In keeping with its title, Il sesso degli angeli (The Sex of Angels) has no subject matter.
It merely places in a rough scene two dancers who perform an asymmetrical, whimsical, at times bizarre score, which in the end, perhaps, will also allow something traceable to the angelic dimension to shine through.
Roberto Castello is among the choreographers who founded contemporary dance in Italy. In the ear-ly 1980s, he danced at Carolyn Carlson's La Fenice Theatre and Dance in Venice, where he created his first choreographies. In 1984, he was among the founders of Sosta Palmizi. In 1993, he founded AL-DES. Since 1996, he has been curator of various events and exhibitions and, from 2005 to 2015, he taught digital choreography at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. Since 2008, with ALDES, he has curated the ‘SPAM! network for contemporary arts’ project in the province of Lucca, hosting re-sidencies, a multidisciplinary programme of performances, workshops, educational activities and mee-tings. In 2021 he published ‘Trattato di economia - Riflessioni semiserie sulla dimensione economica dell'esistenza’, written with Andrea Cosentino and participated in the publication of the volume Nel migliore dei mondi possibili. Intorno all'opera di Roberto Castello edited by Valentina Valentini to-gether with Chiara Pirri and Valeria Vannucci edizioni Ephemeria. UBU Prize in 1986, 2003, 2018 and 2022 (‘Il Cortile’ / ‘Il migliore dei mondi possibili’ / ALDES project / ‘Inferno’).
Choreography, direction, music: Roberto Castello
With: Erica Bravini, Ilenia Romano
Technical manager: Leonardo Badalassi
Production: ALDES
With the support of MIC - Ministry of Culture, Tuscany Region / Regional Entertainment System
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