friday 22 april – 9pm

Marco Berrettini ^(CH)

iFeel3

performance, italian première

iFeel3, the new creation from Marco Berrettini, is inspired by the book Atlas shrugged by the Russian-american novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand, also the founder of Objectivism. “I wanted to create a choreographic piece which questions our ability to socialize, our ability to project ourselves into the future, near or far, our selfishness when it comes to protecting ourselves and hiding the fears that haunt us.” As with previous pieces by Berrettini, like iFeel2 or Cry, iFeel3 is a choreographed in one movement and one breath. The idea is to truly live the choreography as a personal ‘experience’, an action to complete, an experiment  on oneself. Even if Berrettini doesn’t share Ayn Rand’s idea of  entirely surrendering state power to the  that of the individual, he finds himself  drawn to the concept that the individual must first act by and for himself. An invitation to get our own back on our masters, to break put from the chains of modern-day slavery, to realize the potential we have within us. For us to rise up, before lifting up others. iFeel3 is also the story of a pop band, Summer Music, marking its second musical creation for stage. Their music is played live and tells, alongside the choreography, its own story; songs about the state of the world, citing activists such as Noam Chomsky or Abby Martin. iFeel3 is the third volume of the quadrilogy which will end next year with the solo iFeel4.

choreography Marco Berrettini in collaboration with dancers
performance Christine Bombal, Nathalie Broizat, Sébastien Chatelier, Marion Duval
music Summer Music Marco Berrettini and Samuel Pajand
set design and light 
Victor Roy
sound Nadan Rojnić
set up fabrication Victor Roy and Atelier La Chignole
costumes Séverine Besson
artistic consultant Anne Delahaye
administration and diffusion Tutu Production
production *MELK PROD.
coproduction Association pour la Danse Contemporaine Genève – adc, Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne, Théâtre Les Halles in Sierre
a cooperation prioject among adc – Genève, Théâtre de Vidy Lausanne, FIT – Festival Internazionale del Teatro, Gessnerallee Zürich, Theater Roxy Birsfelden, Théâtre Les Halles Sierre, in the frame of Fonds des programmateurs / Reso – Réseau Danse Suisse.
cupports Ville de Genève, Loterie Romande, Pro Helvetia – Fondation Suisse pour la Culture, Direction régionale des affaires culturelles d’Ile-de-France – Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, Reso – Réseau Danse Suisse, Fondation Ernst Göhner, Corodis

Marco Berrettini, Italo-german choreographer living in Geneva. At the age of 15 he was the German national champion in disco-dance. He then trained at the London School of Contemporary Dance, followed by the Folkwangschulen in Essen (Pina Bausch), and he has also studied theater, European ethnology and cultural anthropology. His path of interpreter is mixed, as are his inspirations in choreography. He has danced  in a jazz company, in a  classical ballet company and in the contemporary dance companies of Georges Appaix, François Verret and Noémie Lapsezon. In 1986 he founded Tanzplantation, rechristened *Melk Prod in 2000, the dance company which produced more than twenty creations, among them *MELK PROD. goes to New Orleans  (2007), iFeel (2009), Si,Viaggiare (2010), iFeel2 (2013), iFeel3 (2016). From 2004 to 2007 he directed the Mouvement department at the Haute Ecole de Théâtre de Suisse romande in Lausanne. Ironic, provocative, unpredictable, advocate of a ‘dance for all’ and against the ‘theatrically correct’, he follows  the Nietzschian maxim ‘Life must be danced’.