Production Details / Press Releases
Eight years after the death of Nigel Charnock, one of the founders of the legendary DV8 Physical Theatre company, which pushed the boundaries of contemporary dance, Marco D’Agostin wrote his former mentor a letter. But what do you write to someone who will never reply? In the format of an entertainment show, set against a LED curtain, D’Agostin takes the audience on a journey that is both joyful and melancholic, sharing historical and personal anecdotes of unanswered letters, along with a a medley of various songs, dances, and texts. “BEST REGARDS” is a nostalgic tribute to all those who were too late to say what they wish they had said.
Marco D’Agostin is the winner of the 2018 UBU Award for Best Performer Under 35 and the 2023 UBU Award for Best Dance Performance. In 2023 he was awarded the 4th Riccione Special Prize for dramaturgical innovation. He is an associate artist of the Piccolo Teatro in Milan.
His works question the functioning of memory, giving life to choreographic devices that starting from personal or collective archives seek to trigger with the audience practices of participation and identification. He has studied entertainment as a form of a specific relationship between performer and spectator, taking its shadowy areas and failures as sites of luminous revelations. His dance, a complex geography in which sounds, words and movements continually collide, always tends toward the emotional compromise of the performer and the spectator.
After training with internationally renowned masters (e.g. Yasmeen Godder and Nigel Charnock), he danced as a performer e.g. for many choreographers. Since 2010, he has been taking part in international choreographic research projects. He has been hosted in the main European festivals and theaters and has presented his shows in many prestigious overseas contexts. In 2020 he was invited to make a new creation for Biennale College, while in the following years he created many other pieces.
Marco D’Agostin is one of the founders of VAN, a dance production organization. He was also the male lead in Marco Righi’s award-winning film Days of harvest.
www.marcodagostin.it
[Source: tanzimaugust.de]
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Cast & Credits
By & with: Marco D’Agostin
Texts: Chiara Bersani, Marco D’Agostin, Azzurra D’Agostino, Wendy Houstoun
Sound & graphics: LSKA
Light design: Giulia Pastore
Scenography: Andrea Sanson, Simone Spangaro
Scientific advice: The Nigel Charnock Archive, Roberto Casarotto
Dramaturgical advice: Chiara Bersani, Claudio Cirri, Alessandro Sciarroni
Technical advice: Eleonora Diana, Luca Poncetta, Paola Villani
Movement coach: Marta Ciappina
Technical care: Paolo Tizianel
Promotion & care: Damien Modolo
Organisation & administration: Eleonora Cavallo, Federica Giuliano, Irene Maiolin
Stage technician (HAU): Sujin Choi, Şenol Şentürk
Lighting technician (HAU): Max Wegner, Claes Schwennen, Fabian Bolt
Video (HAU): Noam Gorbat
Sound technician (HAU): Frieder Naumann
Technische Produktion (HAU): Sven Nichterlein
Production: VAN
Co-production: KLAP Maison pour la danse à Marseille, Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis, CCN2-Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble, ERT – Emilia Romagna Fondazione
Supported by: Points communs, Nouvelle scène nationale de Cergy-Pontoise et du Val d’Oise, Centrale Fies, Marche Teatro/inTeatro Festival, the WorkRoom (Fattoria Vittadini), Teatro Comunale di Vicenza, L’arboreto – Teatro Dimora | La Corte Ospitale ::: Centro di Residenza Emilia- Romagna, ARTEFICI. ResidenzeCreativeFvg di ArtistiAssociati
Tanz im August 2024
Artistic Director: Ricardo Carmona
Executive Producer Festival: Stefan Nagel
Producer & Dramaturge: Alina Lauer
Producer & Team Assistance: Luzie Barzen
Production: Mascha Euchner-Martinez
Production Associates: Carim Sol Al Samarraie, Feli Braun, Arantxa Ciafrino, Sophie Hübner, Lu Yu Zou
Technical Director Festival: Ingo Ruggenthaler
Tanz im August is a festival by HAU Hebbel am Ufer, funded by the Capital Cultural Fund.
Video Documentation
The video documentation is produced on behalf of the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. The purpose of this contract is to document productions in the field of contemporary dance in Berlin. The master recordings are archived by the University Library of the Berlin University of Arts. Copies of the recordings on DVD are available for viewing exclusively in the reference collections of the following archives (at media desks in these institutions):
University Library of the Berlin University of Arts
Mediathek für Tanz und Theater des Internationalen Theaterinstituts / Mime Centrum Berlin
Inter-University Centre for Dance Berlin (HZT)