02.02
Sunday
at 17.00

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GLI ANNI

By Marco D’Agostin
With Marta Ciappina

DANCE

2023 UBU Award – Best Performance and Best Performer

Marta’s body and the gaze of those who watch her embark on a journey that oscillates between the present – the moment of the performance, a romantic, unrepeatable encounter – and each person’s past, weaving a tapestry of comings and goings that blurs stories, songs and memories.

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23.02
Sunday
at 17.00

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Xala

Ania Losinger and Mats Eser

MUSIC AND DANCE

Ania Losinger is a Swiss dancer and musician. She performs and plays the Xala, the world’s first floor xylophone. She dances on it to play, using flamenco shoes and sticks. Joining her on stage is Mats Eser: musician, composer and producer.

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15.03
Saturday
at 20.30

16.03
Sunday
at 17.00

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Moving Time Frames

POOL MOVEMENT ART FILM Festival

VIDEODANCE

A selection of international movement-based films, co-curated by POOL MOVEMENT ART FILM Festival Berlin and Teatro San Materno. Two evenings of screenings in which dance and film converge to give life to a unique form of the art of movement.

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13.04
Sunday
at 10.30

CHF 15.–

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Autour du corps - Omaggio al Bauhaus

Compagnia Tiziana Arnaboldi

DANCE

In collaboration with Eventi letterari Monte Verità
Followed by a guided tour of Teatro San Materno

A cosmic journey where everything revolves around a body dressed in nine concentric circles: a reference to the cosmos and the earth. Two dancers trace spirals, circles, and lines to encounter the infinitely small point and the infinitely large one.

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10.05
Saturday
at 20.30

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From the Big Bang to Homo Stupidens

By and with Enrico Ferretti and Gerardo Mele

THEATER

The assistants of an anthropologist find themselves having to stand in for him at a presentation on the history of humanity. Their difficulty in chronologically placing the facts leads them into absurd situations.

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24.05
Saturday
at 20.30

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Voir dire

Athanasia Chatzigiannaki

DANCE THEATER

Set within the context of legal trials and freely inspired by the myth of Medusa, this work places the body at the center of artistic expression, exploring the transformative power of the pursuit of justice.

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14.06
Saturday
at 20.30

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In the shadows beneath branches and scars

Tanja Saban

DANCE AND MUSIC PERFORMANCE

A choreography of sound, visuals and dance creates a space that conveys the deep, bodily experience of landscape. As one wanders through the forest, associative landscapes emerge, weaving sensory connections between physical and imaginative spaces

12 June 7.30pm - 8.30pm CHF 10/5
13 June 7.30pm - 8.30pm CHF 10/5

LISTENING SESSIONS (with sound performance)
The sound performances invite audiences to immerse themselves in a spatialised sound installation that sonically maps physical and mythological dimensions of forest landscapes.

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12.07
Saturday
at 20.30

13.07
Sunday
at 20.30

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Surreal Intuitive Gestures

Compagnia Tiziana Arnaboldi

DANCE – VISUAL ART

In collaboration with the Ascona Museo Comunale d'Arte Moderna
As part of the Joana Vasconcelos exhibition

Vasconcelos’ sculptures are outward projections, rooted in the moment. Drawing us into her creative world are dancing bodies, painting free and intuitive traces in space, grounded in immediacy. A brushstroke of surreal gestures.

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25.07
Friday
at 20.30

26.07
Saturday
at 20.30

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Cantiere aperto n. 2

Compagnia Tiziana Arnaboldi

DANCE AND ACHITECTURE

Site-specific performance

Body, time, and space. Three concepts guiding us into an ongoing work in progress, where everything is in constant motion, through a process of discovery and invention. A meeting between the external and internal worlds of our body, shaped by forms, volumes, weight, breath and energy.

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