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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

Artistic Direction: Sissj Bassani and Martina Piazzi
parini.secondo@gmail.com

Manager: Camilla Ferrazzi
camilla@parinisecondo.it

Tech: Alberto Ricca 
riccamaj7@gmail.com 

Head of Communication: Camilla Neri
camilla.parinisecondo@gmail.com

Fund-raising: Francesca Pizzagalli
francesca.parinisecondo@gmail.com

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

NEXT GIGS

2026

8-22 January
Residency Armunia, Toscana Terra Accogliente (IT)

24-25 January
Workshop SLOOOOOOW – time and festivity, Mousikè Giravolta, Granarolo dell’Emilia (IT)

31 January
Scorcio TAG Granarolo dell’Emilia (IT)

07 February
HIT Teatro Morlacchi, Perugia (IT)

03-28 March
Residency SLOOOOOOW – time and festivity, DanceBase Yokohama (JP)

17-18 April
HIT Teatro Arena del Sole, Bologna (IT)

25 April
HIT OUT Teatro Comunale di Vicenza (IT)

27 April
SPEEED Murmuris, Firenze (IT)

28 April-6 May
Residency INCANTO Teatro della Misericordia, Sansepolcro – Toscana Terra Accogliente (IT)

07 May
HIT OUT Zurich Tanz (CH)

8-9-10 May
HIT OUT Roskilde, Copenaghen (DK)

13 May
HIT OUT Piccolo Teatro di Milano (IT)

22-23 May
HIT OUT Jogging Festival, Paris (FR)

26-27 May
HIT OUT Presente Indicativo, Piccolo Teatro di Milano (IT)

28-29-30 May
PREMIERE SLOOOOOOW – il tempo della festa Presente Indicativo, Piccolo Teatro di Milano (IT)

1-7 June
Residency INCANTO at Teatro Petrella di Longiano (IT)

9 June
HIT OUT Interplay, Torino (IT)

12 June
HIT 140 Bruxelles (BE)

28 June
SPEEED Perugia (IT)

29 June-10 July
Residency INCANTO Teatro Cantiere Florida,  Firenze –  Toscana Terra Accogliente 

20 July
MALIA – studio sull’incanto Kilowatt Festival, Sansepolcro – outcome Toscana Terra Accogliente (IT)


PREVIEWS GIGS
2025

21 January – 02 February
Residency at O Espaco do tempo, Montemor-o-novo (PT)

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

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

11-17 April
Residency Fabrik Kreefeld, Dusseldorf (DE)

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

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

17 May
HIT OUT Pesaro Danza Focus Festival (IT)

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

20 June
SPEEED Umbria Festival, Perugia (IT) 

22 June
HIT OUT Cross Festival, Verbania (IT)

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

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

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

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

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

28 August
HIT OUT Taarnby Park Studios, Copenhagen (DK)

30-31 August – 06 September
HIT (out) Down to Earth Festival, New York (NY)

04 September
HIT OUT Yale University, New Haven (USA)

10 September
HIT OUT Fume Festival, Cesena (IT)

20 September
SPEEED Teatro Grande, Brescia (IT)

02 October
INCANTO (titolo provvisorio) open studios NID Platform, Civitanova Marche (IT)

15 October
HIT OUT Città di Danza, Trani (IT)

15 November
HIT OUT Arcipelago Coreografico, Firenze (IT)

15-19 December
HIT OUT Istituto italiano di Cultura di Tokyo (JP)


2024

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

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

22 January – 13 February
Residency
at La Briqueterie, Paris (FR)

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

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

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

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

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

25 March – 05 April
HIT
residency at Samvirket Theatre, Dale i Sunnfjord, Norway (NO)

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

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

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

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

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

15 June
SPEEED – A corpo libero, Roma (IT)

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

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

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

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

12 July
SPEEED
– Bolzano Danza, Bolzano (IT)

15 July
HIT
premier – Bolzano Danza, Bolzano (IT)

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

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

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

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

22 September
HIT
OUTHyperlocal Festival, Milan (IT)

27 October
HIT Contemporanea24, spazioK, Prato (IT)

06 October
HITInterazioni Festival, Rome (IT)

18 October
HIT OUTPerformissima, Parigi (FR)

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


2023

24-25 March
SPEEED
– MART, Rovereto (IT)

27 March – 7 April
do-around-the-world
– residency at Teatro Annibal Caro, Civitanova Alta (IT)

12 April
SPEEED
– Supernova Festival, Rimini (IT)

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

29 May – 03 June
do-around-the-world
residency at ORA – Orobie Residenza Artistiche, Sondrio (IT)

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

15 July
SPEEED
– Civitanova Danza, Civitanova Marche (IT)

20 July
SPEEED
– Kilowatt Festival, Cortona (IT)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

08 October
SPEEED
– MilanOltre, Milano (IT)

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

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

12 November
SPEEED
– Teatro Akropolis, Genova (IT)

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

29 November – 5 December
do-around-the-world residency at Armunia, Castiglioncello (IT)