CCAP Petrolio2 12-24 November 2014

Programme

Now you have the chance to experience one of the most important voices in Swedish contemporary dance, Cristina Caprioli. The role model for all of dance Sweden began choreographing in the mid-nineties and has since created over 30 performances under her own name. On 12-24 November, she takes over Dansens Hus with Petrolio2. Here the audience is given the opportunity to familiarise themselves with Pasolini's words and Caprioli's choreographic landscape.

Petrolio2 is free of charge and consists of four different parts: installation, choreographic impact, word quake and car reading. For Choreographic Impacts on 12, 17, 20 and 24 November and Wordquake and Car Reading on 15 November, you need a ticket that is booked via the ticket office at Barnhusgatan 14. It is also possible to call tel: 08-508 990 90, or email, [email protected]. The installation is open during the period 12-24 November between 18-21 when we give performances.

Here you can read more about the different parts of Petrolio2.

• Installations During the period 12-24 November between 18-21 the installation is open when Dansens Hus performs on the main stage. The floor of the pool is set in motion by the projected film. Poollopwhile the film's dancers sit quietly on the edge of the pool and watch the audience, who in turn watch the dancers crawl on the bottom of the pool. All while the dancers discuss or recite related texts to Pier Paolo Pasolini's last film Saló.
• Choreographic impacts at the Little Theatre on 12, 17, 20 and 24 November at 19:00, about 40 minutes. Immersed in the basin, Johan Jönson reads his own texts, written in direct reference to Pier Paolo Pasolini's, while a progressively growing number of figures crawl across the floor and walls and change shape - victim, executioner, lover, voyeur, listener, rebel, etc. The audience is invited to take part in the event from a distance, or up close, via peepholes, binoculars, or over the edge of the basin. The impacts touch on what has been said, been and done while aiming at what is being said, is and is being done now. Inevitably an accumulation of words and bodies that reveal a tangle of affects in constant motion.
• Car Reading and Word Battle Special The 15 November at 15 and 19, about 15 minutes.
  Car reading The first part of Petrolio - accumulation of matter, was set in a car park. Car reading drives the spectator/visitor to a car park, where they are invited to read a selected text by Pier Paolo Pasolini. The visitor is further engaged in a discussion about its meaning. At the same time, a football match is being played in the garage (a replica of the original football scene), but with no ball and no goal. Verbatim Hundreds of printed texts by Pier Paolo Pasolini and other authors cover the bottom of the pool. The audience is invited to shred them and accumulate the shreds in a pile. Furthermore, to reconstruct the texts, according to the original or new meaning. The installation revolves around the violence that the meticulous reconstruction work of writing requires.

Cristina Caprioli is one of the most important voices in Swedish contemporary dance. Twenty years ago, Cristina Caprioli presented Petrolio - an accumulation of material at Dansens Hus centred on the work of Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini. The audience saw a football match taking place in a car park and a stage completely covered in white fur. Petrolio2 updates the motifs and format. The football match is now played by invited guests and the white fur room becomes an installation where spectators can familiarise themselves with Pasolini's words and Caprioli's choreographic landscape. Language, gender, politics and poetics are themes that were addressed in the original production and still dominate Cristina Caprioli's work today.

"What a finale for Dansens Hus! The season ends with a physical, poetic and almost surrealist world premiere of a performance inspired by the self-immolating visionary Pier Paolo Pasolini... With playfulness and sensuality, Caprioli drives us between two opposites that become each other's prerequisites: strength and fragility, suffocating confinement and agonising exclusion." /Svenska Dagbladet, Anna Ångström November 1994

About Cristina Caprioli

Cristina Caprioli began choreographing in the mid-nineties. In 1998 she founded her own company ccap, for which she has created over 30 performances. In addition to her work as a choreographer, she is also a professor of choreographic composition at DOCH. She curated the symposium WEAVING POLITICS at Dansens Hus in 2012.