10.04.2022—14.04.2022

La Ribot Ensemble a Roma

Art, Danse, Performance, Roma - Istituto Svizzero/Teatro India
Dates
10.04.2022
14.04.2022
Location
Roma - Istituto Svizzero/Teatro India
Category
Art, Danse, Performance

La Ribot Ensemble a Roma – Un triplo programma

A programme of performances taking place in Rome to celebrate the great career of dancer, choreographer and visual artist La Ribot.

La Ribot was born in Madrid in 1962 and is currently living in Geneva and performing internationally. La Ribot was awarded with Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at Biennale Danza di Venezia 2020, Grand Prix suisse de danse par l’Office fédéral de la culture en 2019, Premio en Artes Plásticas de Comunidad de Madrid (España, 2018), Medalla de Oro al Merito en las Bellas Arte (España, 2015), Premio Nacional de Danza, Ministerio de Cultura (España, 2000). La Ribot is a choreographer, dancer, and visual artist. Her art emerged at the end of Spain’s democratic transition in the 1980s and has gone on to profoundly change the field of contemporary dance. She defies the frameworks and formats of the stage and the museum, borrowing freely from the vocabularies of theater, visual art, performance art, film, and video to achieve a conceptual shift in choreography. Her solos, collective explorations, experiments with amateurs, installations, and moving images are the many facets of a protean practice that constantly focus on the rights of the body. The artist has presented her choreographic work at, among others, Tate Modern, London; Festival d’Automne, Théâtre de la Ville and Centre Pompidou, Paris; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS), Madrid; Aichi Triennale, Nagoya; Galería Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid; Museu Serralves, Porto; the Art Unlimited platform at the Art Basel Festival, Basel; S.M.A.K., Ghent; and Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), Mexico City. La Ribot’s visual work is part of major private and public collections, including Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS), Madrid; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris; el Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC), Leon; Artium (Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo), Vitoria; and Fonds régional d’art contemporain (FRAC) de Lorraine, Metz.

A production of La Ribot Ensemble, with the support of Pro Helvetia, Swiss Arts Council, the Ville de Genève – département de la culture and the République et Canton de Genève.
A co-production of Teatro di Roma-Teatro Nazionale and Istituto Svizzero.

Programme:

10.04.2022
H14:00-20:00
Laughing Hole

Istituto Svizzero, Via Liguria 20, Roma
Free entry at anytime within the duration of the performance – register here

Performance and installation, 2006
Duration: 6 hours
Written and directed by La Ribot
With: Delphine Rosay, Olivia Csiky Trnka, Piera Bellato and Fernando de Miguel
Sound design: Clive Jenkins, costumes: La Ribot

A biting and critical exhibition-installation, La Ribot enacts a demonstration made up of slogans and cries of laughter in response to the absurdities of today’s world and the deadly ideologies that govern it.


12.04.2022
H19:00-19:40
Pièce distinguée N°45
Istituto Svizzero, Via Ludovisi 48, Roma
Free entry – register here

Performance, 2016
Duration: 35’44 »
Directed by La Ribot
Costumes: La Ribot
With: Piera Bellato, Mathilde Invernon, Lisa Laurent and Ludovico Paladini

Without the need for any specific theatrical setting or device, Pièce distinguée N°45 can be deployed anywhere like spreading a blanket on the ground for an impromptu picnic. In profound silence, a singular and elegantly dressed couple extends and settles upon a blue velvet cloth. Pièce distinguée n°45 plays with the rituals of performing arts and the power of painting. It is also an investigation into the subtle play of erased identities.

H20:00-20:40
FILM NOIR
Istituto Svizzero, Via Liguria 20, Roma
Free entry – register here

Film, 2014
Duration: 35 min
In French
Direction, text, photography: La Ribot
Voice: La Ribot and Laëtitia Dosch (FILM NOIR 001)
Editing, sound and post-production: Camilo de Martino
Bandes noires (FILM NOIR 003) Tamara Alegre and La Ribot 

Begun in 2014 and finished in 2017, FILM NOIR is a project proving: the figure of the extra, the ‘supernumerary’ or background performer. La Ribot’s pieces 12 toneladas de Plumas (1991), 40 Espontáneos (2004), and PARAdistinguidas (2011), for example, invited extras (local people with little or no theatrical experience) to centre-stage in new, live works for the theatre. In contrast, FILM NOIR looks back into movie history and uses video to explore the dynamics of cinematic extra-hood. FILM NOIR takes a close look at the extras in Spartacus (1960) and El Cid (1961) – human ‘litmus paper’ whose actions and attitudes reveal the two productions’ contrasting ideologies in 60s Franco’s Spain.


13.04.2022
H19:00-19:40
Pièce distinguée N°45
Istituto Svizzero, Via Ludovisi 48, Roma
Free entry – register here

Performance, 2016
Duration: 35 min
Directed by La Ribot
Costumes: La Ribot
With: Piera Bellato, Mathilde Invernon, Lisa Laurent and Ludovico Paladini

Without the need for any specific theatrical setting or device, Pièce distinguée N°45 can be deployed anywhere like spreading a blanket on the ground for an impromptu picnic. In profound silence, a singular and elegantly dressed couple extends and settles upon a blue velvet cloth. Pièce distinguée n°45 plays with the rituals of performing arts and the power of painting. It is also an investigation into the subtle play of erased identities.

H20:30-21:30
Gustavia
Teatro India, Lungotevere Vittorio Gassmann 1, Rome – tickets info here.

Dance/theater, 2008
Duration: 1 hour
Written, directed and interpreted by Mathilde Monnier and La Ribot
Light project: Eric Wurtz, sound design Olivier Renouf
Scenography: Annie Tolleter
Costumes: Dominique Fabrègue assisted by Laurence Alquier

Co-production Festival Montpellier Danse 2008
Centre Pompidou – les spectacles vivants, Festival d’Automne
Théâtre de la Ville – Paris, Centre de développement chorégraphique – Toulouse
Midi-Pyrénées, Culturgest – Lisboa, Comédie de Genève-Geneva
Mercat de les flors – Barcelona 
Centre chorégraphique national de Montpellier Languedoc – Roussillon

Mathilde Monnier and La Ribot take us to the heart of Gustavia’s dual personality, the two protagonists being themselves a duo, twins, doubles or competing divas. This heart is a dark, maddening, and dangerous non-place, from which emerges an acute feminist critique of the imperatives dictated to women to ‘perform’ their gender satisfactorily, with a bouquet of incessant, normative, often grotesque, sometimes contradictory, and even impossible demands.


14.04.2022
H19:00-19:40
Pièce distinguée N°45
Istituto Svizzero, Via Ludovisi 48, Roma
Free entry – register here

Performance, 2016
Duration: 35 min
Directed by La Ribot
Costumes: La Ribot
With: Piera Bellato, Mathilde Invernon, Lisa Laurent and Ludovico Paladini

Without the need for any specific theatrical setting or device, Pièce distinguée N°45 can be deployed anywhere like spreading a blanket on the ground for an impromptu picnic. In profound silence, a singular and elegantly dressed couple extends and settles upon a blue velvet cloth. Pièce distinguée n°45 plays with the rituals of performing arts and the power of painting. It is also an investigation into the subtle play of erased identities.

H20:30-21:30
Gustavia
Teatro India, Lungotevere Vittorio Gassmann 1, Rome – tickets info here.

Dance/theater, 2008
Duration: 1 hour
Written, directed and interpreted by Mathilde Monnier and La Ribot
Light project: Eric Wurtz, sound design Olivier Renouf
Scenography: Annie Tolleter
Costumes: Dominique Fabrègue assisted by Laurence Alquier

Co-production Festival Montpellier Danse 2008
Centre Pompidou – les spectacles vivants, Festival d’Automne
Théâtre de la Ville – Paris, Centre de développement chorégraphique – Toulouse
Midi-Pyrénées, Culturgest – Lisboa, Comédie de Genève-Geneva
Mercat de les flors – Barcelona 
Centre chorégraphique national de Montpellier Languedoc – Roussillon

Mathilde Monnier and La Ribot take us to the heart of Gustavia’s dual personality, the two protagonists being themselves a duo, twins, doubles or competing divas. This heart is a dark, maddening, and dangerous non-place, from which emerges an acute feminist critique of the imperatives dictated to women to ‘perform’ their gender satisfactorily, with a bouquet of incessant, normative, often grotesque, sometimes contradictory, and even impossible demands.