16, 17, 18, 19 July, from h. 16:30
Parco Comunale, Zafferana Etnea (CT)
FREE ENTRY
Luca di Bartolo and Ivonne Bello
“Swans never die” is a screendance work that captures the internalization of the metaphor of the swan, interpreted in a modern key; here, the swan is a subjective image of beauty, tied to the world of contemplation and transformation within an altered time and space. To start over, to find a blank space to start over.
“Swans never die” is a screendance work that captures the internalization of the metaphor of the swan, interpreted in a modern key; here, the swan is a subjective image of beauty, tied to the world of contemplation and transformation within an altered time and space. To start over, to find a blank space to start over.
Born in Rimini in 1971, I started taking photographs at the age of 8. Photography has accompanied my entire life as an increasingly personal and intimate form of expression—an art form that allows me to communicate my own emotions and those of others, a reality to retreat into as a form of defense. I graduated in architecture from Florence in 2002. For many years, I focused on industrial archaeology, conducting extensive research for a book I subsequently published on brick kilns. Since 2000, I began directing my interest toward dance photography, and over the years, it was in that world that I found my personal reality, to the point of taking dance theater classes myself and collaborating, naturally as a photographer, with top-tier professional dancers. Among the artists and dance companies I have had the honor and pleasure of photographing are Giuseppe Picone, Letizia Giuliani, Svetlana Zakharova, the Antonio Gades Dance Company, MaggioDanza, the Kiev Ballet, Aterballetto, and many others. Since 2014, I have been increasingly involved in filmmaking. Since 2016, my video production has focused almost exclusively on dance, with the creation of several short films. In 2019, I moved to Sardinia, a land of great inspiration, where I have produced a large part of my screendance works.
Ivonne Bello is a Venezuelan dancer, performer, and choreographer whose artistic signature lies in constant interdisciplinary research and the dialogue between the body and contemporary languages. Her artistic vision embraces dance-theater, improvisation, and video art, exploring movement as a means of social and cultural transmission. Her academic path began in Venezuela at the Escuela de Danza Moderna in Maracay, and was later consolidated at the university level with a Master’s Degree as a Contemporary Dance Performer from UNEARTE (Universidad Experimental de las Artes) in Caracas. Subsequently, thanks to a scholarship, she moved to Italy, where she perfected her training at the DanceHaus Academy in Milan, directed by Susanna Beltrami. Her technical evolution is the result of deep exploration conducted with internationally renowned masters and institutions of excellence, including the SNDO in Amsterdam, the Centre National de la Danse in Paris, the Triennale di Milano, and the Marameo and TanzFabrik centers in Berlin.
Gaetano Palermo e Michele Petrosino sono un duo artistico attivo tra arti visive e performative. La loro ricerca indaga l’ontologia della performance al confine tra realtà e finzione, attraverso la lente del movimento e della stasi. Il loro lavoro è stato sostenuto e presentato da festival e istituzioni quali La Biennale di Venezia, Triennale Milano, Santarcangelo Festival, Gender Bender Festival, Teatro Regio di Parma, Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia, MAMbo Bologna e Kilowatt Festival. Dal 2023 il duo è sostenuto dall’organismo di produzione nazionale della danza KLm – Kinkaleri, Le Supplici, mk.