Dance performance „Un po’ di più“ / Zoé Bernabéu and Lorenzo Covello (Italy)

Performed and written by: Zoé Bernabéu ir Lorenzo Covello

Lights: Paride Donatelli

Music: Stefano Grasso

Production: Muxarte / Pindoc

With the support of: Piccolo Teatro Patafisico, Spazio Franco, Teatro Ditirammu

Premier: 2019

Duration: 53 min.

Location: @Priekulė Culture Center (Turgaus str. 4, Priekulė)

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Un po' di più - Trailer from Melqart Productions on Vimeo.

In 2019 the performance was awarded with the prize of the Best Show Direction Under 30 and 3 prizes at Roma Fringe Festival: Press prize, Fringe spirit prize and Special OFF prize.

“Un po’ di più” is research on balance, an exploration that strives to go closer to the limits, just right before the breaking point. It is a risky game, where the smallest movement threatens stability, and one word can destroy all of it. Balance between two minds, two bodies, between words and movements. A quest through our fragilities, a vulnerable journey that pushes us towards our restrictions where, maybe, the heart can open and find new paths. Love as a bet, as a try, as an opportunity for physical and emotional metamorphosis. A little more and everything would collapse.

*** Critics corner

“The innovative ideas full of psychedelic and ethereal poetry are implemented with great commitment and uncommon talent. (...) The story moves, amazes, leaves us astonished and unprepared for a set of so much interpretative beauty.” Il Foyer

“A moment of rare artistic quality. A show that oscillates sinuously between silences, dance steps and words chosen carefully, measured drop by drop.” The Parallel Vision

“The bodies touch each other, recalling the expressivity and the movements of silent movies, the delicacy of Chaplin but, at the same time, the power of the Tanztheater.” Paper street

“Out of every category, but theatrically powerful from every point of view. (...) Lorenzo Covello and Zoé Bernabéu are very talented, at the limits of the incredible, and they maneuver in a performance that ranges from dance theater to research theater. (...) Every spectator remains literally enchanted, almost kidnapped by what’s happening on stage.”  Brainstorming Culturale

Zoé Bernabéu studied contemporary dance at the National Conservatory of Paris from 2011 to 2015. During her training, she met choreographers such as Cécile Loyer, Cristiana Morganti (Pina Bausch), Ambra Senatore, Mathilde Monnier, Sabine Ricou, Martha Moore, Dominique Brun and Agathe Pfauwadel (Odile Duboc). In 2013, she studied for four months at the National Dance Academy of Athens (KSOT). She also participated in numerous workshops in Europe that enabled her to enrich her language and grow as a performer.

She started working as a dancer in 2016 for the creation of “Extraterrestrial Events” by Philip Connaughton. In July 2017, as a full-time dancer, she joined Corpus, a contemporary dance company based at the Royal Danish Theater in Copenhagen and directed by Tim Matiakis. There, she collaborated with the choreographers Martin Forsberg (for the piece “Prefecture”), Ioannis Mandafounis (“For It finishes when it finishes”), Bobbi Jene, Sebastian Mattias, Mattias Sunneson, Christian Falsnaes, Jefta van Dinther, Andrea Tallis. In 2018 she participated in the creation of the two operas: the Happy Hand (Schönberg) and the Bluebeard’s Castle (Bartok) directed by Ricci/Forte at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo. In May 2019, she joined Daniele Ninarello’s Company for the creation of “Pastorale”. “Un po’ di più” is her first creation.

Lorenzo Covello trained in acrobatics and juggling at the Piccola Scuola di circo in Milan from 2004 until 2008. In 2009, he moved to Turin, studying at the Reale Gymnastics. In 2010, he studied theater with Kuniaki Ida, a student of Jaques Lecoq. In 2011, he graduated in product design at the Milan Polytechnic and founded a clothing brand (Lit_welovelittlethings). From 2012 to 2015, he participated in the creation of four operas (Feuersnot, Carmen, Cinderella, Gisela) directed by the Palermitan director Emma Dante.

In 2015 he began to train in contemporary dance, participating in workshops in Italy and Europe with international choreographers and companies such as: Ambra Senatore, Jos Baker, Giovanni Scarcella, Olga Alvarez, Iris Heitzinger, Guy Nader, David Zambrano, Konstandina Efthimiadou, Tomislav English, Sam Coren, Roser Lopez, La Macana, Judith Sanchez Ruiz, Peter Jasko, Siri Wolthoorn. He worked with various comedians of the Milanese and Italian scene such as Pali e dispari, Gianmarco Pozzoli, Gianluca De Angelis.

Since 2016 he dedicates himself to his own creations and diffusion of his personal projects: “Flock” (co-created with Clara Storti), “Una vita a matita” (winner Minimo Teatro Festival 2016, co-created with Quinzio Quiescienti), “Un po’ di più” (co-created with Zoé Bernabéu).

In 2019 he joined Daniele Ninarello’s company, for two different pieces: “Pastorale” and “Still”.

 

Photo: Melqart pro