Nationalität: Italien
Adresse: Rom - Italien
Website: www.alessandropintus.com
Alessandro
Pintus is a dancer and choreographer, he is member of a new
generation of young italian Butoh dancers. He started to explore Butoh
dance
since 1996 as an evolution of a theatrical research.
He trained in Europe and Japan
with the most representative Japanese masters such as , Ko
Murobushi, Masaki
Iwana, Min Tanaka, Kazuo and Yoshito Ohno, Akira Kasai.
He has also studied and worked with some European contemporary dancers
such as Lindsay
Kemp, Dominique Dupuy, Pierpaolo Koss, and Enzo Cosimi.
His development and experience as a performer has lead him to work with
many
different artists.
· 1999 group performance “June 31st", directed by Min Tanaka, at Teatro Vascello in Rome
· 2000 performance “Butoh Experience”, directed by Masaki Iwana at Teatro Furio Camillo in Rome
· In 2001 he collaborates with the Scottish dance company Metacorpus, for the performance "Sound and Suspension" at the St. Bride's Centre of Edinburgh
· 2003 dance and horse riding performance "Oros. Primo racconto Mediterraneo", at the Basilica of St. Pietro in Tuscania, Viterbo. together with the horse rider Francesco Caponetti and his horse “Brio”. Original music Carlo Fatigoni
· 2004 group performance “Nijinsky: mistica e follia del corpo eccedente”, with the italian company “Orma Fluens”
· 2005 duet performance “Senso Unico” together with the Catalan dancer Maria Montseny Rodrì, for a dance review in Barcelona, at the “Centre Cultural Cardedeu”
· In 2006 group performance “Baccanalia” with “Ludi Scaenici” company, for “Tarrago Viva Festival” in Tarragona, Catalunya
· 2007 performance “N”, for the Butoh dance review “Trasform’azioni” in Rome, for the performing art festival “Piantati” in Brescia, and for the dance review “Body Shot” in Rome. Original music Gabriele Quirici, Perceptual Defence
In the past years he has matured a personal research which has took him towards his own roots, rediscovered in the island of Sardinia. Taking this responsibility he was able to meet a more authentic work and to contextualize his Butoh dance research.
He has realized a series of solos, some of which introduced in dance reviews and Italian festival. Such as a trilogy of solos called “S’Ard” dedicated to his homeland.
He is
currently running an intense didactic activity all around Italy, in
particular in
Rome, leading the dance laboratory: “Attraverso il Butoh”,
where he teaches his methods of dance research, and encourage the dance
of
young Italian dancer. Together with them he realize a number of
performance.
He is
also the
founder , since 2001, of "NON Company" a
network of ‘artist-dancers' with the common aim of pursuing the deep
meaning of
Butoh and of the body in the present day.
In 2004
he
was the protagonist of a TV documentary “Performer”, on the digital
channel
Cult Nertwork, about his work and in particular about the realization
of the
performance “Oros. Primo racconto mediterraneo”, film director Alberto
D’onofrio,
DNA
Production.
In the
summer 2006 he collaborate with the Japanese photographer Eikoh
Hosoe
for the Toscana Photo Festival in Massa Marittima.
In 2007,
together with V.I.T.R.I.O.L. team,
he is part of the event “Notte Bianca” in Rome,
with
the performance “Si sedes non is”.
In Rome,
March 2008, he collaborate with Alda Fendi Foundation
for the show “D’ambra grigia e canfora”, direction Raffaele Curi and
with the
participation of the “Village people”.
In May
2008
he was guest of the festival “Teatri di vetro” with the performance
called “N”
at the Palladium Theatre. In July 2008 he choreograph the showcase
“Wholegarment” of the Italian stylist and designer Saverio Palatella
hosted by AltaRoma AltaModa Roma.
May 2009
is
the coming out of the new dance show “Bugimirò – sogno
segreto di un tarlo”
at the Palladium Theatre in Rome. The show was a ZTLpro
production in collaboration with Gruppo Arte Teatro Danza
(GATD) by Fabrizio Crisafulli.