HIT OUT
Parini Secondo x Bienoise
2024 – on tour
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 – Make your cardio an art (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
voice: Sissj Bassani
costumes/weaving: Giulia Pastorelli
ropes: MarcRope Milano
organization: Margherita Alpini
advice of Camilla Rizzi, Lola Posani, Luigi Monteanni
production: Parini Secondo, Associazione Culturale Nexus
co-production: Bolzano Danza, Santarcangelo Festival
with the support of MiC and SIAE, in the frame of “Per Chi Crea” 2023/2024
with contributions of MiC, Emilia-Romagna Region, Municipality of Bologna
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)
TOUR
- 5-6-7 July 2024 – premier Santarcangelo Festival, Santarcangelo (IT)
- 16 September 2024 – Solo cose belle Festival, Parma (IT)
- 22 September 2024 – Hyperlocal Festival, Milan (IT)
- 18 October 2024 – Performissima, Paris (FR)
- 11-12-13 November 2024 – Cinars, Montréal (CA)
- 7-8 March 2025 – MEETYOU Festival, Valladolid (ES)
- 4 May 2025 – Piazza delle Arti, Cavallino Treporti, Venezia (IT)
- 10 May 2025 – Tutta la vita davanti Festival, La Spezia (IT)
- 17 May 2025 – Pesaro Focus Danza Festival (IT)
- 6 June 2025 – TUTTA BASE, Base Milano (IT)
- 22 June 2025 – Cross Festival, Verbania (IT)
- 23-25 June 2025 – Malta Festival, Poznan (PL)
- 4-5 July 2025 – Festival de la cité, Lausanne (CH)
- 20 July 2025 – La notte dei poeti, Nora (IT)
- 23-25 July 2025 – Festival MIT, Ribadavia (ED)
- 10-11 August 2025 – Sziget Festival, Budapest (HU)
- 27 August 2025 – Taarnby Park Studios, Copenhagen (DK)
- 6-7 September 2025 – Down to earth festival, New York (NY)
- 10 September 2025 – Fume Festival, Cesena (IT)
- 15 November 2025 – Arcipelago Coreografico, Firenze (IT)
- December 2025 – Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Tokyo (JP)