HIT

Parini Secondo x Bienoise

2024 – on tour

teaser – dossier

© Bianca Peruzzi

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 – 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. 

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
voice: Sissj Bassani
light design: Bianca Peruzzi
costumes and weaves: Giulia Pastorelli
manager: Camilla Ferrazzi
ropes: MarcRope Milano
the 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, for the program “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, 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).

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