HIT
Parini Secondo

Parini Secondo chooses rope skipping as an athletic practice and rhythmic element to create his new production - HIT.

In this instrument, Parini identifies the powerful union between the athlete and the child, two heroic figures who, together with the poet, share a close relationship with death (Jesi, 1958). The jump, at once limp and flight, is the stylised dance that leads out of the labyrinth, interpreted here as a negation of the systemic condition that would have us lying motionless on the ground with our eyes closed. One can come out of the impasse like drums: by creating a physical void in which the skin resonates with each blow, becomes an echo of the words heard, becomes stone that sings.

In a composition elaborated together with musician and researcher Alberto Ricca/Bienoise, the illusory repetitiveness of the rotating flow of the rope becomes an inexorable spiral that parabolises time from the real to the ritual. What comes before, the exercise, is already everything that comes after, is the dance. In this sports-ritual binomial, a path of sublimation of athletic practice develops in which occluding repetition is transformed into an evolutionary portal. The passage from the exercise sphere to the performance sphere takes place discreetly and by juxtaposition, veiling the initiatory path that connects them, which is inspired by the game of hopscotch in its French version - the escargot, a numbered spiral grid to be completed in an outward and return movement by jumping on one foot.

It is in the nature of what is sacred to be able to be heard, but to want to be seen in a veiled way or not to want to be seen at all (Schneider, 2005).

With Sissj Bassani, Camilla Neri, Martina Piazzi, Francesca Pizzagalli

Choreography Parini Secondo, freely inspired by online content

Sound Alberto Ricca/Bienoise

Light design Bianca Peruzzi

Costumes and weaves Giulia Pastorelli

Ropes MarcRope Milano

Organization Margherita Alpini

With the support of Cantieri/Network Anticorpi XL, AMAT Marche, Culture Moves Europe, Magdalena Oettl, Boarding Pass Plus, ROM - Residency on the move, BIT Theater Garasjen (Bergen, NO), IIC Parigi other supports: Parsec Bologna, ORA (Sondrio, IT), MarcRope (Milan, IT), Taarnby Park Studio (Copenhagen, DK), ERASMUS+ program, Armunia (Castiglioncello, IT), CSC-Centro per la Scena Contemporanea (Bassano del Grappa, IT), Santarcangelo Festival (IT), La Briqueterie (Val-de-Marne, FR), Le Carreau du Temple (Paris, FR) and consultation with: Camilla Rizzi, Lola Posani, Luigi Monteanni

Production Parini Secondo, Nexus Factory Project supported by SIAE Per Chi Crea 2023/24

Parini Secondo was born in 2017 from an idea by Sissj Bassani (Cesena,1997) and Martina Piazzi (Bologna, 1997) and involves the dancers Camilla Neri and Francesca Pizzagalli. The artists propose to work on movement in a protean manner, questioning the limits of authorship and up-to-dateism. In an ecological and ready-made act, the group uses and remixes other people's ideas and choreographies that already exist online, which are learnt through tutorials or other content on the net. Parini exploits and supports the potential of open source and DIY [do-it-yourself] ethics/aesthetics.

Since 2019 the collective has been collaborating with musician, producer and teacher Alberto Ricca/Bienoise (Verbania, 1985) who is featured in the projects i (2019), ROCCO (2019), SPEEED (2020) - selected for La Vetrina della giovane danza d'autore 2022 - and be me (2021) - winner of the KreativCampus.Rhur residency programme by ecce - european centre for creative economy (Essen, DE). Parini's latest research, do-around-the-world/HIT, is concerned with rope skipping and childhood playful rhythmic practices as identifying cultural and musical elements of women's own upbringing. The project is supported by the Antibodies XL network through the supportER grant and the ResiDance residency course, as well as by the ERASMUS+ programme.

Parini Secondo performed in different international festivals such as: Fron+@ Festival (Murska Sobota, Slovenia, 2018); NAOcrea (Milan, Italy, 2019); Multiplicidades Festival (Santa Cruz, Portugal, 2019); ELEMENTI Festival (Cervia, Italy, 2020); Danza Urbana (Bologna, Italy, 2021); Vetrina della giovane danza d'autore - Network Anticorpi XL (Ravenna, Italy, 2022); Festival Catalysi (Cesena, Italy, 2022); Supernova Festival (Rimini, IT, 2023), Kilowatt Festival (Cortona, Italy, 2023), B.Motion Festival (Bassano del Grappa, Italy, 2023), MilanOltre (Milano, Italy, 2023), Venere in Teatro (Forte Marghera, Italy, 2023).

Plus d'informations

https://www.parinisecondo.it/