DROP . is the youth company of DNA and heart of Alma PRO, a professional training center in contemporary dance, in Bologna, led by the artistic director Elisa Pagani .

DROP. annually welcomes talented dancers and dancers - trained at the most important and prestigious national and international centers - to give them the opportunity to undertake life as professionals in a company, experiencing all the phases that lead from the creation of a show to the national tour and international.

Each year, the dancers work with renowned guest choreographers to create a bold, challenging and ambitious triple bill for touring.

The mission, in addition to delivering to young artists an experience that acts as a springboard into the world of the artistic profession, is also to bring on tour works of great artistic quality, captivating and current.

The show is ideal and usable for all audiences, due to the high quality standard of the choreographers but also for the variety of the program chosen.

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Choreography by Biagio Caravano
 

Music: Vatnajokull  by Chris Watson, Duo for Violin and Cello, Pt 1 feat Aisha Orazbayeva Lucy Railton, and Slow Match  by Moderat feat. Paul St. Hilaire

Duration: 20 '
 

Depositing the will and undoing the concept of subject are elements that are placed at the center of the work.

The rhythmic and dynamic quality of the action is defined through the relationship both with other bodies and with the external environment. It is an action linked to time, rhythm and joint fragility determined by the failure to the other rather than to himself.

Dance becomes an act of learning and real-time evaluation of an energetic condition that allows the creation of a shared space, a complex and articulated place where the conditions for coexistence are established.

These are the days…

Choreography by Simona Bertozzi

Music: Prometheus  by Francesco Giomi

Duration: 24 '
 

Starting from a look towards the plant world, with particular attention to the sensory activity of plants and to the strategies of environmental adherence that they know how to implement, between magnetisms, resonances, roots and energetic propulsions, the creation process faces different levels of cohabitation and entry into the relationship.

The research on movement and the texture of the choreographic sections articulate the configuration of emerging behaviors, individual actions and rapid choral assemblages, whose anatomical polyphony becomes a necessary reason for the unlimited presence and reopening of listening.

Materic

Choreography by Elisa Pagani

Music: Cecilia Stacchiotti

Duration: 20 '
 

It tells of a journey. A journey into the material consistency of nature, through mechanical and physical dynamics that give order to geological evolutions, from Pangea to the first constitution of social systems in which a sense of belonging exists.

Matter takes possession of space with vigor, in an organic act that claims the strength of its existence in a clear and miraculous way.