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Parini Secondo

Parini Secondo was founded in 2017 by dancers Sissj Bassani, Martina Piazzi, Camilla Neri and Francesca Pizzagalli. Questioning the relationship between art and originality, the group uses choreography to sublimate pop tendencies, embracing a strong formal rigour. The well-established collaboration with musician, producer and teacher Alberto Ricca/Bienoise denotes their transversal approach to dance, understood as rhythmic movement in close relationship with music.

After completing individual training at academies and companies in Italy, Portugal, and Denmark, Parini Secondo settled in Emilia-Romagna, between Bologna and Cesena. Their debut in the Italian performing arts scene took place in 2022 with the iconic SPEEED (2020), which was selected for Vetrina della Giovane Danza d’Autore. The international scene is reached with HIT/HIT OUT (2024), BolzanoDanza/TanzBozen and Santarcangelo Festival co-production, selected for CINARS 2024 (Montreal) and touring Japan, America, Taiwan and Europe. In 2025, Parini Secondo joins Associazione Culturale VAN and becomes an associate artist of Piccolo Teatro di Milano (2025-2027). Two projects are scheduled to debut in 2026: INCANTO (provisional title), a new production inspired by trance music, selected for NID Platform 2025, and SLOOOOOOW, an extended reinterpretation of SPEEED, selected for the DanceBase/Yokohama (JP) residency programme, in collaboration with Rino Daidoji.

In 2024 Parini creates the festival Tra questa gente esiste un sentimento within the season of Teatro Petrella in Longiano (IT); in 2025 they curate part of the programming of IMBOSCO within the 54th edition of Santarcangelo Festival.

Parini Secondo has participated in several events and festivals in Italy and abroad, includind: Sziget Festival (Budapest, HU 2025), Malta Festival (Poznan, PL 2024), MeetYou Festival (Valladolid, ES 2025), Festival La Cité (Lausanne, CH 2025), CINARS Biennale (Montréal, CA 2024), Santarcangelo Festival (Santarcangelo, IT 2024), Theatre l’Aire Livre (Rennes, FR 2024), La Briqueterie (Paris, FR 2024), TanzBozen/Bolzano Danza (Bolzano, IT 2024) BIT TeaterGarasjen (Bergen, NO 2024), ShineHouse Theatre (Taipei, TW 2024), Hyperlocal Festival (Milano, IT 2024), Reggia di Venaria (Torino, IT 2024), Le Carreau du Temple (Paris, 2023), Supernova Festival (Rimini, IT, 2023), B.Motion Festival (Bassano del Grappa, IT 2023), MilanOltre (Milano, IT 2023), Festival Catalysi (Cesena, IT 2022), Danza Urbana (Bologna, IT 2021), ELEMENTI Festival (Cervia, IT 2020), Multiplicidades Festival (Santa Cruz, PT 2019), Fron+@ Festival (Murska Sobota, SL 2018)

Sissj Bassani (Savignano sul Rubicone, ‘97) is an Italian dancer and choreographer. She is interpreter and assistant to Claudia Castellucci (Silver Lion at the Venice Biennale 2020), dancer for Panzetti/Ticconi and artistic director of the collective Parini Secondo (2017-present).
Her training, after a long period in ballet, took place directly in company in the field of research dance and experimental theatre with gruppo nanou (Ravenna, IT 2012-2018) and Claudia Castellucci (2015-to date). She has worked with Kinkaleri, Daniele Albanese/Stalker, Elisa Sbaragli, Valentina Pagliarani, Salvo Lombardo. As an author, in 2017 she founded together with Martina Piazzi, Camilla Neri and Francesca Pizzagalli the movement collective Parini Secondo, with the collaboration of electronic composer Alberto Ricca/bienoise. Individually, she created ‘oro’ (2019) and ‘A VASISTAS’ (2022).

Martina Piazzi (Bologna, 1997) is a dancer and choreographer recently graduated from the Danish University of Performing Arts in Copenhagen (DDSKS, Denmark 2019-2022) and artistic director of the movement collective Parini Secondo (2017-present). In addition to the collective’s work, her authorial journey includes the creation of two solo works: PILE (Copenhagen, 2022) and Untitled Places (Torres Vedras, 2019). In the performer works she meets the artist Florin Flueras, for the projects Unexperiences, Unimages, Untitled Unworks, Artwork and Love (RO, 2022-present), Alessandro Carboni, with the project Always Becoming and Unleashing ghosts in urban darkness (IT, 2016-2020). Her previous training consists of a two-year course international PERFORMACT course directed by Ricardo Ambrozio & Gonçalo Lobato (Torres Vedras, 2017-2019); the Tuscan territory training programme AZIONE! directed by Sosta Palmizi (Florence, 2016-2017, Italy); and INNESTI, an interdisciplinary course directed by choreographer Simona Bertozzi (Bologna, 2017, Italy).

Camilla Neri (Cesena, 1997) is an Italian dancer and performer. After graduating in dance theatre
at the Civica Scuola di Teatro Paolo Grassi (2016-2019), she became part of the collective Parini Secondo, actively participating in all productions.
In 2021, she took part in the Paolo Grassi post-diploma, collaborating with choreographer Marco Valerio Amico/Gruppo Nanou in the show Paradiso, presented at Ravenna Festival. The following year, she was a dancer in the opera Turandot, directed by Stefano Poda. In 2023, she took part in the Zerogrammi training course, entitled INVENTARIO, and worked as assistant to Gloria Dorliguzzo’s choreography in Romeo Castellucci’s show ‘MA’, in the context of Eleusi Capital of Culture 2023. In 2024, she began collaborating with choreographer Livia Bartolucci on the show Storie degli ultimi giorni, scheduled to debut in 2025.

Francesca Pizzagalli (Cesena, 1997) is a dancer-performer and contemporary dance teacher. She has participated in several professional contemporary dance trainings in Italy such as Innesti2017, AZIONE, Anfibia, DanzAutore contemporaneo; continuing in 2023 with the advanced training course for choreographers ‘I Corpi e Le Voci della Danza’ and attending the Temporal Dance Seminar conducted by Claudia Castellucci (Societas). Since 2017 she has been a dancer and performer in the productions of the Parini Secondo collective. Moreover, since 2023 she has been teaching contemporary dance in Cesena at Casa di Gesso (Associazione Aidoru) and leading dance and movement workshops for actors within Laboratorio Alchemico (Associazione Alchemico Tre).


Contacts

PARINI SECONDO 
Promotion: Sissj Bassani
parini.secondo@gmail.com
+39 331 225 1072

Organization: Martina Piazzi
organizzazioneparinisecondo@gmail.com 
+39 339 712 7923

Tech: Alberto Ricca 
riccamaj7@gmail.com 
+39 347 534 3600

Administration: Paola Miolano (Associazione culturale VAN) 
amministrazione@associazioneculturalevan.it 
+39 320 177 4140

Social Media: Camilla Neri
camilla.parinisecondo@gmail.com
+39 348 118 9459

Fund-raising: Francesca Pizzagalli
francesca.parinisecondo@gmail.com
+39 366 433 0489

Projects

  • HIT

    #jumprope #blackbox

  • HIT OUT

    #agile #compact #jumprope

  • SPEEED

    #PARAPARA #eurobeat

  • do-around-the-world

    #site-specific #GlaucoSalvo #PierPaoloZimmermann.

  • What Will Happen Tomorrow

    #rockopera #Bremo

  • tra questa gente esiste un sentimento

    #festival #TeatroPetrella

  • be me

    #performance #meme #MagdalenaOettl

  • ROCCO

    #HullyGully

  • PARSEC

    #research #improvisation


Calendar

2025

21/01-02/02
Residency at O Espaco do tempo, Montemor-o-novo (PT)

1-15-29/03
Tra Questa Gente Esiste Un Sentimento, second edition of the Teatro Petrella Festival, curated by Parini Secondo, Longiano (IT)

7-8/03
HIT OUT MEETYOU Festival, Valladolid (ES)

11-17/04
Residency Fabrik Kreefeld, Dusseldorf (DE)

04/05
HIT OUT Piazza delle Arti, Cavallino Treporti, Venezia (IT)

10/05
HIT OUT Tutta la vita davanti Festival, La Spezia (IT)

17/05
HIT OUT Pesaro Danza Focus Festival (IT)

06/06
HIT OUT TUTTA BASE, Base Milano (IT)

20/06
SPEEED Umbria Festival, Perugia (IT) 

22/06
HIT OUT Cross Festival, Verbania (IT)

24-29/06
SPEEED e HIT OUT Malta Festival, Poznan (PL)

4-5/07
HIT OUT Festival de la cité, Lausanne (CH)

20/07
HIT OUT La notte dei poeti, Nora (IT)

23-25/07
HIT OUT Festival MIT, Ribadavia (ED)

10-11/08
HIT OUT Sziget Festival, Budapest (HU) 

27/08
HIT OUT Taarnby Park Studios, Copenhagen (DK)

6-7/09
HIT OUT Down to Earth Festival, New York (NY)

10/09
HIT OUT Fume Festival, Cesena (IT)

20/09
SPEEED Teatro Grande, Brescia (IT)

15/11
HIT OUT Arcipelago Coreografico, Firenze (IT)

28/11
HIT Teatro Akropolis, Genova (IT)

-/12
HIT OUT Istituto italiano di Cultura di Tokyo (JP)


2024

02-08/01
Residency at Théatre l’Aire Libre, Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande, Rennes (FR)

09-11/01 Sharing Traning Milano con Marc Rope (IT)

22/01-13/02
Residency
at La Briqueterie, Paris (FR)

17/02
Tra questa gente esiste un sentimento
– 1° night of the Festival curated by Parini Secondo, Teatro Petrella Longiano (IT)

29/02
HIT
– Danse Dense Plateforme Professionnelle, La Briqueterie, Paris (FR)

02/03
Tra questa gente esiste un sentimento – 2° night of the Festival curated by Parini Secondo, Teatro Petrella Longiano (IT)

09/03
Tra questa gente esiste un sentimento – 3° night of the Festival curated by Parini Secondo, Teatro Petrella Longiano (IT)

23/03
Tra questa gente esiste un sentimento
– 4° night of the Festival curated by Parini Secondo, Teatro Petrella Longiano (IT)

25/03-05/04
HIT
residency at Samvirket Theatre, Dale i Sunnfjord, Norway (NO)

07/04
Do-around-the-world
– Spazio Körper, Napoli (IT)

20-21/04
SPEEED
e Do-around-the-world – Want to dance Festival, Taipei (TW)

13-28/04
Do-around-the-world
residency a Shinehouse Theatre, Taipei (TW)

11/05
What Will Happen Tomorrow
– Bellaria Film Festival, Bellaria (IT)

21/05

Do-around-the-world – ceremony of Nuovo Grand Tour, Italian Embassy, promossa da IIC Paris (FR)

15/06
SPEEED – A corpo libero, Roma (IT)

22-23/06
SPEEED – giornate del respiro, Cagliari (IT)

24-28/06
HIT
residency at Teatro Petrella di Longiano (IT)

29/06
do-around-the-world
– festival InEquilibrio, Rosignano Solvay (IT)

05-06-07/07
HIT OUT premier – Santarcangelo Festival, Santarcangelo (IT)

12/07
SPEEED
– Bolzano Danza, Bolzano (IT)

15/07
HIT
premier – Bolzano Danza, Bolzano (IT)

25/07
SPEEED
and What Will Happen Tomorrow – Teatro dei luoghi Fest, Lecce (IT)

27-28/07
SPEEED
– Reggia di Venaria Reale, Piemonte dal vivo, Torino (IT)

01/09
do-around-the-world
– Ammutinamenti24, Ravenna (IT)

19/09
HIT OUT
– Solo cose belle Festival, Parma (IT)

22/09
HIT
OUTHyperlocal Festival, Milan (IT)

27/10
HIT Contemporanea24, spazioK, Prato (IT)

06/10
HITInterazioni Festival, Rome (IT)

18/10
HIT OUTPerformissima, Parigi (FR)

11-13/11
HIT OUT – Cinars, Montréal (CA)


2023

24-25/03
SPEEED
– MART, Rovereto (IT)

27/03-7/04
do-around-the-world
– residency at Teatro Annibal Caro, Civitanova Alta (IT)

12/04
SPEEED
– Supernova Festival, Rimini (IT)

16/04
What Will Happen Tomorrow
– Supernova Festival, Rimini (IT)

29/05-03/06
do-around-the-world
residency at ORA – Orobie Residenza Artistiche, Sondrio (IT)

11-14/07
do-around-the-world
residency at Teatro Cecchetti Civitanova, Marche (IT)

15/07
SPEEED
– Civitanova Danza, Civitanova Marche (IT)

20/07
SPEEED
– Kilowatt Festival, Cortona (IT)

19/08
SPEEED
– Opera Estate Festival, Bassano del Grappa (IT)

21-27/08
Residency
at Taarnby Park Sudio di Copenhagen (DK)

30/09
do-around-the-world
– NID platform, sezione open studio, Cagliari (IT)

7/09
do-around-the-world
– Festival DanzaUrbana, Bologna (IT)

9-10/09
SPEEED
– Interno Verde Danza, Teatro comunale di Ferrara (IT)

17/09
SPEEED
– Venere in Teatro, Forte Marghera (IT)

19/09
SPEEED
– Parma Moving Fest, solo cose belle (IT)

23/09
SPEEED
– Teatri dell’Umbria, Spoleto (IT)

24/09
What Will Happen Tomorrow
– Artaj, Cesena (IT)

08/10
SPEEED
– MilanOltre, Milano (IT)

09/10-14/10
do-around-the-world
in residenza ad Armunia, Castiglioncello (IT)

20/10
SPEEED
– BOOM Cantieri Culturali, Calderara di Reno (IT)

12/11
SPEEED
– Teatro Akropolis, Genova (IT)

13/11-27/11
do-around-the-world
residency at CSC Bassano del Grappa (IT)

29/22-05/12
do-around-the-world residency at Armunia, Castiglioncello (IT)