About
As slipping out of the cloth of constantly fluttering flags, heraldic symbols take form and weight. Chimerical beings and oneiric figures appear, like leafing through an armorial or medieval bestiary. They seem to tell us stories of conflicts which took place in the well delimited perimeter of an emblematic battlefield.
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. Second part of a diptych started with AeReA, ARA! ARA! continues to investigate the symbolic power of the flag. Photos © Ettore Spezza
Demetrio CastellucciSound Designer and Compositor
Michele ScottiSnare, percussion, recording
Annegret SchalkeLight Design
Laila RosatoSet design realization
Ginevra PanzettiFlag design
Julia DidierCostume Designer
Carlo LobinaFlag-waving coach
Paolo TizianelTechnical care
Aurélie MartinTouring and distribution
Eleonora CavalloItalian production management
Federica GiulianoItalian production management
Monica FerrariGerman production management
Maqamat
Maqamat is a dance company that was established in Beirut in 2002 by Omar Rajeh and moved to Lyon in 2020 in the perspective of developing its creative and cultural projects in France and internationally. It played a major role in the organization, creation and establishment of a contemporary dance scene in Lebanon and the region. It has founded major dance projects such as BIPOD-Beirut International Platform of Dance, Takween, an intensive training program, Moultaqa Leymoun, a showcase platform supporting artists from different Arab countries and more recently the digital platform Citerne.live.
Performance within BIPOD is supported and in collaboration with
Production: Ginevra Panzetti / Enrico Ticconi; Associazione Culturale VAN Supported by: the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès within the framework of the New Settings Program * Funded by: Hauptstadtkulturfonds (German Cultural Capital Fund) * Co-produced by : PACT Zollverein; La Briqueterie CDCN du Val-de-Marne within the framework of accueil-studio funded by the Ministry of culture / DRAC IDF; KLAP Maison pour la Danse (Residency 2021); Théâtre de Vanves / Scène conventionnée d’intérêt national « Art et création » pour la danse et les écritures contemporaines à travers les arts; Triennale Milano Teatro. * Supported through: Programme Etape Danse, sustained by Institut français d’Allemagne - Bureau du Théâtre et de la Danse, in partnership with Maison CDCN Uzès Gard Occitanie, théâtre de Nîmes-scène conventionnée d’intérêt national – Art et Création - danse contemporaine, Fabrik Potsdam, with the help of DGCA - ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, and the city of Potsdam, Mosaico Danza / Interplay Festival of Turin in partnership with Lavanderia a Vapore of Collegno; Radialstiftung. Artistic residency program : NAOcrea - Ariella Vidach AiEP; Teatro Félix Guattari - Masque Teatro; CSC Bassano del Grappa; PACT Zollverein; Armunia; Schaubühne Lindenfels; Sosta Palmizi.* Thanks to: Teatro Comandini - Societas; Anghiari Dance Hub. Ginevra Panzetti / Enrico Ticconi are supported by DIEHL+RITTER/TANZPAKT RECONNECT, which is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR initiative