OTTO

PRESS

"Otto is a vacuum, now, a suspension of the world, to avoid watching, I know everything inside out by now, we are at the climax of the cruel representation of the world that welcomes its own indecent representation. Otto would be an adventurer of sorts, a rider of the void who finds – this was not to be expected – the void moving under and away from them, no sort of void at all, but massive, material, violent and stupid. If it is, as they said, an image of the world that coincides with the person looking at it, it can sound – for the while we are hearing its noise – like nothing else on earth. It is everything we know damn well.” Joe Kelleher, actorfigures.com, October 15th 2018

“OTTO, an autonomous rhythmic system, generating tracks and questions, and its single components as it has never, never, never been attempted before. OTTO does not resemble anything else.” Michele Pascarella, Gagarin Orbite Culturali, November 16th 2018

“You can say very deep things with levity, and <OTTO>, in the end, is really beautiful and poetic as a comedy by Keaton, as a dance by Astaire and Kelly. It’s sad as a play by Beckett.” Goffredo Fofi, Hystrio, August, 2002

CREDITS

Project, realisation: Kinkaleri /Matteo Bambi, Luca Camilletti, Massimo Conti, Marco Mazzoni, Gina Monaco, Cristina Rizzo With: Filippo Baglioni, Chiara Bertuccelli, Andrea Sassoli e Mirco Orciatici Production: KLm/Kinkaleri In collaboration with: Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Teatro Metastasio /ContemporaneaFestival, spazioK.Kinkaleri

With the support of: Regione Toscana, Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali – Dipartimento dello spettacolo

BIO

Kinkaleri was given birth in 1995. Joining their previous experiences and studies worked out in various fields, the components agree with the intention of realizing specific projects, spurring the will to operate and to deal with actual ideas, and always in charge of all the aspects about the creations of their line. Kinkaleri work in experimental theater, movement research, performances, installations, exhibitions, sound materials, looking for a language not on the basis of a style but directly in the evidence of an object.

The works of the company has been shown both in Italy and abroad, in theatres, contemporary art museums, dance and theatre festivals, galleries, including Triennale Teatro dell’Arte – Milan, Teatro Metastasio, Teatro Fabbricone – Prato, Teatro Grande –Brescia, Sophiensaele and KunstHalle Deutsche Bank – Berlin, Centre Pompidou – Paris, Kaaitheater and KunstenFESTIVALdesArts – Bruxelles, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Pecci – Prato, Fondazione Gulbenkian – Lisboa, Kitazawa Town Hall – Tokyo, Oriental Pioneer Theatre – Beijing, Mercat de les flors – Barcelona, La Batie Festival – Geneve, Festival di Santarcangelo – Santarcangelo, Biennale Danza – Venice, Villa Romana – Florence, MAXXI – Rome.

Among the most important creations: Doom (1996), 1.9cc GLX (1998), My love for you will never die (2001), OTTO (2002/2003), WEST (2003/2006), I Cenci/Spettacolo (2004), Nerone (2006), THE HUNGRY MARCH SHOW I Beetween a carrot and I (2007), I Yes Sir! (2008), Alcuni giorni sono migliori di altri (2008), Ascesa&Caduta (2010), I AM THAT I AM (2010), Hit Parade (2011/2017), Trilogia Puccini: Nessun Dorma (2010), Buttefly (2015), I love you TOSCA (2018); No Title Yet (2017), I’M OK. (2017), OTTO (2003>2018), Once More (2020). In 2002 the group is awarded the LO STRANIERO bets for the future prize “...for the admirable group coordination within stern theatrical forms made of rough and intense means where dance is hidden rhythm of the reality and a slight distance generates the necessary dissonances” and, still in 2002, the UBU prize for the performance OTTO as best dancetheater performance of the year.

Since 2001 Kinkaleri has its headquarters in Prato at spazioK, one of the spaces of the former Campolmi industrial area in the historic center of the city. Since 2013 the spazioK is a regional residence center developing artistic paths belonging to the different fields of creation and aimed at young generations, spazioK is also the place of is it my world? and Body To Be two different series of events about performance and dance.

The group is currently formed by Massimo Conti, Marco Mazzoni, Gina Monaco.