May Fall

Aristide Rontini is an Italian dancer and choreographer supported by Europe Beyond Access. He is a founding member of the Italian disabled artists-activists group Al Di Qua who are leading the way in advocating for the autonomy and rights of disabled artists in Italy. 

Rontini’s research questions the dimension of identity, the relationships between individuals and society and of nature and human beings. 

He graduated as a dancer from Codarts Rotterdam in 2010 and has worked with Simona Bertozzi (IT), the Candoco Dance Company (UK), Alessandro Carboni (IT), Alessandro Schiattarella/BewegGrund (CH), Teatro Della Tosse (IT), Michela Lucenti/Balletto Civile (IT), Angelica Liddell (SP), Carl Olof Berg/Spinn (SV), Vahan Badalyan (Armenia) and Diego Tortelli/Aterballetto (IT). 

In the past few years he has developed his own artistic projects, such as It moves me, Giovane Notturno, Talitha Kumi, Alexis and Alexis 2.0. 

 

The lighting of In Wind or Dust takes its departure from a dark and enclosed space – the coffin, the underground, the night. From that space small light sources grow and develop. Light is breaking through the gaps of the space creating a poetical atmosphere for the piece to live in.

I’ve drawn inspiration from nature – how light passes through the branches and leaves in our forests, reflects on our lakes and creates shadows that follow us everywhere we go. But also from the nervous image of the lit city at night where the light can be both blinding and aggressive. The light is developed closely with the choreography and is being conducted by the music of Aaron and Dag and will hopefully help to guide the viewer into Kawa Niangjis poetry - ’Looking into the future from the depths of the black night’.