saturday 6 april – 7>9 pm
P420 Gallery
Michele Rizzo/Billy Bultheel (I/NL) (B/D)
Prospect < E V A >
performative environment, production Xing/Live Arts Week
Prospect <E V A> is an immersive audio and performative set up which stems directly out of Spacewalk, the performance work presented by Michele Rizzo at Live Arts Week. A number of performers inhabit the floor of the gallery and by means of a detailed choreography of hands aim to reach out towards an ulterior space, in which unknown forces and laws manifest and determine the dance of their arms. While the music of Billy Bultheel guides the performers in this journey, the movement acts as a gateway between the physical space of the gallery and the boundless space of their imagination. Such landscape is offered to the audience with the invitation to navigate and co-create the hybridity of the performance, which is presented as a space of its own.
Michele Rizzo, italian choreographer based in Amsterdam, graduated in 2011 at the School for new Dance Development in Amsterdam SNDO (where he is now a guest teacher in choreography and movement research), and in 2015 at the Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam in the Dirty Art Department – Master program for visual arts. His research operates at the crossover between performance and visual art, and produces performances with high visual impact, that merge sculpture, dance and theatre elements. Although all his works are united by a distinctive interest into the poetics of transformation, becoming and transcending, the outcomes of such multidisciplinary approach often crystallize in very different performances. His productions are: HIGHER (2015), a project inspired by club culture with music by Lorenzo Senni, focused on the experience of ecstatic dancing, as during the activity of clubbing. The performativity developed in the research looked at trance as a state that allows a sculptural shaping of the dancing body-mind. The latest edition of this work, titled HIGHER xtn (2019), is an extended version with 14 dancers created for the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, as part of the exhibition Freedom of Movement. SPACEWALK (2017) deals still with notions of clubbing and trance, but as well transcends the aesthetic of the club, translating it into a unique spatial environment, which refers to the realm of the virtual and architecture. His latest work DEPOSITION (2019) represents the third episode of the trilogy that includes HIGHER and SPACEWALK. Since 2017 he is cofounder of the choreographic platform DANSCO Amsterdam, the art and dance space Jacuzzi Amsterdam, and is as well part of GRIP.
Billy Bultheel is a belgian composer and performance artist based between Berlin and Brussels. He studied Electronic Music Composition at the Institute of Sonology in the Koninklijk Conservatorium, The Hague, and completed a master’s degree in performance and choreography in Germany. He has been dramaturgical and artistic assitant of choreographer William Forsythe at the Forsythe Company and co-founded New Forms of Life, a co-operative project working on mapping and traversing the present reality through performances. His own work focusses on medieval polyphony, space as a synthesizer and the congregation of music and performance. Next to that, he writes music for artists like Anne Imhof (the original score of Angst and Faust for Imhoof to be released on the label PAN), Ari Benjamin Meyers, Michele Rizzo and others. His most recent work is Signs of Invasion (2018), a musical play for an abandoned office space.
concept and choreography Michele Rizzo
sound Billy Bultheel
with Agata Torelli, Ilaria Minelli, Sissj Bassani, Leonardo Schifino, Cosimo Ferrigolo, Alessandro Rilletti, Alex Paniz, Federica Scaringello, Alessandro Cevasco, Francesca Siracusa, Susanna Testa, Alessandro Lizzio, Silvia Ciancimino, Erica Cinali, Paolo Vanoli, Mattia Bacchetti, Emanuele Tontini, Riccardo De Simone
production Xing/Live Arts Week