REPERTOIRE

REPERTOIRE

Terra (Heart)

is a photographic project that springs from a collaboration between Loris Petrillo and Mimmo Pepe, a photographer of excellent artistic quality who works in the area of Puglia. Hundreds of images of the splendid panorama of the Murgia (Bari) of bodies in movement: blown by the wind, immersed in overgrown fields or wedged into the rock of ancient ‘trulli’ dwellings. These evocative images, captured with eloquent sensitivity and objectivity by the artist Mimmo Pepe, saturated with characteristics, odours and memories of a distant, turn TERRA into a unique and widely acclaimed project.

Sisters
(2007)

Compagnia Petrillo Danza
Creation for 2 dancers
Production MDA Produzioni Danza/Compagnia Petrillo Danza
In collaboration with Danzarte
Choreogrpaher and director: Loris Petrillo
Musics AA VV
Light design: Loris Petrillo

Following the chronological path of two sisters’ lives, SISTERS is like an album collection of memories, all the facets of a unique relationship that’s particular and extraordinary, and which merits making the most of…the sibling rapport. SISTERS is about the sharing of toys, complicity, the contrast between the expression of two different ways of being, the sweetness of a happy event, the understanding of difficulties; it’s the maturity of two who are by now adult women and the humorous projection into the future of these already elderly women; it’s the arguing or sharing of the love and attention of their very selves.

Que se passe-t-il?
(2007)

Compagnia Petrillo Danza
Creation for 1 dancer
Production Compagnia Petrillo Danza
Choreographer: Loris Petrillo
Musics: Maja Ratkje

“Que se passe-t-il?” portrays a woman who, in trying to find a place for herself in the apparent uncertainty and difficulty of the human condition, pursues her most intimate divinatory means, her intuition. It’s thanks to her intuition and her instinct that the truth about things can be discovered, to know what there is to know and to see what there is to see, and therefore, choosing; finding oneself at a crossroads, to choose metaphorically which of the two is the right one.

Fruits Box
(2005)

Asphalt/Compagnia Petrillo Danza
Creation for 7 dancers
Production Compagnia Petrillo Danza
Choreographer: Loris Petrillo

Fruit Box is a dazzling, energetic pièce underscored by humour; it’s a game of insistent rhythms created by the dancers’ bodies and voices as they constantly relate to the crates of colourful friut flung into the air, or set on top of one another, balancing to form a tower, or arranged into a vulnerable singer’s podium.

Spostamento Obbligato
(2005)

Asphalt/Compagnia Petrillo Danza
Creation for 6 dancers
Production Compagnia Petrillo Danza
Choreographer: Loris Petrillo

Umbued with traces of melancholy, Spostamento obbligato (Forced Movement) brings our attention to the imposing problem of the migration of all those populations who have abandoned their homeland in search of a new placing, a new position, contributing with their long marches which are similar to the reactions of flocks of birds to the changes in the world.

Salomè Donna nella Luna
(2004)

Asphalt/Compagnia Petrillo Danza
Creation for 8 dancers
Production Compagnia Petrillo Danza
Choreographer: Loris Petrillo
Musics: Gerrard, Reger, Barber, Svodoba, The Almighty
Priemière Teatro Comunale di Modena

While people in the audience are still taking their seats, Loris Petrillo bursts on-stage to a chorus of the Angels of Death singing a phrase from John the Baptist’s Apocalypse, with the rhythmic insistence reminiscent of the ancient rituals of fishermen at work catching fish in their nets and the killing of netted fish, This opening scene is meant as a metaphysical reminder of what happened to John, imprisoned at the bottom of a well and then turned over to the royal family. Although his starting point was the literary version by Oscar Wilde, Loris Petrillo’s elaboration of Salomè has expanded from researching sacred and historical sources, including the Gospels of Matthew and Mark, Antichità giudaiche of Giuseppe Flavio, the Book of Revelation, the Song of Songs, Hèrodias of G. Flaubert, Erodiade of G. Testori.

Bobby Sands
(2004)

Asphalt/Compagnia Petrillo Danza
Creation for 5 dancers
Production Compagnia Petrillo Danza
Choreographer: Loris Petrillo
Musics: Gerrard, Yazzbann

Bobby Sands, child of an Ireland fraught with conflict between the Catholics and Protestants, was arrested in1972 and accused of being in possession of a hand-crafted pistol. Thus began his desperate protest as a political prisoner, ending only after a long fast that lasted 66 days, when his body ceased to live. The show commemorates those who, like Bobby Sands, have lost their freedom in their lifetime, yet after their death, find it again for eternity.

Je voulais te dire
(2003)

Asphalt/Compagnia Petrillo Danza
Creation for 3 dancers
Production Compagnia Petrillo Danza
Choreographer: Loris Petrillo
Musics: B. Britten, G. Ligeti
Priemière Arenzano – Rassegna Arenzano danza

Je voulais te dire is a brief pièce created for three dancers. Even though it’s brief as to length, this pièce amply explores just what makes human relationships so difficult, or rather, the words that are left unsaid, and instead, which should be pronounced.

Il racconto della sposa
(2003)

Asphalt/Compagnia Petrillo Danza
Creation for 6 dancers
Production Compagnia Petrillo Danza
Choreographer:: Loris Petrillo
Musics: Kronos Quartet, Gerrard, mus.trad.cinese
Priemière Teatro Libero – Rome

Recounting the entire physical and psychic evolution of woman, The Bride’s Tale is a narration of the instinctive, creative and ancestral strength of the wild and natural female universe to which all women inextricably belong.

Il tango della depressione
(2003)

Asphalt/Compagnia Petrillo Danza
Creation for 5 dancers
Production Compagnia Petrillo Danza
Choreographer: Loris Petrillo
Musics: Stick & String Quartet
Première Teatro Libero – Rome

An attentive analysis of the daily life of a couple, Depression Tango is an exhilarating satire that, never misses a chance to make fun of the desperate attempts of a couple to relate to one another and deal with each other, but where one inevitably insists on dominating the other.

Anatomia di un dolore (2002)

Asphalt/Compagnia Petrillo Danza
Videodance
(Festival “Il Coreografo Elettronico” – Naples)
ProductionCompagnia Petrillo Danza
Choreographer: Loris Petrillo

Merlino l'Incantatore (2002)

Asphalt/Compagnia Petrillo Danza
Production Compagnia Petrillo Danza
Choreographer: Loris Petrillo
Musics: Nyman, Pontes, Goldenthal, Patton, Archive
première Teatro Comunale di Modena

Blood's colour (2001)

Asphalt/Compagnia Petrillo Danza
Production Compagnia Petrillo Danza
In collaboration with Tuscania Teatro
Choreographer: Loris Petrillo

Odore di terra (2000)

Asphalt/Compagnia Petrillo Danza
Videodance
Production Compagnia Petrillo Danza
In collaboration with Tuscania Teatro
Choreographer: Loris Petrillo

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