The
equipe
Hotel
de la Lune is a research team which works on the experimentation
of technical principles related to performative arts.
Born inside the “Pontedera’s centre for theatrical
research and experimentation” in 2002, the team resides
in Rome since 2004, where it started a deep research profoundly
linked to the connection between visual and performative arts.
Each work by “Hotel de la Lune” is
divided in to two main procedural lines: technical and ethical.
This means that the company’s creations have the aim to
develop a scientific experimentation on a specific technical and
performative principle, and meanwhile, to build a research on
a question deeply linked to the present socio-political-cultural
context, through such a methodological tool.
Bio–
Gian Maria Tosatti
Gian
Maria Tosatti starts his journalistic activity as a theatre critic
in 1999. He starts writing for “Il Tempo”, an Italian
newspaper in 2000. From 2002 to 2005 he sets up a weekly magazine
called “Lifegate Teatro”, dedicated to theatre and
dance. He collaborates with other specialized headings as “Tuttoteatro.com”
and “Rumore”. He is in the jury of the “Ubu
Prize”.
In 2004 he is the curator of the publication of a book, “Materiali
per un Teatro futuro” (Editoria & Spettacolo, Roma 2004).
As a director, after studying at the “Pontedera’s
centre for theatrical research and experimentation” (Fondazione
Pontedera Teatro) and collaborating with “Il Teatro delle
Albe”, Eimuntas Nekrosius and the Studium Teatralne of Warsaw,
he puts up a research company called Hotel de la Lune.
Hotel de la Lune was born in 2002 inside the “Fondazione
Pontedera Teatro”, where the company which Tosatti directs
stays for a whole year. During this period of time they develop
a study on “L’alba sui campi occulti” and a
piece called “Notturno Bianco”, which took place in
to public toilets where the spectator had the chance to become
the author of the narration. During 2003 “Hotel de la Lune”
first settles in Pisa, then in Bologna where a research on the
campi occulti project is carried on with the creation of a study
called Presentazione dell’ospedale – stanze del secondo
studio. The arrival of the company in Modena clashes with two
important works, a first one I guerrieri, fratello, I guerrieri
del sogno che ti narrai, an open air theatre creation that introduces
Tosatti to performative actions, and a second one, Voi Zek, a
play on missed revolutions, the last chapter of the Campi Occulti
project, whose aim was the investigation on some fundamental hints
of Jerzy Grotowski. In 2005 Tosatti settles in Rome where he reconstructs
Hotel de la Lune re-orienting the company’s research towards
a territory that stands in between visual and performative arts.
Le lait miraculeux de la Vierge(june 2005) and Magdalena(November
2005), from the Devozioni cycle, are the result of this new research.
Fonte:
www.wikipedia.org
Bio
- Tommaso Garavini
Born in
Rome in 1972, Tommaso Garavini spent most of his educational itinerary
abroad: between 1985 and 1987 he attended “Hillcrest Primary
School” in Mutare, Zimbabwe, in 1991 he enroled for an year
to Boulder High School in Boulder, Colorado, and between 1993
and 1998, while attending the Academy of Arts in Rome, he spent
six months studying at “Burg Gibiechenstein, Hochschule
fur Kunst und Design” in Halle-Saale, Germany.
After his Diploma in Scenography and Set Design, achieved with
the best score, he started working as an Assistant Set Designer
in screenplays. At the same time he started his theatre career
as a set designer working with different companies as: “LIOS,
buto dance company”, with which he keeps collaborating today,
and “Weltschmerz”. During these years he also worked
with Raffaele Zanframundo, Gianni Casalnuovo, Fabian Ribezzo,
Debora Pappalardo, Emilia Martinelli and Aureliano Amadei. In
2003 he wrote “L’Operamara”, performed by Debora
Pappalardo, Anastasia Sciuto and Igor Bacovich. During the summer
of the same year he was invited to Mostar (BiH), with “la
sindrome del Topo”, to take part at the 7th Mostar Intercultural
Festival; his role was to plan and build an open air interactive
labyrinth. Back to Italy he designed the interiors of “Il
Settimo Cerchio”, an art gallery-tattoo studio in Bologna.
Immediately after, he started his collaboration with “Z59”:
he designed and built different kinds of mobile structures (Trash
Day - Cantieri culturali della Ziza-Palermo, Padova Fiere,-Padova).
In 2004 he stayed six months in Tolouse, France, to develop a
project on a playground game (Il Ragno, la giostra rovescia).
Since 2004 he works as a designer with “Z59”, taking
care of developing objects and furniture made out of recycled
and reused materials.
Since three editions he is the author of the “Gemini d’oro”
prize and the “Sofia Amendolea” prize for the “Romateatrofestival”.
As an illustrator he published on “Nero free Magazine”,
“I punk”, “Tappe di sughero”, and “Pimba
Magazine”.
Untill now he has done a lot of exhibitions of his paintings,
sculptures, illustration and prints in art galleries throughout
Italy.
Since 2005 he collaborates with Hotel de la Lune at the Devozioni
Project.
