Performances
cRéTa
It is an endless transition of shapes
Choreography: Maristella Martella
Dance: Maristella Martella
Music: Gabriele Panico
Year: 2018
cRéTa is a choreography concert created by Maristella Martella, dancer and choreographer and Gabriele Panico, musician and composer. The body movement and the sound are flexible, plastic and transformable, just as clay (in Italian - creta) when it absorbs water: balancing between fullness and emptiness, between the tension and the distension, in continuous transformation. It is an endless transition of shapes. One can hear the movement, see the sound and touch the picture, create new interior and exterior passages, that evoke new sensations. A combination of possible movements and harmonies, a musical and choreographic fabric that is composed and decomposed each time.
Premesse a Kore
Choreography: Maristella Martella
Performers: Silvia De Ronzo, Laura De Ronzo Manuela Rorro, Maristella Martella, Alessandra Ardito
Lighting design: Tea Primiterra
Year: 2017
We’re distorted bodies with a strong need to find ourselves again. We need new images and new visions. In this syncretism of a constant loss and an arduous research, we use a myth in order to recognize the reality in which we live, we use symbols to track its map and archetypes, as a mirror, to understand ourselves. The bodies blend in a harmonious, sensual and oneiric way, recalling the ritual from the closest to the body and the most carnal point of view – the dance.
Kore Ensemble
Myth, ritual and dance from the land of Apulia
Choreography: Maristella Martella
Dance: Compagnia Tarantarte
Live Music: Cinzia Marzo (vocals, flute, tamburello), Silvia Gallone (diatonic accordion, vocals, frame drums), Eufemia Mascolo (double-bass, Tibetan singing bowls)
There is a land where dance and music make miracles happen. This is Salento in the Apulia region, in the extreme south-eastern part of Italy, where the sound of tambourine and women’s voices have been heard over the centuries. Love songs, work songs, healing songs that narrate ancestral, ancient myths of impossible love and accompany people working hard in tobacco fields, where the danger of spider bite is hidden.
Passo a Sud
Compagnia Tarantarte e Officina Zoè.
Choreography: Maristella Martella
Dancers: Silvia De Ronzo, Manuela Rorro, Laura De Ronzo, Maristella Martella
Music: Officina Zoè
Lighting design: Michelangelo Campanale e Tea Primiterra
Maristella Martella develops her research on dances from Southern Italy and their representation. She creates, dreams, and combine the past with the present, classical and contemporary, popular elements from South Italy with elements from the Mediterranean world. She studies the phenomenon of Tarantism and the mystery of trance.