CCDF 25|Folklore Dynamics

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FOLKLORE DYNAMICS
50’
VIDAVÈ Company
Noemi Dalla Vecchia & Matteo Vignali
Italy

Choreography: Noemi Dalla Vecchia & Matteo Vignali
Dancers: Cristina Roggerini, Emma Bogerd, Fabio Cavallo, Matteo Vignali, Noemi Dalla Vecchia
Production: VIDAVÈ Company
Co-production: La Biennale di Venezia
With the support of: DANCEHAUSpiù National Production Center, Movimento Danza National Promotion Organism and PACTA Salone dei Teatri
Voice: Gustavo Frigerio
Texts: Mariateresa Sartori
Sound Composition: Sabrina Felli, Simone Andres Ollearo
Lighting Design: Alessandro Caso
Costume Design: Francesco Iacovino

“A language is a dialect with an army and a flag.”
With this formula, first the sociolinguist Weinreich and later Quirk described the influence of a country’s socio-political situation on smaller communities. Similarly, Folklore Dynamics, through its research on Italian dialects — metaphors for values that seem to be vanishing in today’s society — amplifies the voices of choreographers in protest against political power. Instinct, humility, passion, and hard work all converge in a country’s folklore, where diverse identities foster a powerful sense of collectiveness. Five performers square up to a dominant voice that seeks only approval and unquestioned consensus, reminding them what it means to have no chance at resistance. Yet these identities endure. The choreography captures their sincere expressions and emotions, their astute codes of communication, and underscores their anti-conformist political intent.

In 2019, Matteo Vignali and Noemi Dalla Vecchia founded VIDAVÈ, and they have been working nationally and internationally on productions that emphasise a consistent, contaminated movement style and rich micro-dramaturgical choreographies. They attended the NGC Course of AterBalletto and the Pioneer Project of Korzo from 2021 to 2023. With Another With You, produced by DanceHausPIÚ and DanceGallery, they won WhatWeAre and Prospettiva Danza Teatro 2021, making their debut at the National Theatre of Vicenza and, on the European stage, at TanzArt OstWest in Giessen. In 2022, in collaboration with Scenario Pubblico, they created Hansel&Gretel Alteration, which premiered at the National Theatre Fontana in Milan, and was performed at festivals such as Istanbul Fringe Festival and 10Sentidos, earning awards including Linkage, SoloTanz, and Tanzplattform Bern. In 2023, they created Spoken Dance, divided into two pieces: Choreographic Figures, winner of the Residanza Award 2023, which premiered at Teatro Mercadante, and Stimmung, supported by Centro Coreográfico Canal and Festival Primavera dei Teatri. In 2024, they won the Biennale Danza Award with Folklore Dynamics.

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Organised by: Deputy Ministry of Culture (Department of Contemporary Culture) and Rialto Theatre.
Tickets: €8 (€30 for all performances)
Free entrance to students, soldiers, pensioners, PWD cardholders and dance professionals.