© Pier Paolo Zimmermann
A process of choreographic and musical slowing that examines the relationship between hyper-productivity and memory. A crowd of people embodies an impossible tempo – from 160 to 5 bpm – to transform a caffeinated dance into a meditative pretext.
SLOOOOOOW – il tempo della festa is the choreographic and musical process of slowing down that Parini Secondo and Bienoise have set in motion to enter a state of suspension. A crowd of people embodies the company’s previous work, SPEEED, and propels it toward an impossible tempo – from 160 to 5 bpm – to transform a caffeinated dance into a meditative pretext.
SPEEED (2020) and SLOOOOOOW (2026) form a diptych. SPEEED was born out of a genuine fascination with Para Para and Eurobeat – a high-speed dance style and musical genre popular in Tokyo clubs in the 90s. Parini and Bienoise embraced a desire for renewal, an evolutionary impulse arising from a work that represented their artistic partnership and for which they hold a special affection. SLOOOOOOW stages its disintegration, the gradual deterioration of an old, slowed-down YouTube video, which ultimately questions the relationship between the rhythm of hyperproductivity and that of memory.
Duration: 45 minutes without intermission
SLOOOOOOW – il tempo della festa is the choreographic and musical process of slowing down that Parini Secondo and Bienoise have set in motion to enter a state of suspension. A crowd of people embodies the company’s previous work, SPEEED, and propels it toward an impossible tempo – from 160 to 5 bpm – to transform a caffeinated dance into a meditative pretext.
SPEEED (2020) and SLOOOOOOW (2026) form a diptych. SPEEED was born out of a genuine fascination with Para Para and Eurobeat – a high-speed dance style and musical genre popular in Tokyo clubs in the 90s. Parini and Bienoise embraced a desire for renewal, an evolutionary impulse arising from a work that represented their artistic partnership and for which they hold a special affection. SLOOOOOOW stages its disintegration, the gradual deterioration of an old, slowed-down YouTube video, which ultimately questions the relationship between the rhythm of hyperproductivity and that of memory.
Duration: 45 minutes without intermission
Credits
SLOOOOOOOW
Il tempo della festa
WORLD PREMIERE
by Parini Secondo x Bienoise
in collaboration with Rino Daidoji and Carlotta Hofrichter
with Sissj Bassani, Rino Daidoji, Ada Donatini, Carlotta Hofrichter, Camilla Neri, Martina Piazzi, Francesca Pizzagalli
and with the students of the “Luca Ronconi” course at the “Luca Ronconi” School of Teatre of the Piccolo Teatro di Milano Samuele Cattaneo, Salvatore Celauro, Desideria Cucchiara, Emanuele De Barbieri, Anna Falco, Gaia Fecarotta, Francesco Fontana, Walter Franci, Issouf Montell Kone, Aurora Leuzzi, Isabella Loi, Veronika Lukyanenko, Mimì Dario Marchianò, Allegra Micaglio, Tommaso Moggi, Matteo Monai, Rachid Morchad, Giulia Moro, Francesco Maria Nigrelli, Laura Palmiotti, Andrea Pampanini, Gabriele Peirani, Arianna Regina, Alba Tisano, Tarek Tomei, Federica Verani
music Alberto Ricca / Bienoise
soprano Livia Lanno
lighting design Bianca Peruzzi
props Filippo Tappi, Bianca Peruzzi
dramaturgy consultant Marco D’Agostin
promotion Camilla Ferrazzi
production VAN Associazione Culturale, Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d’Europa
support DanceBase Yokohama
with the support of MIC and SIAE, as part of the “Per Chi Crea” programme
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