In the dreamlike landscape of the possible, five singularities are structuring a society that is only outwardly clearand definable.The order of things and language are subjected to a deconstruction of meaning, with the aim of emancipating themselves from the rationality and linearity of the single thought. The absurd, to live it, in its forms and in its essence, can be one of the possible ways to try to unmask the only apparent freedoms that are offered to us daily. Those who wish are not satisfied with what is already there, to choose you have to go further. Somewhere else.

Ruvo di Puglia

LE DANZATRICI en plein air 2022

Menhir Dance Company

PAVONI E SAMBA

In a rather radical condition, but also of extreme simplicity, Symposiumis rooted in the value of instant writing, given by the meeting of Davide Valrosso with a musician, from the city, town or village that will host the performance. Symposium consists of a practice of availability, to move towards one's partner, in an action of "migration" and mutual availability. On stage a single element, a box, with which the public is called to interact, add their own thought or encouragement for the future. The box will travel with David, from square to square, thus creating invisible and anonymous relationships between unknown people.

Davide Valrosso

SYMPOSIUM

In the streets and squares that we have been carrying in our pockets for a long time, perhaps for lives, as amulets or as secret tales, we will try to bring a look of wonder. Danced collective action will make us live those woven and rewoven places of stories and memories as blank, virgin canvases, as unexplored places full of potential. The pure and open look will be the main ingredient of this magic, as well as the alliance of those who return to live them together.

Gabriella Catalano

AZIONI COREOGRAFICHE URBANE

Life tickles us to look at the emotions of today. Through body and spirit, characterizing bodily research on movement and emotional states, you want to find a first attempt at interaction on the concept of belonging. Inspired by a Contemporary Eva, a journey combined with a feminine memory.

Silvia Oteri

23 VERTICALE

"Carla Segovia et Guillermo Aguilar ont commencé à collaborer en 2017 après avoir découvert leur affinité créative en travaillant en tant que membres du Colectivo Querido Venado. Ils ont créé leur premier duo intitulé One Hit Wonder au Mexique, mais ont rapidement voyagé à l'étranger lorsqu'ils ont remporté SóLODOS en Danza au Costa Rica en 2018. Ce prix leur a donné l'opportunité de présenter leur vision artistique à travers certains des festivals d'été les plus importants d'Espagne : Cádiz en Danza, Nexos , Danza no Calustro, Trayectos, Corpo(a)Terra, Deltebre Dansa, Figures es MOU et Certamen Burgos. & NY One Hit Wonder est devenu un habitué des prestigieux festivals mexicains et a été présenté dans différentes communautés du Costa Rica et du Guatemala.
En 2020, ils ont commencé à travailler sur H.A.R.L.E.M., qui est devenu finaliste aux 4x4 TJ Nights, l'un des plus importants concours de danse contemporaine au Mexique. "

Colectivo Querido Venado	

H.A.R.L.E.M.

A prison represents a powerful sentence of punishment and a forced limitation of freedom. Totalitarian regimes have used this establishment to subjugate free speech through intimidation and torture. How can such an experience affect the perception one has on its body, movements, and reactions. As a dancer, Bassam Abou Diab, attempts to embody the reaction of inhuman practices, leading to a world of fantasy, allowing the body to transcend into the supernatural. Dancing and dreaming in order to survive the pain.	

Bassam Abou Diab

Pina My Love 

Nostos – in Greek νόστος – return, is the word that conveys that sense of circularity of the journey of existence whose ultimate goal is to reach oneself. Nostos is one of the oldest and most widespread literary motifs, whose archetype is precisely the long journey of Ulysses; a journey that, significantly, is a return: its objective is not to lead the hero to a destination, but to bring him back in a circular way – more experienced in life and therefore wiser – to his original starting point: at home. A physical home, Ithaca. An inner home, self-knowledge.		

Roberta Ferrara

NOSTOS

LAZARUS serial version is a performance inspired by the theme of REBIRTH, born from an idea of Giulio De Leo and developed in close collaboration with Erika Guastamacchia. A body lying on a table and revived by dance becomes the fulcrum of identity for the new community that gathers to watch over it. LAZARUS reflects on the ability of the movement to regenerate the body starting from the fundamental vital acts, according to an organic logic of listening. LAZARUS reflects on the ability of the movement to regenerate the body starting from the fundamental vital acts, according to an organic logic of listening.		

Giulio De Leo

Erika Guastamacchia

Lazarus serial version	

Second edition of the International Contemporary Dance Festival that combines entertainment, workshops, performance with the communities and talent promotion.  Shows, emerging talents, communities and collateral events that dialogue with the architecture of urban spaces and museums: from June 24 to July 10 in Ruvo di Puglia back the DANCERS en plein air, the festival of contemporary dance organized by the Menhir Company under the artistic direction of the choreographer Giulio De Leo and with the support of the Municipality of Ruvo di Puglia, Apulian Public Theatre, Puglia Region – Department of Tourism and Cultural Industry, management and enhancement of cultural heritage and Ministry of Culture.

Two days of prologue and a dense program that will embrace two weekends of summer: thus takes shape the second edition of a project that is inspired by the famous tomb fresco "The dancers of Ruvo di Puglia" and that imagines to revive the protagonists allowing them to dance freely in urban spaces; to live dance as a fusion between city, body, culture, humanity, as a search for self and collective memory thanks to the movement that creates relationship with places and people. Starting from this suggestion, the festival intends to open a reflection on the theme of thearchaeology of dance: a real anthropological investigation on the origin of the gesture, on the stratifications and sedimentations of memories, on the cultural legacies and experiences that shape the personal or collective dimension.



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