works

ARTINA&ONNO. Lost in creation

Everyday life of ARTINA and ONNO changes abruptly when the VOYAGER GOLDEN RECORD lands on their planet. An object containing an encrypted message from Earth. Far away from planet Earth’s solar system, this event starts an unexpected chain reaction for the two odd characters.

 

5th/6th May 2018 – Festival Fabbrica Europa, Florence Italy
28th June 2018 – Tabačka Kulturfabrik, Kosice, Slovakia
11th – 12th June 2018 – Societaetstheater, Dresden, Germany

Choreography & dance: Martina Francone, Anna Till
Music & composition: Dalibor Kocian
Stage & costume design: Konstanze Grotkopp
Light design & technical direction: Martin Mulik
Dramaturgy: Nora Otte
Choreographic advise: Alessandro Certini, Charlotte Zerbey
Production management: Bettina Lehmann / situation productions
Production management Slovakia: Zuzana Kotiková
Photo: Alexander Corciulo
Duration: 40 min

Winterlude (Video)

Directed and edited by Rosario Sparti
Choreography: Simona Rossi
Performance: Martina Francone, Simona Rossi and Tomoe Utsunomiya.

Video Extract

What happens when nothing happens.
In Deptford (Video)

Do you know George Perec?

His writing was a continuous attempt to penetrate the world we inhabit through a careful description of the smallest things surrounding us. In noting down the ‘nothing that happens’ everyday and everywhere around us, Perec tried to grasp the precariousness of reality.

P(h)ur Old Banal was born in Deptford, a suburban area in the south east of London. As many spaces within a cosmopolitan city, Deptford has partly become a ‘temporary place’ for a big number of people who occupy the space but don’t make it really their own. And here we go back  to Perec and to one of his questions: ’How to leave a space? ‘. How to be a relevant part of that space and how to make it relevant for ourselves? P(h)ur Old Banal attempted to record on film some pieces of Deptford the way is today. Being  performers we did not limit ourselves to a documentaristic recording . We decided to be part of that recording. We wanted  the filming to be also a chance for us  to experiment  how  the surrounding space would have reacted  to our being  in it. What came out is several hours of filmed shots  that offer a hint of the nature of the place and the poeple among whom our collective has born.

Video Extract

Creation and performance: Martina Francone, Simona Rossi, Tomoe Utsunomiya
Video: Rosario Sparti
Duration: 17 min 45 sec

P(h)ur Old Banal

Bunch of artists who decided to gather together in he summer of 2009. The work of the collective comprises collaboration with artists from various fields, doing street performances, indie movies, theatre shows and installations.

P(u)r Old Banal Blog

Repositioning Edge-Park
(Multimedia/installation)

A collaborative work of video art, architecture, dance and music. The architectural site of Florence frames the images of the Venice site, through the projection of the video “Edge Park”. The moving bodies of three performers compose clean frames, changing the perceptive and perspective view of the architectural sites, while the music of Antony Night and Simone Tecla resonates in the space. The work is a reinterpretation of the video “Edge Park” and it was shown at Notte Bianca Fiorentina 2012 at Chiostro Verde Santa di Santa Maria Novella, Florence.

Repositioning Edge Park is a site specific installation composed of different layers that interpret and inhabit the space

video: Valentina Lamantia
Performance: OAC – Martina Francone, Pia Födinger and Hrafnhildur Einarsdóttir
Music: Antony Night and Simone Tecla
Lights and setting: Antony Night

Aukelien/Two minus one
(Dance and live music)

Aukelien / Two minus one explores the boundaries between restriction and freedom of movement, within space and time, throughout a movement score. The starting point is the artists’ interest in the body language of the Dutch saxophonist Aukelien Kleinpenning, while playing Le Fr^ene Egare by Francois Ross’e. Inspired by her performance, the choreographers created a movement score, focusing on the use of breath, arm gestures, repetitions and upper body motion. The experience of time is a key feature of the piece, diversely perceived from the audience and the performers.

Video Extract

Choreography: Martina Francone, Hrafnhildur Einarsdottir with support from Tony Thatcher
Sound: composition by Simone Tecla perfromed by Davide Woods
Performers: Martina Francone, Hrafnhildur Einarsdottir
Duration: 8 min

Broken Symmetric 2
(Dance)

This piece is an exploration of upper body motion, investigating the emotional theme of the words “fighting through” with courage to be your-self. One
important key-element in this work is – being in the moment! The performer’s aim is to let the physical effect of the motion take them on a personal performance journey in which immediate coping with in a set framework of a score allows the performer to deal with known, conscious as well as unconscious elements with in their moment of performance. Situations in our lives when certain restrictions can create inner courage and strengths, which suddenly turns these restricted situations into a tool for more personal freedom.

 

This piece is an exploration of upper body motion, investigating the emotional theme of the words “fighting through” with courage to be your-self.

OAC Collective
Choreographer: Pia Fodinger
Composer: Jonny Clark
Performance: Pia Fodinger, Martina Francone, Hrafnhildur Einarsdottir
Music: Recorded music
Duration: 15 min

Nomai
(Dance and live music)

Nomai is a minimalist piece that explores energy in relationships and investigates closeness and distance on a physical, mental and sensory level. Inspired by the work of Gerhard Richter, Nomai works composes images and blurs them, creating ambiguity and avoiding imposing a meaning. The space, used in a formal and linear manner and the perception of time are the core of the exploration: the pace of the piece wants to give the audience time to immerse themselves in the images and the attitude of the performers welcomes the spectators into the work. Nomai is a sensitive and revealing piece, characterized by a special energy that vibrates throughout its length.

Nomai is a minimalist piece that explores energy in relationships and investigates closeness and distance on a physical, mental and sensory level.

Video extract

Choreographer: Martina Francone
Composer: Morton Feldman
Performers: Martina Francone, Hrafnhildur Einarsdottir
Piano: Jonny Clark
Duration: 8 min

Edge-Park!
(Video/installation)

A collaborative work of video art, architecture, dance and music. The video
installation shows images/postcards in movement, in which space and time
are discomposed thorough the use of the video. The moving body in space
composes clean frames, changing the perceptive and perspective view of the
architectural sites.

A collaborative work of video art, architecture, dance and music. The video installation shows images/postcards in movement, in which space and time are discomposed thorough the use of the video.

Video extract

video: Valentina Lamantia
An initiative of OAC – Martina Francone and Hrafnhildur Einarsdottir
Under the initiation of Vincenzo Casali Architecture and the support of Tony Thatcher
Loop on 5 small screens (Smartphones)
With the kind support of CFLI di Venezia

Torna su