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EsCREATION 2024 (outdoor) / 2025 (indoor)
Fortuna
Piergiorgio Milano [Be/It]
circus / dance / sailing
“The sea is neither male nor female, neither masculine nor feminine. The sea is a soul that unfolds without borders. From the waves are born giants, from the fish mermaids, from the uncertain transparencies monsters and visions”.
Accompanied by a musician/singer, two acrobats/dancers move around on a self-supporting structure, evoking the physicality and extreme conditions of sailing a boat. Their bodies tell the story of a shipwreck in reverse. From the image of a boat at the bottom of the ocean to the moment of departure, with all the joys and excitement of travelling. A performance that fuses dance and circus, visual and sonic landscapes. . . .
Price for the scenography at Underground Festival 2025, Arad (Rou)
Credits
idea, choreography and direction Piergiorgio Milano interpretation Viviane Miehe, Piergiorgio Milano live music, voice, composition Steeve Etonno costumes Carine Grimopont lights Alberto Ciarfardoni construction & supervision structure Florian Wenger, Luis Schwartz scenography Vienna Brignolo, Piergiorgio Milano avec l’aide de Florent Hamon merci à Mad Beltrami, Claudio Stellato production & booking Associazione Gelsomina, La chouette diffusion coproducers & residencies Flic scuola di circo (It), Espace Robert Doisneau et la Ville de Meudon (Fr), Dinamico Festival (It), scenica Festival (It) with support from la résidence Hors les Murs du Centre Culturel de Namur et Latitude 50 – Pôle des arts du cirque et de la rue (Be), Centre Culturel d’Engis collaborations Fondazione Luzzati Teatro della Tosse, Electropark (It) support Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Service Général de la Création Artistique – Service des Arts Forains, du Cirque et de la Rue, Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo dans le cadre de l’appel ART~WAVES, WBI (Wallonie-Bruxelles-International), WBTD (Wallonie-Bruxelles-Théâtre-Danse)
“Spectaculaire et intime à la fois est le voyage que l’artiste, danseur et circassien contemporain Piergiorgio Milano entreprend […] avec deux compagnons d’aventure, Viviane Miehe et le musicien Steeve Etonno, sur une grande structure autoportante qui est un navire, une péniche, un voilier, flottant sur les vagues d’une mer métaphorique, d’abord calme puis houleuse, qui suscite la liberté, la peur et l’audace. C’est l’histoire d’un naufrage à l’envers […] que les deux interprètes concrétiseront – accompagnés par la musique live d’un saxophone, par les sons et les bruits du picotage et du roulis du bateau – par une danse acrobatique fascinante, glissante et énergique qui escalade la structure des mâts de voiles, qui montent et descendent, se croisent, s’entrelacent avec des lignes et des blocs manœuvrés à vue, selon ce rituel marin fascinant et audacieux qui défie et caresse les flots.”
Guiseppe Distefano, exibart, sept 24
The company
Piergiorgio Milano [Be/It]
Choreographer, dancer and acrobat
“My choreographic language is the result of years of research into the encounter between dance, theatre and circus arts. My performances are characterised by a strong theatrical aestheticism on which dance can rely and develop in full freedom of poetry and virtuosity. I am situated on the border between different arts, categories or disciplines; it is in the tendency to go beyond this border that I find the strength that will feed my creative processes. I dedicate myself entirely to this so that my work will be the fruit of this radical contamination between dance, circus and theatre.”
Collaborations
Piergiorgio Milano has worked and collaborated with many international artists including: James Thiérrée, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Rodrigo Pardo, David Zambrano, Roberto Olivan, Raffaella Giordano and Boris Gibé, for whom he plays the second cast of his show L’Absolu. He created and directed the choreography for the film “Il Flauto Magico”, produced by the Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio and Paco Cinematografica Roma.
He teaches physical theater and contemporary dance at various European schools and companies, including: SEAD University of Contemporary Dance, Salzburg; Danscentrumjette, Brussels; Athens Video Dance Festival; Tripspace, London; Université du sport de Chambéry; Opus Ballet – Florence; École de cirque de Lomme, Lille; Le Lido, Toulouse circus school; Flic, Turin circus school; Codarts, Rotterdam.
