Satiri. Aufführung der Kompanie Virgilio Sieni

In the organizer's words:

The Italian Cultural Institute Cologne presents - in collaboration with the Direzione Generale Spettacolo of the Ministry of Culture - the dance project Satiri by the Virgilio Sieni Company. The performance will be shown on Wednesday, December 10 at 7 pm in the theater hall of the cultural institute.

Satiri is the new production by Compagnia Virgilio S ieni, in which Jari Boldrini and Maurizio Giunti dance to live music by Johann Sebastian Bach played by Naomi Berrill on the cello.

The space is traversed by razor-sharp dances of Dionysian and Apollonian sections full of empathy. The movements shown detach postures from the everyday in order to blur not only as moving forms, but as transcending bodies like an ethereal mist between proximity and distance.

Choreography and spatial design Virgilio Sieni

Interpretation Jari Boldrini, Maurizio Giunti

Cello Naomi Berrill

Music Johann Sebastian Bach, Naomi Berrill

Lighting Marco Cassini, Virgilio Sieni

Animal masks Chiara Occhini

A production of the Centro Nazionale di produzione della danza Virgilio Sieni in collaboration with AMAT & Civitanova Danza, Galleria Nazionale delle Marche

With the support of the MIC Ministero della Cultura, Regione Toscana, Comune di Firenze, Fondazione CR Firenze

The Italian dancer and choreographer Virgilio Sieni works at major international theater and music institutions, art foundations and museums. Parallel to his training in art and architecture, he has long been interested in body language and dance. He has been awarded the UBU Prize three times (2000, 2003, 2011) and the Lo Straniero Prize in 2011. In 2013, he was appointed Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et de Lettres by the French Minister of Culture. From 2013 to 2016, he was director of the Venice Dance Biennale, developing a four-year plan on the concept of inhabiting the world "between polis and democracy". His artistic research is based on the idea of the body as a site of multiplicity, developing the archaeological complexity of human gesture.