HIT
2024 – PREMIERE July 15th Bolzano Danza
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
Production: Parini Secondo, Nexus Factory
© Bianca Peruzzi