VERTIGINE is now online.
ORBITA | SPELLBOUND’s 2024 dance season, the only season in the capital dedicated to contemporary dance.
From 12th of January to 23rd of May, Vertigine, the third edition of the Orbita dance season, curated by the co-director of the Center Valentina Marini, will take place between the Teatro Palladium, the Teatro Biblioteca Quarticciolo and the Spazio Rossellini.
The great protagonists of the national contemporary scene such as Virgilio Sieni, Abbondanza/Bertoni, Alessandro Sciarroni, Cristina Rizzo, Mauro Astolfi, Simona Bertozzi, Roberto Zappalà alongside the new exponents of international contemporary dance such as the French-Lebanese Omar Rajeh, the Israeli Sharon Fridman and the English born but Spanish by adoption Thomas Noone. Above all, a very strong attention towards young choreography and the Italian new wave with the presence of Luna Cenere, Carlo Massari, Nicola Galli, Irene Russolillo, Piergiorgio Milano, Fabrizio Favale, Valerie Tameu, Nicola Cisternino and Michael Incarbone.
Over the course of five months, twenty-four shows, including three world premieres, one national premiere, three previews, three Roman premieres; three authorial focuses, two artistic residencies and rehearsals open to the public but also a round table on support strategies for young careers in the choreographic field in collaboration with the Fondazione Musica per Roma and the Equilibrio Festival. Without forgetting the after show party to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Spellbound Contemporary Ballet.
The “vertigo” that Orbita wants to examine is “that jolt that overturns due to attraction and fear at the same time, an inebriating and at the same time threatening disturbance that resolves itself in mutual support. The disorientation in the face of a present increasingly suspended in the void, in that abyss that attempts to confuse oppression and right, law and justice, compassion and interest. In this turbulence, deprived of the gravity of empathy, we can only participate holding hands, poised between responsibility and radical transport” says Valentina Marini to highlight that common thread that runs through the season’s programming, keeping together memory and future, anxieties of the present and desires to escape, Bach and Elvis Presley, the Finnish epic and Renaissance art, the human being and Nature, the mountains and underground cavities.