ARISTIDE RONTINI
Aristide Rontini is a performer, choreographer, community dance artist e disabled professional from Italy.
In 2010 he graduated from Codarts-Rotterdam Dance Academy.
His works have been programmed by Italian and international festivals and theatres such as Oriente Occidente, ERT – Emilia Romagna Teatro, Holland Dance Festival and Gender Bender.
Over the years he has created “It move me” (2016), “Giovane Notturno” (2018), “Alexis 2.0” (2021), both selected at the “Vetrina della Giovane Danza D’autore, Lampyris Noctiluca” (2022), “Back Eye Black” (2023), “Corporale” (2024) and “Frammenti Di Infinito” (2024).
His solo “Lampyris Noctiluca” was selected by the international platform Aerowaves Twenty25.
He has received commissions from Introdans and Skånes Dansteater.
As a dance artist he is interested in the body as a living archive of autobiographical traces and socio-cultural signs, and in dance in its power to activate critical, transformative and effective processes to give life to narratives of intensity compared to the dominant ones.
He works around the concept of “Embodied Image”: dancing bodies are thresholds that embody and generate images and emotional states.
In his shows he creates intimate and meditative atmospheres thanks to which he wants to promote dynamics of empathy and listening between the audience and the dancing bodies, evoke images of the collective unconscious and observe the slow dissemination of new images.
As a disabled artists he is member of Al.Di.Qua. Artists (Alternative Disability Quality Artists), the first Italian association of disabled artists created to discuss and rise up accessibility issues in the performing arts sector.
Parallel to the advocacy activity, he leads workshops with an accessible approach, wrote articles, participate to panel discussions, co-curate webinars and events.
He is independent board member of the Uk-It bilateral residency program “Open Dialogo”.
He has been participating in different activities of the European projects aimed at supporting artists with disabilities and accessibility, “Moving Beyond Inclusion”, “Impart” and “EBA – Europe Beyond Access”.
He has participated in exchange programs on accessible dance practices curated by the Stopgap Dance Company in collaboration with Oriente Occidente.
For more than a decade he has been also leading community dance workshops in different contests and spaces like schools and museums, and addressed to intergenerational and target groups.
Fascinated by the qualities of those who dedicate themselves to dance even though they are not professionals and aware of the importance of direct dance practice to understand its perceptive dynamics, Aristide Rontini usually meets communities of non-professionals both in projects aimed at artistic production, such as “Corporale”, and in workshop activities, such as the European project “Performing Gender – Dancing in your Shoes” created by the Gender Bender Festival in Bologna.
He is a danzeducatore®. In 2016 he completed his studies in educational and community dance practices at the Centro Mousikè – Research Center in Educational and Community Dance in Bologna.
