The first research carried out by Parini Secondo is PARSEC, a study on the concept of absurdity applied to improvisation that seeks a synthesis between movement and physical and philosophical theoretical studies. Each PARSEC episode is different and it is strictly related to the space in which it happens. The word parsec is an astronomical unit of measure that was used before the light-year: with PARSEC, Parini measures itself with the spaces he crosses, building habitats through movement, objects and sound and creating absurd relationships with the performative place.
PARSEC
ConceptParini Secondo With Sissj Bassani, Camilla Neri, Marina Piazzi, Francesca PIzzagalli ad more Sound Livia Malossi and more Supported byLaboratorio Danza & Teatro, Katriém Cult. Ass., Ass. Ishmael & The Elephant/WeReading
PARSEC|PARSEC for BIM! Microfestival for Children by Katriém Ass. Cult., Santarcangelo di Romagna (IT)
PARSEC for MAIONESE, homemade vernissage, Bologna (IT)
PARSEC|What happened to Old McDonald? for OPUS 1 10th International Competition for Young Choreographers, Celje (Slovenia) and Front+a Festival, Murska Sobota (Slovenia)
PARSEC|2001 for U.F.O. Take Off Party by Mastronauta and Migma Collective, Omegna (IT)
PARSEC|Ibiza for ArtistInCasa Festival, Republic of San Marino (in collaboration with We Reading)
PARSEC for U.F.O. Art and sound festival, Omegna (IT) with the video installation BARBARA & friends
PARSEC for IndiePride, Bologna (IT) in collaboraction with We Reading
ROCCO is an online artistic research. It’s born from the stratification of information on the web, from the continuous overlapping of research windows, capable of connecting the most disparate contexts. It’s what remains of the journey through the connections between materials on the net. Connections are provided by linksthat lead to the extremes of a web of relationships, expanding it and finding increasingly absurd links. It is the testimony of an individualisticyet hyper-connected generation. Everyone can create new relationships and everyone possesses those already present, as a tradition.
ROCCO chooses to stage the group dances as a bridge between the tradition of the Italian region of Romagna and that of the Internet, using choreographed forms copied from YouTube tutorials. The dance is a loop, in which each participant has the freedom to open a window and follow its own drift, creating new relationships and expanding the web. The dance is not demanding, it is part of a collective consciousness that belongs ab origine (by tradition) to each participant. It is a dance of the crowd and the crowd is what qualifies it, making it a language.
ROCCO
ConceptParini Secondo WithSissj Bassani, Camilla Neri, Martina Piazzi, Francesca Pizzagalli and more SoundLivia Malossi, EDMMARO, Alberto Ricca/Bienoise Supported byLaboratorio Danza & Teatro (Cesena, IT), Mastronauta (Omegna, IT), Performact (Torres Vedras, PT), theWorkRoom (Milan, IT)
Headbanging, cheerleading, distortion and lo-fi: this is Bremo and Parini Secondo‘s show, a rock opera in three acts that is unafraid to wink, blatantly cutie and unashamedly pop. A stadium dream: amid hellish vibes and sharp looks, the group confronts you insinuating the question what will happen tomorrow?
Bremo and Parini Secondo’s new project plays on the aesthetics of the pop concert and its iconic elements to create a performance in which the boundaries between live music and dance blur to the point of blurring.
The pieces composed by the Bremo (Nicolò Mingolini and Sara Pizzinelli) are part of a new production that sees their lo-fi approach take an overtly stage and pop form. Parini Secondo (Sissj Bassani, Martina Piazzi, Camilla Neri, Francesca Pizzagalli), after the experience of SPEEED, takes the Para Para technique and adapts it, transforming it, to the synth-wave of Bremo. The combination of the two formations realizes a stadium dream, with a punk and fluid approach, between hellish distortions and some winks 😉
What Will Happen Tomorrow is a rhetorical question that should be read with a smile, an ancestral doubt that urges us to act, act today.
What Will Happen Tomorrow A rock opera by Bremo and Parini Secondo
With: Sissj Bassani, Nicolò Mingolini, Camilla Neri, Martina Piazzi, Francesca Pizzagalli, Sara Pizzinelli Music: Bremo Choreography: Parini Secondo Production: Glauco Salvo mix: Alberto Ricca/Bienoise master: Nick Foglia With the support of: Artaj (Cesena), Festival Scintille (Verbania)
HIT is a choreographic and musical project about jump rope used as a percussive instrument to manifest embodied rhythms.
After one year of athletic training supported by the Italian jumpers’ community and sponsored by MarcRope (Milan), Parini Secondo and Bienoise focus on the sound produced by rope skipping, dissecting its timbral possibilities. The jumpers on stage perform a rhythmic and at the same time choreographic score in which single-unders, side-swings and double-unders are both athletic and musical elements: combined with voice and synthetic sounds, they harmonize into a true HIT.
HIT elevates the intimate practice of training into a performative action: the hammering succession of rope strokes is an echo of rebellion against those forces that would have us lying motionless on the ground with our eyes closed.
There’s a reason why you came here Every second getting far and far Failure brings a new perspective To renew the meaning of your past
High hopes and higher mind To read a world that’s blind
There’s no reason baby I won’t lie There’s no reason to give up the fight
HIT by Parini Secondo x Bienoise
with: Sissj Bassani, Martina Piazzi, Camilla Neri, Francesca Pizzagalli choreography: Parini Secondo music and scores:Alberto Ricca/Bienoise stage photography:Bianca Peruzzi costumes and weaves:Giulia Pastorelli ropes:MarcRope Milano organization: Margherita Alpini production: Parini Secondo, Nexus Factory co-production: Bolzano Danza, Santarcangelo Festival
with the support of MiC and SIAE, for the program “Per Chi Crea” 2023/2024
and the support of Boarding Pass Plus, ROM Residencies on the move, Grand Tour 2024, BIT Theater garasjen (Bergen, NO), NID platform, Italian Institute of Culture Oslo, Italian Institute of Culture Paris, Italian office for economics trade and culture in Taipei, Cantieri, Network Anticorpi XL (Ravenna), Magdalena Oettl (DE), AMAT Marche.
and the hospitality of Le Carreau du Temple (Paris, FR), Taarnby Park Studios (Copenhagen, DK), Theatre Aire Libre (Rennes, FR), La Briqueterie (Val-de-Marne, FR), Preform/Samvirket (Fjaler, NO), ShineHouse Theatre (Taipei, TW), Teatro Petrella (Longiano, IT), CSC Opera Estate (Bassano del Grappa, IT), Armunia (Castiglioncello (IT).
and advice of Camilla Rizzi, Lola Posani, Luigi Monteanni
Through the activity of jumping rope, Parini Secondo together with Glauco Salvo and Pier Paolo Zimmermann creates a performative action and a practice of archiving that ignites places by their intrinsic and veiled acoustic characteristics.
The instrument of skipping rope is used as an activator of specific acoustic events in places selected for their resonant power. Thus, the video-tutorial, usually intended to emphasise the activity of the jumping subject, is instead used as an event that illuminates the environment, the frame in which the jump is inserted. The gymnastic activity becomes an acoustic and visual meditative pretext, supported and conducted by Glauco Salvo’s subtle electronic interventions – lyrical and illusory glimpses provoked to divert perception – and Pier Paolo’s alienating perspectives.
Following several surveys, the group selects spaces that have an interesting acoustic response towards the skipping of the rope. After a few days of study and observation of the urban sound and light environment, they make a descriptive video fragment that will be added to the ongoing collection that the artists have been working on since January 2023: an archive that narrates the technical progress of Parini Secondo’s skipping activity and recounts the geography of his research path through Pier Paolo’s wide, static and sensitive shots and Glauco’s delicately altered field recordings.
At the end of the days of research and study, they open to the public the performative device conceived to bring live what happens in the archive, sensitising perception to what the spaces and environments already offer.
Concept: Parini Secondo Jump: Sissj Bassani, Martina Piazzi Field recordings and electronic sound: Glauco Salvo Video and editing: Pier Paolo Zimmermann Organizations: Margherita Alpini
Supported by: Cantieri/Network Anticorpi XL, AMAT Marche, Culture Moves Europe, Magdalena Oettl further supports: parsec Bologna, ORA – Orobie residenze artistiche (SO), KOMMA Production (Copenhagen, DK), MarcRope Milano, CSC – Centro per la Scena Contemporanea (Bassano del Grappa, IT), Armunia (Castiglioncello, IT), Taarnby Park Studio (Copenhagen, DK)
be me is a dance performance born from the encounter between Parini Secondo (Sissj Bassani, Martina Piazzi, IT) and Magdalena Oettl (DE) during a 4-month coexistence in Essen within the KreativCampu.Ruhr program. The result of this long period of cohabitation is a choreographic template shown for the first time on 25th March at Kunsthallen Bochum. Inspired by the concept of meme, most commonly used as a linguistic sign within online communities, Parini and Magdalena created a device which highlights the self organisational mechanisms of a small community populated by seven performers and witnessed by an online audience. Through copying and imitation, the whole community is the author of the choreography which becomes solid just in the moment of staging. Silent agreements are floating in the space, carried by the wind they spread like a rumor and promote the existence of a temporary truth.
Performance: Sissj Bassani, Lucas Lopes, Camilla Neri, Martina Piazzi, Francesca Pizzagalli, Eliza Trefas Music: Alberto Ricca/Bienoise Visual Design:Daniel Gugitsch Technical Support: Wolfram Lakaszus Webdesign: Tommaso Gagliardi
Developed between november 2020 – april 2021 in the frame of Kreativcampus.Ruhr Artists in Residence International Co-Production It’s not my responsibility to get famous, a project by ecce GmbH. Supported by Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia In Cooperation with Kunsthaus Essen, Maschinenhaus Essen, Kunsthallen Bochum Further Support by the city of Essen, city of Bochum, municipality of Savignano Sul Rubicone (IT)
SPEEEDis a choreographic and musical project inspired by Para Para and Eurobeat phenomenon that spread through Tokyo clubs in the 1990s.
Para Para is a dance style with a colourful aesthetic, in which complex gestural combinations describe the caffeinated overexcitement of Eurobeat music. Starting from the study of video-tutorials, SPEEED takes shape by adapting choreographic sequences of the time to the original music written by Alberto Ricca/Bienoise.
SPEEEDis a work of camouflage because it faithfully copies its source of inspiration: the dancers on stage stimulate you to act, a 160 bpm slap launches you into a centrifuge of pure and genuine enthusiasm where tuning cars play very loud Eurobeat music.
With the support of: Mastronauta Omegna (VCO), Comune di Verbania, Fondazione Comunitaria VCO Special thanks to: Andrea Ruschetti, Riccardo Brezza (Comune di Verbania), Scoppiati Racing Team (Verbania), MIGMA Collective, Centro Commerciale Le Isole (Gravellona Toce, VB), Giostra Esagerata F.lli Uga.
Selected by Vetrina della Giovane danza d’autore 2022 (Anticorpi XL) and winner of Mobility Grant fund (DanzaUrbana 2022).
TOUR
PREMIERE 05/09/2021 – Festival DanzaUrbana, Bologna (BO)
16/09/2022 – Vetrina della Giovane danza d’autore, Ravenna (RA)
30/09/2022 – Spazio Materia, Prato (PO)
01/10/2022 – Festival Catalysi, Cesena (FC)
24-25/03/2023 – Museo MART, Rovereto (TN)
12/04/2023 – Supernova Festival, Rimini (RN)
15/07/2023 – AMAT, Civitanova Marche (MC)
20/07/2023 – Kilowatt Festival, Cortona (AR)
19/08/2023 – Operaestate B/Motion Festival, Bassano del Grappa (VI)
HIT OUT is the agile and compact version of Parini Secondo and Bienoise‘s new production: a musical composition built around jump rope interpreted as a rhythmic and choreographic percussive instrument.
After a year of athletic training supported by the Italian jumpers’ community and sponsored by MarcRope (Milan), Parini Secondo and Bienoise focus on the sound produced by rope skipping, dissecting its timbral possibilities. The jumpers on stage perform a rhythmic and at the same time choreographic score in which single-unders, side-swings and double-unders are both athletic and musical elements: combined with voice and synthetic sounds, they harmonize into a true hit.
In the dual athletic and rhythmic nature of the jump, Parini finds the choreographic intuition translated into a circular performance space in perpetual motion. To jump, at once limping and flying, is a rebellion against gravity and all those forces that would have us lying motionless on the ground with our eyes closed. The pounding succession of rope strokes is the echo of this rebellion; with time its meaning fades away. The error suddenly happens and reminds us of the origin of our dissent: from the awareness of our weight, the reason for the uprising can be powerfully renewed.
There’s a reason why you came here Every second getting far and far Failure brings a new perspective To renew the meaning of your past
High hopes and higher mind To read a world that’s blind
There’s no reason baby I won’t lie There’s no reason to give up the fight
HIT OUT by Parini Secondo x Bienoise
with: Sissj Bassani, Martina Piazzi, Camilla Neri, Francesca Pizzagalli choreography: Parini Secondo music and score:Alberto Ricca/Bienoise costumes:Giulia Pastorelli ropes:MarcRope Milano organization: Margherita Alpini production: Parini Secondo, Nexus Factory co-production: Santarcangelo Festival
with the support of MiC and SIAE, in the frame of “Per Chi Crea” 2023/2024
and the support of Boarding Pass Plus, ROM Residencies on the move, Nuovo Grand Tour 2024, BIT Theater garasjen (Bergen, NO), NID platform, Italian Cultural Institute Oslo,Italian Cultural Institute Paris, Italian office for economics trade and culture in Taipei, Cantieri/Network Anticorpi XL (Ravenna), Magdalena Oettl (DE), AMAT Marche and the hospitality of Le Carreau du Temple (Paris, FR), Taarnby Park Studios (Copenhagen, DK), Theatre Aire Libre (Rennes, FR), La Briqueterie (Val-de-Marne, FR), Preform/Samvirket (Fjaler, NO), ShineHouse Theatre (Taipei, TW), Teatro Petrella (Longiano, IT), CSC Opera Estate (Bassano del Grappa, IT), Armunia (Castiglioncello, IT)
advice of Camilla Rizzi, Lola Posani, Luigi Monteanni
(among these people there is a feeling) Festival of Teatro Petrella curated by Parini Secondo
Graphics Nicolò Mingolini
Tra questa gente esiste un sentimento (Among these people there is a feeling) is the title of the festival curated by Parini Secondo in the spaces of the Teatro Petrella in Longiano. Four evenings between February and March 2024 dedicated to research before creation, in an experience that mixes scenic tradition and culture from below. The theatrical space, intended as a catalyst for extemporaneous and expanded events, will be occupied by artists united by an innovative spirit that is returned in the work in a raw way, meeting in the feeling of those who make regardless of the means. A feeling all of Romagna.
A feeling exists among these people following the Petrella Theatre’s vision of entrusting a young collective such as Parini Secondo with the artistic direction of part of its programming, together with the support of the Longiano municipality. The review is also made possible thanks to the collaboration of ATER Fondazione and Biglia – palchi in pista.
17 febbraio 2024, NULLA O POCHISSIMO (NOTHING OR VERY LITTLE)
All we have at our disposal is our body and a few simple tools: we create from this poverty, aided by our fervid imagination.
Parini Secondo‘s new production, presented as a study with the title Scorcio, adopts the gymnastic activity of jumping rope to sublimate it in its rhythmic presence alone.
AZEL, alias Giuseppe Cuna, shares the secrets of the Human Beatbox in an afternoon workshop and transforms himself into a soundbox in an evening performance entrusted solely to the sounds of his voice.
SSIEGE chooses minimal and monadic sounds in his dreamlike live performance: all examples of creation from nothing or very little, and that little is all human.
2 marzo 2024, L’ABBIAMO VISTO (WE HAVE SEEN IT)
We cannot fail to see what we have already seen.
Gruppo Uror, after its debut at Short Theatre (Rome), arrives at the Petrella Theatre with the show RED to deal with the theme of death by twisting the Little Riding Hood fairy tale, interpreted in the actions and words of a puppet: in the furrow that exists between organic and inorganic, can a puppet experience death?
Martina Sarritzu draws inspiration from Raffaello Baldini’s poems to lead an afternoon illustration and creative writing workshop celebrating visual fantasy, kitsch, sweat and Riviera. The theme of looking becomes central to developing a sense of belonging.
Accompanying us in the foyer, before the good night, the musical selecta of DJ and social activist Garz1.
9 marzo 2024, VOLO/INTERSTIZIO (FLIGHT / INTERSTICE)
We like things that are rough and that find poetry in the rough.
Flanked by Collettivo Scena, Parini Secondo turn the Teatro Petrella into an exhibition space that hosts peripheral proposals that are original precisely for this reason. In the languages of the artists involved, there emerges a strong component linked to do it yourself policies that shines through in the approach to practice, in the design of a model of public participation, in the construction of an image that eschews the canon and necessarily turns its gaze towards the boundless context of the province.
Demetrio Castellucciwith UNARCHEOLOGY AIRLINES, brings a live performance inside a flight simulator he has created to the stage/arena of the theatre.
Surrounding it is a constellation of video works by the artist Benedetta Fioravanti, who through an analytical rereading of her own artistic practice, reconstructs memory around the theme of belonging.
In the ridotto, after the afternoon workshop, Collective Habitat exhibits the materials produced by the participants together with a printer that, without frills, prints: TPU-Temporary Printing Unit is an action of collective publishing and occupation that, subverting authorship, brings attention back to the weight and volume of each publication.
Scream as If Your Organs Were Made Of Glass by Lola Posani bursts onto the stage in the middle of the evening – a vocal sound action that plays on the ambiguity between wonder and disquiet – as the only moment of gathering of the audience that, up to that moment, had been branching out into the different spaces of the theatre.
We will meet again at the end of the evening, around the musical fire of Alex Montanaro, Carolina Martines and Giovanni Lami, who will close the cascade of events with live and DJ sets until late at night.
23 marzo 2024, MUSICA E METEORE (MUSIC AND METEORS)
Music and the rest disappears. (Cit.)
The final evening of the festival features a musical line-up with artists from Emilia-Romagna and beyond, mixing rap and electronic experimentation to transform the Petrella Theatre into a club.
Kuzu, founder of the label and music collective Pseudospettri, opens the evening with a live performance of his new album Bohemién; Solei Levant.
This is followed by Deriansky, an innovative and experimental rapper who skilfully combines old school with new and distorted sounds.
The climax comes with a live performance by Cesena producer and composer Lorenzo Senni, published by Warp and with a world tour behind him.
The evening is closed by a DJ set by Garz1 and Pandalogia.
Tra questa gente esiste un sentimento (A feeling exists among these people)
festival curated by Parini Secondo: Sissj Bassani, Camilla Neri, Martina Piazzi, Francesca Pizzagalli In collaboration with Teatro Petrella, Comune di Longiano, ATER Fondazione and Biglia – Palchi in pista.
