Credits
choreography Sang Jijia
composer Dickson Dee (CASH)
live video artists Luca Brinchi and Roberta Zanardo / Santasangre
lighting design Marco Policastro
costumes Giuseppina Maurizi
choreography assistants Yanan Yu and Adriana De Santis
World Premiere may 8th/9th/10th , Teatro Era-Pontedera Festival Fabbrica Europa
Producers
Fabbrica Europa per le arti contemporanee, Firenze Fondazione Milano Teatro Scuola Paolo Grassi, Milano Spellbound Contemporary Ballet, Roma
Marche Teatro –Danza alle Muse
Beijing Dance Festival, Beijing, China
Guangdong Dance Festival, Guangzhou, China
Partner for the creation residency
Fondazione Teatro della Toscana
Centro per la Sperimentazione e la Ricerca Teatrale di Pontedera
technical sponsors
Teatro Greco (E.C.O. Italia)
Cyberaudio
Noise Asia Ltd
(*) The first part original version comes from “Pathos” music by
Dickson Dee, sponsored and commissioned by Composers and Authors
Society of Hong Kong (CASH)
Length
First act 17’
Second act 46’
Direction’s notes
Pa|Ethos is made up of two words, Pathos and Ethos, borrowed from Aristotle’s Art of Rhetoric. The choreographer Sang Jijia uses them to signify two approaches to the subject discussed. Ethos underlines precision, Pathos evokes passion and feeling. The work is based on Italian plastic art of the classical era and is divided into two parts. The first looks at the rules of social life where interpersonal relations are rigidly distributed. Each movement in space is well measured and carefully executed. In the second, emotions are translated into the physicality of the dancers; taking stage action to its most extreme, they achieve complete transparency of body through which the soul is revealed in its entirety. The poetic art of Sang Jijia, who comes from Tibet, rests on the profundity of Eastern thought and is enriched by the most important experiences of European research in dance and contemporary theatre.
A precise and original meeting between rigour and expressiveness that become the ingredients giving rise to Pa|Ethos.
THE PROJECT
The project includes the presence of the well-known composer Dickson Dee, and the collaboration of Luca Brinchi and Roberta Zanardo / santasangre, for the virtual set design.
The international project conceived by Fabbrica Europa with the choreographer Sang Jijia is a challenge that calls into play a new way of coproduction on contemporary creation. Those involved are: the Fondazione Milano Civica Scuola di Teatro Paolo Grassi (whose dancers interpret the first part of the performance), Spellbound Contemporary Ballet(interpreting the second part) together with a number of important organizations such as Marche Teatro – Danza alle Muse, Bejing Dance Festival, Guangdong Dance Festival. The executive production is in the care of Valentina Marini of the Spellbound Contemporary Ballet Company which will re-stage the first part after summer 2015, to allow the show to perform on tour from its debut to June 2018.
THE CHOREOGRAPHER
Sang Jijia
Then he went to the Frankfurt Ballet and became a choreographer-assistant for the Forsythe Company where he stayed until 2006. He is currently a resident artist at the Beijing Dance/LDTX. His more famous creations are: Blue in Show Your Colours, 365 Ways of Doing and Undoing Orientalism (co-choreographed with Willy Taso and Xing Liang) and As If To Nothing for the CCDC, Happening Continuous for Movement Fiber, in collaboration with Xing Liang (resident artist at CCDC), Unspeakable and Standing Before Darkness for the Beijing Dance/LDTX and Sticks for the Guangdong Modern Dance Compagny. The works of Sang Jijia have been presented at the Chang Mu Dance Festival in Korea, the Swiss International Dance Festival, the Computer Music Festival, the Taipei Arts Festival, the Holland Dance Festival, the Huayi-Chinese Festival of Arts of Singapore, the Guangdong Modern Dance Festival, the Beijing Modern Dance Festival and the Dance Salad Festival in Houston.