BIO
An imaginary interview between an imaginary myself (A) and a tough interviewer (Q)
Q: You never stop searching, do you? why?
A: I am never enough, I never have enough. Yes, it’s never enough!
Q: But who are you?
A: Who am I? difficult question!
I am everything. I am my jeans, the books that I read, the motorcycle that I ride, the bed that I sleep in, the food that I eat, the music that I listen to, my parents, the haircut I choose, my friends, my love, my shoes, the t-shirt that I’m wearing right now, my work…and more and more… yes, I am all of these things.
Q: If you are all of these things then you are nothing. You are only a container of things… Nothing original.
A: (Silence, dumbfounded, empty) nothing original, yes!
Q: A sort of life patchwork!
A: A life patchwork… oh.. that’s not bad!
In the "livro do desassossego" (“the book of the unquietness”), Fernando Pessoa observes himself in a photography of group, all in pose in the office where he works from many years. Fernando Pessoa observes the images of the colleagues: they are exactly what they are, he recognizes the somatic characteristics and the essence of everyone; only himself is betrayed to his own eyes, he does not recognize the image of himself, the essence of himself: "I have suffered the truth to see me there, in that photo; who am I?"
There is a strange fight, a strong fight, a contradiction between the necessity to define oneself, to identify oneself, to built oneself and the difficulty to recognize oneself.
I live the uncertainty: the uncertainty of my body, of my presence, the uncertainty to be in this world, the uncertainty of all that encircles me.
I am to the side of myself and therefore I become the object of my art, of my search.
In my performances often audience laugh a lot but I never think of that as a goal, as an objective. I work on the ridiculous more like the exposition of intimacy, of what we never want to be known. I often start from something tragic, hard, banal and for a strange alchemy the lightness becomes an essential element of my work.
I try to create a space of condivision/sharing: subtle, instable.
I try to put on crises all the certainty and the expectations.
I try to open a fragile, not comfortable, unknown space.
As an artist and a creator I always make myself some questions: How to speak of the contemporary? How to speak to the contemporary? This is an important question: the language is put on discussion: the ‘how” becomes contents.
If I speak of contemporary there are its own issues but also the language supports this issue.
If the instability, the impossibility and the uncertainty are some of the contemporary issues that I try to touch in my work also the language has to contains this split of the meaning. The language becomes content.
In theater I like to show the fiction, to reflect on the concept of representation. Everything is at the same time fake and real. And maybe, only showing the fiction, today, is possible to reach, to move who is in front of me, the audience.
PAST
My first art education was contemporary dance (my first great love!). Then, that it wasn’t enough: I started to study drama, acting, theater. performance, visual art. I started my career as interpreter. Then it wasn’t enough: I started to research and create my own work. And for now I’m still involve in this research!
PRESENT, FUTURE.
I’m an artist who likes to research and work alone but in the same time who likes to open himself to co-creation and artistic collaboration with others artists.
After I had created three solos and some performance, in 2008 I did two co-creations, one with Daria Deflorian and the other one with Ambra Senatore.
This is an important step of my work, my next future projects are co-creations, one, again with Daria Deflorian, one with Idoia Zapaleta, an artist from Basque County, and another with Miguel Pereira.
To work with and direct a group of performers is on my mind for a medium future.
ANTONIO TAGLIARINI / CURRICULUM VITAE
performer, director, choreographer / http://www.antoniotagliarini.com
CREATIONS
ANTONIO E MIGUEL
Conception and performers Antonio Tagliarini and Miguel Pereira
Dramaturgical support Rui Catalão /// Light design Gianni Staropolli /// Sound design Jari Marjamäki /// Rehearsals assistance Chris Scherer /// Production O Rumo do Fumo and Planet 3 /// Co-production Fundação Caixa Geral de Depósitos – Culturgest /// Artistic residence Armunia Festival Costa degli Etruschi /// Supports Forum Dança /// Acknowledgments Dr. A. Bracinha Vieira, Luisa Veloso, Jaime Conde-Salazar, Vera Mantero
Premiere July 2010 Culturgest . Lisbon . Portugal
ROYAL DANCE
BY AND WITH Antonio Tagliarini e Idoia Zabaleta
LIGHT DESIGN Gaizka Rementeria
DRAMATURGIC FOLLOW UP Jaime Conde Salazar, Attillio Scarpelini
EXECUTIVE PRODUCTION Filipe Viegas y Cristina de la Renta
ARTISTIC RESIDENCIES
AZALA, espacio de creación, Lasierra, País Basco
La Scatola dell’Arte , Roma, Italia
PRODUCTION
MOARE Basque Country / Spain
PLANET 3 cultural association / Italy
CO- PRODUCTION
Dipartimento Cultura dei Paesi Baschi (Spain)
CORE – Coordinamento Danza e Arti Performative del Lazio (Italy)
DATES
15 April / 3 Mars 2009 || Residency – AZALA, Lasierra/Paesi Baschi
16 September / 30 September 2009 || Residency - La Scatola dell’Arte, Roma/Italia
9 Novembre / 30 Novembre || Residency – AZALA, Lasierra/Paesi Baschi
17 January 2010 || Preview - Teatro Federico García Lorca, Vitoria/Gasteiz Basque Country / Spain
22, 23 January 2010 || World premierre - La Fundición Bilbao, Basque Country / Spain
21 February 2010 || Preview Italia - Teatro Kursaal Santa Lucia, Bari ,Primavera dei diritti Festival
12 May 2010 , Università Leioa di Bilbao, Basque Country / Spain
1, 2 June 2010 , Festival Alkantara, Lisbon, Portugal
4 June 2010, Artium, Vitoria/Gasteiz, Basque Country / Spain
5 June 2010, Teatro de Bergara, Basque Country / Spain
3 Septembre 2010, Short Theatre Festival, Teatro India, Roma
10 and 11 November 2010, Panorama Festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
19 and 20 November 2010, Mostra de Artes , São Paulo, Brazil
FROM A TO D AND BACK AGAIN
by and with Daria Deflorian + Antonio Tagliarini
inspired by From a to b the philosophy of Andy Warhol
soundtrack processed mixed and performed by Fabrizio Spera
light design by Gianni Staropoli
artistic collaboration Fabrizio Bianchi
production Filipe Viegas
co-produced by
Planet 3 & Dreamachine
ZTL-Pro Provincia di Roma
supports Rialto Santambrogio. Teatro Furio Camilo, Associazione Demetra – Centro La Palmetta, Casale de Merode
Premiere Teatro Palladium, Roma, 2010
Presented at Festival Teatro Civile, Puglia, 2010 || Angelo Mai, Roma, 2010
THE EIGHTH DAY
By and with Ambra Senatore and Antonio Tagliarini
studio # 1 -Contemporanea Festival 08 / Giugno 2008 Prato
Preview: Festival Esterni/08 Settembre 2008
Premiere: CRT/Teatro dell’Arte, Milano. Novembre 2008
Presented in :Teatro Comunale, Spoleto (2008); Teatro Comunale, Tuoro (2008); CRT/Teatro Dell’Arte , Milano (2009), Festival Inequilibrio, Armunia-Castiglioncello (2009)
REWIND - HOMMAGE TO CAFÈ MÜLLER BY PINA BAUSCH
By and with Daria Deflorian and Antonio Tagliarini
a Planet 3 and Dreamachine co-production
with the contributions from Imaie
and the collaboration of Area 06-Roma, Rialto Santambrogio, Rome,
Florian TSI, Pescara, Centro Artistico Grattacielo, Livorno
Armunia-Catiglioncello
preview Rialto Santambrogio, Roma 2008
premiere Teatro India, Roma 2008
presented at Festival Vie di Modena 2008 // Berlino- TanzFabrik 2008 // Festival Prospettiva’09 Torino 2009 // B.A.D. Festival – La Fundicion, Bilbao, Spagna 2009 // Festival DANAE , Milano 2010 // Festival Escrita na Paisagem, Evora, 2010 // ZO-Culture, Catania, Sicily, 2010
SHOW
with and by Antonio Tagliarini
artistic supporter Daria Deflorian and Fabrizio Bianchi
mask creator Fabrizio Bianchi and Roberta Spegne
light designer Antonio Tagliarini and Leonardo Bucalossi
with the support of Rialto Sant’Ambrogio - roma, Centro Artistico Il Grattacielo – Livorno, and Armunia Festival Costa degli Etruschi - castiglioncello
Premiere: Teatro India di Roma , 2007
Presented at: Festival Armunia-In Equilibrio, Castiglioncello 2007 || CRT, Milano 2007 || Festival Es.Terni, Terni 2008/ 2009 || Teatro Furio Camilo, Roma 2008 || Rialto Sant’Ambrogio, Roma 2008 || Teatro Kismet, Bari 2009 || PiM Spazio Scenico, Milão 2009 || Casa della Cultura, Ex-mattatoio, Frosinone 2009 || Museo do Oriente, Asia Europe Forum, Lisbona 2009 || Teatro Cargo, Genova 2009
love me lve me - 2007 performance created and performed by Antonio Tagliarini. Premier: festival Drodesera.
F.A.Q. - 2007 Created and performed by Antonio Tagliarini and
Danya Hammoud. Producted by Carovana in the international Project “Cites of Immagination” : Developed and presented in: Portugal, Slovenia, Italy, France, Spain.
“le très très + 1” 2007 - perdues au musée – 2007 Created and performed by Antonio Tagliarini and "le très très". Centrale Montemartini-Museo Capitolino di Roma.Azione performativa.
I-box (place) – 2006 Concept: Antonio Tagliarini. Created with Luca Trevisani. International project organized and supported by APAP (Advanced Performing Art Project). Presented in: Germany, Belgium, Austria, Slovenja, Portugal, Italy, Polland.
“Agatha-Cristy show” – 2005 Performance created with Idoia Zapaleta. Organized and supported by International Project “ il Viaggio”. Presented in: Italy, Spain, Portugal.
TITOLO PROVVISORIO: SENZA TITOLO - 2005
Creation and interpretation: Antonio Tagliarini
Props and costum assistant : Fabrizio Bianchi
Production Planet 3
Premiere: Rialto Sant’Ambrogio, 2004 Roma.
Presented at: Festival Enzimi, Roma 2005 || Festival Inequilibrion/Armunia, Castigliocello 2005|| Festival Szene Salzburg, 2006 || Buda Kortrijk, Belgio, 2006 || Ballhaus , Berlin Germania, 2006 || La casa encendida, Madrid, 2007 || Piattaforma Torino 2009 ||
“Caramelle” - 2003 Performance created by Antonio Tagliarini. Presented in RomaEuropaFondation.
“Le serve” di Jenet. Co-creation with F.Viscardi – Roma – Mercati Traianei 2004.
“Freezy” - 2002. Performed in: Italy and Slovenia
"Antonio Miguel", Portugal 2000, created with Miguel Pereira; repeated in Portugal, Brazil, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Slovenia, Norway, France.
He worked as dancer and actor with many director and choreographer:
Miguel Pereira, Csilla Lakatos, Raffaella Giordano, Giorgio Rossi, Alessandro Certini, Marco Baliani, Massimiliano Civica, Thierry Salmon, B.T.Jones, Fabrizio Arcuri (Accademia degli Artefatti).
Artistical school and training (drama, acting, contemporary dance)
ERT (Emilia Romagna Teatro) high-school 1996/97; teacher:M.Baliani,M.Martinelli, C.Lievi, G.B.Corsetti,R.Molinari.
TEE (Teatro Stabile delle Marche): high-school Polverigi 1997.
He has studied drama and dance with : Danio Manfredini, Thierry Salmon, Raffaella Giordano, Giorgio Rossi, Diana Damiani.
As author and script-writer:
“Di giorno di notte” Movie directed by Mariano Lamberti (2003). Written with Mauro Battistoni.
“Centro Diurno” (2002) Fiction of six plays for TV of 100’.
As teacher :
Intensive Workshop in Victoria/Basque Country, 2008
Intensive workshop at CEM Lisbon-Portugal 1999-2000/01.
Teacher of dance/theatre at Public Center For Mentally-Handicapped People, Rome.
As speaker and co-author in cultural radio program:
"Dedalo percorsi d’arte" cultural program RAI-RADIO 2 1994/95.
“Theatre news” RADIO ROCK Roma, 1994.
Language:
Good English and Portuguese.