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Parini Secondo

Parini Secondo was born in 2017 from an idea by Sissj Bassani (Cesena,1997) and Martina Piazzi (Bologna, 1997) and involves dancers Camilla Neri and Francesca Pizzagalli. Questioning the relationship between art and originality, the group uses choreography to sublimate pop trends, drawing inspiration from material already present online. They collaborate with musician, producer and teacher Alberto Ricca/bienoise (Verbania, ’85), emphasising the importance of the relationship between music, rhythm and dance.

In 2020, SPEEED was born, selected for La Vetrina della giovane danza d’autore 2022 with a national and international tour of more than 20 dates in 2023/24. In 2021 Parini and Magdalena Oettl sign the international co-production be me, winner of the KreativCampus.Rhur residency programme of ecce – european centre for creative economy (Essen, DE) and supported by the Ministry of Science and Culture of North Rhine-Westphalia. With do-around-the-world (2023), Parini is selected for the NID Platform and with HIT (2024) receives support from SIAE ‘For those who create’, signing a co-production with Santarcangelo Festival and Bolzano Danza and setting a world tour that takes her to France, Norway and Taiwan.
In 2024 Parini created and curated the event Tra questa gente esiste un sentimento within the programming of the Teatro Petrella in Longiano (FC), in collaboration with Cronopios and ATER Fondazione.

Parini Secondo has participated in several events and festivals in Italy and abroad, including Fron+@ Festival (Murska Sobota, Slovenia, 2018); NAOcrea (Milan, Italy, 2019); Multiplicidades Festival (Santa Cruz, Portugal, 2019); ELEMENTI Festival (Cervia, Italy, 2020); Danza Urbana (Bologna, Italy, 2021 and 2023); Vetrina della giovane danza d’autore – Network Anticorpi XL (Ravenna, Italy, 2022); Festival Catalysi (Cesena, Italy, 2022); Supernova Festival (Rimini, IT, 2023), Kilowatt Festival (Cortona, Italy, 2023), B. Motion Festival (Bassano del Grappa, Italy, 2023), MilanOltre (Milan, Italy, 2023), Venere in Teatro (Forte Marghera, Italy, 2023), Taarnby Park Studios (Copenhagen, DK), Le Carreau du Temple (Paris, 2023), Theatre l’Aire Libre (Rennes, FR 2024), La Briqueterie (Paris, 2024), BIT TeaterGarasjen (Bergen, NO 2024), ShineHouse Theatre (Taipei, TW 2024).

Sissj Bassani (Cesena, ’97) is an Italian dancer and choreographer. She is assistant and performer of Claudia Castellucci (Silver Lion Venice Biennale 2020), dancer in the new production INSEL by Panzetti/Ticconi and artistic director of the movement collective Parini Secondo (2017 – present). 

After ballet, her training was completed directly in company contexts dedicated to research and experimental theatre, working first with gruppo nanou (Ravenna, 2013-2017), then with Claudia Castellucci/Societas (Cesena, 2015-present). She has worked among others with Kinkaleri (2018), Daniele Albanese/Stalker (2019), Elisa Sbaragli (2020-present), Valentina Pagliarani (2019), Salvo Lombardo (2016). She devotes herself to radical listening practices with Lola Posani and Glauco Salvo and with the vocal coach Nicoletta Magalotti/NicoNote. Her authorial research is exposed in the collective Parini Secondo – founded in 2017 together with Martina Piazzi – and in the works oro (Ravenna, 2019) and A VASISTAS (Bologna, 2022). 

Martina Piazzi (Bologna, 1997) is a dancer and choreographer recently graduated from the Danish University of Performing Arts in Copenhagen (DDSKS, Denmark 2019-2022) and active in the artistic direction of the collective Parini Secondo, founded together with Sissj Bassani (2017-present). 
In addition to the collective’s work, her authorial journey includes the creation of two solo works: PILE (Copenhagen, 2022) and Untitled Places (Torres Vedras, 2019). In her performing works she meets artist Florin Flueras, for Unexperience and Untitled Unworks at the Prague Biennial (CZ, 2022), Alessandro Carboni, with the project Always Becoming and Unleashing ghosts in urban darkness (IT, 2016-2020), choreographer Malgosia Sus & Paulina Almeida (PT, 2018) and Jija Sohn, for the project Performing Gender (IT, 2018). Her previous training consists of a two-year international course PERFORMACT directed by Ricardo Ambrozio & Gonçalo Lobato (Torres Vedras, 2017-2019); the Tuscan territory training programme AZIONE! directed by Sosta Palmizi (Florence, 2016-2017, Italy) and INNESTI, an interdisciplinary course directed by choreographer Simona Bertozzi (Bologna, 2017, Italy).


Contacts

PARINI SECONDO 
Sissj Bassani, Martina Piazzi
parini.secondo@gmail.com
+39 331 225 1072 (Sissj)
+39 339 712 7923 (Marty) 

Organization: Margherita Alpini
organizzazioneparinisecondo@gmail.com 
+39 331 458 8779 

Tech: Alberto Ricca 
riccamaj7@gmail.com 
+393475343600

Administration: Roberto Berti (Associazione Culturale Nexus-APS) 
amministrazione@associazioneculturalenexus.org 
+39 347 754 1611 

Social Media: Camilla Neri, Martina Piazzi
camillaneri@hotmail.it / martinapiazzi97@gmail.com 
+39 348 118 9459 / +39 339 712 7923

Birth chart: Francesca Pizzagalli
francesca.pizzagalli@gmail.com
+393664330489

Projects

  • HIT

    #jumprope #blackbox

  • HIT out

    #agile #compact #jumprope

  • SPEEED

    #PARAPARA #eurobeat

  • do-around-the-world

    #site-specific #GlaucoSalvo #PierPaoloZimmermann.

  • What Will Happen Tomorrow

    #rockopera #Bremo

  • be me

    #performance #meme #MagdalenaOettl

  • ROCCO

    #HullyGully

  • PARSEC

    #research #improvisation


Calendar

2024

11-13/11
HIT OUT
– Cinars, Montréal

18/10
HIT OUTPerformissima, Paris

06/10
HITInterazioni Festival, Rome

27/10
HIT Contemporanea24, spazioK, Prato

22/09
HIT
OUTHyperlocal Festival, Milan

19/09
HIT OUT
– Solo cose belle Festival, Parma

01/09
do-around-the-world
– Ammutinamenti24, Ravenna

27-28/07
SPEEED
– Reggia di Venaria Reale, Piemonte dal vivo, Torino (TO)

25/07
SPEEED
and What Will Happen Tomorrow – Teatro dei luoghi Fest, Lecce

15/07
HIT
premier – Bolzano Danza, Bolzano

12/07
SPEEED
– Bolzano Danza, Bolzano

05-06-07/07
HIT OUT premier – Santarcangelo Festival, Santarcangelo

04/07
SPEEED
– L’Umbria che spacca, Perugia

29/06
do-around-the-world
– festival InEquilibrio, Rosignano Solvay

24-28/06
HIT residency at Teatro Petrella, Longiano

22-23/06
SPEEED – giornate del respiro, Cagliari (CA)

15/06
SPEEED – A corpo libero, Roma (RM)

21/05
Do-around-the-world
– Nuovo Grand Tour cerimony, Italian Embassy, powered by IIC Paris

11/05
What Will Happen Tomorrow
– Bellaria Film Festival, Bellaria

13-28/04
Residency
at Shinehouse Theatre, Taipei (Taiwan)

20/04
SPEEED – Want to dance Festival, Taipei

21/04
Do-around-the-world
– Want to dance Festival, Taipei

07/04
Do-around-the-world
– Spazio Körper, Napoli (NA)

25/03-05/04
HIT
residency at Samvirket Theatre, Dale i Sunnfjord, Norway

23/03
Tra questa gente esiste un sentimento
– 4°, night of the Festival curated by Parini Secondo, Teatro Petrella Longiano (FC)

09/03
Tra questa gente esiste un sentimento – 3° night of the Festival curated by Parini Secondo, Teatro Petrella Longiano (FC)

02/03
Tra questa gente esiste un sentimento – 2° night of the Festival curated by Parini Secondo, Teatro Petrella Longiano (FC)

29/02
HIT
– Danse Dense Plateforme Professionnelle, La Briqueterie, Paris

17/02
Tra questa gente esiste un sentimento
– 1° night of the Festival curated by Parini Secondo, Teatro Petrella Longiano (FC)

22/01-13/02
Residency
at La Briqueterie, Paris

09-11/01
Sharing Traning Milano with Marc Rope

02-08/01
Residency at Théatre l’Aire Libre, Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande, Rennes