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Venere vs Adone

Compagnia Enzo Cosimi
Italia

10th January 25 • h. 8.30 pm

Teatro Palladium

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Venere vs Adone is Enzo Cosimi’s new creation that focuses on the famous Shakespearean poem.

The dramaturgical focus, curated by the choreographer together with Maria Paola Zedda, scholar and curator, is centred on the two Shakespearian figures: Adonis, emblematically represented by a fit body, obsessed not so much by the hunt as by the construction of his machine/body, and Venus, who desperately tries to ignite his desire. In a journey traversed by different languages and media, Cosimi reinterprets the poetics of the English playwright, creating a textual and visual mosaic of contemporary elements and philological aspects. The drama of unrequited, wild and feral love. The cult of the body image and the vitalistic force of man, the dominant relationship with nature, and the violence of death are traces that run through the compositional writing and arrive from the baroque-like echoes and ghosts to haunt the contemporary. The queer universe, which has been at the centre of Cosimi’s work from the outset in a critique of normativity and in his interest in the margins and the irregular, emerges powerfully and is highlighted in the metamorphosis of the characters who overturn themselves, challenging the anthropocentric relationship with nature, allowing themselves to be crossed by a living being that cannot be domesticated.

Enzo Cosimi, one of the most authoritative and representative choreographers of Italian choreography, signs with his Company more than 60 choreographies represented in the major Italian and foreign Theatres and Festivals. Over time, his artistic creations have seen important collaborations, including Fabrizio Plessi, Luigi Veronesi, Miuccia Prada, Daniela Dal Cin, Antonio Marras, Aldo Busi, Stefano Galanti, Aldo Tilocca, and Richie Hawtin. In recent years, he has made two trilogies, Sulle passioni dell'anima (On the Passions of the Soul), which tackles the themes of collective fear, desire and pain, and Ode to Beauty, 3 creations on diversity, which marks a political and social commitment in crea-tion, investigating the reality of people considered on the margins. Since 2018 he has been working on the new project Orestea - Revenge Trilogy, with the first chapter Glitter in my tears - Agamemnon, followed in 2020 by Coefore Rock&Roll and in 2022 by The Hero's Tears. Orestes vs A.i. The entire trilogy was presented in its entirety at the Festival RomaEuropa 2022. In 2023 he won the Mic's Spe-cial Project call with The Play Garden. In 2014 he received the Danza&Danza prize for the perfor-mance Sopra di me il diluvio and in 2018 the ANCT national critics' prize. In 2019 a monographic book was published entitled ‘Enzo Cosimi, una conversazione quasi angelica - 10 domande per uso domestico’ edited by Maria Paola Zedda.  

Direction, choreography, video: Enzo Cosimi

Dramaturgy: Maria Paola Zedda, Enzo Cosimi

With: Alice Raffaelli, Leonardo Rosadini

Light Design: Giulia Belardi, Enzo Cosimi 

Costume: Alessandro Lai 

Costume making: Giuseppina Angotzi/Sartoria Il Costume 

Sculptures: Daniela Dal Cin

Sound designer: Enzo Cosimi  

Video: Roberto Gentile

Organization: Pamela Parafioriti

Production: Compagnia Enzo Cosimi, MiC, in collaboration with AMAT Residenze  Centro di Produzione Orbita|Spellbound, ATCL, KOMM TANZ 2024 Compagnia Abbondanza/Bertoni in collaboration with Comune di Rovereto, RAM Residenze artistiche marchigiane, supported by Regione Marche and MiC

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