancient brotherhood between two textile objects, flag and shroud.
By and with: Ginevra Panzetti / Enrico Ticconi
Sound: Demetrio Castellucci
Light: Annegret Schalke
Costumes: Ginevra Panzetti / Enrico Ticconi
Flag waving coach: Carlo Lobina
Second part of a diptych started with “AeReA”, ARA! ARA! continues to investigate the symbolic power of the flag, drawing on the folkloristic tradition of flag waving.
ARA! ARA! is the designation of a symbol, the symbol of a rising power that chooses a bird to represent itself. Not a majestic and fearsome raptor like the eagle, an animal often used as a heraldic symbol of power. On the contrary, a bird that communicates fun and quietness by becoming, according to a popular western look, an exotic icon: the parrot ARA.
ARA! ARA! represents a seductive power for its friendly and festive appearance that, like the bird, imitates and repeats, bringing back patterns from the past, ignoring contents and effects.
Choreography, performance, visual conception: Ginevra Panzetti / Enrico Ticconi
Sound design, composition: Demetrio Castellucci
Snare, percussions, recording: Michele Scotti
Light design: Annegret Schalke
Set design realization: Laila Rosato
Costume realization: Julia Didier
Flags design: Ginevra Panzetti
Flag-waving coach: Carlo Lobina / Flag-wavers of Arezzo
Dramaturgical advice: Thomas Schaupp
HARLEKING is a demon with multiple identities.
His body expression resembles that of Harlequin of the Commedia dell’Arte, a sly servant moved by an insatiable hunger. HARLEKING’s language has a specific hypnotic quality in which its contents, often extreme and contradictory, merge to create a fluid, metamorphic system wherein anything can happen, yet all is blurred. It is reminiscent of the Grotesques, ancient wall decorations, in which monstrous figures emerge and blend in with elegant ornamental volutes. Figures, which, although can evoke amusement, do not elicit any joy.
By and with: Ginevra Panzetti, Enrico Ticconi
Sound design: Demetrio Castellucci
Light design: Annegret Schalke
Costumes: Ginevra Panzetti, Enrico Ticconi
Video documentation: Ettore Spezza
Illustrations and graphics: Ginevra Panzetti
