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| Artist Roster > Dance > Spellbound Dance Company |
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| Description Founded in 1994 and lead by artistic director, Mauro Astolfi,
Spellbound Dance Company (Rome) is Italy’s
premier contemporary dance company. The company’s unique vocabulary
of expression is rooted in poetic, emotive, and dynamic bodies creating
shifting geometries through space with equal amounts of athleticism
and elegance. Spellbound Dance Company has charmed audiences throughout
the world with performances at dance festivals in Italy, Spain,
Croatia, Serbia, Germany, Austria, Belarus, France and Thailand.
Astolfi’s choreography for the company has been recognized
by receiving various commissions from prestigious institutions such
as the 2008 Venice Biennale for “Don Juan,” the Picasso
Foundation of Malaga (Spain) for “For Her”, and the
2009 International Arts Festival of Bangkok among several others. |
Mauro Astolfi, is the Artistic Director and Founder of Spellbound Dance Company. Astolfi’s chorographic vision is to continually develop works that equally embodies pure gestural expressiveness structured by classical technique and training. Poetry and precision are at the core of the success of Spellbound Dance Company. Before founding the company in 1994, Astolfi trained and danced for many years in the United States, Italy, and London. The company’s success continued to grow after 2000 through numerous collaborations with Vittoria Ottolenghi and Vittoria Cappelli who produced public dance marathons at theatres and festivals like the Manzoni Theatre (Pistoia Italy) and the Todi’s Festival. The result was that Astolfi’s choreography was able to be seen by a greater public. In 2006, Astolfi was commissioned by the International Festival
of Maiori (Italy) to create Carmina Burana. To date, this
has toured extensively to prestigious performing arts centers in
Italy including Teatro Goldoni (Venice), Teatro Olimpico (Rome),
Teatro Campoly (Verona), and Teatro delle Palme (Naples) among many
others in addition to theaters in Austria, Spain and Thailand. Additional
commissions that heightened the company’s profile include
the creation of “Don Giovanni” (2008) for the Venice
Biennale, and “For Her” for the Picasso Foundation of
Malaga.
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Downshifting Downshifting (2009) is a 40 minute work that occupies a space of great simplicity and sparseness. Directly commenting on personal choice and will, “Downshifters” are those who opt for another trajectory and imagine an alternative future in order to realize life more fully. It is a dance of pure, lush movement free from restraint and rich in passion and emotion.Nafas Nafas (2006) has multiple meanings and cultural significances. In some Indian dialects it means breathing. Within the ideas of Sufism, Nafas is associated with freedom. In the Middle East, it describes the fullness, depth, and strength of a person's first breath at birth. The notion of breath and sequentially life is explored in this work that explores the milestones of life from birth through adulthood. The work is twenty minutes in length.
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