Crystal Pite Brings Site-Specific Dance Piece Alchimia to Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia
From October 1 to 4, Alchimia, a site-specific performance by Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite, will take place at Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia. Born in 1970 in Terrace, Pite's work is commissioned by Festival Aperto/Fondazione I Teatri and showcases six dancers—four from Nederlands Dans Theater and two from her own Kidd Pivot. The venue, initially built in 1957 for Max Mara, transitioned to an exhibition space in 2003. Pite's performance begins and concludes near Claudio Parmiggiani's 1989 sculpture and features a pivotal segment in a former tailoring atelier. A graduate of Scuola Maramotti will appear as a figurante. Pite delves into themes of presence and absence, likening tailoring to the human body encased in paper patterns.
Key facts
- Alchimia runs October 1–4 at Collezione Maramotti, Via Fratelli Cervi 66, Reggio Emilia
- Crystal Pite was born in Terrace in 1970 and is an associate artist of Nederlands Dans Theater
- The performance uses four NDT dancers and two from Vancouver's Kidd Pivot
- Festival Aperto/Fondazione I Teatri commissioned and co-produced the work with Collezione Maramotti and Max Mara
- The building was commissioned in 1957 from Pastorini and Salvarani and converted by Andrew Hapgood after Max Mara relocated production in 2003
- Pite opens and closes the piece around Claudio Parmiggiani's 1989 sculpture Caspar David Friedrich
- Fondazione I Teatri has commissioned site-specific projects from international choreographers since 2009
- Paolo Cantù is director of Fondazione I Teatri
Entities
Artists
- Crystal Pite
- Claudio Parmiggiani
- Trisha Brown
- Shen Wei
- Wayne McGregor
- Hofesh Shechter
- Dimitris Papaioannou
- Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
- Andrew Hapgood
- Paolo Cantù
- Laura Bevione
- William Forsythe
- Charlie Chaplin
- Michelangelo
- Carlo Collodi
- Claudio Parmigiani
- Monica Salsi
- Walter Benjamin
- Owen Belton
Institutions
- Collezione Maramotti
- Fondazione I Teatri
- Festival Aperto
- Max Mara
- Nederlands Dans Theater
- Kidd Pivot
- Peeping Tom
- Scuola Maramotti
- Artribune
- NDT 1
- segnonline.it
Locations
- Reggio Emilia
- Italy
- Terrace
- Canada
- Vancouver
Sources
- Artribune —
- FAD Magazine —
- Rivista Segno —
- segnonline —