Project Camilla Monga and Emanuele Maniscalco

Concept and choreography Camilla Monga

Dancers Camilla Monga, Stefano Roveda and Francesco Saverio Cavaliere

Music ( piano, drums ) Emanuele Maniscalco

Artistic collaboration and tapestry making Meris Angioletti

With the support of Centro Nazionale di Produzione della Danza Virgilio Sieni and Fondazione CR Firenze – Coproduction Festival Danza Estate Bergamo / Armunia Castiglioncello – In collaboration with TAD Residency of Bergamo / Thanks for the concession of the spaces and musical instruments Teatro Grande of Brescia

With the contribution of the Ministry of Culture, Emilia-Romagna Region, Municipality of Bologna

photo by Mario Albergati

2022

Sull’attimo offers an unprecedented and challenging approach to performance and improvisation that form the dramaturgical basis for a exploration of time, born from short dialogues archived both in written form and through a docufilm. The material is created by choreographer Camilla Monga and multi-instrumentalist Emanuele Maniscalco. Piano and drums are played together to perform a single composition that is partly written and partly improvised drawing cues from jazz, ambient music, Brazilian folk music to 20th century cultured music, Bach to art pop.

Musical ideas are developed by the dancers’ actions in a constant interplay of balance and repetition to shape tight dialogue between sounds and gestures.

Each performer is grappling with the performance and at the same time with its continuous variation that is always personal and surprising.

Sull’attimo allows us to reflect on the compositional structure and its continuous reinvention thanks also to the effects that music produces on the emotional sphere.

Timeless time is the place of the memory of sounds and gestures, which creep in among the many musical and choreographic variations explored generating a change perceptible only on the moment.