2017

EPISODES

• 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

2018

ROCCO_rOmegna Mia

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 links that lead to the extremes of a web of relationships, expanding it and finding increasingly absurd links. It is the testimony of an individualistic yet 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 does not have an author: whoever participates, owns the dance.

TOUR

• ROCCO for rOmegna Mia, Mastronauta (Omegna, IT, 2018-2019);
• the WorkRoom (Milan, IT, 2019);
• Performact (Torres Vedras, PT, 2019);
• Multiplicidade (Santa Cruz, PT, 2019);
• IndiePride (Bologna, IT, 2019).

A Rock Opera by Bremo and Parini Secondo

2022 – ON TOUR

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2020 official video

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. 

TOUR

• 15/04/2022 Artaj Cesena IT
• 1/05/2022 Santarcangelo di Romagna IT
• 14/05/2022 Spazio WEBO, Pesaro IT
• 30/07/2022 BOLLE Festivalino, Casa Madiba Rimini IT
• 1/08/2022 Podere Bislacco, Savignano sul Rubicone IT
• 25/08/2022 Casa Ceretti Laboratorio per l’arte, Verbania IT
• 24/08/2022 Mastronauta, Omegna IT
• 25/08/2022 Festival SCINTILLE, Verbania IT
• 10/12/2022 Visioni Periferiche, Borello IT
• 16/04/2023 Supernova Festival, Rimini IT

2024 – PREMIERE July 15th Bolzano Danza

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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

PREMIERE 15 July 2024 Bolzano Danza

with Glauco Salvo and Pier Paolo Zimmermann

2023 – ON TOUR

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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.

TOUR

• 04/03/2023 – parsec Bologna (BO)
• 29/05-03/06/2023 – ORA Orobie Residenze Artistiche, Sondrio (SO)
• 15/07/2024 – Civitanova Danza, AMAT marche (MC)
• 07/09/2023 – Festival DanzaUrbana, Bologna (BO)
• 07/04/2024 – Spazio Körper, Napoli (NA)
• 21/04/2024 – Want to dance Festival, Taipei (TW)
• 21/05/2024 – Nuovo Grand Tour cerimony, Italian Embassy, Paris (FR)
• 29/06/2024 – Festival InEquilibrio, Rosignano Solvay (LI)

with Magdalena Öttl

2021

be me interview

There’s no wind in the Internet
Just clouds and windows
No wind, no wind, no wind, no wind   

There’s no me in the night we met
Where’s the sound in the words that you just said
Be me, be me 

be me 

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.

TOUR

• 25.03.2021 ONLINE PREMIERE from Kunsthallen Rottstr5 www.beme.stream
• 09-10.04.2021 Maschinenhaus Essen (DE)
• 16.08.2021 Podere Bislacco, Savignano sul Rubicone (IT)

Parini Secondo x Bienoise

2020 – ON TOUR

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SPEEED is 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. 

SPEEED is 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. 

Here and now
We’re Running with the magic
Fighting hard for a better future

In the night
We’re shining like a fire

DANCING
DREAMING

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)
• 09-10/09/2023 – Interno Verde Danza Festival, Ferrara (FE)
• 17/09/2023 – Venere in Teatro Festival, Forte Marghera (VE)
• 19/09/23 – Parma Moving Fest – solo cose belle, Parma (PR)
• 23/09/2023 – Teatro Pubblico dell’Umbria, Foligno (PG)
• 08/10/2023 – MilanOltre, Milano (MI)
• 20/10/2023 – BOOM Cantieri Culturali, Calderara di Reno (BO) 
• 12/11/2023 – Teatro Akropolis, Genova (GE)
• 20/04/2024 – Want to dance Festival, Taipei (TW)
• 15/06/2024 – A corpo libero, Roma (RM)
• 22-23/06/2024 – giornate del respiro, Cagliari (CA)
• 04/07/2024 – L’Umbria che spacca, Perugia (PG)
• 12/07/2024 – Bolzano Danza, Bolzano (BZ)
• 27-28/07/2024 – Reggia di Venaria Reale, Torino (TO)

2024 – PREMIERE 5-6-7 July Santarcangelo Festival

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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.

PREMIERE 5-6-7 July 2024 Santarcangelo Festival