| Artistic direction and laboratories | with |
|---|---|
| Dance and Composition | Ornella D'Agostino |
| Music - voice and drums | Antonella Talamonti and Luciano Bosi |
| Painting | Sam Drukker |
| Film | Jans Henrik Jorgensen |
| Lighting | Maryse Gautier |
| Space dramaturgy | Paolo Baroni |
| Anthropology and Social research | Elio Satti and Alessandro Melis |
| Advisers | Roger Sell, Pascal Brunet, Bertram Muller |
The participants, coming from a different cultural background, are invited
to take part in the interdisciplinary laboratory of composition with aims to
the realisations of the performance projects. The projects presented will be
previously considered and discussed. They should derive from the issue of 'place
of belonging'. 
The
concept of 'place of belonging' does not necessarily have to refer to the actual
territory one comes from but is rather meant as a starting point on the basis
of which a discussion about the definition of cultural identities can be developed.
The laboratory wants to be practical-theoretical research journey passing through
the creation, communication and devising area, stimulating in this way exchanges
of opinions around issues as aesthetic and cultural references.
The locations to perform will be chosen in relation to the development of the project.
Each group will be supported by the supervision of the artistic directors and advisers. The final event will be organised in the form of labyrinth through the town, through a journey lead by Ariadne string . The architecture, the character, the expressiveness of the Cagliari and Carloforte will fuse with the performances presented.
The laboratory is addressed to young artists selected by the partner institutions
on the basis of the project proposed. The project selected should development
of the consideration of Europa myth and the new forms of mythologies. There
are going to be two projects from each country: Italy, France, England, Holland
and Germany, and no more than 6 participants from each country. The participants
will meet in Sardinia to realise the projects with the support of the supervising
group.
The participants will confront themselves with and experience the issue that dance companies always have to deal with when their work is perform in a context which differs from the cultural background the dancer identify themselves with. From our point of view this is an actual issue which has to be beard in mind and the work should develop from this consideration in order to allow the dialogue between artist and audience to happen.
Ornella D'Agostino will be in charged of the artistic direction and will co-ordinate and support the research around choreography, dramaturgy and the cultural places and the themes proposed in the different performances.
The
mythological elements will be recalled by the work of the Dutch painter Sam
Drukker, who has recently produced work inspired by the myth of Europa. Together
with Sam Drukker we will explore the possibilities of interaction between the
different art languages: dance, visual and plastic arts, the audio visual.
The music research will be supervised by the two composers Antonella Talamonti and Luciano Bosi supporting the integration of sound within the performance.
The dramaturgy of space research will be supported by Paolo Baroni whose interest is to create performance spaces generated from the awareness of the architecture and symbolism of the chosen space in itself. He will work using those materials that the space is offering and recycled ones in order to evoke the nature and the character of the represented culture. On the basis of the same principle that dance , visual art, music and the audio visual are elaborated.
The
light-desiner Maryse Gautier and the director H.H. Jorgensen, will support the
audio visual research, through which the investigated places and cultures will
be documented.
Elio Satti and Alessandro Melis will lead the anthropological and sociological research in Carloforte and will help the groups to become more aware of the communicative impact of their performances and so supporting the relation with the audience.