Seminars
Training Program of Seminars
The ANFABIA platform’s trajectory also arranges seminars and classes.
The program is also accompanied by seminars that focus on somatic and body movement such as Feldenkrais®, BMC® bodymindcentering, as well as the inclusive/physically integrated dance with the atelier CorpoPoetico®.
CREATIVE MANAGEMENT TOOLS FOR DANCERS
Composition skills, Individual Management, Dramaturgy
SOMATIC BODY AND MOVEMENT
BMC®, Feldenkrais®, Body Conditioning and Injury Prevention for Dancers
INCLUSIVE DANCE ATELIER
Corpo Poetico® - dance & disability
Seminars
- Individual management organization and artistic entrepreneurship with Lisa Gilardino
- Singing and performative movement with Cristina Zavalloni
- Set and costume design with Eleonora Peronetti
- light design with Francesco Massari
- Bmc® Body Mind Centering with Maria Martinez
- Anatomy of a Spiral with Arianna Pisano
- CORPO POETICO® Dance | Theatre | Disability | Integration with Anna Albertarelli and Roberto Penz o
- extra classes: Italian classes with Massimo Balducci
Individual management organization and artistic entrepreneurship
with LISA GILARDINO
Lisa Gilardino is a performing arts curator and manager.
After studying contemporary arts history in Italy and France, she has been responsible for the international relations and the promotion of Lenz Rifrazioni theatre group and has worked as head of production and artistic advisor at Natura Dei Teatri Arts Festival from 2001 to 2011 in Parma, Italy.
In 2011, after taking part in training workshop Festival lab for festival curators and producers, she has been invited to Festival Baltic Circle (Helsinki, Finland) as a curator in residence to develop Dreamcatchers, her research project mixing anthropology, visual arts and dreams.
Since 2011 she has been working as a freelance manager with artists focu- sing on promotion, development and counselling.
She currently works with Alessandro Sciarroni and Motus. Since 2013 she has been organising workshops and mentoring sessions in Italy and abroad to for artists and managers focused on artists’ development.
In September 2016 she joined artistic director Eva Neklyaeva as a co-artistic director of Santarcangelo Festival for the 2017/19 editions.
singing and performative movement
with CRISTINA ZAVALLONI
Nominated in the Order of Merit of Arts in 2020, Cristina Zavalloni is a Bolognese singer and composer working within the realms of jazz and classical music, with a particular affinity for contemporary repertoire and the 1900s music. She has enjoyed a longstanding artistic partner- ship with Dutch composer Louis Andriessen, who has dedicated nume- rous works to her.
Zavalloni has performed in prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall in New York and La Scala in Milan, participating in concert seasons worl- dwide under the guidance of eminent conductors. Her discography boasts an extensive body of work, and she has led numerous projects as a frontwoman.
Teaching focus
We start every morning class with a collective vocal warmup and tech- nique exercises, moving on with choral singing.
After the lunch break, we focus on the song each participant wishes to sing. With the help of Manuel Magrini, the virtuoso versatile and sensiti- ve pianist I chose as a partner for this and many projects, we work on the given material, facing musical and vocal issues and, when the person feels ready for it, we stage it: the song becomes a tool to create an improvised ‘act’ which involves the whole group. After each short performance, we reflect on what we have just experienced together and give our careful and loving feedback.
This is the core of the work I aim at doing within the Anfibia program: exploring one’s expressive potential through sound, voice and music, in a constant interaction with the audience and the rest of the group.
set and costume design
with ELEONORA PERONETTI
Set designer and costume designer, her work ranges from opera, dance, fashion and video.
After her academic studies in scenography at NABA (Milan), she began her collaboration with Margherita Palli, with whom she worked assiduously as a stage assistant for the most prestigious Italian theatres, following opera and prose productions with directors such as Martone, Malosti, Brockhaus, and for important exhibitions and events at the Triennale in Milan, the MA*GA in Gallara- te, the Governor’s Palace in Parma and others.
She works continuously with the main Opera Foundations: among her main works, Balanchine’s Nutcracker (2018) at the Teatro alla Scala, then Kovancina (2019), Rigoletto (2022) and Fedora (2022), again at the Teatro alla Scala, directed of Martone. In 2022, she was Mc Cann’s assistant for L’amico Fritz at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and set designer for Magzhan di Livermore at the Turkistan Music and Drama Theater in Kazakhstan. In 2024, she worked with Livermore again for the sets of Turandot at the Teatro alla Scala.
Since 2019 she has collaborated with Preljocaj, first in Winterreise at the Teatro alla Scala, then designing the costumes for Birthday Party at the Chaillot Theater in Paris, Torpeur at the Montpellier Festival (2023) and the very recent Requiem.
Since 2016 she has worked as a set designer for the Outfit company, designing the sets of major fashion events for Canali, FILA, Sergio Rossi, Sisley, Aigner. Since 2021 she has continuously followed the scenographic projects of the artist Tedua, also designing for him the scenography of the first Italian rap tour with theatrical scenography. She has collaborated on the manual Dizionario Teatrale, edited by M. Palli, and on Il Corridoio Rosso, edited by G. Agosti. As a set designer, she is a finalist in the LNOBT Vilnius Competition (2022) and the European Opera Directing Prize (2023). Since 2018 she has been teaching the Scenography course at NABA.
light design
with FRANCESCO MASSARI
The course helps dancers and choreographers to work more consciou- sly with the light and the technical elements. Starting from the shape of a stage and the terms we have to use, we will learn to distinguish the light and technical equipment and how to use it for our artistic needs, passing through the theory of light and color and its dramaturgical use, analyzing videos and iconographic materials about dance and theatre, and arriving to draw a lighting plot and write a technical rider.
BMC®
with MARIA MARTINEZ
Maria Martinez Peñalba is a certified Teacher/Practitioner of Body-Mind Centering® and a Somatic Movement Educator. A choreographer and an instructor in dance and yoga, she graduated in dance and creative composition from the SNDO (School for New Dance Development) in Amsterdam and holds a degree in Aesthetic Philosophy.
Collaborating on various training programs for dancers, Maria incorporates principles and practices of somatic movement in teaching for creative exploration. With a keen interest in dance forms and Eastern energy practices, she has developed her own method by integrating somatic aspects and contemporary expressions with ancient traditions.
In her BMC® classes, participants explore and deepen the rich relationships between body, mind, movement, and touch. The approach involves a deep experiential study of the anatomy and physiology of our skeletal structures.
Through the practice of fundamental principles, participants learn to internalize the body, enhance awareness, and act more functionally.
Anatomy of a Spiral
with ARIANNA PISANO
Ariana has been trained as a dancer and lived in the UK from 2010 to 2019 where she worked for several ballet and neo-classical companies. She also performed at the Rose Theatre Bankside in London, with a physical theatre company and was cast as lead dancer in a Fashion Film.
Alongside her dance career, she gained a qualification as Pilates Instructor.
In 2018 Arianna qualified as an osteopath at the British College of Osteopathic Medicine. Since graduating Arianna worked for two clinics in the Greater London area, where she treated patients of all age and kind.
In January 2019 Arianna joined the Centre of Advance Training (CAT) team at the London Contemporary Dance School (the PLACE). During this program, she had collaborated with other osteopaths and physiotherapists devising screening protocols, whilst assisting and treating elite level adolescent danc- ers.
Since July 2019 Arianna moved to Bologna, Italy, where she continues work- ing as an Osteopath and Pilates instructor.
She still collaborates with the London Contemporary Dance School in London once a month.
CORPO POETICO®
Dance | Theatre | Disability | Integration
with ANNA ALBERTARELLI AND ROBERTO PENZO
The courses aim to set up the instrumental bases to improve the artistic and professional attitudes of the partecipants.
In this way they will develop a new “modus operandi” that will put body, disability and performance in connection. We will impart a rigorous and refined vision of the performance through the respect of differencies, defining each time the concept of aesthetics, strength, presence and poetic body.
We will analyse physical and psychological limits and redefine the creative sense that derives from them. We’ll create limit areas on which we’ll operate artistically.
PEDAGOGICAL INSTRUMENTS
There will be group dynamics for integration that will be developed throu- gh body, organic movement, contact improvisation, contemporary dance and physical theatre.
