The latest generation of Italian choreographers is ever-changing and continually evolving. For this reason, Oriente Occidente has chosen to host two of the most significant artists from our landscape this year, who have emerged in the last decade as proponents of a unique poetic line that is consistently coherent and precise. Following Michele Di Stefano and his spatial magnetism, it is now Alessandra Sini's turn with "Sistemi Dinamici Altamente Instabili" to present her abstract and visionary conception of dance to the festival audience, which includes experimentation with video, sound, and imagery.
The group originated from several years of informal experience and officially formed as "Sistemi Dinamici Altamente Instabili" in 1999 under the direction of Alessandra Sini, Paola De Rossi, and Antonella Sini. By 2000, the original core expanded to include Francesca Sassi, Simona Lobefaro, Serena Intilia, and Ester Silvagni, establishing new collaborations with the musical band Surya.lab (Matthew Mountford and Joe Casagrande), composer Stefano Savi Scarponi, Riot Generation Video, and Stefano Montinaro for visual image processing, Francesca Donnini for organization, and Max Mugnai for lighting design.
Over ten years of activity, Sistemi Dinamici Altamente Instabili has created around ten shows and performances, including notable works such as "Acquario in Macadam" (1994), "Onna-gata a" (1997), "Bambara" (1998), "GAP-spettacolo multiplo-" (2000), and more recent productions like "Itinere.e" (2001), "Tonine" (2002-2003), and "Hapax" (2003).
Carrying a poetic line based on illogical relationships and abstract connections, with sudden and unexpected appearances of sounds and images, the works of Sistemi Dinamici Altamente Instabili are like living tableaux that unsettle the spectator. There is no story or narrative in their choreography-making process, but rather a complex process based on structured improvisations.
"Transisters -installazione ubiqua-," the work presented by Sistemi Dinamici Altamente Instabili in Rovereto, is part of an installation project experimenting with various modes of display. Designed for non-theatrical spaces with distinct environments, the work involves six performers structured in pairs. Each pair's actions are discovered by the audience (moving from one environment to another) in an almost voyeuristic manner, as the events have a distinctly private "flavor." The existence of each pair revolves around a close relationship between the acting body and the acted-upon body, between driver and driven, yet both immersed in a performance space devoid of naturalistic references. The creative intent is to transcend technical and stylistic discourse to experience an encounter in an 'anomalous' place without coordinates or references. The action unfolds on small dance carpets measuring four meters by four meters, each immersed in a different sound and light environment: in some cases, it's the lights that give poetry to the bodies, in others, slides - projected in real-time - or video processing create an illusory contrast to the real situation.
