Wall Dialogue Resistance Creative Europe 2021-2023

CONCEPT and PROJECT DESIGN

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The WALL DIALOGUE RESISTANCE is a project, co-funded by the European Union under the Europa Creativa cooperative programme, with Teatro di Sardegna as main partner and under the artistic direction of Sara Marasso and Stefano Risso that aims to recreate a different way of experiencing performing art and public space through involvement of local people in the creative process, describing a landscape and a community through a contemporary narrative. The project uses the image of the wall, both a physical and mental limit, as a practical and symbolic guide to an open creative process with the aim to develop a performance-format that can creatively elaborate the encounter with a territory and its inhabitants.

The participative character of the project is realised during single short residencies of 3/5 days in which some actions are proposed:
1. a movement/sound workshop to discover that the strongest limits are the invisible ones we carry ourselves as positions in space, postures, ways of speaking and gestures in which prejudices and values are hidden such as the expression: stand up straight/right as a self-made man
2. an open-air appointement to play a game in a public space in front of a wall (1,2,3 Stella)
3. a final performance as a moment to open the process, partecipate and share.

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The structure unfolds through five artistic residencies hosted by the partners involved and realized through a single journey linking them all, which takes place from August 21st to October 1st 2022. The residencies will use action tools such as workshops, thinking laboratories and the popular cross national game.

Each residence will end with a PERFORMANCE as a collective emotional experience of a common space. After this, a period of reworking and post-production of the multimedia and textual contents produced will follow, and it will include a FILM, a PODCAST, a GRAPHIC STORYTELLING and a PERFORMANCE FORMAT.

The project focuses on the open process, emphasizing the work of questioning and research, on the eco-sustainability and the human impact that will resonate with the people of the four Mediterranean countries involved: Italy, France, Spain and Portugal.

The project wants to stimulate the dialogue / participation / interaction of European citizens through a human site-specific participatory approach to the creation in performing arts, to apply the creative process for overcoming separations from each other, and to disseminate a methodological creative format to make culture more inclusive.

The history of the project can be found here

THE PROJECT’S NETWORK

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partners Sardegna Teatro | Il Cantiere | Associazione noau | Les têtes de l’ArtColectivo Noray | Asociación Hacendera | Balleteatro

associated partners  Spaziodanza | Pares Sueltos

WALL DIALOGUE RESISTANCE | co-funded by CREA-CULT-2021-COOP n. 101055870

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THE JOURNEY and THE RESIDENCIES

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(After the map, click on each residence’s name to open the photo’s gallery)

VERMENAGNA VALLEY_Italy

Robilante | August 21st – 26th

MARSEILLE_France

Le Comptoir de la Victorine | August 30th – September 4th

NOVIERCAS/ZARAGOZA_Spain

Noviercas + Etopia Center | September 6th – 11th

PORTO/MATOSINHOS_Portugal

Casa da Arquitectura | September 13th – 22nd

CAGLIARI_Italy

Sa Manifattura | September 24th – 30th

ARTISTIC DIRECTION

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SARA MARASSO & STEFANO RISSO

Director, choreographer and dancer & composer, musician and videomaker

ARTISTS

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STEFANO ODOARDI
Director, screenwriter and producer

NICOLAS LANGE
Writer, theatre director and performer

MIRIAM TELLO
Interdisciplinary artist, designer and activist

SIMONE SIMS LONGO
Sound and visual designer

JULIE YOUSEF
WRONG TIME COLLECTIVE
Dancer and videomaker

CYRIL LIMOUSIN
WRONG TIME COLLECTIVE
Dancer and videomaker

CARLOS SILVA
Dancer and teacher

ROSSANA MENDES FONSECA
Photographer and visual artist

VIOLETA FATAS & PARES SUELTOS DANZA
Dancer and choreographer

SILVIA URBANI
artistic director ‘s assistant

MICHELE GARAU
director of photographie 
and videomaker

GIULIA CANNAS
dancer

PROJECT OUTPUTS

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The project ended last summer 2023. An IMMERSIVE PERFORMANCE  has been presented at the end of a short residence (21- 25 June 2023) during the final event of the project.
An in-situ project conceived by Sara Marasso, a work in progress research in collaboration with the dancer  Giulia Cannas with the music composed by Stefano Risso  and Sims Simone Longo.
The performance was part of a wide set up in the beautiful Sa Manifattura building that has offered to the audience all the wide and beauty artistic productions developed during the 2 years project ( a film, a podcast, a storytelling, a cd, a video, a methodology format….and more)

Click to watch: the TEASER of the final event 25th-27th June 2023

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@Laura Farneti_ Fuori Margine Click on each image

Wall Diaologue Resistance THE FILM by Stefano Odoardi premiere in June 26th at Festival Respiro, Cagliari in collaboration with Sardegna Teatro and Sardegna Film Commission. Director of photography Michele Garau

THE PODCAST by Nicolas Lange on Spotify

THE GRAPHIC STORYTELLING by  Miriam Tello
Downloaded here: the map and concept here:  the storytelling 


THE CD with the original sound track of the performances and new soundtracks by  Stefano Risso e and Lalli on soundcloud

A VIDEO by Rossana Mendes Fonseca produced during the protuguese residence: click here

THE METHODOLOGY FORMAT written by Sara Marasso click here to download the pdf 

+ the 5 in situ PERFORMANCES  presented at the end of each residence:
in Robilante, Marseille, Noviercas/Saragoza, Matosinhos/Porto + Cagliari:
Here the TEASER  of the of the long journey’s last step in September 2022.