CollettivO CineticO & Alessandro Sciarroni

CollettivO CineticO was founded in 2007 by the choreographer Francesca Pennini and today it’s a network of more than 50 artists coming from different disciplines and backgrounds. Their work crosses genders and codes reformatting the rules of the performative event, it challenges the relationship with the spectator with a rigorous yet ironic approach. The company until now made 64 creations, winning many awards: GD’A Prize 2008, Rete Critica Award as Best Italian Artist 2014, Jurislav Korenić Award / Best Young Director - Sarajevo 2014, Danza&Danza Prize 2015, MESS Prize 2016 BE Festival, Hystrio Iceberg Award 2016, Prize of the National Association of Critics 2016, UBU Award - Best Dance Piece of 2017, Grand-Prix Award for Best Performance at MESS Sarajevo 2018.  

Alessandro Sciarroni is an Italian artist active in the field of Performing Arts with several years of experience in visual arts and theater research. His work starts from a conceptual Duchamp-like matrix using a theatrical framework and they are featured in festivals, museums and unconventional spaces, all over Europe, South and North America and Asia. In his creations he involves professionals from different disciplines and uses some techniques and experiences from dance, as well as circus or sports. His work tries to uncover obsessions, fears and fragilities of the act of performing through the repetition of a practice to the limits of the physical endurance of the interpreters, looking at a different dimension of time, and at an empathic relationship between the audience and the performers. In 2019 he was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in Dance by the Venice Biennial. Alessandro Sciarroni is associated artist at Centquatre-Paris and the Milano Triennial for the 2022-2024 period.