At the Riley Theatre
Meet Italian disabled dance artist Aristide Rontini and learn more about their inclusive practice and process while in residence at NSCD.
Working with dancers Orlando Izzo and Silvia Brazzale, sound designer Vittorio Giampietro and dance dramaturg Gaia Clotilde Chernetich, Aristide has been exploring the qualities of fireflies through both movement and sound in a project titled ‘Back Eye Black’. Hear more from Aristide and his creative team and learn more about the creative development of the work to date.
This Q&A concludes a residency at NSCD by Italian disabled dance artist Aristide Rontini, made possible through Open Dialogo, a bilateral cultural exchange project managed by Stopgap Dance Company and commissioned by Arts Council England, the Italian Ministry of Culture, the Italian Cultural Institute of London and the British Council to promote sharing of knowledge and experiences between disabled and non-disabled artists working in England and Italy. With additional support from Yorkshire Dance and Northern Ballet.
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Aristide Rontini is an Italian dancer and choreographer and a founding member of the Italian disabled artists/activists group Al Di Qua who are leading the way in advocating for the autonomy and rights of disabled artists in Italy. Rontini’s research questions the dimension of identity, the relationships between individuals and society and of nature and human beings. He graduated as a dancer from Codarts Rotterdam in 2010 and has worked with Simona Bertozzi (IT), Candoco Dance Company (UK), Alessandro Carboni (IT), Alessandro Schiattarella/BewegGrund (CH), Teatro Della Tosse (IT), Michela Lucenti/Balletto Civile (IT), Angelica Liddell (SP), Carl Olof Berg/Spinn (SV), Vahan Badalyan (Armenia) and Diego Tortelli/Aterballetto (IT). In the past few years he has developed his own artistic projects, such as “It moves me”, “Giovane Notturno”, “Talitha Kumi”, “Alexis” and “Alexis 2.0” and “Lampyris Noctiluca”.
