a project by and with Marco D’Agostin
sound LSKA
scientific advice Stefania Belmondo and Tommaso Custodero
dramaturgical advice Chiara Bersani
lights Alessio Guerra
technical director Paolo Tizianel
promotion Marco Villari
organization Eleonora Cavallo, Damien Modolo
visual Isabella Ahmadzadeh
production VAN 2018
co-production Teatro Stabile di Torino – Teatro Nazionale / Torinodanza festival and Espace Malraux – scène nationale de Chambéry et de la Savoie, in the frame of the project “Corpo Links Cluster”, with the support of Programma di Cooperazione PC INTERREG V A – Italia-Francia (ALCOTRA 2014-2020)
in collaboration with Centro Olimpico del Fondo di Pragelato
created in residency at presso la Lavanderia a Vapore, Centro Regionale per la Danza
supported by ResiDance XL, inTeatro
lenght 45 minutes
reservation required
in collaboration with
«If I was asked to tell you about an image of happiness, that would be me on an upland, sitting on a rock, under the sun, a book in my hands»
Stefania Belmondo
First love it’s an act of reparation put in an envelope and addressed to the first love. It’s the story of a boy in the 90s who didn’t like football but cross country skiing instead – and dancing too, but since he didn’t know any movement he used to copy the ones of ski, in his living room, in his bedroom, swallowed by the everlasting green of a Northern Italian province.
That boy now grown up, not anymore a skier but a dancer, not on the snow but on the stage, not a competitor but still a competitor, because of that agonistic attitude towards choreography that never fades away, recurring as it is, he met his childhood idol, the OIympic Champion Stefania Belmondo, and went back to the mountain. Time has come to tell the world that his first love needed to exist, that it would tear his chest apart more than anything else.
Re-enacting the most renowned competition run by the Italian champion, a 15km free style race at the Olympic Games of Salt Lake City, First love becomes scream of revenge, desperate jubilation, dissolution of nostalgia.
Marco D’Agostin
Marco D’Agostin is an artist active in the fields of dance and performance.
After a disjointed education with internationally reknown masters (Claudia Castellucci, Yasmeen Godder, Nigel Charnock, Rosemary Butcher among others), he strengthens his skills both as performer (working for Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio, Alessandro Sciarroni, Tebea Martin, Liz Santoro among others) and maker (his work receives several international acknowledgements and has been touring in Europe since 2010).
His poetics is fluid, dinamic, constantly adapting.
At the moment it resonates with visions from atlases, books by M. P. Shiel, catalogues of extinct creatures and iconographies generated by videos on Youtube.
The choreographic devices he creates pay debt to the lesson that italian poet Amelia Rosselli gave about writing: «Concerning metrics, being it free it used to vary according to associations or to my own pleasure. Annoyed by preset schemes, overflowing from them, it used to adapt to a tempo that was psychological, musical and instinctive».
The piece of art he’s more attached to is The Disintegration Loops I by William Basinski.
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