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SANTASANGRE is an artistic exploration project, established in Rome in 2001 by Diana Arbib, Luca Brinch, Maria Carmela Milan and Pasquale Tricoci. Three years later Dario Salvagnini and Roberta Zanardo joined the group. They focused its artistic endeavours on the potential fragmentations/fractals and formal expression. The need to express an experience, stylistically realised through video, music, the body and aestheticised environment, became the motive for its activities.
To date the group has created the following works: Silent Cells, 2003; studies 64-Frame, 2005) and Faust (2005); as well as project studies for the apocalyptic theatre: 84.06 (2006), Show Synthetic Social Stability, 2007 and Seigradi (2008).

concept Diana Arbib, Luca Brinchi, Maria Carmela Milano, Dario Salvagnini, Pasquale Tricoci, Roberta Zanardo • live video Diana Arbib, Luca Brinchi, Pasquale Tricoci • sound score and live production Dario Salvagnini • performer Roberta Zanardo • 3D visual design Piero Fragola • 3D water animation Alessandro Rosa • registration voice and violin H.E.R/ violoncello Viola Mattioni / wind instruments_Giacomo Piccioni • costume design Maria Carmela Milano, Fiamma Benvignati • management Elena Lamberti • photos Laura Arlotti • production Santasangre • co-production Romaeuropa Festival 2008, Romaeuropa Promozione Danza, Sistema Teatro Marche/Inteatro • with the support of Città di Ebla • thanks to Viola Mattioni, gruppo nanou, Ferran Paredes Rubio, Mario Raoli, Francesco Russo, Liviana Santilli, Lorenzo Letizia, Elisabetta Scatarzi
photo: Laura Arlotti

www.santasangre.net

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It is like that and make me not shit, the newest play of Rodrigo García, less violent than usual but not less corrosive, is a piece of poetry who question our glance about the world.
In this ode in the language, which involve philosophic thoughts and description of the frescoes of Masaccio, the actor assumes the clashes of the words to reveal their powerful, tragic inaptitude to seize the reality.

RODRIGO GARCÍA s a director who ‘creates texts that explode like bombs’, an actor and a video maker. He set up the company La Carniceria teatro, a reference not only to his father’s butcher’s shop but also to his theatrical approach, an attack on the ‘meat’ and ‘blood’ of modern society. It represents a distinct and aggressive ‘New Theatrical Reality’. Critical theatre, confrontational theatre, but not explanatory theatre.

text & direction Rodrigo García • with Melchior Derouet, Núria Lloansi, Daniel Romero • music Daniel Romero • lights design Carlos Marquerie • video Ramón Diago • technical direction Ferdy Esparza • direction assistant John Romão • production La Carnicería Teatro (Madrid), Bonlieu Scène nationale (Annecy) • co-production Théâtre de Gennevilliers • supported by: Spanish Embassy
photo: Christian Berthelot

www.rodrigogarcia.es

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CORALINE LAMAISON is a dancer, stage director and choreographer. She performed in various works directed by Claude Bardouil, assisted to Jan Fabre/Troubleyn and collaborated with Guy Cassiers/Toneelhuis.

choreographer Coraline Lamaison • performers Kate Strong, Julien Andujar (Narcisses 0), Annabelle Chambon, two wolves (Narcisess 1) • wolves’ trainers Jean-Philippe Roman, Sébastien Betous • music Pierre Jodlowski • light, technic manager Sébastien Betous • sound & video manipulator Frédéric Cassan • technician Jérôme Souillot
photo: Gilles Vidal

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The routines, rituals and the body language between predator and prey.
The constant metamorphosis of the being.

LISBETH GRUWEZ started her professional career with Ultima Vez. Since 1999 she has been working with Jan Fabre. Lisbeth starred in Pierre Coulibeuf's film Les Guerriers de la beauté (2001) and in Images of Affection (2002) for Needcompany/Jan Lauwers. In 2006 she co-founded VOETVOLK, a dance/performance group, with composer Maarten Van Cauwenberghe.

performance and dance Lisbeth Gruwez • musicians Maarten Van Cauwenberghe, Dave Schroyen • costumes Joëlle Meerbergen • light Koen Raes • soundtechnician Jan Stoop • production Voetvolk v.z.w. • coproduction Buda kunstencentrum, Troubleyn/Jan Fabre • management Key Performance • with the support of Vlaamse Overheid • thanks to Beursschouwburg, WP Zimmer, DEE Sound & Light
photo: Luc Depreitere

www.voetvolk.be

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Dead ground on which nothing grows
A foundation of flesh, a cracked floor, with walls as if infected by a disease
The house as a body – a gaping hole, the door its wound
The inhabitants a tourniquet,
stemming the blood and keeping the residence alive…

ABATTOIR FERMÉ insists on ‘cinematic plays’ and the diversity of the body of work: wordless (Tourniquet) as well as heavy on text (the Chaos Trilogy); dark and enigmatic (Moe maar op en dolend) as well as light-hearted and simple (Hard-boiled).

director Stef Lernous • actors Kirsten Pieters, Kristof Coenen, Chiel van Berkel • music by Kreng • production Abattoir Fermé
photo: Stef Lernous

www.abattoirferme.be

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Horse 2
Horse head.
Linda combs the hair from the inside out, for 10/15 minutes.

Harp
A harp with horsehair strings, woven human hair
Linda sits on a stool and weaves human hair between the horsehair strings.
This is a premiere, made especially for Exodos Festival.

LINDA MOLENAAR′s work is situated at the point where the performance and its object meet. She uses familiar animals to express the emotional qualities of humans.

The combination of the human and the animal esults in images and situations that appear both familiar and alienating.

photo: Linda Molenaar, Tim Hyde

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Prometheus was a mythological rebel without a cause. With his own contempt for death, he shows what a human being is capable of. In an attempt to enslave this proud violence, Zeus has Prometheus shackled to the Caucasus. The bearer of fire himself is on fire. But what has mankind done with the magical power of fire?

JAN FABRE is well known both at home and abroad as one of the most innovative and versatile artists of his day. The pinnacle of the 2010-11 season, is marked by the creation of a new production Prometheus Landschap II premiered on February in the USA after which an extensive international tour is follow.

concept, direction and scenography Jan Fabre • text I am the all-giver by Jeroen Olyslaegers (based on Aeschylos’ Prometheus Bound) & We need heroes now by Jan Fabre • music Dag Taeldeman • assistance, dramaturgy Miet Martens • performers Katarina Bistrović-Darvaš, Annabelle Chambon, Cédric Charron, Vittoria Deferrari, Lawrence Goldhuber, Ivana Jozić, Katarzyna Makuch, Gilles Polet, Kasper Vandenberghe, Kurt Vandendriessche • light design Jan Dekeyser • costumes Andrea Kränzlin • technical co-ordination Kris van Aert • sound design Tom Buys • technician Bern Van Deun • production & tour manager Tomas Wendelen • english coach Tom Hannes • voice coach Lynette Wright (head of voice and speech Bristol Old Vic Theatre School) • production Troubleyn/Jan Fabre (Antwerp, be) • co-production Peak Performances @ Montclair State University (Montclair, us), Théâtre de la Ville (Paris, fr), Malta Festival (Poznan, pl), Tanzhaus NRW (Düsseldorf, de), Zagreb Youth Theatre (Zagreb, hr), Exodos Ljubljana (Ljubljana, si) • internship Edith Cassiers (dramaturgy), Jerome Toussain (dramaturgy), Katarzyna Mielczarek (costumes), Maja Zupančič (costumes) • Apostolia Papadamaki (with the support of the Costopoulos Foundation) • With the support of the Flemish Government
photo: Wonge Bergmann

www.troubleyn.be

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VIRGILIO SIENI has been a protagonist on the Italian contemporary dance scene since the early 1980s. Born in Florence, he was trained in classical and contemporary dance in Amsterdam, New York and Tokyo, and also studied visual arts, architecture and martial arts.
In 2010 the Company began a four-year project, The Art of the Gesture In the Mediterranean, proposed by the Theatre du Merlan Scène Nationale à Marseille and Marseille 2013 European Cultural Capital. A process will begin in the French city and touch on several symbolic places throughout the Mediterranean basin.

direction, choreography and sets Virgilio Sieni • with Fosco Sieni and Virgilio Sieni • sound Francesco Giomi / Francesco Canavese (Tempo Reale) • lighting Marco Santambrogio and Virgilio Sieni • producer Daniela Giuliano • production 2005 Compagnia Virgilio Sieni, Tempo Reale • in collaboration with 35° Festival Internazionale Santarcangelo dei Teatri CANGO Cantieri Goldonetta Firenze • with the support of Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities Region of Tuscany, Municipality of Florence – Council for Culture, Municipality of Siena – Council for Culture
photo: Laurent Philippe

www.sienidanza.it

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The movie The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is projected on a large screen placed on the stage. Underneath it stands the figure of a little dictator-director, obsessed with the movie, incessantly dubbing it. The comic quality results from the impossibility to actually dub everything and, therefore, from the necessity to keep choosing the parts and situations to use the voice for. It is as if the little dictator-director was ‘spoken’ by the movie.

LUIGI DE ANGELIS founded Fanny & Alexander together with Chiara Lagani in Ravenna in 1992. The direction and conception of his works always builds on the relationship between music, sound space and scenic space, drawing on figurative arts and contemporary music repertoire.

direction Luigi de Angelis • with Marco Cavalcoli • dramaturgy Chiara Lagani • production Fanny & Alexander • promotion Valentina Ciampi and Marco Molduzzi • press office Marco Molduzzi • logistics Sergio Carioli • administration Marco Cavalcoli and Antonietta Sciancalepore
photo: Enrico Fedrigoli

www.fannyalexander.org

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After the minimalism of Spectacular and the animated graphic novel of Void Story, internationally renowned innovators Forced Entertainment return with a large cast on a big stage, filled with ragged dances and distorted voices.
Dances end in fights, jokes end in confusion and sentimental stories end in arguments in this unsettling and extraordinary performance.

FORCED ENTERTAINMENT: Since forming the company in 1984, the six core members of the group have sustained a unique artistic partnership, confirming time and again their position as trailblazers in contemporary theatre. The work – framed and focused by Artistic Director TIM ETCHELLS – is distinctive and provocative, delighting in disrupting the conventions of theatre and the expectations of audiences.

conceived and devised by the company • performers Thomas Conway, Amit Hadari, Phil Hayes, Jerry Killick, Richard Lowdon, Claire Marshall, Cathy Naden, Terry O’Connor, John Rowley • direction Tim Etchells • design Richard Lowdon • lighting design Nigel Edwards • music and sound John Avery • choreographic advice Kate McIntosh • director’s assistant Hester Chillingworth • producers Ray Rennie and Francis Stevenson • production Forced Entertainment • co-production Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), PACT Zollverein (Essen), Theatre Garonne (Toulouse) Les Spectacles vivants – Centre Pompidou in collaboration with Festival d’Automne (Paris) • Forced Entertainment is regularly funded by Arts Council England. This production is supported by Sheffield City Council.
photo: Hugo Glendinning

www.forcedentertainment.com

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