COMPANY BLU
Con Alessandro Certini e Charlotte Zerbey e vari artisti collaboratori, Company Blu è una compagnia di danza italiana tra le più innovative nel panorama della ricerca contemporanea da anni. Sin dalla sua fondazione nel 1989 Company Blu Danza, forte dalla ricerca artistica condotta in Europa fin dal 1979, ha sempre ricercato un rapporto diretto con la musica dal vivo, le architetture pl
astiche estemporanee del corpo - mai cristallizzate in quadri precostituiti - inserendo sempre la struttura coreografica in una scenografia talvolta materialmente teatrale, talvolta virtuale e tecnologica, attenta alle contaminazioni delle arti visive. Questo scambio tra background culturali e poetici diversi rende davvero magnetica l'espressione e la comunicazione dal vivo tra danzatori, musicisti e artisti visivi. Attualmente collaborano con la compagnia i danzatori: Paola Lattanzi, Stefano Questorio, Claudia Catarzi, Vincent Cacialano e i musicisti: Spartaco Cortesi, Tristan Honsinger, Steve Noble, Michael Moore, Antonello Salis, Bolivar Miranda, Nicola Vernuccio, Marco Parente, Massimo Fantoni, la scenografa Tiziana Draghi, i video maker Federico Bucalossi, Roberto Mazzi, la scrittrice Stefania Zampiga. L'attività della Compagnia è sostenuta dal Ministero per i Beni e Attività Culturali dal 1998, e dal Progetto TOSCANADANZA della Regione Toscana dal 1996. THE COMPANY
CHARLOTTE ZERBEY and ALESSANDRO CERTINI’s artistic projects share a common vision of the body: a subjective yet vibrant physical/spiritual vehicle found within a system of relations and changes that each particular creative project calls fourth. Within their artistic exploration, conducted in Europe since 1979, they have brought together dancers, musicians, video artists interested in the act of performing in the fragility and precariousness of the present moment. This unique movement language combines formal and instinctive aspects by bringing together choreography and pure improvisation. The company creations are a composed "product", being defined before each performance as well as a "process", a system of immediate and direct movement. The strength of Company Blu's dance is its tangibility, the capacity to create choreographic relationships while also creating human relationships. Certini and Zerbey bring their creations to a public by using the body as material of intuition and thought, using theme to liberate dance from its usual esthetic confines. Each project emphasizes a creative relationship with other artistic disciplines often in concert with live music and originally composed scores. The exchange of different poetic and cultural backgrounds makes the interaction between dancers, musicians and visual artists magnetic. Company Blu also promotes a yearly performance series, "DINAMICHE SCOMPOSTE-Inquiries on contemporary dance improvisation", presenting performances, meetings, research labs and the publication "SHOPTALK". Company Blu’s activities are supported by: Italian Ministry of Culture, Tuscan Region, Florence Province, and City of Sesto Fiorentino.
