Invention Matteo Maffesanti
performer Mirko Tomezzoli, Jessica Pasetto, Dario Giacomini, Eddy Bosco, Irene Cordioli and Samuele Trentini
video Alessio Bertanza
artistic consultancy Chiara Ameglio
conversations Silvia Gribaudi
movement coach Martina La Ragione, Beatrice Bresolin and Francesca Albanese
music Davide Pachera
musical quotes Arvo Pärt
photo Anna Kushnirenko
Costumes Cooperativa sociale Insieme a r.l.
Light design Luca Serafini
Production Associazione culturale Zebra / Elevator Bunker
Coproduction Festival Danza in Rete-Fondazione Teatro Comunale Città di Vicenza
Supported by Logistica Uno Europe Srl
Administration Associazione culturale Zebra
Residencies Teatro Prova di Bergamo, CSC di Bassano del Grappa, Sementerie Artistiche di Crevalcore and La Corte Ospitale di Rubiera

Delivery is a performative project of the collective Elevator Bunker that stems from the desire to investigate the theme of happiness understood as the mood of those who consider their desires fulfilled. Happiness is in relationships, in the bonds we establish with others, with friends and family, in personal growth and in the free expression of our creativity. There is no better way to tell who we are than by revealing our most hidden happiness. In Delivery the performers go through a choreographic narration whose development is based on the sharing of motor sequences, individual or group improvisations and suspensions of the scenic flow. A game without fiction and without savings where the dancers transform their fragility into strengths. Understanding one’s own happiness, demanding it, desiring it, escaping reality and finally observing oneself through the gaze of the audience are aspects in continuous evolution that influence the performance scene and the relationship with the audience. What makes me happy? When can I be happy? How can I be happy? These questions are the starting points of an intimate and deep reflection that the performers go through revealing unexpected passions, desires and joys. Delivery is a spectacle of the need to be happy unconditionally, without fear of being judged or excluded. The performance is to be considered the continuation of the previous projects of the collective Elevator Bunker, which investigated the theme of identity and coexistence of differences.

Elevator Bunker collective was born in 2008 from an idea of Matteo Maffesanti and Davide Pachera as an active response to the desire for artistic research in the field of intellectual disability. The many years of experience gained by both in the social field leads them to activate a path that, through the performing arts and body language, can become an opportunity for growth and inclusion. The fundamental objective of the project is to create an open and accessible environment in which to express their creativity, considering individual characteristics not as a limit but as an important resource in artistic creation. Since 2017 Elevator Bunker has been active in numerous international projects of social inclusion promoted by the CSC of Bassano del Grappa and is a member of Europe Beyond Access Italia, network aimed at questioning and discussing the issues of accessibility and inclusion in the performing arts to generate awareness, spread knowledge and experience of good practices, encourage greater participation and leadership of artists and cultural workers with disabilities. In 2023 the company was selected for the project Boarding Pass, Performing No Limit supported by the Italian Ministry of Culture and creates the performance Delivery, a production Zebra Cultural Zoo in co production with Fondazione Teatro Comunale di Vicenza and the support of Operaestate Festival Veneto and La Corte Ospitale.

National Premiere

Concept, Choreography & Performance Ioanna Paraskevopoulou
Sound Design & Music Aliki Leftherioti
Set Design Eleni Stroulia & Ioanna Paraskevopoulou
Lighting Design Eliza Alexandropoulou
Dramaturgical Contribution Elena Novakovits
Video Technical Support And Tour Lighting Design Lampros Papoulias
Text, Editing Of Archival Material & Photo Editing Ioanna Paraskevopoulou
Assistant Choreographer Elpiniki Saripanidou
Assistant Set Designer Nikos Papadopoulos
Artistic Collaborators Giorgos Kotsifakis, Martha Pasakopoulou, Nandi Gogoulou, Lia Chamilothori
Photography Yannis Bournias, Pinelopi Gerasimou, Andreas Simopoulos
Executive Production Kassie Kafetsi - Cultόpιa
Tour Management Ioanna Paraskevopoulou, Kassie Kafetsi - Cultόpιa

With The Support Of Neon Organization For Culture And Development
Residency Supported By La Briqueterie Cdcn Du Val-De-Marne / Fondation D’entreprise Hermès
Commissioned & Produced By Onassis Stegi
Co-produced By One Dance Festival/ Bulgaria

Supported by the Onassis Stegi “Outward Turn” Cultural Export Program.

Many thanks to: Kalamata Dance Festival, Alexandros Tomaras, Christos Polimenakos, Danis Chatzivasilakis, Natasha Martin, Props House Stage 38

Borrowing its title from Led Zeppelin’s homonymous track, “All of My Love” is a sound-choreographic construction that transpires through the recollection of experiences, texts, objects, craft practices, and manual operations. A shifting landscape in which nothing remains soundless. An invitation to a sensory intense experience that gropes the edges of loss. A choreographic composition of diverse memories and images. A letter of love, remembrance, and tribute to all those that are (not) with us anymore.
Seeking for motives and emotion, the artist begins with a question: “What would a last dance sound like if there was no tomorrow”? To try a first answer, she chooses to restore memories through the diversion of dissimilar elements and their sonic re-composition. Extracts of favorite movies, lyrics of beloved songs, voices of loved ones, excerpts from amateur family Super8 films, sounds made of agricultural tools and household appliances, photographs, and bodily memories, generate a ritualistic circumstance through which modes of being are challenged.
“All of My Love” escapes linearity, inspiring temporal discontinuities by blurring the boundaries of beginning and end. It discloses personal origins, traumas, and fantasies in an effort to reconcile with the idea of death. It captures memories and transmutes them into a locus of catharsis, inviting the spectator to join a paradoxical reminiscence. “It chases a feather in the wind”. “All of My Love” is a kinetic and sonic cry for all that is not here, for all that is ending, for all that exists and transforms, for all that is always there.

OE Coproduction - National Premiere

a project by Biancofango
Dramaturgy Francesca Macrì and Andrea Trapani
Directed by Francesca Macrì
with Marco Gregorio Puglieri, Irma Ticozzelli. Andrea Trapani, Sara Younes, Cristian Zandonella
and with the participation of a chorus of citizens
Music, Sound Design and Live Elecronics Giovanni Frison
Assistant director and artistic collaboration Lorenzo Profita
Light Design Massimiliano Chinelli
Production Elsinore - Centro di Produzione Teatrale e Fattore K
with the productive collaboration of operaestate
In collaboration with Teatri di Vetro

Never young is a project dedicated to the theme of Lolita. It is a deep-dive into contemporary times, a docu-performance dedicated to a part of society that we often forget it represents the future: pre-adolescence. Never young is a leap into the future in an attempt to inhabit a complex, multiform, agitated present, in which we all feel - regardless of age - the need to scream loudly here and now.

 by Chisato Ohno
Choreography assistant - Beatrice Bresolin
Sound design - Kazuo Ohno
Costume design - Yumi Shemesh

OE Production - Nationale Premiere

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

This year’s creation for dancers of Dance Well, contemporary dance practice for people with Parkinson’s and open to the whole community, also European project since 2022, is entrusted this year to the dance artist Chisato Ohno, who will create a movement-based score, giving dancers a new opportunity to explore different languages of contemporary dance.

After graduating from Central School of Ballet, Chisato joined Netherlands Dans Theater 2 where she performed works by Jiri Kylian, Hans van Manen, Johan Inger, Paul Lightfoot, Gideon Obarzanek and many others. She continued to become a member of Batsheva Dance Company performing many works of Ohad Naharin and other choreographers including John Jasperse, William Forsythe, Mats Ek and Sharon Eyal. She then joined Karas Company of Saburo Teshigawara for two creations and tours of other repertory. Chisato returned to London and has been teaching Gaga since 2005. She teaches regular Professional classes in London and has taught company class for Akram Khan Company, Hofesh Shechter Company, Punch Drunk, Stopgap, Clod Ensemble, New Adventures, Lost Dog and others. She has been a member of faculty at the London Contemporary Dance School since 2013 and joined the Rambert School faculty in 2020.

Initiative carried out with the contribution of Camera di Commercio di Vicenza