OE co-production

a co-production We-Start, Centro di Produzione Piemonte Orientale, Bolzano Danza | Tanz Bozen, operaestate Festival and FDE Festival Danza Estate Bergamo in collaboration with Bergamo Jazz Festival
as part of the bono!
Music by Antonio Raia
Danza Luna Cenere
management Domenico Garofalo

Mercurio, is a performance born from the encounter between the choreographer and performer Luna Cenere with the composer, improviser and saxophonist Antonio Raia. Mercury, both as a chemical element and, as a mythological figure, embodies a remarkable duality and versatility. As a metal it is unique in its liquid state at room temperature, thus manifesting a peculiar combination of fluidity and cohesion. In fact, as messenger of the gods in Roman mythology, Mercury acts as a link between the divine and the human, uniting different worlds, symbolizing the duality between heaven and earth, between male and female, between light and darkness. The Mercury performance thus becomes a powerful metaphor for the harmonization of contrasting elements, representing a balance between duality seemingly irreconcilable becoming a fascinating symbol of connection and conciliation. The action is continuously transformed into a celebration of transformation, of the obliquity of sense and the daring experiment shows that the strength of the music lies as well as in the absence of sounds as in the cracks of melodies made emerge from the shadows and that the dance can shine even when deprived of predictable movements.

Bono! is a project coordinated by Enrico Bettinello and a "board" of artistic directors of performing arts festivals to support a production that comes from the encounter between music and choreography. The project partners, to date, are BolzanoDanza, and NU Festival of novarajazz, Operaestate Festival Veneto in Bassano del Grappa and DanzaEstate Festival in Bergamo. Bassano del Grappa and Novara will also provide residence spaces for the realization of the project. The proposal, as happened in previous editions, is to bring two artists of different extractions to collaborate together on projects and processes around an imaginary, a common practice or a similar approach to performance. This invitation is answered by the collaboration between choreographer and dancer Luna Cenere and saxophonist and composer Antonio Raia, who work together for the first time. Raia is a musician who is not easy to label in a specific genre and who loves the relationships between music and other arts. Ash after an authorial journey and arriving, as choreographer, to debut at the Venice Biennale, returns to act as a performer of his own choreography, with the musical suggestions of Raia.