SPELLBOUND CONTEMPORARY BALLET
SOLO ANDATA
Choreography: Mauro Astolfi
Performers: Maria Cossu, Giuliana Mele, Alessandro Piergentili
Lighting: Marco Policastro
Music: Various Authors
A Spellbound production, co-production with the Fondazione Teatro Comunale Città di Vicenza
Duration: 25 minutes
The allure and temptation of the call of a one-way journey, that primal desire to believe that the moment for something definitive, for that choice that will last a lifetime, is approaching. It’s a sort of strange “travel bug” of the soul that occasionally returns to bite, and so one finds oneself trying to reproduce and interpret reality in a way that is detached from moral and compositional clichés.
Mauro Astolfi
A BETTER PLACE
Choreography and Direction: Mauro Astolfi
Performers: Anita Bonavida, Alessandro Piergentili
Lighting Design: Marco Policastro
Music: Keeley Forsyth
A Spellbound production
with the contribution of MiC (Ministry of Culture)
Duration: 7 minutes
“A Better Place” is the ideal search for a place that could always prove better. It’s a place designed for oneself but where one can also attract someone else. Like two people circling each other, sniffing around, and spending time trying to provoke a reaction, where the desired behavior is achieved not only by making it appealing but often by targeting the loss of individual autonomy… The best place is only where one can choose autonomously, even if in reality, one is guided; the place where to be is chosen by oneself.
TRUST
Choreography and Direction: Mauro Astolfi
Performers: Maria Cossu, Giuliana Mele
Lighting Design: Marco Policastro
Music: Various Authors
A Spellbound production
with the contribution of MiC (Ministry of Culture)
Duration: 10 minutes
Trust is a brief story of two women who genuinely don’t know how to behave towards each other. It’s an attempt at a momentary agreement based on the idea of mutual trust as a tool for getting to know each other a little more quickly. It’s a game woven from different personalities but with a subtle need to understand what the other thinks, how they could be close to you, how you could live close to them.
Trust is a childish, mature, adolescent but aware duet, a (brief) story, a suggestion about some decisions that sometimes need to be made quickly and can change the course of life. Together, we vibrate, we hide in each other, we protect each other… as we move forward, we become friends, and in the end, we discover that we can trust each other.
