COCOON
credits
COCOON
concept Masako Matsushita creation Masako Matsushita, Beatrice Bresolin and Dance Well Dancers choreography assistant Beatrice Bresolin creative producer Stefania Mangano special thanks to Paolo Vachino
cast for Orlando Festival and Dance Well Bergamo on stage Sylvie Andreoletti, Mirka Bordegari, Angela Cominelli, Anna Induni, Lucia Maggioni, Fernanda Pavoni, Maria Letizia Pezzotta, Ada Maria Rossano, Donasina Russo, Tersilia Selogni, Nadia Togni, Isabella Vitali co-produzione Orlando Festival e Fattoria Vittadini
cast for Operaestate Festival Veneto and Dance Well Castelfranco Veneto on stage Franca Baraldo, Bianca Carlesso, Antonella Gallo, Mario Pomero, Ida Quaggiotto, Elisabetta Schioppetto, Marisa Strappazzon co-production Operaestate Veneto and Fattoria Vittadini
COCOON goes on stage for the second time. After the debut with the Dance Well Dancers of Castelfranco Veneto, the show is reworked and reconstructed with the Dance Well Dancers of Bergamo.
We spent precious time in the room exploring known and unknown places, chatting and sharing thoughts, telling stories and getting lost in the language of dance and its wide range of possibilities, challenging limits by finding comfort in discomfort, listening to music from past sewn on the sounds layer of the present, imagining those of the future. Together, we created our own ritual dance and danced for each other shyly.
It's all in the plural because the work is the result of a collaboration where everyone brought a part of themselves, sharing a story and developing materials. My job was only to stitch together the 'dancing works of art' that gradually revealed themselves from these extraordinary bodies.
COCOON is a hug, a transition born from a cuddle, a sense of protection that will have to abandon us sooner or later, accompanying us towards another planet.
